The latest variety show "Annual Comedy Competition" three major comedy societies were released, and Jiang Shimeng's team was successfully shortlisted. Their performance of the work "Internet Physical Examination" was the first to appear on the stage in the program, and as soon as it was broadcast, it triggered a screen brush. Seven years after graduating from the Beijing Film Academy, Jiang Shimeng has already achieved remarkable results in the comedy circle: three times on CCTV Spring Festival Gala; in "Comedy Class Spring" and Zhang Xiaofei group "Girlfriend CP"; in "Crossover Comedy King" as the golden female number one in Bai Kainan's group; participated in the fifth season of "Happy Comedians"; and was elected as a gold medal student in the "Gold Medal Comedy Class" Chen Peisi class. When interviewed by the Reporter of Qilu Evening News and Qilu One Point, she did not talk much about the past achievements, and it was more important to continue to grow with the harvest. Jiang Shimeng shared one of her favorite sentences - what kind of person you will become in the future must be more important than what kind of person you are before.
Comedy is more than just "hahaha"
"Annual Comedy Competition" is a show that participates in comedy groups, and because of the unexpected situation of their respective team members, Jiang Shimeng, Liu Siwei and Dabao, who are single, temporarily team up, which is the latest group in the show, leaving them with a very tight rehearsal time. Everyone continues to create and improve the book of "Internet Physical Examination", "It is very easy to find these slot points, how to make these points can make the audience get them at once, it is very difficult." "Finally on the stage to perform, I did not expect that "Internet Physical Examination" not only exploded, but also went out of the circle on the Internet. Netizens praised the work as "real in the world", "Isn't this just me sitting in front of the screen?" Like "Internet Physical Examination" can play such a thorough work, Jiang Shimeng said that it is too rare, so she sighed, "Or to do a work that resonates with the audience." ”
In the show, the female doctor she played said "cut me, cut me, I am scum" over and over again, becoming a classic scene. Liu Tianchi, the performance director of "The Annual Comedy Competition", said in his evaluation of Jiang Shimeng that she was an actor who could "seriously pretend to be crazy and sell stupid". In this regard, Jiang Shimeng's understanding is, "I think this is a kind of investment in the role." ”
"The Annual Comedy Contest" focuses on sketch (sketch comedy) performances, and Jiang Shimeng, who is accustomed to traditional sketch creation, is still the first time to contact this short and fast comedy form. She learns sketch rules and gameplay by attending Mi Wei's offline workshops, and jiang Shimeng is impressed by a "Yes and" game. The game is played by two people, and no matter what the other person says, they have to continue with "Yes and". "The two of us accidentally went to the men's restroom today" "Yes, and the two of us also met our boss in the men's restroom" "Yes, and the boss praised us"... This kind of creative training has greatly inspired her.
Amusing people is not an easy task, and the emergence of short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou has made this matter more difficult. "If you don't catch the audience in the first 5 seconds, people may cross over and everyone will become more and more impatient." Comedy is increasingly becoming a pastime of light-hearted decompression, but how can the edutainmental artistic expression it shoulders be realized? After doing comedy for so many years, Jiang Shimeng can understand the audience's mentality, "If a person is very unhappy that day, he just wants to have fun, then there is nothing wrong with it." "But as a creator, she is a little uneasy and unwilling." We do traditional sketches, each work basically has to give a central idea, just hahaha, such works may not be retained. The most important thing about comedy is to bring people joy and happiness, and if there is a deeper meaning on top of this foundation, it is certainly better. ”
Crazy rehearsals to "overwork"
"I'll click and say, you click to record, how much you can use." During the interview, Jiang Shimeng always revealed the language habits and bold temperament of the northeast people. Growing up in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Jiang Shimeng attributed the reason why northeasterners are born with a sense of humor to watching too many sketches. "Winter in the northeast is particularly cold, everyone is hiding at home watching TV, and the TV station is turned over and over is a sketch."
There is still a long distance between watching sketches and being an actor, even if Jiang Shimeng has been the backbone of the class since she was a child, but when her father heard that her daughter wanted to enter the Beijing Film Academy as an actor, her heart still giggled. "My father organized my grandmother, my uncle, and my aunt to conduct a deep education on me, and without wanting to particularly hit my self-confidence, he gently told me that we were not suitable to be actors, and we did not grow up like adults. My mother was the only one in the family. "Jiang Shimeng still went without hesitation, and the examination was three years." I don't know where I got this confidence, but I felt that I was designated to be an actor. "In the first year, she wore a big fat sweater, jeans, and sneakers to take the exam, and she didn't know that her body had to jump and jump, so she jumped and jumped off her pants. The next year, they lost again, and in the third year, Jiang Shimeng and her mother made up their minds that if they couldn't pass the exam this time, they would do whatever they wanted. In the end, she received an acceptance letter from the 2010 cross-talk comedy acting class of the Beijing Film Academy as she wished, and became Feng Gong's protégé.
In this class, many students have been tested for many years to pass the exam, knowing that the opportunity to study is not easy to come by, so the whole class is full of hard work. A rehearsal is often rehearsed until the middle of the night, and everyone rushes to the small restaurant near the school to eat a wild meal. As a result, after four years, Jiang Shimeng's weight soared from 130 pounds when she entered the school to 230 pounds when she graduated. ”
Just a year after graduation, Jiang Shimeng followed her teacher Feng Gong to the stage of the 2014 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, performing the skit "I Am Such a Person". For a newcomer to society, this is a great opportunity and a huge affirmation. "Many people have asked why Teacher Feng chose me, really not because of how good I am, but because the role of that year was suitable for me, and I needed a silly little nanny, just like winning the lottery, and I really thankEd Teacher Feng for giving me this opportunity."
Working with her teacher Feng Gong, Jiang Shimeng felt his excellence in performance. "Teacher Feng is a person who likes 'pressing the field' very much, that is, before officially taking the stage, we must first go to the small garden to perform a few performances for the audience, if the baggage rings, keep it, and delete it if it does not ring." It is possible for a work to be pressed dozens of times. For the book, Feng Gong strives to be exquisite, "He basically has to change thirty or forty drafts, and may change sixty or seventy drafts at most, for a sentence and a standard symbol." ”
If it is lucky to be on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the first time, then three times on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is strength. In 2018, Jiang Shimeng, Li Mingqi, Li Chengru and others performed the sketch "Serving You", and in 2020, she performed the sketch "Like You Like Me" with Xie Na and Yang Di. Jiang Shimeng said that the experience of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala on the third day, in addition to bringing himself professional improvement, is more about the study of performance attitude and professionalism. ""Serve You" is a program after midnight, like Teacher Li Mingqi, Teacher Yang Shaohua and other old artists, they usually sleep at eight or nine o'clock, but that night they were all waiting in the background with everyone, and no one said that they needed a separate lounge or something, which was particularly touching. The program of "Like You Like Me" has changed more than a dozen drafts before and after, and everyone has not complained a single word. And everyone is a wrist, and there are many activities at the end of the year, but in order to rehearse, they all come on time and on time, which is worth learning. ”
Healthy self-confidence is women's freedom
The learning experience of Beiying and the stage experience of CCTV Spring Festival Gala have made Jiang Shimeng always grow up around a group of performing artists. In this year's broadcast of the "Gold Medal Comedy Class" program, Jiang Shimeng was finally elected as the gold medal student in Chen Peisi's class, and she learned a lot from this comedy master. "Mr. Pace is a real artist, his concept of comedy is very advanced, using extremely exaggerated performances to express a very sincere heart, and narrowing the distance with the little people at the bottom." The recording time of the show is only two or three months, and every time he goes to class, Chen Peisi wants to teach his lifelong comedy experience, "He always says that the time is too tight, and he wants to tell us too many things." "Jiang Shimeng and her partner rehearsed the show, and Chen Peisi, who was observing from the sidelines, saw something wrong at a glance: the two people always looked at the floor when they read their lines, and there was no eye contact." He said that comedy performances must start with characters and dare to communicate with opponents, rather than two people playing their own piece. ”
In the "Gold Medal Comedy Class", another mentor, Guo Degang, also favored Jiang Shimeng, saying that her performance was "not stringy", and what she acted like. The audience also had a heated discussion in the comments section, commenting that Jiang Shimeng's performance was "human protection" ("living" is a work), rather than "living a living person". "I think that 'people keep alive' and 'live guarantors' are actually a coexistence relationship, so that they have better creativity and quality, so that they can achieve the survival of people, and then let people keep alive." 」
Jiang Shimeng's WeChat personality signature is "Panda (Panda) living on the stage", and from the appearance point of view, her rounded figure is indeed like a panda. As a typical plus-size girl, Jiang Shimeng said that the problem of body shape has never bothered her. "I don't think fat or skinny should be the standard by which girls are defined, only we can define ourselves. Now many girls have appearance anxiety, body anxiety, and go to plastic surgery and excessive dieting. I think a confident fat girl is much more mentally healthy than a girl who can't accept herself even if she is thin. Regardless of the conditions, we must first accept our true selves, and healthy self-confidence is the freedom of contemporary women. ”
For comedians, the slightly fat figure can increase the temperament of the comedian, is this an advantage? Jiang Shimeng has her own clear understanding, "I have confidence in my own creativity, not that I look fatter than others, and then this role belongs to me, and my own shaping ability is my core competitiveness." ”
Until now, Jiang Shimeng still clearly remembers the words written on the wall on the first floor of the performance department of the Beijing Film Academy: Learn from the people, serve the people, and be an artist for the people. She felt that this was not an empty slogan, but a creed worth practicing for life. "The reason why I've been able to act until now is because I think bringing happiness to other people is one thing that makes me feel very happy. Teacher Feng Gong repeatedly told us in school that learning to be a person, acting well, and being a good person is the original intention of an actor. ”
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