We generally call Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao the "originator of sketches", and his pioneering work is "Eating Noodles" at the Spring Festival Gala in 1984.
However, it must also be explained here that in various evenings before 1984, including the spring evening of 1983, there were sketches, such as Yan Shunkai's "Playing the Piano" and Wang Jingyu's "Eating Chicken", which are also sketches and can be classified as pantomime sketches.
Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao's "Eating Noodles" should be classified as a comedy sketch, and later this form of performance became popular throughout the country, and it became a conventional sketch.
Before the Spring Festival Gala in 1984, Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao was still an actor in the Bayi Film Studio, how could they suddenly run to the Spring Festival Gala to stage a sketch, in the middle of which I have to mention the credit of one person, Jiang Kun.
In fact, in a certain sense, Jiang Kun is Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao's Bole.
First, Jiang Kun's four-fold identity
At the Spring Festival Gala in 1984, Jiang Kun not only performed cross-talk with Li Wenhua, but he also continued to serve as the host of the Spring Festival Gala.
In addition to the two identities of cross-talk actor and host, Jiang Kun once again entered the Spring Festival Gala creation group like the 1983 Spring Festival Gala, which is "planning" in today's words.
This creator is responsible for the overall planning of the entire Spring Festival Gala, from the host, the program to the actors, almost all of them have to go through them, and the program finalized by the creative team and the director is then submitted for review. To put it simply, the director is equivalent to the commander of the Spring Festival Gala, and the creative group is equivalent to the staff.
In addition to this triple identity, Jiang Kun also has an identity that is a film and television drama actor, don't look at the number of film and television dramas he has starred in, but he does have the strength to be an actor.
It is also because of these two identities that Jiang Kun has become the Bole of Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao.
Second, the discovery of Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao
Before the Spring Festival Gala in 1984, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao were already well-known in the film and television circles, Zhu Shimao starred in "Wrangler", Chen Peisi starred in "Xizhao Street", in 1983 Zhu Shimao was transferred to the Bayi Film Studio and Chen Peisi became colleagues, and the two performed a skit "Examination Actor" at a party event in the Bayi Factory.
In fact, the content of the performance of "Examination Actor" is the original ecology of the sketch, when the drama school recruits actors, it often allows the test takers to "perform a skit", and Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao's creative inspiration comes from this.
The Spring Festival Gala creative group happened to hear that Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao, two actors of bayi factory, had a good show, so they discussed getting them to the Spring Festival Gala to see. It just so happens that although Jiang Kun does not know Chen Peisi, he has acted in movies with Zhu Shimao in 1979 and has become good friends with Zhu Shimao, so he invited Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi to the Spring Festival Gala Creative Group.
Third, the first cooperation between sketches and cross-talk
Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao performed in the sports hotel restaurant where the Spring Festival Gala creation group was located, and immediately won a full house of color, not only the creative group looked happy, but other actors and hotel staff onlookers were also amused.
Just after the performance, Jiang Kun immediately expressed his personal opinion in the creative group: This program is good, last year Wang Jingyu performed a pantomime sketch, this year we will have another talking sketch, this is a new one.
However, Jiang Kun's words did not resonate with everyone, and some people said: Although this show looks at Coke, it has no basis in life, no theme, and the performance is too hot.
Li Pingfen, a famous screenwriter in the creative group (masterpiece "Armageddon"), believes that this "Examination Actor" is too rough and not meticulous, and needs to be rearranged.
Li Pingfen was right, at that time, the "Examination actor" was very long, reaching more than half an hour, and what was more fatal was that only the outline had no accurate words, all by Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao's live play, which naturally could not be on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Therefore, Jiang Kun took on the responsibility of rearranging the sketch for Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao, which was probably the first cooperation between crosstalk and sketch.
Some people may not quite understand, can cross-talk actors give sketch actors guidance?
Of course, in the cross-talk industry, in addition to the common cross-talk, group cross-talk and stand-up comedy, there is also a form of performance called cross-talk drama, which is a cross-talk form with makeup, plot, and performance, which is a sketch at first glance, but the language skills used are cross-talk, so it is called cross-talk drama.
Cross-talk dramas existed before liberation, after liberation Zhao Zhenduo and Li Jindou they also lined up a lot, Wang Gang and Zhao Lianjia performed cross-talk drama "Tooth Extraction" on the spring evening, Some of Feng Gong's later programs that were treated as sketches were actually cross-talk dramas, and Jiang Kun later performed more than a hundred times in the country "Ming Chun Qu" is a large-scale cross-talk drama.
Back to the truth, Jiang Kun took the task, but Zhu Shimao agreed to rearrange, Chen Peisi did not agree, he pushed that he could not remember the words, under the persuasion of Jiang Kun bitterly, the two finally went to Jiang Kun's home together to receive counseling.
Jiang Kun and Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao together extracted a "Eating Noodles" from the head to the end of "Examination Actor", and then he kneaded some of the baggage techniques in cross-talk such as "eating vomit" into "Eating Noodles", and finally formed a work of ten minutes and accurate words.
There is also a small episode in the middle, the famous director of the Spring Festival Gala Creation Group Du Peng (Blue Sky Wild's half-brother) put forward different opinions after watching "Eating Noodles", he said that Jiang Kun still made a cross-talk drama for others, and finally adjusted it back, and finally formed the sketch we saw "Eating Noodles".
Of course, there are many episodes in the process of this skit finally appearing on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, such as Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao", who "escaped" from the sports hotel three times during rehearsals, and was almost killed in the final review link.
In the creation process of "EatIng Noodles", in addition to the two leading actors Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao, the people who helped this sketch the most were Huang Yihe, the general director of the Spring Festival Gala at the time, and Jiang Kun of the Spring Festival Gala Creation Group.
Since then, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao have also had one more identity, sketch actors.
Some viewers may feel that it is a pity that Jiang Kun helped Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao cut the original thirty-minute "Examination Actor" into a ten-minute "Eating Noodles".
Don't worry, because the other part of the sketch was not wasted, and by the spring evening of 1985 the sequel "Making a Movie" was formed.
Fourth, Jiang Kun brought Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao
The cooperation between Jiang Kun and Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao is not only "Eating Noodles" this time,
In preparation for the Spring Festival Gala in 1986, Zhao Lianjia and Jiao Naiji created a satirical sketch of illegal peddlers, and they consulted with the general director Huang Yihe to prepare for Jiang Kun to play the merchants, and the actor Chen Yude played the industrial and commercial cadres. But when Jiang Kun couldn't find a feeling for the lines, he thought that this was a skit that should be played by Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao.
In the end, Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao took over this equally classic skit "Lamb Kebab".
Also in 1986, Chen Peisi transferred from the Bayi Film Studio, and Jiang Kun, who served as the head of the Central Radio Rap Troupe, immediately extended an olive branch to introduce Chen Peisi to the Central Radio Rap Ensemble, and then the two immediately collaborated on the movie "Kyoto Ball Man". Four years later, Zhu Shimao also changed careers and came in, and the three were reunited at the Central Radio Rap Company.
Chen Peisi later commented on Jiang Kun in a TV show: he is very capable, is a very talented person, and does not have any distractions for newcomers.
Zhu Shimao also said in the interview that if there is no Jiang Kun, maybe he and Chen Peisi will not embark on the road of sketches, Jiang Kun is their good big brother, good friend, there is such a good big brother, I feel very proud and proud.
Finally, back to the title of this article, why jiang Kun "also" is Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao's Bole, because Jiang Kun is also another sketch industry big man Uncle Benshan's Bole.
If it is said that the Chinese sketch world "only has ten buckets", Jiang Kun alone discovered seven or eight of them.