In July this year, XinZai came to Beijing from Shenyang and officially signed a contract for Shan Liren Comedy.
The first time he took to the stage to speak about Open Mai was at the end of December 2019.
He has only been in the industry for two years, and now he cannot be regarded as a newcomer in the circle. With the strong boost of several domestic talk shows, the development path of "from open wheat to commercial performances to variety shows" followed by actors has been greatly shortened.
Although compared with Shenyang, "in Beijing will be busier, the pressure will be greater", but this state, Xin Zai is happy to be satisfied. There are more opportunities, and of course there are more things.
▲Xinzai offline performance Photo/Network
At the end of the interview that day, he had to catch three or four open wheat, which were all routine operations. Currently, he attends at least seven or eight open wheat shows a week and at least one show on weekends.
But he usually does not stay up late, small talk before the interview, he said that he "stayed up late last night, three o'clock to sleep", the reporter laughed a little, he immediately restrained, embarrassed to ask "is this not a late sleep?"
During that time, he was doing some screenwriting work, felt quite stressed, and began to "stay up late to write paragraphs".
He is very hard-working and talented, winning the best popular contestant in the sub-venue in the summer competition of single-person original comedy in 2020, and winning the championship in the second competition in the winter. He imitated the Aidou draft on stage and yan Rujing, the player of "Strange Story", and was very clever.
In that scene, he received a completely unexpected cheer.
On the day of the interview, Xin Zai grew a beard, and the whole dialogue seemed a bit restrained, and even shy during the communication process, which was completely different from his state on the stage.
He said that like many young people today, he may be crazy and noisy with familiar friends; but in private, when he is with strangers or unfamiliar friends, he can still be a little introverted.
Here's his self-description.
01
Northeasterners do seem to have their own humorous atmosphere.
Before in the Shenyang gale day comedy, there are indeed a lot of new actors just on the open wheat a few times (feel good), northeast people are talented in comedy, right? I don't know, but other clubs asked me anyway, and I said I didn't know why.
▲ Xin Zai previously performed in "Windy Day" Photo/Weibo
Compared with beijing's busyness, Shenyang's talk show market is still in its infancy. In my hometown, there are not as many opportunities as in Beijing, and I basically lie at home. In terms of markets alone, only Shanghai and Beijing may be more mature, and other provincial capitals feel similar.
I've been a kid who likes to make people laugh since I was a kid. When I was in junior high school, I began to like to take the words of teachers and classmates, and at that time I felt very humorous, and everyone liked to get along with me.
But I'm generally not the kind of person who talks a lot, I just like to listen to them and then find the "absurdity" in their words and point it out.
At that time, I often searched for some programs on the Internet, and all kinds of comedy programs at home and abroad, including stand-up comedies and Sketch or something, I liked to watch them, but I never thought of performing on stage.
At the end of 2019, suddenly one day, I didn't know what to think, and I wanted to go up and try it. I just found a windy day comedy on the Internet, and in Shenyang, it is relatively close to my home.
After going there, I've stuck with it until now.
02
Winning the Stand-Alone Original Comedy Contest last winter was a surprise.
The audience's reaction at the time far exceeded my expectations.
The effect that day was really good. When the curtain came down, the cheers from the audience were particularly loud.
When the award was finally awarded, I really wanted to hold back (laughs), but I didn't hold back, and finally I laughed a little.
▲ XinZai / third from the right Won the winner of the Single-Person Original Comedy Contest in the winter of 2020 Photo/Network
I had been very nervous before. I've used some of my best strips in previous performances, including summer games. In the final, I didn't seem to have much to say.
The passages of that game were probably made up of four paragraphs, two of which had been written a long time ago but had not been talked about much, and two of which had not been written for a long time, and some of the tandem words in the middle had only been written the night before.
Someone said before that I was very fast, no, I didn't create fast at all. That's all forced to write out during the game, and there is no such dead line when relaxing.
After winning the championship, I began to have a cognition: everyone still accepted my paragraph more.
When I first started competing in the summer, I never thought about winning anything. Watching the previous competition, I think they are all very powerful, and after winning the award, I feel that I may be so powerful in the future. Slowly, you will be more strict with yourself.
That was a spur on me.
03
At that time, the "windy day F4" mentioned in the game was because the four of us were indeed a little older, the so-called "father four".
The golden age of a talk show actor seems to be my age (Editor's Note: XinZai was born in 1988). A lot of great talk show actors, almost all of them are this age.
The older you get, the more things you experience, the more you seem to see things more thoroughly, and it's better to talk about talk shows.
But the new comedians that are emerging at the moment, they will bring a lot of new things, maybe their paragraph, we have never considered it from that perspective before.
Just said that old age, may not be so good, he looks at things from a single perspective. The best man, young and old.
Shan Liren has one thing to do very well: what you want to do, you just have to say, he will let you do, and then say whether it is successful or not.
Jiajia and I formed a group just because we wanted to try sketch, but she suddenly wanted to make comics again recently.
▲ Xin Zai thinking on the stage Photo/Weibo
There are so many forms of comedy that I definitely want to try all kinds of forms. But if there is a focus, I still want to delve into stand-up comedy for now.
In fact, I still have a lot of things that I haven't figured out. I hope that in the new year, I can find out as soon as possible.
Personal special session, put to the present is still a distance. My request to myself is that a 60-minute strip, come up with 40 minutes of ready-made, and the other 20 minutes I will practice on the open wheat, not at the next performance. In the special session, at least 20 minutes of new things should be heard by the audience. But I'm still far behind, and I don't want to talk about some passages when I talk about them.
In 2020, from the decision to participate in the summer race to the unexpected victory in the winter race, these are all breakthroughs for me. After that, I didn't give myself a clear statement about what I wanted to achieve, but there was always some breakthrough.
But now, for a long time, I haven't had such a place to break through.
In the new year, I hope to make a breakthrough.
Coordinate | Ma Chen
Written | Li Yeping
Edited | Chen Xi Gan Siyi
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