Song: Opera term. An actor who cooperates with "funny" to narrate the storyline during a stand-up or group comedy performance. Also known as "measuring live".
Good praise is hard to come by. If you want to say it, it is more difficult than funny, but both are indispensable. If the burden of crosstalk wants to ring, the foreshadowing is indispensable, and no link can be done well, which requires a tacit understanding between teasers, and no one can leave. Of course, when the average comedy actor first starts learning, whether it is a comedy or a comedy, he must start from the basic skills to practice, and the actor who is funny must also be able to praise, and the actor who is funny must also be able to laugh. It can only be teased or will not be teased, which is called "lame" in the crosstalk world. Of course, there may be actors who are like funny, then they may focus on funny, and some actors are born like funny, and may focus on funny, but this does not mean that they will only be funny, or they will only be funny. The art of crosstalk is indeed quite evil, it looks quite simple, but it is really not easy to learn well, it does require talent, interest, and acquired efforts, all three are indispensable!
In stand-up comedy, when A is narrating, B often interjects and helps somewhat. What he said to A, whether he agreed, or disagreed, or admired, or ridiculed, or asked questions, or added, or debated, or extended, although brief, was very important. What B says is also what the audience wants to say; And A replied exactly what the audience wanted to hear. Therefore, B sometimes acts as a threading of needles. From the general idiomatic tone particles, it can be summarized as the four words "like, doubt, spit and surprise".
Like: It's a positive tone, like "Yes! "Good. "Of course. "That's it. "That's right! "But isn't it! "Wait. Its role is to encourage A to continue the narrative to facilitate the development of the story.
Doubtful: A negative tone, such as "Huh? "What for?" "What's wrong?" "Like words?" "How much is it?" "Never heard of it!" etc., can play a role in intensifying contradictions, causing controversy, and promoting the progress of the plot.
Spit: It is first affirmation and then negation, like eating apricots, when I didn't eat it, I thought it was sweet, and I felt sour in my mouth, and I immediately spit it out, and the artist called it "baggage" that "swallowed and vomited". The phrase is often "Oh-huh? "Yes—no," "Happy—crying?" "It's me - it's not!" "Well—not good!" ”。 First subconsciously agreed, immediately realized it, changed his words to oppose, and formed a "burden" through mutation. This technique helps to deepen the impression of the audience and reveal the contradictions of things.
Surprise: It's surprise, often used "Hey! "Whoosh! "Whoosh! "", "Oops" and other interjections. It can not only set the atmosphere, but also emphasize the essence of things, making the story have ups and downs and changes. Pass the fire and light the whip
The connection between a crosstalk paragraph, B needs some "bridge-building" sentences, in order to create conditions for A to shake the "burden", but also some key language, as if A wants to put a whip, B passes a fire to light. The above situation can be summarized in the four words "connect, guess, wedge, and branch".
Lian: It is a sentence that connects the upper and lower paragraphs, and it is also "building bridges". As in "So Photographed", after A recounts "twenty not pictures", B has a sentence "Hey! That lesbian only has a bald head! It leads to a funny plot in which A tells two girls taking bald heads, and the intermittent jumps of the crosstalk plot are because of the connection of B's language that does not make people feel sudden.
Guess: B is confused about the content of A's narration, makes all kinds of guesses, peels off the skin layer by layer, and goes deeper step by step to make the plot develop.
Wedge: It is to create the necessary conditions for the mutation of things, and it is the line of "shaking", also called "stepping bricks". In the crosstalk work, A said half a speech, giving B a chance to interject, and A continued to narrate, and this pause is a "wedge".
Support: It is a sharp contrast given to emphasize the essence of things. The "support" should be spread out, leading the audience's thinking to the opposite of the ending. Add fuel to the fire
B is not only "holding", but sometimes it is also necessary to cooperate with A to "tease", making the burden louder and more brittle, like adding fuel to the fire, more intense, thus strengthening the artistic effect. This situation can be summarized as the four words "grab, right, turn over, and transform".
Robbery: That is, B preemptively says what A wants to say.
Yes: It is "to the top", similar to "grab the platform", it is B competing to say a sentence at the same time as A.
Flip: It is B who helps A to turn over the "baggage" to make the artistic effect more intense, so as to deepen the impression of the audience. There are many ways to "flip", and some of them are broken in one word.
Transformation: It is the actor "transforming" into the role and performing in viviao. This is not only in "leg work", A and B both learn to move the scene, that is, in other types of paragraphs, B sometimes also suddenly "transforms" into imitation facsimiles of the characters in the play by the narrative reasoning of a third party, appearing in the first person. For example, in "New Wind of the Train", B learns the two scenes of his uncle taking the train, both of which are learning to mimic character movements and imitating dialects (that is, "pouring mouths"), and forming "baggage".
Hoop - Standing
In traditional crosstalk, the position of the actor on the stage has a certain regularity; The stage is centered on the table, standing directly behind the table and standing on the right side of the table with amusement. According to the position of the comedy comedy relationship, we see the whole body of the comedy actor, and the lower body of the comedy actor is covered by the table.
Crosstalk was originally only performed outdoors, but after entering the theater, the topic often revolved around the "play", such as "Drama Miscellaneous", "Guan Gong Zhan Qin Qiong", etc., where to say, where to act. Standing outside the table with plenty of room for body performance. Standing in the table does not need to perform physically.
Stand steadily, and fly all over the field with amusement, so that the principle of the position of the two is not difficult to understand.
In early traditional stand-up comedy, the roles of comedy and comedy were generally fixed, with very few exceptions. However, in contemporary times, especially in recent years, crosstalk has a tendency to be sketched, and some crosstalk actors are no longer limited to completely fixed positions of praise and funny, such as a few works by Feng Gong and the herd. Of course, in the vast majority of crosstalk works, the role positions of praise and comedy are still in line with the tradition, and the relatively fixed position remains unchanged.
Boom - History of development
In the early days of the development of stand-up comedy, it was often funny teachers and elders who laughed at it; And the funny ones are often the apprentices or juniors who are hilarious and hilarious ones. At the beginning of learning, teachers or elders are afraid that young people who are learning art will not be able to say well and make mistakes, so they stand by and hold a little. Held, full of plates and bowls, all catched, all rejoiced; Holding it badly, one did not catch it, fell to the ground, and all "smashed". It can be seen that the hilarious is equally important as the funny.
Like the big crosstalk artist heartthrob to Zhang Shouchen, who had just graduated from the school, Zhang Shouchen praised his student Liu Baorui, and Liu Baorui praised Tang Jiezhong; Moreover, Chang Lian'an gave his son a small mushroom cup, Chang Baohua gave his nephew Chang Guitian, and so on. It is probably for this reason and this phenomenon that the old gentleman in the crosstalk industry has the saying of "three points of teasing and seven points of praise".
On the eve of liberation, especially after liberation, the comedy relationship in the crosstalk circle has undergone great changes. One is that praise and teasing are becoming more and more fixed and professional, and the tradition of mutual praise and teasing is gradually fading; Another is that there are more and more newly created jokes, mainly funny so-called "sinking" jokes. There are many reasons, but the most important one is that during this period, some comedy actors had a growing reputation, and the audience's affirmation, recognition and adoration of them made the position and role of comedy actors improve and strengthen unprecedentedly. Therefore, when talking about the relationship and role of tease, there is a diametrically opposed saying to "three points of teasing and seven points of praise" in the crosstalk world, called "you help me stand up". That is to say, the role of praise is to give the "station" of the funny "station", where there is a little bit of cooperation and equal treatment.
In recent years, the relationship between teasing has changed a lot. It is true that the times are different, the audience's appreciation level and aesthetic taste have been greatly improved, the requirements for crosstalk are also high, and the requirements for comedy and funny are equally high. If you build two more sentences to complete the task, the audience can really blast you down. In today's fierce competition in various art categories, most of their works give full play to the wisdom of both praise and comedy, and the "child and mother" crosstalk of two people. After the unremitting efforts of some comedians, the relationship and role of praise and teasing that were distorted in the past have gradually been corrected and received due attention
One head sinks
Qu Art Language. One of the ways of lip-synchronism. Refers to two actors when performing, one is the main narrator, that is, the funny; The other uses the form of dialogue to help the narrative, that is, to hold a word. Because the storyline is mainly funny, it is called a sink.
Mother and child
Qu Art Language. One of the ways of lip-synchronism. In crosstalk performance, two actors (funny and hilar) perform basically the same tasks, such as organizing baggage by arguing with each other.
Revenue Share
The income of praise and teasing is definitely different, the old saying is "three points of tease, seven points of praise", in fact, this is a lift, or people will not give you a good hand. The actual situation is that the income of the funny is more than the hilarious one, and now it is enlightened, it doesn't matter, and the funny one is not too concerned with the funny. But in the old days, some masters said that those who are funny can get eight-two or even nine-one open, saying that a crosstalk earns a hundred yuan, and the funny one takes ninety yuan, and the one who praises can only get ten yuan, but the person who praises it is also willing, if you give it to others, it may be five dollars.
There is also an old saying called "dead and alive". For example, Hou Baolin gets three points for a performance, one point for the less famous, half a point for the nameless, and after the performance, add everyone's scores together, divide it by the box office, for example, 100 yuan per point, then Hou Baolin will take 300 yuan.
Woo - Famous works
"Eight Fan Screens", "Learning the Four Provinces", "On Tease", "Heroic Little Eight Roads", "Recruits", "Morning Glory", "Taking the Tram", "Pointing the Mother as a Horse", "Where to Marry a Daughter-in-Law", "My Father", "Brother and Sister to Poems", "Big Bodyguard", "Kwa House", "White Affairs Meeting", "Dispute"
Jackpot - representative figures
Zhao Shizhong was born in Beijing in 1933, and in 1949 he studied under the famous crosstalk artist Tan Boru, and later specialized in the art of praise. In 1954, he began to cooperate with Zhao Zhenduo and formed a golden partner, which was praised by Mr. Lao She and was known as the "Second Zhao of Beijing". Zhao Shizhong's art of praise is very standardized, and the cooperation with Zhao Zhenduo, Ma Ji, Su Wenmao, Zhang Yongxi and other famous artists can be tightly seamed, accurate and appropriate, among which his and Ma Ji's "Heroic Little Eight Road" was even more famous at the time. His performance, simple and generous, witty and humorous language, excellent sense of proportion, formed a unique style. He has a high reputation in the crosstalk industry and is praised by his peers as "the first among the living fans".
Wow - comments
In the early 80s of the 20th century, before "Huo Yuanjia" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" occupied the screen, crosstalk and commentaries were the most popular art forms. I remember that my three favorite programs at that time were "Little Horn", "Quyi Program" and "Commenting on the Book Network". It was at that time that I initially knew Hou Baolin, Ma Ji, Jiang Kun and other comedians. I also like a few of them, such as Li Wenhua and Tang Jiezhong. But to the one who partnered with Mr. Hou, "yes, how?" Oh, dare to be, don't be scolded, deserve it" but the impression of the gentleman is not good. This Mr. Zhao Shizhong, who just passed away, I have not heard of his works, and it is not good to evaluate. Probably because he is indeed not as well-known as the above, some netizens questioned his title of "crosstalk master".
Everyone has the feeling that over the years, with the sudden emergence of sketches, it has occupied the stage and audience that originally belonged to crosstalk. With the help of props, stages, character matching, the variety of performance forms and more expressive expressions and body language, sketches are obviously more ornamental than crosstalk, especially on the stage and screen. And if you put the sketch and crosstalk on the radio at the same time, the effect is just the opposite, on the contrary, the crosstalk is more durable. After all, "crosstalk is an art of language", and sketches belong to a kind of stage art.
The art of crosstalk is wonderful in this teasing. The tacit understanding of the cooperating is teasing and hilarious and the needle and lead are played, helping the cavity to make a gesture; The funny baggage joke calmly opens the climax continuously, which makes the crosstalk more interesting. Many people think that praise is irrelevant, dispensable, in fact, it is a kind of prejudice. Listen to stand-up comedy, and you will realize the importance of comedy - carry a sedan chair for yourself, or feel monotonous and dull, or too grandstanding, which is greatly reduced to the watchability of comedy, which shows the value of comedy.
In fact, not only crosstalk, the success of the sketch is also inseparable from this teasing. In the case of Zhao Benshan's "Selling and Abduction" series, Zhao Benshan is a funny character, and Gao Xiumin and Fan Wei are hilarious characters. The good performance of the two made Lao Zhao's performance more outstanding. And the "Little Nine Old Music" that Zhao Benshan and Yang Lei partnered a long time ago, because Yang's performance was blunt, although Old Zhao sold enough strength, he always looked a little awkward. This shows that Hua also has a lot of knowledge.
In my opinion, the key to praise is first of all to help the "support", and there is no trace of the support. Some of them are like those who took the lead in applauding and shouting "good" at the Spring Festival Gala hired by CCTV, which is guilty of subtle faults, but it is annoying. The second is the proportionality of flattery, which can neither be cold nor flattering. In some traditional jokes, it will only be um-ah, or your parents' wives, seven aunts and eight aunts, and they will be guilty of this problem. The last point is that you must distinguish the main and secondary, and you must not make a noise and steal the limelight. Although the effect of the two people is sometimes good (like the cow herd and Feng Gong's crosstalk), it is inevitable that it will flow into a bickering to win, but weaken the theme of a paragraph.
"Art is the crystallization of life, and all art comes from life." I think the source of this is the same. In interpersonal communication and workplace struggle, it is also inseparable from this hilarious art.
Or when it comes to crosstalk master Mr. Zhao Shizhong, in fact, netizens don't have to worry too much about Mr. Zhao's master title. How many individuals, professions, and organizations in this country can deserve their own glamorous titles?