Zhao Yan
Among Ma Ji's nineteen disciples, Jiang Kun was the master brother and Zhao Yan was the second master brother. Zhao Yan praised Ma Ji for twenty-seven years, leaving behind classic works such as "Pink Eye Disease", "Four-Character Song", "Hundred Blowing Figures", "Five Senses Striving for Merit", "Toponymy", "Disciple" and so on. In the 1985 Top Ten Laughing Stars Selection, Zhao Yan ranked fifth. At that time, Ma Ji participated in the creation of many movies, and Zhao Yan still cooperated with Ma Ji and starred in "Nanyang Rich Man" and "Laughing And Breaking the Love Network".
Zhao Yan was born in 1951 in Beijing to an ordinary family, living in Cotton Hutong, his father was a salesman in a motorcycle factory, he loved literature and art, and his mother was a worker and loved to listen to Peking Opera. Zhao Yan also loves to listen to drama, loves to learn to sing, when he was in elementary school, the school organized literary and artistic activities, when he was reciting, he was the leader of the chant, he was the leader of the chorus, he also liked sports, Shichahai Sports School, Bayi Junior Gymnastics Team had to admit him, but his mother did not let him, she hoped that Zhao Yan would enter the university. Unexpectedly, before graduating from junior high school, at the age of seventeen, Zhao Yan responded to the call to go to the Northern Wilderness - Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps to join the team.
Jiang Kun, Zhao Yan, Ma Ji
Zhao Yan drove a tractor in the Northern Wilderness, and his heavy physical labor could not hide his literary and artistic expertise, and the regiment propaganda department transferred him to the literary and art propaganda team to play Li Yuhe in "Red Lantern". "Red Lantern" was a hit, and then he played Li Yongqi in "Wise Tiger Mountain" and Guo Jianguang in "Shajiabang", in addition to the people of the Corps, the surrounding people also came from afar to see his style.
In a "general battle", Zhao Yan carried a sack and sprained his ribs and was hospitalized for more than two months. He couldn't stay idle, just when Ma Ji's "Ode to Friendship" was broadcast, he changed this cross-talk to stand-up, participated in the Heilongjiang Provincial Quyi Tuning, and since then he has been associated with cross-talk, and has also been seconded to the province to perform, becoming famous in the local area.
In 1975, the China Radio Rap Company recruited people, ma Ji and Tang Jiezhong, who came to be in the Northern Wilderness. In the early years of the radio rap troupe, there were Hou Baolin, Liu Baorui, Guo Qiru, Guo Quanbao and other cross-talk masters, and by the 1970s, there was no connection, only Ma Ji, Tang Jiezhong, Hao Aimin and other people, Ma Ji was anxious to find a new cross-talk person, he transferred Jiang Kun and Zhao Yan back to Beijing, and these two people also worshiped under Ma Ji's door at the same time. In 1976, Zhao Yan gave Ma Ji a praise for the first time, performing the cross-talk "White Bone Essence Appearance", Zhao Yan was particularly nervous during the premiere, Ma Ji said, don't be afraid, there I am carrying it!
Ma Ji, Zhao Yan
At that time, there was a female deputy company commander named Gao Hongyan in the corps of the Northern Wilderness, who also played Xi'er in "The White-Haired Girl", and she met and fell in love with Zhao Yan. On the eve of the National Day in 1977, the two got married in Beijing, Ma Ji, Tang Jiezhong, Guo Quanbao, Li Wenhua, Zhao Lianjia, Hao Aimin, Jiang Kun and others all came to celebrate the joy and improvised the program, Ma Ji said a stand-up comedy "Tooth Extraction", and Zhao Lianjia sang a Shandong express book.
In 1984, Ma Ji's cross-talk "Cosmic Brand Cigarettes" appeared at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and Zhao Yan participated in the whole process of creation. At that time, some manufacturers in the society did not pay attention to integrity and cheated customers by any means, and Ma Ji decided to satirize this bad atmosphere. After fixing the "Universe Brand Cigarette", because this is a satirical theme, the Spring Festival Gala performance has a great impact, it is inevitable that some people will enter the seat, Zhao Yan specially went to the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to investigate whether there is a "Universe Brand Cigarette". It really didn't.
That year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala was live, Ma Ji wore a work hat, wore overalls, temporarily borrowed the tool pocket of the electrician master, and "fully armed" on the field. This novel form of cross-talk directly promoted the art form of sketches to gradually become the mainstream of the Spring Festival Gala. Zhao Yan was responsible for mobilizing the audience's emotions on the spot and setting off the atmosphere, and when he got married, his father-in-law gave him a plum blossom brand automatic watch, which was broken when clapping.
After the performance, a worker on night duty called the scene and said that he had not heard the crosstalk, which was a pity. At that time, everyone did not know when to replay, and director Huang Yihe found Ma Ji. Ma Ji'er didn't say a word and picked up the phone, and said it to the worker in its entirety. This story can be said to be a new version of "Calling". After the Spring Festival Gala was broadcast, a cigarette factory in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, seized the business opportunity to register the "universe card", and it is estimated that it also made a lot of money.
Zhao Yan, who has been in the art for 50 years, has always been a typhoon free and steady, his voice is loud and round, and he has been valued by his master, Mr. Ma Ji, and is loved by the audience. His big ears and dignified appearance, steady with wisdom, humorous with agility is a sense of thinking, and like his master, Mr. Ma Ji, he has always been close to the pulse of the times, full of positive energy, infecting generations of audiences.