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The Spring Festival Gala around 2010 could not be done without Zhao Benshan and could not be without Feng Gong.
However, there is also a pistachio in the music industry, and the Spring Festival Gala may not always be interesting to him.
He is Guo Donglin, a "bald actor" who can say crosstalk and act in sketches.
He has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala 27 times in a row and has become another "sketch master" after Zhao Benshan.
However, just when he was in full swing, he almost lost his entire career just because of his words on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Even he was sued by Henan netizens to claim 100 million yuan from him.
Guo Donglin, who has experienced the trough of his career, when he reappeared, his whole person seemed to be dozens of years old, not only his eyes were tired, but his eyes also lost their brilliance.
From the Spring Festival Gala nail household, to the ruined reputation because of a sentence, what did Guo Donglin do wrong?
And now that he is retiring, how is his life, will he regret his original behavior?
Once brilliant
In recent years, Guo Donglin has almost stopped appearing on the Spring Festival Gala, and his situation is also heavenly and underground compared to before.
Before 2017, Guo Donglin was a well-deserved powerful sketch actor and a permanent guest at the Spring Festival Gala.
In 2012, after Zhao Benshan announced his departure from the Spring Festival Gala stage, Guo Donglin became the pillar of the Spring Festival Gala sketch program.
He partnered with Niu Li many times and brought a lot of laughter to the audience.
At that time, his bald image and red suit on the show were also eye-catching.
He also became a household name as a sketch actor.
In fact, the reason why Guo Donglin can be so popular has a lot to do with his experience since childhood.
Guo Donglin was born into a family of entertainers, his mother was a book critic, and his father was a performance artist.
Therefore, under the ears and eyes of his mother, Guo Donglin naturally learned to talk and sing, and performed with his mother at the age of five.
However, Guo Donglin's family underwent a great change, his father was unemployed at home, and the whole family lost a stable source of income.
At this time, Guo Donglin was over 10 years old, and he also began to take on the responsibilities of the family.
He performed with his mother during the day and went out with his father at night.
But this difficult life did not crush Guo Donglin.
Because of the acting experience and acting talent since childhood.
In 1984, Guo Donglin was successfully admitted to the acting department of Shanghai Theater Academy to study acting.
He has been immersed in studying acting in college and cherishes this hard-won learning opportunity.
In college, he also fell in love with sketch acting.
After that, he went to Beijing Renyi for further study, where he worked as an acting worker for several years.
But Guo Donglin believes that this is not what he wants, and he hopes to be able to go on a bigger stage and perform for the people of the whole country.
He began to pay attention to the sketch program of the Spring Festival Gala, and also began to arrange the sketch program by himself.
It was these experiences that made Guo Donglin successfully walk to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
In 1993, Guo Donglin was invited by the director of the Spring Festival Gala, hoping that he could perform on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Guo Donglin never thought that he could really go to the big stage of the country, and he also attached great importance to this performance.
So, he took his first work "Market Sketch" to the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Because it was the first performance, Guo Donglin played decently and did not have a very outstanding place.
But with the first experience of the Spring Festival Gala, Guo Donglin also knows better what type of performance the audience likes.
So two years later, in 1995, he made a strong comeback.
He partnered with Buy Hongmei to perform the sketch "Something You Talk", and the humorous and humorous performance left a deep impression on the audience.
This time, Guo Donglin became famous at one stop, and the director of the Spring Festival Gala also appreciated him very much.
Since then, Guo Donglin has ushered in the spring of his career.
From 1995 to 2016, Guo Donglin has never missed a Spring Festival Gala program.
Not only partnered with the old actor Cai Ming, but also formed the "Screen Spring Festival Gala CP" with actresses Niu Li, Liu Tao and others.
Among them, his partner with Niu Li has a tacit understanding that many viewers think that they are a real couple.
The two first collaborated in 2005, and since then they have forged a deep fate, and the lines of the two arguing on the stage also made the audience laugh, and Guo Donglin also took this opportunity to become popular.
At that time, Guo Donglin not only had many sketch performances, but also countless endorsement activities to find him.
The annual endorsement fee is hundreds of millions, and the number of performances is at least several hundred.
At the hottest time, Guo Donglin alone is enough to support a stage and earn a lot of money.
He has also changed from the poor boy who used to sell art to a well-known sketch actor.
Guo Donglin successfully reached the peak of the comedy industry with his own efforts.
I thought that he would still be prosperous in the second half of his life, but he went downhill.
A word provoked a hundred million compensation
As a veteran actor of the sketch show of the Spring Festival Gala, Guo Donglin has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala for more than ten consecutive years, and even some netizens commented that "Guo Donglin does not watch the Spring Festival Gala".
It is enough to prove how much weight he carries in the hearts of the audience.
However, on the Spring Festival Gala program of Beijing TV in 2017, Guo Donglin got into trouble.
It also became a turning point in his career.
On the occasion of the Spring Festival in 2017, Guo Donglin received an invitation from the Beijing TV director's team, hoping that he could perform on stage.
Originally, Guo Donglin did not plan to go, but after reading the script of the sketch, he liked it very much, so he accepted the invitation.
But he didn't expect that Guo Donglin's decision would affect his life.
After receiving the invitation, Guo Donglin began to rehearse the sketch "Withdraw Money" intensively.
This time, the work has been carefully polished by many old artists, and I thought that this sketch would receive applause as always, but after the program was broadcast, it attracted a lot of scolding from netizens.
It turns out that the sketch "Withdraw Money" tells the story of an old man who was caught by telecom fraud on the way to withdraw money, and it happened that a young man enthusiastically helped prevent the tragedy.
The old man is played by teacher Sun Guitian, and Guo Donglin plays the enthusiastic young man,
Both are well-known sketch actors, and as soon as they appeared, they had a comedy atmosphere, and the interactive lines also made the audience laugh.
And telecom fraud was frequent in those years, so the sketch also has a good educational significance.
However, this time the sketch did not succeed, but was collectively denounced by Henan netizens.
Because such a scene appeared in the sketch.
In the telecom fraud call, a Henan accent appeared, and Guo Donglin also uttered the phrase that made the entire Henan people angry: "Ten Henan nine scams."
Although the audience was amused when he said this, he was directly scolded on the hot search afterwards.
Many netizens even labeled him as "regional discrimination" and "regional black".
There was a lot of scolding on the Internet, Guo Donglin's reputation also plummeted, and various social media comment areas were fallen.
There are also netizens who proposed "Guo Donglin quitting the sketch circle".
For a time, Guo Donglin was riddled with negative news, and the products he had endorsed before were also boycotted by netizens.
In the end, Guo Donglin had to choose to terminate his cooperative relationships with many brands, and he not only compensated huge liquidated damages, but even had Henan lawyers sue him.
At that time, the Henan lawyer asked him to compensate each Henan person for one yuan, which added up to 100 million yuan.
Guo Donglin was also upset by this nonsensical prosecution.
He apologized many times on social platforms, showing that he had never had the idea of regional blackness.
But no matter what he did, he could not save his image in the eyes of the audience.
For a long time afterwards, Guo Donglin did not work, and even the Spring Festival Gala that year did not invite him.
It was from that year that Guo Donglin's record of more than 20 consecutive years of participating in the Spring Festival Gala stage was broken.
He fell from the previous stars holding the moon to the embarrassing situation he is in now.
Not only is there no job, but even the network is not as good as before.
In order to avoid suspicion, many of his friends in the circle once avoided him.
Later, Happy Twist gradually became a resident guest at the Spring Festival Gala, and many up-and-coming stars also provoked the beam.
Guo Donglin seems to be like a forgotten firework, fleeting.
In this way, Guo Donglin experienced a trough of nearly two years, during which he did not have any source of income and performance opportunities.
When he appeared in the public eye again, he was only explaining himself.
From the former "Spring Festival Gala Brother" to today's word of mouth decline, just because of a word, Guo Donglin fell off the altar.
Justify yourself and break the rumors
Although Guo Donglin's career suffered a major blow in 2017, this incident was not intentional.
In fact, at that time, the lines of "Withdraw Money" were allowed to pass after repeated review, and Guo Donglin only performed according to the director's requirements.
The screenwriter also stood up to explain that in fact, the accent of the person who called at the beginning was not Henanese, but his hometown dialect Shanxi.
It's just that Shanxi dialect and Henan dialect are very similar, so many people mistakenly think it is Henan dialect.
Afterwards, Guo Donglin apologized for this many times, indicating that he had never had the idea of regional discrimination.
After that, Guo Donglin did not appear on the Spring Festival Gala in 2017 and 2018 because of the controversy.
Just when everyone thought that he would disappear, Guo Donglin did not slump.
Not only did he not stop, but he was still making a name for himself.
With the popularity of short videos, Guo Donglin began to switch to the stage.
He moved from the former television stage to today's short video circuit.
After two years of silence, he began to appear on social media, and although it was still full of abuse at first, Guo Donglin did not agree.
He can already face all negative evaluations calmly.
He also shifted his business center to short video media, shooting funny jokes or heartfelt words on short videos.
Netizens no longer denounced him, and slowly, Guo Donglin's short video media became popular.
The highest number of likes is as high as more than 2 million, and the comment area is also full of praise and admiration for him.
In 2019, Guo Donglin returned to the stage of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, and he also proved to the audience that he was back.
In the years since, he has appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala on local satellite TV.
Not only that, he has also participated in some film and television dramas.
"Guardian 2", released some time ago, has his appearance, which also adds a lot of comedy to the movie.
Today, his Douyin fans are as high as more than 8 million, and every video can have more than 100,000 likes, and netizens also affectionately call him Teacher Guo.
But just when everyone thought that Guo Donglin had successfully passed that dark trough, his recent behavior was scolded by netizens on the hot search.
At the recent wedding of Shao Feng's son, Guo Donglin, who had not appeared for a long time, also came to the scene to offer blessings to the couple, but when his photo with everyone was posted on the Internet, it attracted a lot of abuse from netizens.
It turned out that it was because Guo Donglin actually wore a white baseball cap when attending this wedding, which was more or less unfestive.
This also made Guo Donglin the object of discussion among netizens again.
epilogue
Now Guo Donglin is 56 years old, but he is still alone.
Perhaps after experiencing the ups and downs of life, Guo Donglin is no longer obsessed with fame and love, but insists on the comedy career he loves and does more and more in his own industry.