On the stage of the 2004 CCTV Comedy Sketch Contest, a couple was performing hard.
Its exaggerated movements, funny expressions and bold language with northeastern characteristics caused bursts of laughter from the audience.
Just when the actor was performing well, the host of the show, Zou Dejiang, stopped the performance and said a word in passing.
What he did not expect was that this seemingly unremarkable sentence became the Waterloo of his career, and even became the Waterloo of his life, which hit the bottom of his career and prosperous life.
What exactly did he say that caused himself such great frustration and trouble?
01
Born in Harbin, Zou Dejiang likes to listen to commentaries and commentaries since he was a child, he not only has a good memory, but also is good at imitation, and it is as if he has sung a play when he talks about commentaries.
In order to continue to hear him say that he is commenting on books, little friends, you divide him two points, pool your money to let him go to the theater to listen to the thirty-cent commentary on the ticket, and then come back to tell you.
In this way, on the side of the road, Zou Dejiang stepped onto the earliest stage of his acting career and became a well-known road artist among his friends.
As an adult, Zou Dejiang, who entered the army's literary and labor troupe, continued his book-reading performance, and with his excellent imitation ability, he was favored by the cross-talk master Shi Shengjie and was included in his door.
In 1994, CCTV's "Quyuan Zatan" exploded because of the "Lausanne Learning Art" performed by a Tibetan boy, Lobsang.
Unfortunately, the show aired less than a year ago, and in 1995, Lausanne fell like a meteor in a car accident.
Without the "Lausanne Learning Art" of "Music Art Miscellaneous", it urgently needs a new program to make up for the gap after Lobsang's departure, Zou Dejiang, who can say that he can perform and is good at imitation, has been pushed to the forefront, with the series of sketches "Smart Drama" debuted in "Music Art Miscellaneous", 29-year-old Zou Dejiang instantly walked into thousands of households with the screen, and the fire spread across the country.
Some people say that if Lobsang had not died, there would have been no Zou Dejiang or anything, and some people said that if zou Dejiang, a road artist, had not worshiped the cross-talk master Shi Shengjie as a teacher, it is estimated that there would still be a passerby at this time.
But the reality is not possible, Zou Dejiang is in these possible speculations, step by step hard to climb, stepped onto a higher and bigger stage.
In 2001, CCTV launched a comedy mini-category column "Happy Weekend Encounter", and Zou Dejiang became the host of the program.
In the past three years, he has built the column into a brand column of CCTV, and both word of mouth and ratings belong to the level of the crowd in CCTV.
What people never expected was that just because of a seemingly insignificant ridicule, Zou Dejiang's acting career was cut off.
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In 2004, CCTV's first comedy sketch contest was in full swing.
On the stage, Zhao Benshan's apprentice, Zhang Xiaofei and his wife He Meilan, who had a familiar face because of their role in the role of "Two Pillars" in the "Liu Laogen" series, were performing a comedy sketch that looked like a two-person turn.
As the interaction between the stage and offstage gradually entered a better state, Zhang Xiaofei's performance gradually moved from the initial restraint and forbearance to the direction of the two people without scruples and mouths.
Zhang Xiaofei and his wife improvised more and more, the action became more and more wanton, looking at the audience laughing backwards and downwards, Zhang Xiaofei completely forgot the programming during the rehearsal and completely released himself.
His movements became more and more provocative, his lines became more vulgar and explicit, and the performance began to slide uncontrollably in the direction of the village grass stage team.
This is CCTV, and it's a live program that's being made to a national audience.
Host Zou Dejiang stepped onto the stage at a critical moment and stopped Zhang Xiaofei and his wife's improvisational performance in time, suggesting in a ridiculous tone that Zhang Xiaofei's performance was a bit too much: "The weather is cold, don't freeze it."
The atmosphere of the scene suddenly cooled down, And after Zhang Xiaofei and his wife then performed the remaining program in a decent manner, the host Zou Dejiang spat out in passing when he stopped the show: "You can finish acting, that is, Zhao Benshan's students, or let your teacher come."
Unexpectedly, this ordinary spit actually covered a person's tiger whiskers, causing an uproar.
In the end, Zou Dejiang had to terminate his newly popular host stage, leave CCTV, and disappear in front of the public.
Whose tiger whiskers did Zou Dejiang pick up, and why was he kicked away by CCTV?
03
The person who was whisked by the tiger was Zhao Benshan, who was sitting under the stage as a judge at the time, and was also Master Zhang Xiaofei.
At that time, Zhao Benshan appeared on the spring festival gala stage for 15 consecutive years, and Liu Laogen's series of dramas was filmed one after another, and they were broadcast on various David TV and even CCTV, which won a number of his own apprentices.
Liu Laogen's stage is all over the country's major cities, and uncle Benshan has collected countless current oceans.
The phrase "after passing through Shanhaiguan, if there is something to find Zhao Benshan", it is even more clear that Uncle Benshan's influence, lofty status and personal prestige in the northeast, in the entertainment industry, and even in the whole of China are thoroughly and clearly interpreted.
As for the rumors about Andy Lau's blackmail when filming in the northeast, and finally solved only by Uncle Benshan's words, more people believe that such a thing is by no means the only one encountered by Andy Lau, let alone the only tricky thing that Uncle Benshan helped the younger generations to solve.
On the other hand, Zou Dejiang, although from 2001 to 2004, built a brand new column "Weekend Happy Meeting" to look like a model, the ratings went all the way up, becoming a column for CCTV to collect gold.
However, such a contribution, compared with the strong and red uncle Benshan, after all, is still the contrast between eggs and stones, and the stone of Uncle Benshan is not generally large, generally hard.
Every day, he was followed by a large wave of apprentices, who were offered up like Lafayette, and who could swallow Zou Dejiang's seemingly innocent irony.
He also ignored the fact that the show was being broadcast live, directly walked onto the stage, and threw a paragraph to the camera that was not soft or hard, but the sentence was sonorous and powerful, and the ground could be thrown out of the pit:
"Acting in a show I don't know what you mean, the old drag people down, this is not good, the actor has no fouls, since you have found him, let him perform well, after the performance and then give advice, we know that this is CCTV, he did not make any principled mistakes." 」
The implication is that why do you have to let the family perform first?
Moreover, his master was still sitting here, and he didn't think there was anything out of line with his performance.
This spearhead is obviously directed at Zou Dejiang, the host of the program, who twice interrupted the performance of his apprentice Zhang Xiaofei.
On such occasions, this is already a fairly strong expression of gunpowder, but in the end, they are jealous of each other's identities, and there is no more hot hard scene.
However, since then, Zou Dejiang has faded out of the CCTV stage, and the legend is that it has a lot to do with this matter.
It can only be said that the Zou De River flow is unfavorable for many years.
When the narrow road met the strong man, he met Zhao Benshan, the "great disaster star" of his own destiny, and covered the tiger whiskers of this Northeast tiger, so he had to secretly swallow the bitter wine he brewed with blood and tears.
04
From the Zou Dejiang incident, we can see through one thing: in the show business circle, how important it is to have a strong division and a master as a backing.
Zhang Xiaofei was because of Zhao Benshan, a powerful master, and before the stage was down, someone gave him a mouthful of evil in his heart.
If we take a look at the resume of Guo Degang, who is now in a mess, we will find that his life is either in worship of the teacher or on the way to the teacher.
In 2018, the master who has become a master of many big-name figures, as the class leader of the deyun society, a cross-talk performance group that has spread all over the country, in the cross-talk industry, it can be said that Guo Degang, who has become a banner figure, also completed the worship ceremony through Mrs. Zhao Lintong instead of her late husband to accept his prostration and tea.
Becoming the apprentice of Zhao Lintong, a famous actor in Peking Opera, is not to have a formal teacher-inheritance relationship with Peking Opera.
Because Guo Degang tasted the sweetness of Shi Cheng.
In 2004, the cross-talk master Hou Yaowen had just drunk Guo Degang's tea, and in 2005, the Deyun Society was questioned and boycotted by its official counterparts.
Paradoxically, the Deyun Society was not banned, but in the midst of a wave of doubt, it suddenly rose up and became a strange flower in the cross-talk industry, opening up incomparably bright and beautiful.
Born in Harbin in 1966, Zou Dejiang was far less fortunate than Guo Degang.
05
After leaving CCTV, Zou Dejiang's fame plummeted, and he could only go around to participate in commercial performances, and the performance venue and performance specifications were very different from before.
Someone once took a group photo of him in the open-air performance venue and the on-site staff, and the sparse onlookers on the side of the road revealed his embarrassing situation and downfall situation at that time, as if he had returned to the moment when he was a young road artist.
Fortunately, after all, he still had a master of the cross-talk master.
Not long ago, under the painstaking promotion of master Shi Shengjie, the two once participated in a satellite TV variety show with a group of division brothers.
In the program, Zou Dejiang once again performed his original imitation of "Quyi Miscellaneous Talks", one will imitate the master Shan Tianfang, the other will imitate his master Shengjie, although his exquisite performance has received countless applause.
Judging from the ranking of his brothers on the stage, he who is not in the C position is obviously different from his original position in the columns of "Quyi Miscellaneous Talks" and "Weekend Happy Meeting".
In addition to continuing his old business, Zou Dejiang is also trying to make some new attempts.
In 2020, he appeared at the press conference of the movie "Spicy Detective", indicating that he has begun to get involved in the film and television industry.
Now, we can rarely see Zou Dejiang's figure in the news related to the showbiz circle, and more often we feel his presence from the life photos posted by netizens.
For example, a group photo of him and Yin Xiangjie at a certain dinner bureau, a video of him singing at a certain dinner bureau.
Perhaps, this is life, ups and downs, sadness, joy and joy, but no matter how it evolves, as long as you keep your own calm heart, you will ignore all the ups and downs and tribulations.
After all, how can life go on, can laugh, why cry?