I believe many people have considered such a question, why is the current Spring Festival Gala more and more unwatched? To be honest, the author, as a post-90s generation, has not watched the Spring Festival Gala for several years, to be precise, since Zhao Benshan and other artists left the Spring Festival Gala, everyone's expectations for the Spring Festival Gala are getting lower and lower
In fact, for most young people today, although it is still a Xi to watch the Spring Festival Gala every year, many people just use the Spring Festival Gala as the background music for the New Year, and even everyone would rather get together to chat than pay attention to what the Spring Festival Gala is performing
And the reason is just because there are fewer and fewer programs that are loved by everyone in the Spring Festival Gala, especially in language programs, there are almost no language programs that can be watched in the Spring Festival Gala today, and only Shen Teng's sketches are left
It is no exaggeration to say that Shen Teng is the only artist who can attract public attention in the field of sketches after Zhao Benshan, and since his debut, Shen Teng has also participated in many comedy variety shows, especially in "Happy Comedian", each of Shen Teng's works is very outstanding, and even Zhao Benshan's apprentice is willing to bow down
But since he appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, Shen Teng's performances have been more and more disappointing, since 2014, Shen Teng's creative inspiration in the Spring Festival Gala seems to have dried up, and it will always be the same old routine
For example, in the Spring Festival Gala in recent years, Shen Teng has created many works related to the workplace, and each time his official position is getting bigger and bigger, last year's sketch "The Pit", Shen Teng directly became the director of an institution
But although Shen Teng is getting bigger and bigger, the audience's reputation for the work is not high, and some people even ridicule Shen Teng, thinking that he has exhausted his talents, and he should not enter the Spring Festival Gala to destroy his own personality
And there are many people who also wonder, that is, why does Shen Teng create sketches with officialdom themes every Spring Festival Gala? You must know that Shen Teng in reality has no official position, and his creative characteristics are also imaginative, which is not suitable for a workplace with strong unspoken rules at all
In fact, there is only one real reason, that is, Shen Teng's creative theme was clearly set by the Spring Festival Gala, and similar encounters are not only experienced by Shen Teng, 2008 Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Benshan created the sketch "Torchbearer", and according to him in a later interview, this theme is not what he originally wanted to create, and it is precisely because he was asked by the Spring Festival Gala crew that he reluctantly made up this work, and "Torchbearer" is also considered by Zhao Benshan to be his worst work in the Spring Festival Gala over the years
So it is not difficult to see from Shen Teng's experience that it is not that Shen Teng can't produce good works, but that the Spring Festival Gala has too high requirements for works, and now the theme of the Spring Festival Gala is not to make the audience happy, but how to make the works educate the audience, which is why there are some sketches, which are obviously not funny, but because of the theme of a little education, they can be on the stage
For the audience, there is only one reason for everyone to watch the Spring Festival Gala, that is, they want to be happy, which is also the reason why the Spring Festival Gala was very popular in the early years, but since 2010, the theme of the Spring Festival Gala has been turned upside down, and the director no longer pays attention to everyone's reputation, but tries his best to educate the audience with his works
But maybe the crew also ignored one point, the theme of the Spring Festival Gala is to have fun with the people, if one day the Spring Festival Gala is full of programs to educate the audience, but everyone no longer watches, then what is the meaning of holding the Spring Festival Gala?