On February 3, Hunan Satellite TV's Chinese New Year's Eve Spring Festival Gala was broadcast, but this party was unexpectedly widely complained by netizensEspecially the embarrassment of the sketch, which was evaluated by the audience as a boring plot, and there was no laughter in the whole process.
It has been 40 years since the art form of sketches began with Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao's "Eating Noodles" in 1984.
I didn't expect that so soon, the sketch was already at the end of its rope, from amusing people to being funny and embarrassing, how did the comedy sketch die step by step, I summarized seven reasons.
First, the main theme, always thinking about educating people
Now the sketches are becoming more and more melodic, always thinking about educating people, and now everyone is under so much pressure, when you go home to watch a comedy sketch, you have to be sensationalized and educated, and I can't wait to smash the TV.
The ultimate mission of a comedy sketch is to make people laugh, don't let it carry too many things, such as educating people and influencing people, a ten-minute sketch, it can't achieve the purpose of educating people, if you really want to educate the audience, just play a documentary.
Now the sketches are all about some trivial things, with the Spring Festival Gala sketches being the most typical, starting to talk about the contradictions caused by misunderstandings in the family, whether it's funny or not, it's almost the end of the story, the family should understand each other, the husband and wife should be harmonious, it's the New Year, let's make dumplings together.
Then the camera was given to the audience, and the audience's faces were filled with joyful expressions, and there was joy on and off the field, but the audience couldn't help but scold in their hearts, what are these things.
Second, test-taking comedy, the joy and sorrow are hard and sensational
What is test-taking comedy, test-taking comedy is to adopt a fixed structure routine, add some sensational content, and resonate with the audience and make the audience cry through moral kidnapping.
The most common type is a happy beginning and a sad ending, with a normal narrative at the beginningThe second half of the part suddenly came to sensationalize, such as the family is warm, there is happiness only with a family, family affection is a continuous love, parents are for your good, etc., the essence is to use family morality to kidnap the audience and make the audience empathize and pay.
This kind of happy and sad routine, whether it is a sketch or a movie, is used quite a lot, and there are fewer and fewer pure sketches that are simply amusing and making people laugh before, so the road of comedy sketches is getting narrower and narrower.
Third, it is vulgar and funny, becoming more and more vulgar and superficial
Vulgar and funny sketches are also very common, that is, spoofing a classic work and creating on the basis of the classic work. It's okay to do this, it's okay, but the problem is not vulgar and not bad, for example, there are too many sketches created based on the legend of the White Snake, but except for the happy twist, the others are either embarrassing and not funny, or vulgar.
is mainly due to the lack of creative ability, and the funny jokes are all rotten street stalks, or cold stalks, and some actors have no other skills except for joking about their appearance. This kind of comedy sketch is to cater to the audience and please the audience through spoofs, vulgar stalks, outdated jokes, self-ridicule, etc., resulting in more and more vulgar and superficial comedy sketches.
Fourth, the form is single and the soul is missing
The current sketches, not to mention the single form, are still not innovative enough in content. The previous sketches have a variety of forms, which make people addicted to watching, such as "Blind Date with Lazy Men" mixed with dialects, such as "Red Sorghum Model Team" and "Crossing the River" combined with singing, "Part-time Job Adventure" that integrates and adapts popular songs, "So Packaged" combined with singing and dancing, "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" in the form of interviews, and so on.
These sketches are not only rich in form, but also solid in content, which not only brings joy to everyone, but also pinpoints the pain points of the current society. The current sketches have no soul in content, are mediocre and even embarrassing, and naturally cannot win the applause and love of the audience.
Fifth, the threshold has become lower, and professional actors have been replaced by traffic stars
Now the threshold for comedy sketches is getting lower and lower, so low that there is no threshold, giving people the feeling that any person can act in a comedy sketch.
You must know that comedy sketches are different subdivisions from dramas, dramas, and TV dramas, and the professional nature is still very different, just like a TV drama actor may not be able to act in dramas, sketches are also like this, sketches have professional sketch actors, not that you can act in sketches if you have acted in TV dramas, especially comedy sketches.
Now sketches, especially the sketches of the Spring Festival Gala, you can also see several professional sketch actors, all of whom are all traffic stars, these traffic stars haven't even understood the TV series, so they come to act in sketches, please improve your acting skills and line skills first.
Amateur traffic stars have robbed professional sketch actors of their survival jobs, resulting in no young people willing to engage in the comedy sketch industry, which eventually led to the decline of the industry.
Sixth, impetuous and careless, vulgar works are flying all over the sky
Now the hearts of people in society have changed and become impetuous, especially star actors.
As the older generation of professional sketch actors gradually retired, and the Mesozoic sketch actors who won the baton of sketches, their minds are no longer on sketches, they are busy making money on variety shows, like Shen Teng, Jia Ling, etc., how good it is to be on variety shows, not only does the money come quickly, but it can also increase the degree, **There is still time to create and polish sketches, **There is still time to perform sketches.
Once you lose your awe of sketches, what comes out is naturally perfunctory and vulgar works, not to mention the innovation of sketches.
Seventh, blame the public and complain that the public doesn't watch the sketches
Some people push the decline of sketches to the audience and the market, just like Ha Wen, the chief director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, said in 2012 that there were fewer sketches in the Spring Festival Gala because the audience didn't like to watch them, and the sketches had no market.
I firmly disagree with this, because she got the cause and effect wrong, and the reason why the sketches are declining is because there are more and more vulgar sketches, which causes everyone to not like to watch sketches, not because everyone doesn't like to watch sketches, so that there is no market for sketches. This causal relationship needs to be understood.
No one has a grudge against comedy sketches, no one has an aversion to those that make people laugh, and no one doesn't like funny sketches, because making people laugh is the highest art. Therefore, don't look for external reasons for the decline of the sketch, but find your own reasons is the key.
To sum up, the decline of the sketch mainly boils down to seven aspects, which areThe main theme, always thinking about educating people, test-taking comedy, joyful and sad and sensational, vulgar and funny, more and more vulgar and superficial, and the form is single.
1. The soul is missing, the threshold has become lower, professional actors have been replaced by traffic stars, they are impetuous and careless, and vulgar works are flying all over the sky, blaming the public and complaining that the public does not watch sketches.
It's the age of diversified entertainment, and there's not much time left for comedy sketches. Memories of the Spring Festival Gala