When it comes to crosstalk, we all think of Guo Degang, but when it comes to sketches, we will also think of Zhao Benshan, the "king of sketches".
The name Zhao Benshan is unknown to everyone and everyone is unknown.
As early as a few decades ago, his name has spread all over the country. As the "evergreen tree" of the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Benshan brought us a lot of joy and memories.
Even though he had already withdrawn from the stage of the Spring Festival Gala as early as 2013, he also left a very deep impression on our hearts.
We all know that he is the "king of sketches", but we can never imagine how high Zhao Benshan's status is.
There is a saying circulating on the Internet, "After passing through Shanhaiguan, there is something to find Benshan."
This sentence was originally a ridicule of everyone, but we can also glimpse the widespread circulation of the name Zhao Benshan in the folk.
At an award ceremony, because Feng Xiaogang said the wrong thing, he slapped Feng Xiaogang in public and stood firmly in the C position when taking photos with Zhou Runfa and other big coffee.
Today we will talk about how high the status of Zhao Benshan is.
Zhao Benshan, a grassroots figure who came out of a tieling mountain, walked all the way to the well-known sketch actors of the people of the country, and repeatedly appeared on the Spring Festival Gala.
While performing sketches on the stage, he also single-handedly founded Benshan Media, and even brought many two-person actors in his company to the stage, which made many people popular.
Just like the little Shenyang, Ya Egg, Song Xiaobao, who are all familiar to us... They are all his proud disciples.
Nowadays, his influence is huge, according to him, there are people who help pay everywhere he goes, but such an influential figure has also suffered from childhood to adulthood.
First, the wandering bitter son of Tieling
Zhao Benshan was born in October 1957 in a poor family in Tieling, his father had no culture, and he had difficulty naming Zhao Benshan, and it was at this time that he took a look at the mountain.
He felt that he was born in the mountains and was a child of his own generation, so he directly named him Zhao Benshan.
This name is very casual, and Zhao Benshan's childhood is also very bleak.
When Zhao Benshan was five years old, it was the period of the Country's Great Leap Forward, and his mother died of illness after being overworked and overworked in the production team.
Two years later, his father also because his family had been poor for many years, there was no food, and the hunger and cold forced him to leave here and wander away from home, and since then Zhao Benshan has become an orphan, all growing up by eating the food given to him by other people's families.
Zhao Benshan has a blind second uncle who is proficient in many crafts, and Zhao Benshan has followed him to learn art since his father left home, and he is proficient in erhu, xiaoqu, and duozhuan, which also lays a technical foundation for Zhao Benshan's future sketch career.
Zhao Benshan has been very spiritual since he was a child, he likes to imitate the behavior of his second uncle, and learns very similarly, in 1974 he entered the commune literary and art propaganda team with the talents taught to him by the second uncle, and then he entered the local amateur theater troupe to perform.
In 1982, he played a blind fortune teller in the sketch "Three Strings", because he began to imitate his second uncle "touching the blind" when he was young, so he imitated the blind fortune teller and imitated it very easily.
The performance on the stage was also very vivid and graphic, which caused the audience to laugh.
It is also because of this role that he became famous in the first rural drama performance held in Liaoning Province, and won the reputation of "the first blind man in the world".
A few years later, Zhao Benshan and Pan Changjiang became partners, and the two starred in the sketch "Blind Man Watching the Lights" together, which was performed four or five times a day, and the frequency of this play was so high that Zhao Benshan became famous.
Ordinary people who watched his performance said that he was "a joke every step after a performance".
Zhao Benshan, who exploded, was stopped by some hooligans because of this sketch, saying that he would gouge out his eyes and make him a real blind man, and finally some government officials who appreciated Zhao Benshan came forward to escape this disaster.
Second, the "evergreen tree" of the Spring Festival Gala
From "Tieling Orphan" to "Northeast Red Star", it depends on his strength, but it is luck to become an "Evergreen Tree of the Spring Festival Gala".
It may be that Zhao Benshan's luck when he was a child was too bad, so God took extra pity on Zhao Benshan in his acting career.
At that time, there was a popular cross-talk star Jiang Kun who was all over China and was on a national tour with a Chinese radio rap troupe, and everywhere outside Tieling was full of laughter, but after coming to Tieling, his jokes became not funny.
When Jiang Kun performed, he found that the audience sitting under the stage did not laugh, and he was very confused, was it because his cross-talk was not funny?
After the performance, he found an audience member and asked him why he didn't laugh, and it turned out that he was far worse than Zhao Benshan.
Jiang Kun was instantly unconvinced, as a national celebrity, how could he not be as good as a small local troupe.
So he rushed to the scene to watch Zhao Benshan's performance, and as a result, he was completely convinced, and after returning to Beijing, he strongly recommended Zhao Benshan to the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
At first, the image of Zhao Benshan as a peasant could not enter the eyes of the Spring Festival Gala choreographer, but when they were discussing the program, they just happened to encounter Feng Gong holding Zhao Benshan's program video tape, and the program team immediately finalized the Spring Festival Gala on Zhao Benshan after watching it.
It was precisely at this time that the reform and opening up period needed the image of Zhao Benshan, a small citizen, to carry out cultural propaganda to the big city in front of the audience.
Zhao Benshan, who caught up with the good times, won the first prize in the performance of the music and art category when he first appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Since then, it has become the "evergreen tree" of the Spring Festival Gala, and the sketches performed on the Spring Festival Gala stage for many years have won awards in the category of music and art, becoming the "king of sketches" in our hearts.
Zhao Benshan in the Spring Festival Gala era was a mess, and even in the northeast, "On the Spring Festival Gala stage, as long as there is a performance of Zhao Benshan, you can not set off firecrackers and noise, otherwise there will be neighborhood conflicts", and accompanied by the Spring Festival Gala mantra of "Zhao Benshan came out to call me".
After the Spring Festival Gala became popular, Zhao Benshan knew that this stage was not his long-term development place, so he began to think about expanding his "road to wealth".
In 2003, Zhao Benshan established Benshan Media and created China's first "green two-person turn" skit stage - Liu Laogen Big Stage.
Not only that, he also expanded his road to wealth in many directions. Not only did it have its own piece of land in the cultural market, but also turned to the building materials market to do business, and even turned to the real estate investment industry.
This is really the first in the entertainment industry.
Zhao Benshan's "Zhao Family Class" has hundreds of apprentices, and there are thousands of employees in the company. Penalty.
Zhao Benshan said that they came here to make money, and I could also restrain their behavior by imposing fines.
In his own way, with his own connections, he became the boss, sold building materials, filmed TV dramas, developed land, earned a lot of money, and accumulated a lot of capital for himself.
Third, the "Godfather of Northeast China" Zhao Benshan
In 2000, Andy Lau was invited by the Shenyang gang boss at the time to help promote his real estate project and opened a personal concert in the local area.
Liu Yong wrote thirty songs and three million songs on the contract, but in the middle of the concert, Andy Lau felt unwell so he ended the performance early, but then Liu Yong left because he only sang 26 songs.
The other party only gave Andy Lau 1.5 million yuan for the performance fee according to this reason, and detained him in the northeast.
At that time, although Andy Lau also had a background, it was limited to Hong Kong, and he had no choice but to ask Zhao Benshan for help.
Unexpectedly, a comedian from a peasant background actually relied on a phone call to get Andy Lau's performance fees back, and even let him return to Hong Kong unharmed.
Since then, Zhao Benshan's name as the "Godfather of Northeast China" has begun to spread.
Since then, as long as Andy Lau sees Zhao Benshan, he will be respectful to him, and there is also a photo taken by Zhao Benshan with many entertainment industry celebrities in addition to the shooting of a certain scene on the Internet.
In this photo, Zhao Benshan stands firmly in the middle of Chow Yun Fat and Andy Lau, occupying the C position in the photo.
Zhao Benshan, who has developed in the show business circle, has become a fragrant feast that everyone wants to tie up, and there were actresses who knelt on the stage in order to worship him on the show.
Later, Feng Xiaogang misread Zhao Benshan's award speech in the third Huading Award, and was jokingly slapped by him after he took the stage...
Zhao Benshan himself also revealed to the audience in an interview that when he goes out to eat, someone will often quietly buy the single, and just by looking at these phenomena, he knows how high Zhao Benshan's "godfather" status is.
Fourth, uncle Benshan who "returned to the mountain"
However, luck will gradually disappear with the passage of time, and when Zhao Benshan's connections reach the peak, his acting career is also declining.
In 2008, after Zhao Benshan finished his sketch "Torchbearer", he cried bitterly in the background.
Because in recent years, the stage has given him the feeling of increasing pressure, his sketches seem to be more and more difficult to please the audience, and he himself has been questioned louder and louder.
Therefore, Zhao Benshan feels that this Spring Festival Gala sketch stage seems to need some fresh blood to fill this defect.
So in 2013, he appeared on the "Guo's Show" program hosted by Guo Degang and announced that he would withdraw from the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage forever and quit the sketch world.
At this time, the audience suddenly realized that Uncle Benshan, who had been accompanying him, was really old.
When Zhao Benshan retired, more sketch actors appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, but everyone without exception felt that the Spring Festival Gala had become unsightly, and even the taste of the Year around them had faded.
"Liu Laogen 3" broadcast in 2020 brought Zhao Benshan back to everyone's vision, and also made the audience sigh, "It is worthy of uncle Benshan, laughing too densely, resulting in not knowing where to laugh from.".
As soon as this drama was released, it became a "top stream", so that the audience can still see the happiness of Zhao Benshan.
From rural children to the well-known "sketch king", this road Zhao Benshan has walked for more than twenty years, and no one knows how much Zhao Benshan has paid behind his back; Born in the cold door but has been on the Spring Festival Gala 21 times, although Zhao Benshan rarely appears on the big screen now, the many roles he has played have an indelible position in our hearts.