18 years ago, the news of the unexpected death of "sketch queen" Gao Xiumin spread, which not only made family and friends unacceptable, but also made the audience unable to believe it. Although she has been gone for 18 years, we occasionally see her works on TV, as if she has never left, and her status as the queen of sketches is no one to replace.
In 1959, Gao Xiumin was born in Songyuan City, Jilin Province, because there were many brothers and sisters in the family, Gao Xiumin was thin and weak when he was a child, but he had a loud and good voice.
At the age of 15, Gao Xiumin began to learn two-person transfer, make money to subsidize the family, and later the city's refinery propaganda team recruited actors, Gao Xiumin conquered the director of the factory with a song "Embroidered Gold Plaque" and successfully passed the exam.
Actors want to enter regular art troupes, and so does Gao Xiumin. But she was too thin to be favored by the group. At this time, Gao Xiumin was close to 20 years old, according to local customs, she went on blind dates, got married, and had children step by step, and gained a lot of weight after giving birth, and her round face looked blessed, but Gao Xiumin was admitted to the art troupe.
After entering the art troupe, Gao Xiumin won the title of "Little Guo Lanying" with his outstanding voice, and in 1986, he was also rated as a national second-class actor and became the head of the troupe's business group, with a bright future.
One day when she went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, Gao Xiumin met an acquaintance, isn't this He Qingkui, who wrote her a paragraph before?
It turned out that although He Qingkui was born in the countryside, he couldn't do the work with little strength, so he followed his wife to sell vegetables in the vegetable market, he could write jokes, write scripts, and after meeting Gao Xiumin, he also successfully entered the art troupe and became a screenwriter in the troupe, greatly improving the life of the family.
One writes, one acts, Gao Xiumin and He Qingkui gradually develop feelings in getting along. For this reason, Gao Xiumin divorced her husband, and He Qingkui also asked his wife for divorce, but the other party firmly disagreed.
Faced with his wife, who gave birth to three children to him and never abandoned him when he was at his worst, He Qingkui finally relented, and Gao Xiumin did not embarrass him, did not force him to divorce, but sent money and things to He Qingkui's wife and children, and the three maintained a delicate balance.
In 1992, Gao Xiumin and He Qingkui resigned and went it alone, and in the National Laughing Star Sketch Competition, Gao Xiumin became the biggest dark horse with "Baggage", won the only gold award, and became famous.
Behind Gao Xiumin's fame, He Qingkui is the biggest hero, and almost all the sketches performed by Gao Xiumin are written by He Qingkui.
In 1994, Gao Xiumin participated in the Spring Festival Gala for the first time and won the third prize with the sketch "Code", and the old lady who forgot the password on the stage left a deep impression on the audience.
From 1997 to 2005, Gao Xiumin participated in the Spring Festival Gala for 8 consecutive years, and formed an iron triangle with Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei, bringing countless joys to the audience.
But the first cooperation between the three people was not very pleasant.
In the 1998 Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Benshan invited Gao Xiumin and Fan Wei to participate in the sketch, and He Qingkui was the screenwriter. At this time, Zhao Benshan is a well-deserved king of sketches, Gao Xiumin is known as the female version of Zhao Benshan, only Fan Wei has the smallest reputation and the lowest coffee position.
In the original script, Fan Wei played Fan Xianglong with few lines, and he was very embarrassed on stage, and he could only watch Zhao Benshan and Gao Xiumin play.
This embarrassment was quickly captured by Gao Xiumin, she found Zhao Benshan He Qingkui, and several people discussed overnight, perfected the character of Chief Fan, and added lines and baggage to him.
This incident has always been remembered by Fan Wei, and he will mention it many years later to thank her.
Gao Xiumin's personality is like this, thick and thin, and there are words to be straightforward. Her cooperation with Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei continued from sketches to TV series, and the two "Liu Laogen" made the iron triangle of the three deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In the spring of 2000, screenwriter Gong Kaibo came up with a script based on a true story, telling the story of a couple fooling others, and the entire script took more than 8 months to create before finally taking shape.
In the original version, Gao Xiumin played a middle-aged woman with only four sentences, which made her angry. The screenwriter is her husband again, why does she have so few lines?
In the face of her questioning, He Qingkui was not angry, but persuaded her in a gentle voice, "If there is a play, it is long, if there is no drama, it is short, and your lines are all baggage." After Gao Xiumin was persuaded by her husband, she did not lose her temper, but concentrated on rehearsals, willing to serve as a green leaf to set off Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei.
At the 2001 Spring Festival Gala, the sketch "Selling Abduction" became a hit, and the word "flickering" suddenly became a popular phrase of that year.
Gao Xiumin and they struck while the iron was hot, and launched a sequel "Selling Cars" the following year, Gao Xiumin's lines still did not have much, but this time, she never put forward the opinion of adding words to herself.
At the end of "Selling a Car", Da Yu wants to change the crutch into a stretcher and sell it to Chef Fan. But in 2003 and 2004, everyone did not wait for the sequel to "Selling Cars", although it was still the iron triangle of Zhao Benshan, Gao Xiumin and Fan Wei, but I always felt that something was missing.
Until 2005, Zhao Benshan finally launched the final episode of the "Selling Abduction" series, but Audio-Technica lacked one person, that is, Gao Xiumin, who appeared in another show "Guarding the New Year" and played Grandma Liu.
For a time, the news of the rupture of the iron triangle relationship and the fall out of Gao Xiumin and Zhao Benshan spread wildly.
Until He Qingkui later accepted, he couldn't help but tell the truth, it turned out that in the original version, Gao Xiumin also participated in the sketch. But she received a call from the little sister during the rehearsal, the other party's performance is one less person, if she can't perform, she will face huge compensation, she hopes that Gao Xiumin can go to the rescue.
Gao Xiumin was originally warm-hearted, and promised to come down, but no one told him, and took the car that night.
Who knew that this moment delayed the rehearsal, and the sketch almost didn't pass. This made Zhao Benshan feel disgusted, and the two quarreled.
He Qingkui has been in the middle for a long time, although Zhao Benshan is still angry, but their relationship for so many years, it is impossible to say that they will break off friendship, and the two sides are only one step away from each other, and they can reconcile as before.
But the next accident made everyone unexpected.
On August 18, 2005, Gao Xiumin died unexpectedly at home, which was a double blow to He Qingkui. Just a few days ago, his eldest son died in a car accident, Gao Xiumin was timid and afraid to see the dead, and He Qingkui went to organize his son's funeral alone. As soon as he finished processing, he learned the news of Gao Xiumin's unexpected death.
At Gao Xiumin's memorial service, Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei, Song Dandan and others came, and the crowd standing outside spontaneously came to see her off. Gao Xiumin has brought joy to countless people, and now that she has died, these people who came to send her are a recognition of her performance.
The original and cordial performance style and loud and hearty laughter are the last impressions left by Gao Xiumin. Even though she has been gone for 18 years, the classic works she left behind can still bring joy.