"Talk Show Conference" has gone through four years, and it is getting hotter and hotter every year.
Talk shows have always been men's world, after all, in the patriarchal society, "humor" is only worthy of the strong, women as a "second sex", it is difficult to show their fists in the field of humor dominated by men. In the United States, where talk shows are most prevalent, female stand-up comedians only began to appear in the 1950s and 1960s.
Of the more than five people who competed in the fourth season of "Talk Show Convention", there were about seven or eight women, and four of the top twenty in the country.
Although the number is not dominant, the performance of female talk show actors in the past two years has taken the limelight, and it is said that the most well-known talk show actors have been said to be Yang Kasa.
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At the first talk show conference in 2017, Siwen was the only woman on the field.
At that time, SiWen took "sharp housewife" as his label, and from the perspective of women, he spat on her husband, parents, and in-laws in the paragraph, "Husband is the brother who is on your bunk".
SiWen also established her own image of an "independent woman" in the talk show, paying special attention to equality between men and women, and she believes that girls should not find a good husband who can make money, but they are the one who can make money.
In the third season, Si Wen withdrew due to divorce, but the female market for talk shows did not decline, and it seemed that it had ushered in a golden period, Li Xueqin and Yang Kasa quickly became popular, and later many reports called "Talk Show Conference 3" "the first year of the female talk show actors".
Before the "Puxin Man" paragraph exploded, Yang Kasa was still talking about the topic of some little girls, such as being a "pig girl", and also talked about the topic of marriage promotion around his own singleness, which had a good effect, of which "why don't you go to Tsinghua, is it because you don't like it" The stem has become a burst.
Li Xue also set up another extremely grounded person for herself: a fat girl with an ordinary appearance but eager to get an object, which is very pleasing to the audience. Therefore, I want to engage in objects, how to engage in objects, and who to make objects have become Li Xueqin's rich creative material library.
Twins Yan Yiyan Yue began to appear in the second season, in addition to the twins' stems, their themes are actually similar to Yang Kasa, but also women's dilemmas, facial anxiety, marriage and love and the like.
In the fourth season, Zhang Jieling, Li Xueqin, who performed brilliantly, was from Tieling, and her passages were mainly based on complaining about her foreign husband, about how her husband used squat to go to the toilet, and Li Xueqin talked for five or six minutes.
Inward and cute as the selling point of the Peking University talented female bird, in the fourth season is also radiant, she with "WuSong fighting tiger", "social phobia", "appearance anxiety" and other angles of the sharp text out of the circle, so that many introverted, not confident in their appearance of the girl deeply resonate.
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Last year, Yang Kasa's sentence "Men are obviously so ordinary, but so confident" angered many people, which is really a bit of a surprise, Yang Kasa was reported, endorsements were forced to take down, encountered Internet violence, it can be seen that the public's tolerance for women's voices is much lower than we think.
Stand-up comedy is an "offensive art".
We can find complaints about their girlfriends and wives in almost all the male talk show actors, but when it is the turn of women to spit on men, why can't they?
This is related to the fact that the target audience of early stand-up comedies was mostly men and women were relatively absent, so the performance of talk shows always had a strong masculine tendency.
In 1954, Phyllis Diller, a 37-year-old stand-up actress with five children, decided to take the stage, the first time a female talk show actor had taken the stage to tell her story. Felice Diller's jokes revolve around his own family life, heavy chores, useless husbands...
Phyllis Diller
Joan Rivers is considered the prototype for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Her parents felt she had mental problems with wanting to become a comedian and at one point wanted to send her to a mental hospital.
In 1965, in "Tonight's Talk Show", Joan Rivers challenged the "bottom line" of male audiences - "a woman who is not married by the age of 30 is a leftover old virgin, and a man who has not married at the age of 90 is the diamond king's fifth..." This paragraph is not outdated at all today.
Stills from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The popularity of talk show actor Huang Ali is even more eye-opening, she holds up her 7-month pregnant belly, tells the destruction of the woman's body caused by childbirth, and spits out the real situation of the role of "mother" that men generally praise.
Huang Ali
Jeffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico, explained the unpopularity of female humor: women are inherently more tolerant and warm, and if a woman shows a humor similar to that of men, exposing aggression and competitiveness, it will make men feel that this is a threat.
Looking down on women's works, suppressing women's creations, and making women shut up are also a long tradition in the field of literature.
Feminist science fiction writer Joanna Russ argues in Her Book How to Suppress Women's Writing that the contempt and debasement of women's art, regardless of whether people have done so out of ignorance or malice in the past, must not continue.
From the text on the cover of this book, we can see these heartfelt comments about female writers:
She didn't write
She wrote, but she shouldn't have written
She wrote it, but look at what she wrote
She wrote it, but she wasn't really an artist, it wasn't really serious literature
She wrote it, but she wrote such a work
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In her farewell show, Australian female stand-up comedian Hannah Gadsby made a point: Why is it that when male actors express anger on stage, it is often considered legitimate and free speech, while when a female actor expresses anger on stage, it is considered to be a sensitive overkill?
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For them, talk shows are not only a language art, a performing art, but also an emotional outlet for women in an oppressive social atmosphere.
Yang Kasa stood out because she bravely challenged the authority of the first sex, but in the current environment, how to move forward, I am afraid she herself did not think well.
The circle is still largely dominated by men, and more actresses are focusing on the security realm — objecting, scolding husbands (boyfriends), and the more personal realm.
Of course, this is not bad, but it is still expected that women can create in a wider field, so that their artistic life may be longer.