In recent years, whenever the Spring Festival Gala is mentioned, everyone's hearts are always mixed. Don't watch the Spring Festival Gala, I always feel that there is something missing for the New Year. Look, some of the shows are really a bit hard to explain. Take the most classic funny sketches as an example. 2019's "Platform", although not spectacular, is at least refreshing. From the perspective of the railway police, the sketch tells several ordinary and ups and downs of life stories, with laughter and tears, and also allows many people to see their own appearance in the play. 
At the end of the show, the scene of the husband and wife eating dumplings together became the genius of the whole sketch, which made some viewers cry. However, we never imagined that this relatively successful scene would become a "nightmare" for the audience in the following years. The reason is that the Spring Festival Gala sketch seems to be on the bar with "dumplings". In 2020's "Wind and Snow Dumpling Love", the actors shouted a "dumpling", which made the audience sigh that after watching the whole show, there were only "dumplings" left in their minds. In 2021's "Balcony", the actor ate dumplings in public again, which was repeated several times, which inevitably made people "tap their toes" again. 
In the past two years, the Spring Festival Gala sketch finally stopped "eating dumplings", but it was a "big job" for everyone. That's right, it's the sketch "First Sight Photo Studio" in 2023. Not only is there no laugh in the whole show, but even the plot itself seems a little rushed. 
A young couple showed their affection in the photo studio, which made the old couple on the side look red;As a result, the conflict between the husband and wife, which had been backlogged for many years, broke out, and the two began to quarrel for several minutes. The actors said their own things, and the stage became a mess, and the audience in front of the TV had to watch dumbfounded, confused. Some people say that this skit is playing something "very new". Some people also criticize that these comedy sketches are not as good as year after year. But more old viewers hate iron and steel, and secretly asked: "Those wonderful sketches from the past have gone?"Indeed, young viewers may not know that the show they ridicule also has a glorious history. And when we talk about this history, we can't help but think of a person. 
In 1990, the scene of the Spring Festival Gala. A "little old man" stood on the stage** and talked eloquently at the audience. 
A standard "shoehorn face" with a cheerful beard and eyebrows;An "old" hat, plus a standard Northeast dialect. It can be said that his face is almost perfectly "long" on the laughter of the audience, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he applauds thunderously. In this sketch called "Blind Date", the "old man" he plays looks honest and simple, but his mouth seems to be open, and golden sentences are frequent;The image of a stubborn and cute "old naughty boy" is vividly interpreted. And in the sensational part at the end of the sketch, he relied on his comedy talent to successfully end the whole show, so that the sketch ushered in the end with laughter. 
Such a wonderful performance makes people wonder: who is he?Why can he act so well?Is this really his first time on the Spring Festival Gala?So far, the sketch "Blind Date" has become CCTV's final work, and the actor named Zhao Benshan has also become an instant hit. Some people call him "old drama bone", and some people affectionately call him "Grandpa Zhao Benshan". However, his origins, his age, remain a mystery. It wasn't until later, in the program "Variety Show", that the host Ni Ping asked Zhao Benshan's real age in front of the national audience. And Zhao Benshan just scratched his head embarrassedly, and said coyly: "Void age 34." ”
As soon as these words came out, the audience was shocked: This young man looks anxious, right?At that time, Zhao Benshan, although he was able to behave generously in the play, he was inevitably shy outside the play. Compared with Ni Ping's gentleness, Zhao Benshan's answer always seemed a little pitiful. But in the face of the audience's enthusiasm, he also prepared a surprise for everyone. At the scene, Zhao Benshan deliberately changed into the costume when he played "Lao Fuer" a year ago, hoping to shorten the distance with the audience. This move made the audience applaud thunderously. As a result, people thoroughly remembered this "little old man" in his thirties, superb acting skills, and a somewhat funny personality. For many years to come, he always arrived on Chinese New Year's Eve as scheduled, accompanying everyone to spend one happy new year after another. 
One of Zhao Benshan's Bole, Jiang Kun once commented on Zhao Benshan: "It's not that I discovered him, it's the society that discovered him, even if there is no me, he can still be popular all over the country." Indeed, for Zhao Benshan, his success is inseparable from the help of nobles and accidental opportunities. But in the face of absolute strength, these opportunities have also become inevitable. 
In the "Treasure of the Town Station" series of station B, there is such an issue**. Someone made some of Zhao Benshan's "famous scenes" into ghost animals. The amazing acting skills, coupled with the rhythmic tuning in the later stage, can often make the audience laugh. Nowadays, the amount of this *** has exceeded 100 million, and even if you click in at any time, you will see dozens or hundreds of people at the same time. 
This just proves that Zhao Benshan is not only loved by the older generation of audiences, but also appreciated by today's young people. And the famous scenes he has left on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala over the years are far more than that. In the 2001 Spring Festival Gala sketch "Selling Abduction", Zhao Benshan played a "big fool", in order to let a cook who is not sick buy crutches, it can be described as coaxing and cheating.
After some "pulling", the cook was finally fooled, but he did not have enough "funds", which made it difficult for the "big fool". In desperation, it occurred to him that the cook had a bicycle and wanted him to use it as collateral, but he was too embarrassed to speak directly, so he had to knock on the side to hint. So, Zhao Benshan shouted out the "famous stalk": "What kind of bicycle do you want?".What kind of bicycle do you want!After hearing this, the cook understood and hurriedly handed over the bicycle.
This hilarious and ironic scene has become a timeless classic. To this day, people still play this meme from time to time, but it doesn't look vulgar. Immediately afterwards, in the 2003 sketch "Heart Disease", Zhao Benshan changed his previous clothes, wearing a white coat on his body, holding a book in his hand, and reading it in a good way, which made people sigh: "This doctor is unreliable at first glance." ”
Sure enough, when he shook his head and read for a while, he realized that he had accidentally mistakenly taken the book as "Postpartum Care for Sows". The title of this book later became a ridicule of countless agricultural college students about their majors. And in the subsequent performances, the sentence blurted out "My heart pulls out the cold" is even more ** generation after generation.
It can be said that in terms of the ability to create stalks, Zhao Benshan ranks second, and no one dares to say first. "The spring breeze of reform is blowing all over the ground. "A fighter in a rooster. "Isn't that? "Wool. ”.After so many years, these famous scenes have long been deeply imprinted in the minds of the audience, even if they have not watched the sketches, they still play these stalks, and they never get tired of it. This just proves that Zhao Benshan's performance is really popular with people.
However, with great power comes great responsibility. In Zhao Benshan's words, the Spring Festival Gala is a festival for us, but for an actor like him, it is "passing".
Every action of them will be followed by hundreds of millions of people, and every word they say has the potential to become the capital of **guidance**. Therefore, every minute on the stage, the "ten times" offstage work is not to be played. In such a high-pressure environment, every actor is physically and mentally exhausted. And Zhao Benshan has to admit that he is no longer the high-spirited "young man" he was back then. In 2011, Zhao Benshan's sketch "You at the Same Table" can be described as full of twists and turns.
In the play, due to a mistake by the opponent actor, the whole show fell silent for six seconds. Although the actors tried their best to save the scene, they still did not avoid the rhythm of the sketch being disrupted. This is what is often mentioned as the "black 6 seconds". In this regard, Zhao Benshan, who was accustomed to seeing big scenes, was naturally shocked into a cold sweat. It was also after that year that Zhao Benshan bid farewell to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. Some people believe that Zhao Benshan withdrew from the Spring Festival Gala because of those six seconds, which made him afraid that the evening festival would not be guaranteed. In fact, before that, Zhao Benshan's withdrawal had been foreshadowed. After the performance of "Torchbearer" in 2008, Zhao Benshan was photographed crying backstage.
Since the plot of the script is not particularly expressive, if you want to present a wonderful performance, you can only look at the performance of the actors. In that scene, Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan can be said to be hard-headed, and they played the not wonderful script vividly. But the pressure behind such an overloaded performance is known only to them. In 2009, at the filming site of "Country Love 3", Zhao Benshan suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was once in critical condition. After waking up, Zhao Benshan has even begun to explain the future. Perhaps this is also the fuse for his choice to quit completely. Finally, in 2011, Zhao Benshan appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the last time, leaving the last famous stalk: "10,000 words are omitted here." ”
Isn't this sentence the epitome of his more than 20 years?For Zhao Benshan, we don't need to use too many words to evaluate, all the appreciation, all the reluctance, are hidden in the laughter of the past few decades.
After Zhao Benshan left, the Spring Festival Gala was not without excellent actors. is like Zhao Benshan's popular little Shenyang, the interesting "old uncle" Sha Yi, and Shen Teng who stood there with a sense of joy. They have also presented wonderful performances on stage. However, compared with Zhao Benshan, the audience always felt that it was a little bit worse. There is no doubt that most of this is because Zhao Benshan's performance is too amazing for anyone to surpass.
But part of the reason is our "childhood filter". Many people think of Zhao Benshan, and they inevitably think of themselves when they used to sit in front of the TV. At that time, we didn't have the baggage of growing up, and we didn't have endless work to talk about;Some are just looking forward to the New Year, looking forward to the New Year's money, and looking forward to reuniting with their families, the carefree "little kid". The family sat at a small dining table, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner while enjoying Zhao Benshan's wonderful sketches. From time to time, the sound of crackers outside the window can be heard, leaving the troubles of the old years thousands of miles away. And now, we who grew up watching Zhao Benshan's sketches have already reached the age of "being on the line with life". Some have mortgages, some have children, even on Chinese New Year's Eve, the strings that have been tightened for a year cannot be completely relaxed. And what about the family?Most of their hands and feet are no longer as sharp as they used to be, and the days when the family gets together are always more precious every year. At this time, whenever we think of Zhao Benshan, we will think of that golden time.
Perhaps, in the days to come, we will see excellent actors like Zhao Benshan again;is also on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, and it is also an instant hit. However, no matter who it is, it cannot replace Zhao Benshan's position. The beautiful memories he brought to us have long been engraved in our youth and will last forever.