At this year's Spring Festival Gala, the 72-year-old Jiang Kun's cross-talk "Happy Dialect" was suspected of plagiarism.
This cross-talk was performed by Jiang Kun's foreign apprentice Dashan a long time ago.
A few days later, Dashan posted a video response: "This cross-talk was created by Jiang Kun in 1987.
I was his apprentice, and he taught me this passage himself, and my master did not copy it. ”
Not only did he personally debunk the rumors for the master, but he also couldn't help but grievance for Jiang Kun: some viewers liked to watch Jiang Kun with emotions.
The comments at the bottom seem to confirm this "Even if it is not plagiarized, it is not funny, right?" ”
"Fool us with 1987's work in 2022?"
"Mainstream crosstalk at this level? I know which one to look at."
Why didn't the audience buy Jiang Kun's account? Does he really have no masterpiece except "Tiger's Mouth Escape"?
Is he really unable to live with Lao Guo? 72-year-old Jiang Kun is old, can he still eat?
01 "Jiang Kun doesn't know traditional crosstalk at all"?
Unlike Lao Guo, a cross-talk actor who has performed art from elementary school, Jiang Kun is indeed a halfway monk.
Therefore, it is true that he: "the basic skills are not as solid as traditional artists, and there will not be many old jobs" is the truth.
This is Jiang Kun's weakness, but also his advantage.
In 1950, Jiang Kun was born in Beijing, and after graduating from junior high school, he went to Heilongjiang to join the team.
In the propaganda team of the Ordnance Corps, I met Shi Shengjie, a master from a famous cross-talk family.
Has a very deep cross-talk skills. Jiang Kun, who had never been in contact with crosstalk, chatted with Shi Shengjie in the dormitory.
Only to appreciate the charm of crosstalk.
The traditional cross-talk "Geographical Map" and "Open Porridge Factory" Shi Shengjie can open his mouth to come to the last paragraph, and Jiang Kun is always stunned to hear it.
Before that, he didn't know that there were such traditional works in the world, and he had a feeling of seeing each other and hating the night.
During the period of the Northern Wilderness, Shi Shengjie became Jiang Kun's cross-talk enlightenment teacher.
He often explained to him the various knowledge of cross-talk, and it wasn't long before Jiang Kun fell in love with this art.
After deciding to specialize in cross-talk, Jiang Kun formed a partnership with Shi Shengjie and polished the works together to perform together.
At this time, Jiang Kun had a huge disadvantage: a cross-talk actor like Mr. Shi, called "baby legs" in jargon,
Everyone's parents are cross-talk artists, learning art since childhood, and the basic skills are not generally solid.
And Jiang Kun is a halfway monk, and what he did before was work that had nothing to do with crosstalk.
Jiang Kun, who only learned cross-talk in his 20s, obviously said that learning to sing is not as good as traditional artists, he only has one way,
That is innovation, there is no old job, only to find ways to get the whole new job.
The innovation that was forced to be helpless made Jiang Kun turn the disadvantage into an advantage: although he did not have the basic skills of other actors,
But other artists can't learn Jiang Kun's creativity.
Jiang Kun's partnership with Shi Shengjie is very successful, and he has a lot of fame in Harbin.
Therefore, I got the opportunity to go to Beijing to participate in the research of qu art.
In 1976, Jiang Kun and Shi Shengjie's cross-talk "Lin Hai Hongying" performed at the research meeting was fully applauded.
Ma Ji in the audience keenly sensed Jiang Kun's talent and transferred him to the radio rap group in Beijing.
And the idea of taking him as a disciple was revealed.
Ma Ji is an old senior with a high score in the cross-talk industry, and he wants to set up a hair to transfer Jiang Kun from the Northern Wilderness to Beijing.
To have such a Bole as a master, Jiang Kun is naturally 100% willing.
The 26-year-old Jiang Kun had a master, became Ma Ji's apprentice, and his partner was also replaced by Li Wenhua.
After Jiang Kun's performance, Ma Ji sighed from the heart: I really didn't look at the wrong person.
02 "Jiang Kun's fame is all due to Liang Zuo"?
Jiang Kun, who arrived in Beijing, had a bigger stage and created a cross-talk "So Photographed" famous for a while.
Not only has he become the youngest leader of the Quyi Association, but he has also become a myth in the cross-talk community:
A 26-year-old young man who learned the art from a teacher, the traditional work can not be said for a few paragraphs,
Stunned is relying on his own talent to break out of the cross-talk circle.
Jiang Kun does not stick to the rules and regulations of traditional cross-talk, and the cross-talk written is quite ironic,
"So Demand" ridiculed the problem of asking for a bride price, and "Thinking of Wrong" satirized the undesirable phenomena of society at that time.
Baggage is crisp and coke. On the stage, Jiang Kun quickly found his own "comedic personality",
The person set for himself is: the low-level literary and artistic youth, a little "bad", a little naughty but not cute.
The pairing of Jiang Kun and Li Wenhua represented a new youth with ideals and pursuit of progress, which was very popular among young people at that time.
In 1983, Jiang Kun and Master Ma Ji participated in the recording of the first Spring Festival Gala and showed their faces in front of the people of the whole country.
Since then, he and Li Wenhua have become regular guests of the Spring Festival Gala. Works such as "Wrong Step" and "Kwa Hometown" have received a lot of praise,
It may be that the creative pressure of the Spring Festival Gala is too great, and slowly, Jiang Kun's innovation road has encountered a bottleneck.
"Can't write good things, get stuck when you write" has become his biggest annoyance.
It was at this time that he met Liang Zuo, who was still a writer at that time, and Jiang Kun had read the books he wrote.
Thinking the man was very talented, he was invited to do comedy with himself.
With Liang Zuo, the screenwriter, Jiang Kun successfully solved the bottleneck on the road of creation.
He only needs to be responsible for the performance, and the next year's Spring Festival Gala will not be easy?
On the eve of the Spring Festival Gala in 1987, Jiang Kun read Liang Zuo's novel on the train to perform in other places.
After watching Wen Siquanyong, he quickly adapted it into a cross-talk script, planning to perform with Li Wenhua on the spring evening.
As a result, Li Wenhua, who has cooperated for many years, can no longer perform cross-talk because he is seriously ill.
Jiang Kun could only temporarily change his partner to Tang Shizhong.
In order not to affect the performance effect, Jiang Kun polished the script with Liang Zuo over and over again.
Discuss how to make the laughter point how to add the baggage, and rehearse over and over again under great pressure.
The result did not live up to his efforts, this "Tiger's Mouth Reverie" became a hit on the spring evening,
It has become a representative work of Jiang Kun's classics.
Jiang Kun boldly adopted an alternative way of performing, using a man who fell into the tiger hole in the park as an incision.
With seemingly absurd language, he threw out one baggage after another, making the national audience laugh.
With "Tiger Mouth Reverie", Jiang Kun's fame reached its peak,
At this time, crosstalk has entered the era of television from the era of broadcasting.
Jiang Kun is one of the most successful leaps and bounds.
The first cooperation with Liang Zuo has achieved such great success, which makes Jiang Kun more determined to cooperate with him.
Since the Spring Festival Gala in 1987, Liang Zuo has become Jiang Kun's royal screenwriter, creating a cross-talk script for him.
Jiang Kun's peak moment is indeed cast by Liang Zuo, but if it is said that "Jiang Kun is nothing without Liang Zuo", it is biased.
First of all, Liang Zuo is a writer, does not understand cross-talk, most of the time needs Jiang Kun to write his own cross-talk lines,
Then give the left side of the beam to polish the filling.
Secondly, before knowing Liang Zuo, Jiang Kun was already a proud disciple of Ma Ji and had a lot of fame.
It was Jiang Kun who discovered Liang Zuo's talent, and the two achieved each other.
In this regard, Jiang Kun is Liang Zuo's Bole, and Jiang Kun's appreciated Maxima,
There are many more.
03 Chen Peisi Zhao Benshan and other "sketch kings" were excavated by Liang Zuo
Because of the explosion of "Tiger Mouth Reverie", Jiang Kunhe continued the style of satirical cross-talk,
Tang Jiezhong, the partner of screenwriter Liang Zuo, formed the "Iron Triangle", which brought many good works to the audience.
From "Beautiful Imagination" to "Big News", each one is a classic,
It was the golden age of Jiang Kun's creation, and he became the most popular and accomplished cross-talk actor.
His talent in cross-talk made his partners can't help but sigh: "Jiang Kun is not a man, he is a god."
In the early 1990s, Jiang Kun almost became the most famous cross-talk artist.
At the same time, he also paid attention to the development of other comedy forms, in 1984, the director of the Spring Festival Gala invited Chen Peisi to participate in the party.
He and his partner Zhu Shimao created the sketch "Eating Noodles",
Before that, the comedy form of sketches never appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
After watching Chen Peisi's work, the director group immediately divided into two factions.
One category is conservatives: CCTV Spring Festival Gala is a large-scale literary and art evening, "EatIng Noodles" makes the audience happy like this,
Is it appropriate? Will it have an unserious impact?
The other category is the open-ended faction: crosstalk can make the audience happy, why can't the sketches?
This novel way of performing may be more enjoyable to the audience.
As the host of the Spring Festival Gala, Jiang Kun belongs to the second category, and he supports Chen Peisi on the Spring Festival Gala.
Not only did he help him say good things to the director, but he also took the initiative to give Chen Peisi's book a lot of suggestions.
Jiang Kun, who has attended the Spring Festival Gala and has been engaged in comedy work for many years, has helped Chen Peisi a lot,
Years later, Chen Peisi also mentioned Jiang Kun with great gratitude: "Mr. Jiang is a very talented person. ”
After the Spring Festival Gala, Jiang Kun transferred Chen Peisi to the radio rap group.
Such comedians have been reused, and only then have the classic sketches left by Chen Peisi at the Spring Festival Gala.
Jiang Kun also loves talent, as a comedy leader, he has the task of digging up new talents to cultivate comedy talents.
At this point, Jiang Kun is very competent.
Jiang Kun found zhao Benshan, starting from a "cold field" performance,
On the day of the Tieling performance, Jiang Kun encountered the most feared thing of all comedians: no one laughed.
He didn't know what was wrong, and his cross-talk performance was very good.
Why did it get cold as soon as I came to Tieling?
After the show, some viewers secretly complained: "What is he talking about, the artist from Beijing,
Not as good as Zhao Benshan we have here. Jiang Kun was excited as soon as he heard it, wondering who this Zhao Benshan was?
How funny can he be? After the performance, I bought a ticket for Zhao Benshan's performance,
I'm going to meet this guy well.
At that time, Zhao Benshan's two-person transfer works such as "Breaking three strings" and "Blind People Watching the Lights" were already well-known in Tieling.
Someone just finished appendicitis surgery to see his performance and laughed until the wound cracked,
After watching Zhao Benshan's performance, Jiang Kun tried to hold back a smile and not let himself lose his attitude,
But I still couldn't help but laugh.
After the performance, Jiang Kun invited Zhao Benshan to perform on a larger stage for the Spring Festival Gala.
Because of Jiang Kun's strong recommendation, Zhao Benshan created the sketch "Blind Date" and became famous overnight at the Spring Festival Gala.
It can be said that if Jiang Kun had not tried to invite Zhao Benshan to Beijing for the Spring Festival Gala,
Uncle Benshan may not be able to become a household name "sketch king".
04 If you have won Chen Peisi Zhao Benshan, how can you not tolerate your peer Guo Degang?
As a comedy predecessor with successful experience, as well as the leader of the Quyi Association,
Jiang Kun has a good reputation in promoting the excavation of talents with his juniors, with the explosion of the sketch actors he personally excavated,
His crosstalk didn't seem to be as popular anymore, and in the late '90s,
Jiang Kun's cross-talk works are difficult to continue the glory of the past, far less funny than before.
There are many reasons for this, the most important of which is the disintegration of the "Iron Triangle",
Screenwriter Liang Zuo changed his career to write sitcoms, and his partner Tang Jiezhong, who has been running for many years, is no longer on stage because of his old age.
Jiang Kun's partner was replaced by another cross-talk actor, Dai Zhicheng.
Suddenly, there was no "three points to tease seven points" of the praise partner, Jiang Kun obviously began to decline.
At that time, Jiang Kun represented the hope of all cross-talk artists,
Everyone wants Jiang Kun to create good works to make cross-talk return to the peak, and Jiang Kun has also made a lot of efforts.
But at that time, the peak of his creation had passed, and he could no longer come up with an eye-catching work like "Tiger's Mouth Reverie".
At this time, cross-talk has spread from the era of television to the era of Internet dissemination, and Guo Degang turned out to be born.
Although Lao Guo always jokingly calls himself a "non-mainstream cross-talk actor", he is very traditional.
7 years old to learn art, has a strong talent, and has enough love for crosstalk.
When he came out of Tianjin, Guo Degang had a shy wish:
Join the system and become a well-known cross-talk actor.
After repeatedly hitting the wall, he gave up this wish, and there was no way to join, so he set up another mountain by himself.
Founded the Deyun Society, found a partner to find an apprentice in the small theater of the grand theater to polish the commercial performance,
At that time, the Internet was just emerging, and Guo Degang's talent was not buried for too long.
Soon, with a period of tradition and new ideas, cross-talk became popular.
In the face of Guo Degang's popularity, Jiang Kun looked displeased for the first time.
In the face of the interview, he frankly admitted that Guo Degang did have extraordinary talent and talent.
But he must get rid of the tacky things in crosstalk, otherwise he will never be able to climb the hall of elegance.
For such a suggestion, Guo Degang's attitude is: I do not accept.
Lao Guo did not get the same smooth compilation as Jiang Kun in his early years, and on the road of cross-talk,
He suffered more than Jiang Kun, so he hated the harm brought to him by the so-called mainstream actors.
Define yourself as "non-mainstream cross-talk actor" and "non-famous cross-talk actor",
He did not approve of jiang Kun's criticism and even fought back.
Guo Degang specially created a cross-talk "I want to oppose the three customs" to satirize Jiang Kun,
Completely draw a line with mainstream actors, this is the beginning of Jiang Kun's reputation decline,
At that time, Guo Degang was on the Internet, and gained many fans with his talent.
Jiang Kun also gained a lot of scolding because of this.
Why should Jiang Kun oppose the tacky part of traditional crosstalk?
It is because he feels that crosstalk was a bad performance before, and some of the crap in it should no longer appear in modern society.
The reason why cross-talk can go to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala is the result of generations of cross-talk artists constantly purifying those crap.
It was hard to let the cross-talk ascend to the hall of elegance, and Guo Degang took the part that was eliminated and said everywhere,
Isn't that a step backwards?
05 Jiang Kun is not as bad as it is uploaded on the Internet
Such worries are not superfluous, and the same folk art duo also had a lot of tacky passages in the early days,
Zhao Benshan, from a long-term perspective, put forward the proposal of "green two-person transfer".
The things that the original two people transferred to the hall of elegance were removed and purified, and only then did they have the glory behind,
In order to reach a larger stage, it is necessary to trim the content.
At the funeral of Master Ma Ji, Jiang Kun vowed to "guard the holiness of crosstalk".
Because this is the result of the joint efforts of several generations of cross-talk actors, the times are progressing,
Creators can't let crosstalk back off.
Peer evaluation of Jiang Kun
But in the hearts of some fans, Jiang Kun's behavior is "harming peers and jealous of Guo Degang's talent".
He thinks that Jiang Kun himself has exhausted his talents, and he does not allow others to use his talents to revitalize cross-talk.
Such an idea is too extreme, and their mutual friend Lao Liang once said:
"Many people on the Internet who don't know Jiang Kun always look at him with colored glasses, in fact, Jiang Kun is not what is rumored at all."
Jiang Kun and Guo Degang took a group photo in the early years
First of all, Jiang Kun has no reason and no need to be jealous of Lao Guo, because Lao Guo is a cross-talk genius who appeared after Jiang Kun.
In the late 1990s, Jiang Kun's works were not as good as a day, and countless people were worried about the future of crosstalk.
Around 2002, Guo Degang turned out to be a world, allowing the audience to understand the traditional cross-talk,
People have seen new hope.
At that time, Jiang Kun's peak had passed, and there was no need to be jealous of who harmed whom.
As the leader of the mainstream cross-talk industry, he no longer needs to perform stage.
What he should do is to promote the younger generation to cultivate new people, and the rise of Guo Degang will not hinder Jiang Kun.
The two just have different concepts, one thinks that crosstalk should be educational, and the other thinks that crosstalk is funny.
The reason for the disagreement is simple: the position is different, the concept is different.
Jiang Kun's situation makes him have to have a "big picture view",
To consider the impact and role that crosstalk can play, he is not just an artist.
Be responsible for crosstalk.
And Guo Degang is relatively free, with absolute creative freedom,
He is a jianghu artist, and he only needs to be responsible for the audience who buys tickets.
Don't follow too many rules. And Jiang Kun's position is not the same,
Naturally, the things considered are different. It is not clear who is right and who is wrong,
Location determines the head, and the environment determines the idea.
The evaluation of Jiang Kun who came in was unfair, and after carefully reading his resume, he knew that
Jiang Kun has made great contributions to promoting the development of cross-talk, and he has also had a peak period.
Don't look at others with filters, and don't look at Jiang Kun with emotions,
In the history of the development of cross-talk, Jiang Kun is a figure that cannot be avoided.
When Guo Degang was asked "what to do with Jiang Langcai", he said: "I said that crosstalk is not inspiration.
It's craftsmanship, a craft like fried fritters, and you'll ask a person who fried fritters, Jiang Lang, what to do? ”
But looking at his works over the years, there is no longer a "god-level level" in 2003.
Saying that crosstalk is by no means fried fritters, on this issue, Guo Degang and Jiang Kun are facing the same situation.
Creators can't be at their peak forever,
Jiang Kun had his own highlight moments, and he also created his own brilliance,
Have made their own contributions to the comedy cause, I hope that more talents can emerge in the comedy industry,
I also hope that Jiang Kun will also create and write excellent works.