In 2013, Zhao Benshan officially announced: "In the future, there will be no more me on the sketch stage, and I will not go to the local stage next year, I will use my independent time to think more about the company's script and leave space to others." ”
Since then, Zhao Benshan has withdrawn from the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Unexpectedly, ten years later, Zhao Benshan, who is about to be 66 years old, came back with a costume sitcom.
"The Legend of the Magpie Daomen", Zhao Benshan plays two roles, creating a martial arts world full of irony, so that the audience is addicted:
"Benshan is still Benshan, laughter is over."
Zhao Benshan has not been to the Spring Festival Gala for ten years, but the number of people who pay attention to him has never decreased.
Even on video websites that are mainly young people, the number of relevant video views can exceed 100 million.
Source: Station B
The comments are full of missing him:
The director of the Spring Festival Gala once said: "If his sketch is successful, the Spring Festival Gala is half successful." ”
Some people say that if there is no Zhao Benshan on the Spring Festival evening, it is like passing a holiday year, which is also the highest evaluation of Zhao Benshan.
"Vest", "Wool", "Flickering", "Not bad money", "You are too talented", "Fate"... The lines in Zhao Benshan's works even reshape our daily language system.
He has become more than just a comedian, he has long been embodied in the collective memory of an era.
Song Dandan once said that Zhao Benshan's feet never left the ground.
In his works, he plays the little people at the bottom. Because his works all took root from the black earth behind him.
Zhao Benshan was born in 1958, when he was 5 years old, his mother died, and later his father fled, leaving Zhao Benshan an orphan, unable to even eat.
Go up the mountain to collect medicine to earn oil and fire money, eat wild vegetables, dig out rat holes... Teenage children, have to face it all alone.
The classmate's mother saw that he was pitiful, so she recognized her godson and gave him a share if she had a stutter. Years later, Zhao Benshan would go back to visit the old man every year, and once insisted on bringing his godmother to live in the city, but the old man was unwilling and later bought a house for her in Tieling.
Zhao Benshan has a blind cousin who walks the streets and alleys to sell art for a living, and he learns art from his cousin in his free time. At that time, Zhao Benshan's biggest ideal was to be able to support himself by selling art, and he didn't have to go hungry anymore.
Years later, Zhao Benshan said: "A tragic childhood is the greatest wealth of my life."
Due to his versatility, 17-year-old Zhao Benshan joined the commune's literary and artistic propaganda team. At the age of 25, with "Falling Three Strings", he played a blind man and won the first prize in the provincial tune.
In the same year, he was admitted to the Tieling County Theater Troupe as a starring actor and business leader.
Four years later, he was transferred to the Tieling Civil Art Troupe. At that time, Zhao Benshan and Pan Changjiang performed more than 300 performances of "Grand View Lantern", which was full and unprecedented, which caused a sensation in the three northeastern provinces.
Jiang Kun, then the head of the China Radio Rap Troupe, led the troupe to perform in Tieling, and the audience in the audience booed: "It's not as good as Zhao Benshan." ”
Jiang Kun, who was strongly curious, was full of praise after watching Zhao Benshan's two programs: "You are amazing, if you don't go on CCTV, I will turn this Jiang character upside down and don't let it pronounce." ”
Even if someone recommends, the Spring Festival Gala is not so good. Because Zhao Benshan's image is a bit wizened and does not conform to the joyful style of the Spring Festival Gala, he was rejected several times in a row.
It was not until 1990 that he appeared on the Spring Festival Gala with "Blind Date".
There's no way anyone can make everyone like themselves.
Zhao Benshan's works have always been fun of ridiculing small people, some people say that he "ugly peasants", "joke about disabled people", "difficult to climb the hall of elegance" and so on.
But he is difficult to change, he has no way to change his origins, and his works are destined to be inseparable from the countryside.
In 2003, Zhao Benshan established Liu Laogen Stage, and vigorously advocated the "green two-person turn" of eliminating swear words and being healthy and civilized.
Zhao Benshan also began to accept apprentices with a high profile, integrating folk duos into actors, and the "Zhao Family Class" gradually took shape.
It is easy to accept apprentices, but it is difficult to manage: "Folk artists are wild, free and loose, and especially difficult to manage." ”
He helped his apprentices pay off gambling debts, save marriages, and take them to charity activities, but negative news about his apprentices is still endless, and rumors about him are increasing, including speculation that he will no longer attend the Spring Festival Gala.
There are many versions of why Zhao Benshan left the Spring Festival Gala, but from several interviews, we can learn some real things.
Zhao Benshan said frankly that the pressure of the Spring Festival Gala is too great. Sometimes a bad book is lost, and then he has to create another work in a short time, which is very stressful for him.
For the review system of the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Benshan has always had a headache, and the director of the Spring Festival Gala believes that the sketch should be educational, and should not be just boring fun and fun.
And Zhao Benshan believes: "The biggest theme of the Spring Festival Gala sketch is happiness, your work can't educate people, we have walked through this education process for 365 days, is it useful for you to educate him on this night?" Just make him happy. ”
After watching the Spring Festival Gala program in recent years, Zhao Benshan's words really got to the point.
The masters on the stage have become traffic stars, there is no longer a hilarious scene in the audience, and the best Spring Festival Gala era has passed.
So, which is more important, funny or meaningful for comedy?
I think that Zhao Benshan's status in the rivers and lakes today is the best answer.
Light up [Like] + [Watching], just be happy.