There was once a saying on the Internet that if Jiang Kun had not partnered with Tang Jiezhong, but looked for Li Guosheng to do praise, his performance would have been more exciting, and the cross-talk career might also have gone up a higher level.
Such an idea is only an idea, and it can never be realized, but the truth is still there. Judging from the performance of Tang Jiezhong and Li Guosheng, Tang Jiezhong has completed the task, most of the time as a green leaf to set off Jiang Kun, and Li Guosheng can not only steal the scene but also show his performance ability when he gives Xiao Lin a hug.
From this point of view, the idea online may be valid. This time, let's talk about what kind of cross-talk actor Li Guosheng is.
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Today's young people may feel unfamiliar with Li Guosheng's name, but people who came from the 1980s and 1990s are familiar with him, and his name is associated with Xiaolin.
In fact, when it comes to Li Guosheng, it is also an old qualification in the cross-talk industry. He was born in 1939 and is 82 years old this year. Li Guosheng has been interested in cross-talk since he was a child, and as a teenager, he participated in the cross-talk tutoring class run by the Central Radio Rap Group.
Li Guosheng caught up with the good time, Liu Baorui, Guo Quanbao and other cross-talk people personally told him and the students how to perform cross-talk, which benefited him a lot. As far as the cross-talk master Liu Baorui is concerned, he has taught him a lot of stand-up comedy alone, including "Three Levels in a Row", "Confused County Official" and so on.
However, Li Guosheng did not worship Liu Baorui or Guo Quanbao as a teacher, and Liu Baorui recommended another famous cross-talk artist Luo Rongshou to him. Luo Rongshou also enjoyed a reputation in the cross-talk industry, and had a great influence in that year. Luo Rongshou belongs to the Baozi generation of actors, so Li Guosheng naturally became the generation of words, that is, the generation of Ma Ji and Su Wenmao.
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Li Guosheng's experience is more complicated, he entered the Hebei Provincial Qu Art Troupe, specially recruited into the army and entered the Chengdu Military Region Military Band, and after changing careers, he entered the factory to insist on cross-talk. That is to say, Li Guosheng did not catch up with the good opportunities of Ma Ji and did not become famous in the sixties and seventies.
By the end of the 1970s, the cross-talk master Hou Baolin resumed his performance and found Li Guosheng to praise him. In those years, Li Guosheng and Hou Baolin performed many cross-talk together, and Hou Baolin called it "even the eyes will roll over the baggage".
Attentive audiences can find that the expression changes on Li Guosheng's face during the process of holding the praise are indeed very rich, especially the eyes are like talking, and they can also change with the performance of the comic, so that the audience can pay attention.
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In 1979, Li Guosheng entered the Beijing Qu Art Troupe, and the following year he collaborated with young actor Xiao Lin to say cross-talk.
Xiao Lin is not a professional cross-talk actor, before entering the qu art troupe was a singing actor, Li Guosheng suggested that he play a specialty of singing, and the two also became famous in one fell swoop, especially after participating in the Spring Festival Gala for many years, "Learn to Broadcast", "Don't Squeeze" and other works were heard by the national audience. In particular, Xiaolin's sentence "Xiaolin Radio Station, now start broadcasting" has received a strong response from the audience, and later became the signature language of the two.
In addition to the Spring Festival Gala works, the two also performed excellent works such as "Super Football Game" and "As Long As You Live Better Than Me", and in the 80s and 90s, they also belonged to a pair of relatively beautiful cross-talk actors.
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Xiao Lin's master was Ma Ji, who once criticized Xiao Lin for saying that crosstalk could not always sing, and in the later period, Xiao Lin strengthened his cross-talk. Unfortunately, Xiao Lin died in a hurry in 2015, and li Guosheng's partner was no longer fixed, but whether it was for the older generation or the younger generation, kung fu could be seen.
Now Li Guosheng is in his early 80s, but standing on the stage is still full of energy, especially those expression changes, or let the audience see what he looked like on the stage decades ago.
When I was a child, I watched a lot of performances by Xiao Lin and Li Guosheng, and at that time Li Guosheng was an old man, and now he is still an old man, as if there has never been much change. I wish Teacher Li Guosheng health and longevity.