Yesterday afternoon, a hot search appeared on Weibo:
The status quo of laughing fruit artists.
It's not that something happened to this company, but that some people are curious about what these talk show actors haven't come out for so long (Yang Bo doesn't count), what are they doing.
I don't know if I don't take stock.
After a round of roulette, people found that almost no one of them was doing anything related to talk shows.
And the so-called "Talk Show Conference 6".
It has also been stuck in the recruitment stage two years ago.
Actually, it's not just talk comedians.
Sir was also curious when the Spring Festival file list was announced, this time the Spring Festival file has such a high comedy content, but the main focus is still those familiar faces in the past: Shen Teng, Ma Li, Jia Ling, Qiao Shan, Yin Zheng, Jia Bing, ......
What about the new faces that have popped up in the past two years?
Especially, what about the young people who have created the pinnacle of domestic comedy through the "Annual Comedy Contest" in recent years?
They are actually more active than they have ever been.
It's just so active.
It's not so much a hit as it seems to be more like a false fire that burns at dusk.
Seems warm. But there is always a fear that it will suddenly go out.
Probably two or three years ago, there was a "dispute between Mi Wei and Xiaoguo", when the "Annual Comedy Competition" and "Talk Show Conference" were in full swing, and people were arguing fiercely about who would be the future of Chinese comedy.
I didn't expect that. The answer, so quickly, was given.
If you go to the Internet to search for the current situation of laughing fruit artists, you will find that this group of people has long been "out of business".
Pang Bo signed Li Xueqin's company, Wang Jianguo had two of the three jobs for a while, and Li Xueqin gave them, Yang Li and Xiaobei began to bring goods, and only Xu Zhisheng could still receive the "big job": playing the leading role in the costume martial arts comedy.
And what about Li Dan? The old program "Talk Show Conference 6" is far away, and the new program "Annual Comedy Contest" is only heard of, and he can only regard himself as a traffic artist, walking the red carpet and selling nail ......
reminds me of what Li Dan once said in "Thirteen Invitations":
I'm ready to go up in smoke
I can't help but feel a little embarrassed.
When the vast majority of people in an industry are doing things that have nothing to do with the industry, then it is impossible for this industry to take a step forward.
But on the contrary.
It is also in the first two months of 2024 that we saw the "gratifying people" who came out of Mi Wei's "Annual Comedy Contest" and began to "spread out" on major stages.
They are not like Xiaoguo's artists, who traffic themselves, they are more engaged in work related to their own jobs.
Turn on the TV and we will find that "delightful" is everywhere:
Lantern Festival party. Lu Yan and the cool Teng are playing immersive script killing on CCTV.
Tudou, Li Dong, and Xie Zecheng pretended to be swallows and Li Sanzhi patrolled on Henan Satellite TV.
Spring Festival Gala. After opening Jiangsu Satellite TV, you will find that Zhang Chi, Shi Ce, and Wang Hao starred in "Three Worlds in the Same Hall";
pressed to Beijing Radio and Television Station again, Zhang Chi partnered with Jia Bing again, and became father and son.
or, just watched "Three Dogs" perform the Spring Festival short drama "My Family's AI Awakened" on Henan Satellite TV;
After a while, I saw Song Muzi shouting at the TV series on Anhui Satellite TV: Old babies, happy New Year.
Jiang Shimeng is this year's "sketch sewing king", from CCTV Spring Festival Gala, to Beijing Radio and Television, and then to Dragon TV's Spring Festival Gala.
Seamlessly connect every sketch, how, everywhere has her.
Maybe Ma Dong didn't expect it.
This group of comedians who have been holding back for a long time can blossom on various TV stations so quickly that all kinds of sketches are about to be covered by them.
And that's not all. "Gratifying" also showed a lot of faces in film and television works:
Not only frequently brushes up on the sense of existence in popular works such as "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop" and "Article 20".
"The Dog Runs Away" and "The Young Master and I" were released on iQiyi in January, as well as "Don't Panic the King" starring Tudou Lu Yan.
It is almost the exclusive skit position of the actors of "Comedy Contest".
Ma Dong once said: "The "Comedy Contest" is to give the 'foot and neck actor' a chance to rise to the waist. ”
Check it out now. He seems to have done just that.
It's not just that the influence of "Comedy Contest" is gradually expandingThe actors of "The Comedy Contest" are also gradually moving towards the mainstream.
And in the so-called "Talk Show Conference" and "Comedy Contest" dispute, the joy people seem to have the last laugh.
But the problem is. Are they really on fire?
From the perspective of growth trajectory, we can see that the "gratifying people" are actually developing on the road trajectory of "Zhao Benshan", "Happy Twist", and "Jia Ling".
first appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, and then blossomed everywhere in various comedy works.
But alas. They may be stuck in the first step:
The fantasy opportunity to become popular by relying on the Spring Festival Gala has long gone.
This is of course related to the orientation of the Spring Festival Gala itself.
Compared with Zhao Benshan's era, the current party has paid much less attention to language programs than before.
Take this year's Spring Festival Gala as an example.
You may remember the embarrassed expression of Xiao Ni when Liu Qian changed the magic trick, you may remember the moving of "Li Bai" reciting poems on the stage of Xi'an, and even remember Bai Jingting's "Shangchun Mountain".
But do you remember any of the language programs?
Most of them are tepid.
It's not funny yet. Even if it is another collaboration of Ma Li, Shen Teng, and Allen, the "Iron Triangle of Comedy", after putting "Humble House" on the stage.
In addition to the huge Jingdong logo, the sketch is not as funny as it was back then.
Why? In fact, in the final analysis, the arrangement of language programs has long become an inertia in rhythm arrangement, rather than the direction of force.
When a type of show is no longer the focus in itself.
These "gratifying people" are trying to retake the road of their predecessors' sketches surrounding film and television, and it is almost impossible.
And more importantly.
These "gratifying people" can't get out of the party, and it is also related to their target audience.
A very intuitive impression: the way of acting.
Each era has its own "exclusive" approach to comedy, which will be eliminated and new ways to iterate, but what is the same is that they will resonate with the widest range of the moment.
For example, Zhao Benshan.
He is a comedic performance of the absurd and embarrassing things that arise in the development of a story, mostly in the form of dialogue, hiding the stalk in it.
The most classic ones are like "Not Bad Money":
Then Shen Teng Ma Li.
They strengthen their characters through constant satire, so that they can make the audience laugh without pretending to be ugly, making grimaces, or deforming.
Just think about 2015's "Do What You Like", when the sycophant Ma Jingjing first appeared, she spit tea foam at the end of drinking tea.
Count the history of sycophants for newcomer Hao Jian:
This one likes fishing, so I dived to the bottom and hung fish on his hook one by one; This one likes to play mahjong, so I'll listen to the dismantling and give him a cannon; This one likes to play, so I will take my grandfather's relics and bring them to him to string; This one likes me ......
It is not an exaggeration to say that it was the most satirical language program of the year.
And what about the comedy that belongs to our new generation of young comedians?
They are actually targeting a small group of urban white-collar workers.
For example: Compared with Zhao Benshan or Shen Teng, they pay more attention to the work and life of urban white-collar workers, they will complain about their bosses, talk about social topics, and will be very sensitive to grasp the current trend, which makes them more like social satirists than comedians.
And that's exactly what happened.
One year, in order to cater to the hottest topics of the moment, the Spring Festival Gala also brought in "talk show" actors.
But. When ** in the small theater, the actors with emotional output like machine guns sat quietly at the round table, waiting for the host to call up and perform the show:
They are as embarrassed as children who are suddenly called out to sing a song by their parents during the Chinese New Year.
They don't have that "family-friendly" temperament.
And what about the "delightful"?
You will find that although they are also sketches, their sketches have a completely different style from Zhao Benshan and Shen Teng's sketches.
Take "Can't Open Your Mouth" as an example.
What many viewers who like "Xi 1" and "Xi 2" never dreamed of was that this sketch, which almost "copied" "The Annual Comedy Contest", was actually put on this year's Spring Festival Gala "as it is".
But the result? That's right, compared with the traditional Spring Festival Gala sketches, it does bring a lot of new ideas to the audience, because it focuses on creating comedy in a way that keeps turning up a game point, and almost spreads the laughter everywhere, even the tight rhythm can be made into a laughing point:
The son wanted to give the gift to his father, but the father was nagging and didn't pay attention to what he was doing.
Many times back and forth.
Finally, my father realized what he was holding in his hand, but when he opened his mouth, he asked, "What is this, how can you buy so much?" ”
It means that he still didn't pay attention to what he was holding in his hand.
And this stalk was unexpected.
This kind of "sketch" structure usually needs to be fast-paced and the characters' expressions are exaggerated enough to constantly arouse the audience's emotions through a dense amount of information.
But at the same time.
This rhythm that requires your concentration obviously can't arouse the interest of a wider range of aunties who are chatting about melon seeds, and even they will find it pompous and noisy.
I can't catch the deeper earth.
As a result, it can't make a splash in the more general audience.
And this. I am afraid it is also one of the reasons why these "gratifying people" have obviously covered the sketch market of major galas, but they have never been able to impress the public.
is even more the reason why these talk show actors have left the stage of text jokes and can only be reduced to "mascots" like decorations.
When traffic determines the success of a show.
When any program demands popularity.
Those who run out of the subdivision track will inevitably encounter the dilemma of trade-offs, so they can only sharpen their feet and smooth out the edges and corners.
Eventually, it became obscure.
Let's go back to the common situation of "delightful" and "showy".
Sir thinks.
Compared with specific technical reasons, the biggest dilemma faced by these young people is actually that this environment has long been unsuitable for real comedy.
The core of comedy is also dying.
How to say? I still remember that many years ago, Ah Cheng once said: "In the face of a world of power and injustice, our extremes will be entrusted to chivalry, otherwise, we will hand it over to jokes and ridicule." ”
Or expect someone else to do it.
Or smile and admit it.
But even so, comedy has at least some realistic references.
For example, Huang Hong and Hou Yaowen's "Playing Poker", with a few famous brands, dare to count the current situation of society.
or Zhao Benshan and Gao Xiumin's "New Year's Greetings", a sentence "It's down, because what?" It's corrupt. ”
seems to be a casual chatter in the sketch, but now it is an extremely bold line.
Do you think this kind of irony really has any effect on social chaos or officialdom?
Not necessarily. But we often dissipate the frustrated resentment in such laughter, "Since you live like a joke, then I won't be depressed all day long."
So you see. From ancient times to the present, the more powerless the bottom of the resistance, the more they love to tell jokes.
Smoke a bucket of cigarettes, say three or five jokes, the fatigue of the whole day will be swept away, and the jokes here are not only interesting things around you, but also officialdom anecdotes that can't be beaten, such as the Ming and Qing Dynasty joke collection "Xiaolin Guangji", the first part of the twelve is about officialdom irony.
It's a way for them to sort out their emotions.
But alas. Today's world not only does not need "chivalry" (see Article 20 for details), but even sarcasm is not needed.
One of the simplest examples.
In 2011, Zhao Benshan completely withdrew after performing the last sketch of the Spring Festival Gala.
In his narrative, the reason for quitting the Spring Festival Gala is very simple, just because his body is no longer good, and he can't bear the work that consumes a lot of physical strength and energy like the Spring Festival Gala.
But is that all?
If we push back the time, we will find that in addition to the works with apprentices (Xiao Shenyang, Wang Xiaoli) twice, the last sketch he combined with Song Dandan was "Torchbearer" in 2008.
And this sketch.
At one point, he almost collapsed.
Why? Because they want to make this book funny with positive energy propaganda and weakened laughter.
It's too hard, and it's too embarrassing.
So much so that after the performance, when he returned backstage, he cried.
The reason is that I still feel that what I make is no longer a pure sketch, and it deviates too much from the original idea.
So what's the point of this comedy?
Of course. The problems encountered by domestic comedies are not only top-down, but even bottom-up.
Take the experience of Xiaoguo, for example.
Do you still remember Yang Li's experience of being scolded every time he tells a joke, do you remember the untimely death of the sports special, and do you remember that almost every issue of "Talk Show Conference" will cause condemnation?
How sharp do you say it is here?
Actually, no. But there are always many people who feel offended, so they create **, which causes an uncontrollable result.
As Zhou Qimo talked about in "Round Table Pie":
The present audience.
Not even the slightest offense is accepted.
And the result of this is that although the market seems to be in a good situation today, almost all of the Spring Festival stalls are comedy movies, comedy skits, and sketches.
However, there are no "edges and corners".
is also what Li Dan said in "Thirteen Invitations":
want to make money) just don't tell too much truth.
So we dare to create in reality, and we dare to really "needle the times" comedy, there are very few.
We dare not say.
Don't dare to laugh either.
So that our current "laughter" is becoming more and more light;
Our "stalk" also felt "ashamed" after laughing more and more.
It's not that good.
But, I can laugh too.
So in such a situation.
The so-called "showman" or "delightful" is not the difference between being beheaded on the spot and spinning in place?
They are not much different.
Of course. As a fan who has watched countless movies after watching five seasons of "Tucao Conference", five seasons of "Talk Show Conference", two seasons of "Annual Comedy Competition", and various extended programs, Sir doesn't want their ending to be so pessimistic.
Domestic comedies have regressed for a long time.
We still hope that there will be fresh blood that can make it brilliant again.
But Sir also knows at the same time.
It has become even more difficult to create another Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan, and another batch of Shen Teng and Jia Ling.
Maybe. Can they subdivide the track? No longer to please everyone for the sake of popularity, but lose your own characteristics?
Perhaps. Can they insist on telling the truth? Even if you just make a small amount of money, you won't be a mascot in a variety show?
The future can't be **.
We can't choose for others.
But we still hope that the era of unbridled laughter will come again.
Even if. There was a thorn in the laughter.
This kind of laughter can't please everyone.
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