Comedy, no longer have Xiao Shenyang and Zhou Xingchi, can the "decadent old man" Chen Peisi come back?
In the era of entertainment supremacy, our taste for spiritual pursuits is getting higher and higher, and conversely, the level of comedy creation has declined, and this level of decline is a decline in thought, not a decline in form.
In the past, the comedians we liked, in their works, had thoughts, souls, and flesh and blood.
Now, the comedians we see, in the work, are very rogue, shallow, skinny.
Why is there such a form of comedy today? Do they still have a chance to survive?
Comedy can be reflected in various forms of performance, such as cross-talk, sketches, film and television dramas, but it cannot appear in dramas, which is limited by the form of comedy itself.
10 years ago, Zhao Benshan, who was already a regular visitor to the Spring Festival Gala, brought his apprentice Xiao Shenyang and Duck Egg to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, and a "Not Bad Money" was popular overnight, and since then, the precarious little Shenyang has entered the public's vision.
In our impression, Xiao Shenyang is the comedian who wears a Scottish-style skirt, speaks in a feminine manner, combs two or eight deviations, and wears a small hairpin.
In the following years, Xiao Shenyang became a regular visitor to the Spring Festival Gala, so this style of comedy was well known and accepted by everyone.
Why is it accepted?
Because, the feminine style of the little Shenyang style has not appeared before.
The audience's curiosity psychology has allowed more "little Shenyang" to appear. The self-deprecating Song Xiaobao, the wen song who is more demon than Xiao Shenyang, and the imitation of many small fresh meats.
The comedy of Xiao Shenyang is more self-deprecating and the processing of ordinary passages, but it has not gone to a higher level, which is the lack of connotation.
Over the years, Xiao Shenyang has gone from the peak of life to decline, in addition to its own reasons, there is also the lack of output of works, which may have a relationship with cultural level, there is no good cultural edification, in terms of creation, the lack is lacking.
We all know that Teacher Zhao Benshan's apprentices and Guo Degang's apprentices are lacking in professional class culture, after all, many people have climbed up step by step from the bottom, for the immediate interests, they are eager, everyone wants to be red overnight, but not all those who work hard have a chance.
Xiao Shenyang's fading out, and now appearing in various variety shows and comedy competitions, he actually carried out a certain precipitation, but the customs in his bones cannot be concealed, or as before, continue his own comedy route, not only that, more imitations of Xiao Shenyang-style comedy, can not break free of this comfort.
We often compare Zhou Xingchi to the first person in Chinese comedy, and his so-called "nonsense" is actually based on imitation and reference.
Leslie Nelson's "Bald Detective" has always been hailed as a comedy classic, this work attributed to the 90s of the last century, so many years, well received, and Stephen Chow in his film works, but also "borrowed" a lot of this film, including Leslie's performance style.
For example, in Stephen Chow's movie "Domestic Lingling Paint", the neurotic inventor Darwen Xi holding a flashlight is almost exactly the same as the shot of Leslie's "Bald Detective".
In fact, Chow's films have their own unique style on the basis of frugality, which is based on the preferences of the Chinese people, and Chow's films themselves are characterized by starting from tragedy and ending with tragedy, but the cloak of comedy has always been throughout the film.
In the most classic "Kung Fu" movie, I think there is a lot of practical significance, maybe you see a hilarity, in fact, this movie reflects a kind of human spirit, is some of the characteristics of the existence of reality, such as the role of charter wife, in reality in the north of Guangzhou there are many such charter women.
However, with the recent years, Stephen Chow faded out of the screen, transformed into behind the scenes, when the director, editor, producer, we lost the memory of a generation, we seem to be difficult to see Chow Xingchi's figure appear in film and television dramas, but Stephen Chow's fade out, can not let us forget, for us dedicated to a lot of happy comedy masters.
In the sketch cross-talk, at present, there are only a few people who can play a representative, and the sketches have Chen Peisi, Zhao Benshan, Feng Gong, etc., and the cross-talk is only Guo Degang alone who can lead.
Cross-talk and sketches are two forms, both in the form of language and performance, through the deep excavation of the work itself, presented to the audience.
And Chen Peisi 20 years ago, is a regular guest of the Spring Festival Gala, with so many years for various reasons faded out of the Spring Festival Gala, but his research and contribution to comedy has never stopped, in our impression, this has been "decadent" old man over the age of flower armor, is stubborn, scorn for some of the current sketches, but he also from the perspective of the public to examine and think, and then create, I think this is remarkable.
Today, we see the old man with two white sideburns and sharp words, but he is still playing his last light, and many people hope that he will return to the Spring Festival Gala, in front of the years, maybe he has been powerless, but what we hope is to be able to lead the comedy to a high level and then present it to the audience.
After all, today's comedies, like those performed by Zhao Jiaban, are more like children living at home, with no bottom line and meaning, with tragedy to joy, insufficient connotation, insufficient depth, no social thinking significance, at most it is the passage that everyone often says to adapt.
And those who perform, are more based on spoofs, vulgarity, self-deprecation, this so-called humor, seems to have lost the pursuit of art, and turned to a form of popularity, for the program, subject to others, I think it is completely impossible to advocate this form.
Comedy needs new people, but not everyone can take on it, after all, it's about academic, it's about social, it's about artistic depth.