Recently, talk shows have had another accident.
House's remarks about his offline performance caused controversy.
Xiaoguo Culture suspended national performances indefinitely and accepted an administrative penalty of 13.35 million yuan.
The party House, on the other hand, is subject to investigation in accordance with the law.
For a while, the talk show industry was once again on the cusp of public opinion.
Should it be blocked? What are the boundaries of offense?
Related topics are also hotly discussed online.
It just so happens that a divine drama focusing on talk shows is about to come to an end.
The protagonist in the play also experienced ups and downs because of offensive words.
When the series shines into reality, maybe we can get a glimpse of it -
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5 (Final)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5
Since the beginning of the broadcast, this drama has been very popular.
On Douban, nearly 200,000 people have scored a high score of 8.8 so far in the first season.
Six years later, the final season had a rating of 9.3.
Unfortunately, this play is coming to an end. (Last episode airing this Friday)
Every episode I watch makes Uncle Yu feel reluctant.
The story focuses on the talk show industry, and at the same time, it is also a big heroine cool article.
The protagonist, Micky Maisel.
She was originally a housewife who was always a "perfect wife" in front of her husband.
However, the husband still cheated and ran.
Unexpectedly, Mickie, whose life collapsed and lost to the extreme, inadvertently broke out her own spitting talent.
After being introduced, she entered the talk show circle and started a brand new life.
Of course, the process of starting a business is not easy.
The story takes place in the United States in the 1950s.
The vast majority of industries of that era, including stand-up comedy, were monopolized by men.
Micky is trying to break out of this field full of prejudice.
And the trouble with sexism is only part of the story.
What makes her even more unpreventable is the lethality of words.
The artistic foundation of stand-up comedy is words.
Words full of wisdom can bring joy and soothe people's hearts.
But at the same time, overly sharp words can also cause offense and harassment to others.
Its lethality sometimes exceeds that of physical weapons.
Stand-up comedy has not been developed in the mainland for a long time.
But we have a deep understanding of the controversy of words.
Trouble comes out of the mouth, and it is quickly considered to be the "traditional performing ability" of the talk show industry.
Because of a "women lie win" underwear advertising copy, Li Sheng, who overturned.
Because of the pressure of public opinion, Weibo has been cancelled and left the pool of public vision.
There is also Meng Chuan, whose Weibo is still banned.
And, this time it's basically cool house.
In the play, Mickie's talk show road is also full of thorns.
Banning and banning performances has long been commonplace for her.
The first time he appeared on the stage, he ended up in prison.
Knowing that her husband was cheating, Mickie, who was physically and mentally exhausted, stood in the tavern under the influence of alcohol and talked about it.
But because the scale of the performance was too large, he was arrested on the spot by the patrolling police.
It's hard to get the talk show career on track.
Micky got a chance to open for a famous actor.
But because he complained about the hypocrisy and meanness of the actor, he was banned by the industry.
The major media criticized her, and even ordinary pubs refused to accept her performance.
As the protagonist, the aura is still needed.
Micky was appreciated by black singers while "Cave Walking" and invited her to join her tour.
But she made a bad remark in the opening show, joking about the other party's sexual orientation.
Whether it is the background of the era or the individual, this is an absolute minefield.
Micky messed up the rare opportunity again.
Her career had ups and downs, and Mickie's relationships were messed up by stand-up comedy.
First, it's her marriage.
In the first season, after Mickie's husband experienced cheating, he gradually realized that the person he loved was still his wife.
Under his confession, Micky was moved.
After all, from falling in love to getting married, love is real.
However, the good times did not last long.
The husband overheard Mickie's talk show performance.
He couldn't stand his wife's outrageous feelings for each other.
The two who finally got back together, the relationship dropped to freezing point again.
Secondly, there are her parents.
Women's independence, at the time, was almost a fantasy.
In order to make her talk show career go smoothly, Micky can only hide her job from her parents.
It's a pity that the sky didn't go as expected.
Mickie's performance on vacation was caught by her father.
The daughter opened the yellow cavity in public, not to mention the era in the play, I am afraid that it is difficult for a father to accept it now.
As a result, Micky was banned by her family from talking about stand-up comedy again.
Finally, there was her friendship.
Her colleague's wedding date is approaching, and Micky volunteers to help.
Under her careful planning, the wedding scene was glamorous.
Unexpectedly, Mickie, who had drunk some wine, quickly went up and stood on the stool to make jokes about the bride and guests.
The joy of the wedding was stopped, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.
The boat of their friendship suffered a head-on blow.
Micky found her self-worth on the talk show.
At the same time, her life became chaotic.
Some say that stand-up comedy is an art of offense.
The problem is that offending means being challenged.
Even abroad, stand-up comedians pay a heavy price for offense.
In the play, the twists and turns after Micky engages in stand-up comedy say it all.
In the final season, Micky finally got the stable job she dreamed of-
Worked as a screenwriter on one of the hottest TV shows.
Seemingly glamorous jobs, but they are ostracized because of their female status.
In that era, women talking about talk shows was itself an affront to the patriarchal society.
Participate in offline performances.
On a TV show? Don't even think about it.
In order to keep her job, Micky must live cautiously.
Baby Products wanted to cooperate with the show, but was rejected by a group of male screenwriters.
In order to maintain the customer relationship, Micky had to come forward and attend the ship's party.
Even if the joke blows up, in the eyes of men, her ability is limited to the category of product spokesperson.
Changing your baby's diaper in advertising is the best position for her.
As the plot develops, Micky finally has the opportunity to appear on TV again.
She passed the audition and stood out among the male actors.
I thought that signing a contract was already in my pocket, but I found that the management only wanted another actor from the same company.
Even if the other party did not come to participate in the audition at all.
Mickie, who was watching the argument, unexpectedly chose to step aside.
After the ups and downs of the past, she finally realized that as a female actor, she had to give in.
Only by not "offending" the controller of power is it possible to break out of your own stage.
Challenging power is a dangerous thing.
In today's society, female stand-up comedians have been greatly improved.
However, this does not mean that American talk shows are free of taboos.
Sensitive topics such as racial discrimination and LGBT insults remain within the category of no offense.
Last year, Netflix held a comedy talk show.
Famous stand-up comedian Dave Chappell had just finished his performance when an audience member suddenly burst out of the audience.
The opponent pounced on Dave at great speed, trying to stab him with a knife.
The reason is that Dave's remarks on gender issues in his previous talk show -
They were boycotting Rowling, and by God, she just said that gender was a fact, and the transgender community went crazy and started calling her a TERF (a derogatory term for radical women who exclude transgender people), and if that's the case, then I'm TERF too.
In addition, the "insult" remarks have been questioned, and the United States has also taken them.
Bill Burr, a stand-up comedian who has starred in "The Mandalorian" and "Breaking Bad", has caused controversy over similar incidents.
During a performance, he made a joke about the pilots of American fighter jets.
Unexpectedly, he was loudly stopped by the audience.
Ask him to show respect to the soldiers.
Bill didn't dare to say more, and the matter stopped.
An even bigger incident came from the hottest comedy show "Saturday Night Live" (also known as "SNL").
In 2018, during the midterm elections in the United States, SNL creator Pete Davis (A sister, Kim Kardashian's ex) teased a candidate on the show.
The candidate is a special veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
Here's what Pete said in his words -
It might surprise you when you hear he's a Texas congressional candidate and not a killer in movies.
As soon as this joke came out, both netizens and politicians were angry.
The famous American host Megan McCain said on Twitter -
Such statements are truly distressing, have no respect for veterans, their families and all those who serve in, and are deeply chilling.
The candidate himself spoke publicly, saying that veterans' scars should not be used as a laughing point for vulgar jokes.
Soon, proposals poured in demanding that Pitt quit the show.
Under the pressure of public opinion, Pitt had to publicly apologize to calm the anger.
It can be seen that talk shows have always been a "dangerous" profession, whether at home or abroad.
In fact, there are dangers to any comedy with offense at its core.
The reason is that it is difficult to establish an accepted limit for offense.
It may be said that people who feel offended are because they have no sense of humor and cannot make jokes.
However, after all, this kind of remarks will give people the smell of standing and talking without back pain.
Just because you don't feel offended doesn't mean others won't find offended.
Remember last year's sensational Oscar "Slap Incident".
Comedian Chris Rock teased Smith's wife's bald look.
It stands to reason that Smith has been in Hollywood for many years and should be very receptive to the stand-up comedy form of performance.
And he himself has a lot of humor, often starring in comedy roles.
But he still felt that the other party's "ridicule" was an insult and became angry.
(Of course, in any case, hitting someone is not right)
It can be seen that whether it is offensive or humorous, the criteria vary completely from person to person.
If the person who does not do the thing finds it funny, the person concerned may feel uncomfortable.
The joke has two heads, one scratches and the other.
Sometimes, the end that pierces people is even frighteningly painful.
I've seen the movie "King's Man".
Changsheng and Kong Ji, two street performers, became popular among the citizens with their jokes satirizing the king's mediocrity.
The two made a lot of money because of this.
Suddenly, he was arrested by the government for great disobedience.
The horizontal and vertical have to die, and the immortal life is simply opened.
Directly said, if you can make Wang laugh, is it not a big disobedience.
The next day, the two were arranged to go to a banquet, where success or failure was achieved.
At first, the ridicule of Wang in the play did not work.
Fortunately, a yellow joke about the favored concubine made the king laugh, and the two were spared.
Next, Changsheng and Kong Ji were left in the palace and staged another scene that satirized the minister's bribery and selling officials.
The king and the pet concubine laughed invisibly, but the ministers below trembled with fear.
You see, a grassroots drama has finally become a weapon in political struggle.
Comedy can also be a gun.
It's dangerous.
So the question is, is offense the only solution to talk shows?
In Uncle Yu's opinion, there are at least two ways that may be safer.
One is to offend a socially recognized "villain."
That's what makes Chaplin's films classic.
"The Great Dictator" ridiculed Hitler, "Modern Times" ridiculed unscrupulous capitalists...
For the vast majority of people, this is a funny and unoffended "safety card".
Unfortunately, the number of pure "safety cards" is not much.
It's easy to feel unnew.
The other is self-deprecation.
There is no shortage of such contestants in the talk show world.
Edamame, who amused his grueling naval career;
birds who make a fuss about their own social fears and embarrassing stories;
There is also Xiaojia, who ridicules his disability status...
The last talk show "King" Hulan once expressed his views on the creation of talk shows in "Round Table Party" -
You're meant to do comedy
Then you should have seen the world happily
Just why with a prickly eye
Go see these things
Then come back and screw him into a paragraph
Obviously, from Hulan's point of view, offense is just the appearance of talk shows.
Even more profound than the art of so-called offense is its resolution of life's suffering.
It can digest all kinds of emotions in reality with joking words, and find a catharsis for this.
Another stand-up comedian, Tong Monan, more directly broke the audience's definition of "offense" -
The point of offending it is not really offending
It's about how you offend the other person and still make the other person feel happy and happy
And laugh out loud
I think this part of the latter
Probably something more technical
This is also the essence of a stand-up comedian
Different actors can have different characteristics and make the audience laugh in different ways.
So the charm of stand-up comedy lies precisely in its rich possibilities.
Stand-up comedy has not been developed in China for a long time, but it has gone through ups and downs.
As the industry becomes more and more out of the loop, actors are becoming more and more popular, and it is inevitable that they will be questioned and controversied more and more.
However, if the talk show industry is stigmatized in this way, it is somewhat unfair to those who really fight for the industry.
Formally, stand-up comedy is indeed an imported product.
In essence, it is still based on our own language.
The goal of stand-up comedians is also to explore and develop our own language arts.
In the process of this exploration, it is inevitable that there will be many setbacks.
But this stage for self-expression should not disappear.
Just like Micky in the play.
No matter how much hardship and pain she encountered, she persevered in her path.
The greater the pain, the stronger the passion and desire to create.
Comedy is dangerous, but it's still life's tried-and-true placebo.
We are afraid of offense, but we can't abandon laughter.