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Go back forty years.
In 1984, the bus drove from the sports hotel to CCTV, and Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao's programs were not fixed, and there were not even seats left for the brothers on the bus.
The two of them could only sit down with others.
Wait until the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala starts immediately.
Chief director Huang Yihe hurriedly found Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao, and instructed: "There is no leader nodding, and I don't get the shaking head, but I decided to let you two go, and I will bear it if something happens."
In fact, he was also worried about his heart: "You two go up, you can't make a mistake in a word, if you say the wrong word, it's a major political accident." ”
These two people were calm, but they hadn't gone on stage at all.
Before the stage, the people in the preparatory group asked: "People have cross talk, acrobatics, and magic, what should you call it?" The two replied: "It's called 'sketch'."
Ma Ji finished talking about the cross talk "Universe Brand Cigarettes" (also known as "A Salesman"), and the Peking Opera "Will Harmony" was also sung, Jiang Lili and Jiang Kun were skewered, and Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi took the stage.
Unexpectedly, the audience exploded with laughter.
Tracing back to the origin, the sketch was determined to be an independent performance form in this Spring Festival Gala.
The group of heroes gathers, and the general is born bold
In fact, as early as 1983, there were similar performances at the first Spring Festival Gala.
Siqin Gaowa pretended to be a tiger girl again and ate and took it in the audience.
Behind her is a leading figure in the performance industry - Yan Shunkai, the actor of Ah Q in the 81 version of "The True Story of Ah Q".
Yan Shun opened three programs for one person.
not only came a more than one-minute "Ah Q's Monologues".
The pantomime "Playing the Piano" was also performed
There is no physical performance, there is a degree of exaggeration, there is baggage in the details, and I cried halfway.
This vividness is not a standout, but a combination of two colors
Because there was Wang Jingyu's "Eating Chicken" that night.
In 1984, the top spot of the Spring Festival Gala sketches had permanent guests - Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao.
It's strange to say, I've watched "Eating Noodles" dozens of times, since I was a child, every year, but every time I watch it, I laugh like a second fool.
When reviewing the show, some people were worried that it would be okay to make the audience laugh so hard, and they thought that the show was vulgar and value-oriented.
So on the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the two were still waiting for the notice "on or not".
Chen Peisi wanted to pick his son and leave, but was persuaded by Zhu Shimao.
Looking at the arrangement of "Eating Noodles" today, it can still be called a model.
One line: shoot and eat noodles, two points: the actor is greedy, the director is stupid, and a few bends: one bowl of noodles, two bowls of noodles, three bowls of noodles......
Chen Peisi can let go, and Zhu Shimao can accept it.
The so-called "debut is the peak" is about the same.
The following year's "Making a Movie" was a continuation of "Eating Noodles", but the popularity was far greater than that of the previous work.
The reason is that inspired by the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympics, Huang Yihe wanted to make the third Spring Festival Gala magnificent, so he set the venue at the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium.
But the technology didn't keep up, the venue was not heated, the lighting was wrong, the communication equipment fell off the chain, and the whole scheduling failed.
After the incident, the masses wrote letters of criticism, and CCTV apologized to the whole country on the news network.
Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao were found by cross talk actor Jiang Kun on a bicycle, and he not only dug up these two treasures, but also dug up another treasure - Zhao Benshan.
At that time in 1987, Jiang Kun was so red that he turned purple, but he touched a nail during the tour in Tieling, and the people of Tieling were ruthless, "compared with our Zhao Benshan, it is far behind".
Jiang Kun wants to see who this surnamed Zhao is.
took a group of colleagues to the theater to watch "The Blind Man Watching the Lantern".
"The Blind Man Watching the Lantern", Pan Changjiang and Zhao Benshan
As soon as he looked up, he couldn't see anyone in the audience, and it turned out that they were all laughing and lying under the seats.
Jiang Kun was convinced, so he sent Zhao Benshan's performance video to CCTV.
Later, Guo Degang said that Zhao Benshan pulled a cart of Moutai for the Spring Festival Gala.
In 1988, Zhao Benshan was scheduled to participate in the performance of the Harbin branch venue, and the videotapes were recorded in advance, and everyone in Tieling knew about it.
As a result, he guarded the TV until the word "goodbye" came out, and he didn't see Zhao Benshan's shadow.
By 1989, it didn't work out again.
Some people go to the Spring Festival Gala and spare no effort to strive for opportunities, and some people go to the Spring Festival Gala without much effort.
It's Zhao Lirong who is talking about it.
Zhao Lirong was born in 1928, grew up in the theater, later studied drama review, and became famous for Cai Dan, the so-called "Cai Dan", that is, "supporting role" and "harlequin", but she can stand on her feet with green leaves
Xun Huisheng, one of the four famous men, once praised her for "a person with a thousand faces, well-deserved", Shang Xiaoyun inscribed "Elegant and vulgar appreciation" for her, and Mei Lanfang gave her a photo of herself wearing a suit.
It can be seen that its strength is not bad.
There are two people in the Spring Festival Gala preparation team who are fans of Zhao Lirong and strongly recommend her to the Spring Festival Gala.
When Zhao Lirong got the news, she was a little hesitant, and she was afraid of embarrassing the critics, so she put forward two requirements to the preparatory team, the script should be good, and the characters should be new.
In 1988, Zhao Lirong made her debut on the Spring Festival Gala, and her work was "Emergency", and her partner included "Jigong" You Benchang.
With a Tangshan accent and a bun combed behind, she plays a doting grandmother who loves her children, and there is a line that is very expressive:
"Now the child's homework is called a difficulty, 3 plus 6 on the line, and subtract a 5, this is not a long worm (snake) and Wang Ba fighting, net around the neck. ”
In the same year, the script screenwriter named Shi Lin pedaled a bicycle for two hours to send a sketch manuscript to CCTV, and the manuscript was finally indicated, if selected, it is recommended to invite Zhao Lirong to star
Later, the dream of the fan brother came true, "The Day of a Heroic Mother", "So Packaged", "Part-time Job Adventure" and "Kung Fu Order" were all made by him.
Zhao Benshan was a little slower, and only appeared on the Spring Festival Gala two years later and acted in "Blind Date".
Rural people, crooked hat brim, the stage image has been fixed since then, and the opening paragraph has become his characteristic:
"You say that my son has done something new, and he has let me, the father, take his daughter-in-law for him, and I say no, he will be angry with me; that child is good at everything, but he has a bit of a donkey temper. ”
Since then, Chen Peisi, Zhao Lirong, Zhao Benshan, the three giants of sketches in my heart, have all come together.
The period from 1990 to 2000 can be called the "Age of the Gods".
In the age of the gods, who is the best in the present
If you ask me about my favorite Spring Festival Gala sketches, I will selfishly choose "The Protagonist and the Supporting Role".
The performance is wonderful, the lines are clever, the stalk is good and lively, and it can be touched for a long time.
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that you, Zhu Shimao, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, also betrayed the revolution?"
"You brought the devil here?"
"Do you still know what the audience likes to watch?"
"The Protagonist and Supporting Role" can be regarded as the peak of Chen Zhu's Spring Festival Gala creation, and has declined since then, "The Police and the Thief" is considered a masterpiece, but "The Great Change" and "The King and the Postman" are far from the level that the two should have.
The game in the game, several checks and balances, reminds me of Chen Peisi's very unkind words:
"It's no longer a creative atmosphere, and all the people who work there think of themselves as bosses, and no one can afford to mess with them...... It's that rough work. ”
The sketch people are stubborn.
Zhao Benshan's "Uncle Niu "Tigan", the original script was written about the township government's extravagant eating and drinking, and later changed to an enterprise manager after review, and the strength was weakened a lot.
There is also a place where three old turtle eggs are served, but there are four guests, and the line is "Three bastards, can't be separated", and the camera laughed badly, because it was a swear word and was asked to delete it
But Zhao Benshan deliberately left one hand and didn't show it during the rehearsal, and when he arrived at the live broadcast, he carried a string of soft-shelled turtle eggs and said: ", are you here to fight", and at the end he rebated the sentence "The thing was not done, I learned to talk about it here." ”
The audience laughed directly, and he clearly had something to say.
Madness.
Zhao Benshan's sketches are extremely ironic, among which "New Year's Greetings", "Selling Abduction", "Selling Cars" and "Heart Disease" are the most important, and it is also these works that bring out the "Iron Triangle" Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei, and Gao Xiumin.
Few people know that there is a pillar behind the Iron Triangle - screenwriter He Qingkui.
He Qingkui's language baggage is unique, and only "New Year's Greetings" has:
"The earth has to revolve around you, you're the sun?!"
"Good news from the delivery room, people have been promoted (officials)!"
"The mouse is the escort for the cat, you don't want to die if you make money!"
And so many more:
"忽悠,adhesive忽悠。"
"If you don't get injections or take medicine, you just sit and talk to you. ”
"With your feet off the ground, the virus is turned off, and smart IQs are taking over the high ground again. ”
There are also genius strokes: "postpartum care of sows", "what kind of bicycle do you want", "nothing to take two steps".
Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan's "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" and "Hourly Work" are also from He Qingkui, filming the TV series "Liu Laogen", and He Qingkui also contributed a lot to it.
Gao Xiumin has the grace of knowing He Qingkui, when Gao was famous, He was still unknown, Gao recommended He all the way, and then the two gradually fell in love.
He Qingkui has a condition for Zhao Benshan to write a book, and he has to bring Gao Xiumin to the Spring Festival Gala.
Around 2004, Gao Xiumin and Zhao Benshan had a falling out, and He Qingkui no longer cooperated with Zhao.
Zhao Benshan knows how to make good use of people, and after He Qingkui leaves, there are others.
"Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" fired the first shot of "White Cloud and Black Soil CP", and the second "Talking Things" did not hold back.
The stalks of contributions include, but are not limited to, "41 days of mink", "tractor pulling bricks", "gongs and drums, firecrackers, red flags, crowds", and "how can you get away from it" and "women, you have to be cruel to yourself".
By the way, there is also the white cloud book "Yuezi" that was used to paste the wall and wipe the cheeks.
The screenwriter of "Talking Things" is called Zhang Meng, and later he made a good film called "The Piano of Steel".
Piano of Steel
Compared with Chen Peisi's playfulness and Zhao Benshan's sharpness and resentment, Zhao Lirong is more like living in between, she has sarcasm, but is wrapped in a sleek and gentle performance.
Gong Hanlin once said that when he first saw Zhao Lirong, he was completely a little fan mentality, and he was so nervous.
Instead, Zhao Lirong said, "Oh, this is my son, right?" and pulled him to the side and sat down.
is called "son" because the two co-starred in the Spring Festival Gala for the first time.
There was also an episode in the middle, the director team wanted to take Gong Hanlin out, it was Zhao Lirong who protected him, and later, Gong Hanlin called Zhao Lirong "Zhao Mom" and also called "old lady".
The most classic work of the two is, of course, "The Adventure of a Part-time Job".
"Palace jade liquor, one hundred and eighty glasses. How about this wine, listen to me blow it to you..... In fact, it is the boiled water that the two pots of head are mixed with", the irony is the sky-high cabbage incident back then.
I can almost memorize the words, and the old lady's expressions and movements can be reproduced in my mind.
There are also the four words "genuine".
After the Spring Festival Gala was broadcast, many companies wanted to invite Zhao Lirong to inscribe, but they were politely refused.
In fact, Zhao Lirong has been illiterate since she was a child, and the four words "genuine" are newly learned by her, just for a few seconds on stage.
Not inferior to connoisseurs.
It's a pity that I didn't understand it at that time, and everything was already foreshadowed.
It was only many years later that I could read the gray line of the grass snake behind the laughter.
In 1995, during the rehearsal of the sketch "So Packaged", Zhao Lirong was diagnosed with osteoporosis and needed surgery on her knee joint. Seeing that the Spring Festival Gala is imminent, I don't want to stop.
There was an accident in the performance that night, and when it came to "You say it's uncomfortable or not", Zhao Lirong staggered to the ground, and the audience thought it was a small burden arranged in advance. When Zhao Lirong stood up again, her expression was slightly painful, and she only regarded it as a proper performance.
was on the stage, but his leg was already lame when he got off the stage, and he went to the hospital that night.
Four years later, when rehearsing "The Veteran", Zhao Lirong suddenly coughed up blood and went into rehearsal non-stop. The family was the first to know the results of the examination and chose to hide it.
Actually, it's lung cancer.
There is a plot in the sketch to arrange Tyson and Zhao Lirong to fight, Zhao Lirong pretended to be startled, but shook her body, Gong Hanlin and Jin Zhu hurriedly helped, and their faces were a little wrong.
I've watched these two sketches for more than ten years, and I've never noticed anything strange before, and the only thing left in my memory is those witty jokes "Spicy Chicken Shreds", "Nodding Yes, Shaking Heads No, Come is Come and Go Go".
Knowing the inside story and looking at it again, the mood is completely different, and the sadness is even worse.
"Veteran Out of the Horse" is Zhao Lirong's last Spring Festival Gala work, she also sang "My Heart is Eternal" in English, her voice is hoarse, it is not natural, but I have the urge to cry when I listen to it, after all, "eternal" is too difficult.
Zhao Lirong has played supporting roles for most of her life, Grandma Liu in "Dream of Red Mansions", and Queen Chechi in "Journey to the West...... At the age of 63, she won the Best Actress at the Tokyo Film Festival with "New Year".
This is the first international A-category film festival in Chinese mainland.
Chinese New Year
Jiang Wen once called Zhao Lirong a first-class actor, he said, "Just say that you don't care what mood you have, no matter what kind of opinion you have about her, you watch her act, forget that you are nothing." I admire, I just love old ladies. ”
The two are fellow villagers in Tangshan, he has always wanted to play with Zhao Lirong, and he has also chatted, but in the end it became an unfinished regret.
On July 17, 2000, Zhao Lirong passed away.
Just the year before, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao took CCTV's company to court for burning sketches of their performances without permission and selling them.
The lawsuit was won, but the CCTV stage was on, and the local station was afraid to avoid the two.
1998's "The Prince and the Postman" became the last Spring Festival Gala work of the two.
During the rehearsal, Chen Peisi once suggested to the director team of the Spring Festival Gala that in order to meet the audience's requirements for innovation and change, high-tech and film montage techniques could be used to present sketches, but they were rejected.
On the night of the performance, Zhu Shimao's microphone was broken. In order to save the scene, Chen Peisi has been sticking to Zhu Shimao's side to perform, just to spread Zhu Shimao's voice.
After stepping down, Chen Peisi cried, he felt that the presentation effect was too poor.
The "Age of the Gods" ended, and only Zhao Benshan was left alone.
Gradually, there is a sense of loneliness.
first Gao Xiumin's departure, and then Fan Wei.
In 2003, Fan Wei saw a script called "July of the Car Watcher", he liked it very much after reading it, and called the director, the director asked him what he thought of the script, he said it was too good, too good, but the director replied vaguely, and he realized that he didn't want to use him.
Fan Wei knew: "When I was acting in sketches and TV series, when I was shouting medicine box all over the street, I was asked to play the little person who watched the car, he was afraid that the audience would laugh." ”
He had always been afraid of being framed to death.
"July of the Car Watcher"
Fan Wei is far from the fierce character in his screen image, a little introverted, and can even be said to be shy.
Zhao Benshan said that he never participated in the opening ceremony, and the crew could avoid dinners.
Screenwriter Gong Kaibo talked about the reason why Fan Wei left the Spring Festival Gala, and once said, "Fan Wei has strong self-esteem and is relatively fragile, and in the chat with Zhao Benshan, he was hurt by some words."
Fan Wei's statement is that the pressure is too great, he often has a headache, and he quits early, until he performed the last part of the "Selling Abduction Trilogy" "Kung Fu" in 2005, and said the wrong words on stage, he knew that he would no longer have the courage to appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
There is also Zhao Benshan who is crying bitterly.
In the 2008 Spring Festival Gala, there was a large paragraph of "task" sensationalism at the end of the sketch "Torchbearer". After the performance, Zhao Benshan cried backstage, and Song Dandan was already crying when he hugged him.
Later, Yang Lan asked him the reason, and he said that the text was too weak, if it weren't for the two of them, he would have been more smashed, and bluntly said:
"When the work gives you discomfort, I feel that when you are educating people, that is the most tiring."
In the same year, Song Dandan announced that he would no longer attend the Spring Festival Gala, on the grounds that the creative pressure was too great and he didn't want to wait for the day when he was booed off stage by the audience.
江湖自此再无“白云黑土”。
After Gao Xiumin, Fan Wei, and Song Dandan left, Zhao Benshan could only pull his apprentice to guard the position of "sketch king", but how easy is it to keep this son?
Gathering and dispersing clutches are also difficult to be as difficult as a hook and difficult to round
The rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala is stressful.
It starts at 8 o'clock in the evening and ends at 1 o'clock in the morning, the director team reviews it, the leaders put forward their opinions, and at two or three o'clock, they will revise and discuss, and it may be dawn.
After more than two months of preparation, a program was scheduled hundreds of times, and it often happened that the program was killed before it came.
In 2009, the sketch "Sending Cake" was killed because of strong sexual innuendo, and there were only 12 days left before the Spring Festival Gala.
Zhao Benshan and the screenwriter discharged "Not Bad Money" in the remaining days, and sent Xiao Shenyang and Yadan to a position known to everyone in one fell swoop.
It's a desperate victory.
In the same year, Xiao Shenyang became a "Mou Man", starring in Zhang Yimou's "Three Guns Shooting Surprise".
He definitely didn't think that one day 12 years later, he would say "I've given up sketches" and go to variety shows to prove that he still has acting skills.
Fate is unpredictable.
However, Fan Weizhen became the backbone of the drama and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor with a "Problem That Is Not a Problem".
"The Problem That Doesn't Matter"
and then in 2023 "The Long Season", the train drove from Hualin Forest to South Korea, and Fan Wei won the Best Actor Award at the 18th Seoul International TV Drama Awards.
The Long Season
Chen Peisi devoted himself to the drama career and took a group of grassroots actors around. It was so hard that there was no rehearsal room, so I had to clean up and clean the toilets by myself.
In 2011, Zhao Benshan performed "You at the Same Table" and never went to the Spring Festival Gala again.
The end of an era.
In 2005, Gao Xiumin died of a heart attack at the age of 46.
At the funeral, Zhao Benshan cried, Fan Wei was red-eyed, and He Qingkui was grief-stricken. Zhao Benshan said to He Qingkui: "We won't write in the future, I'll support you old." ”
伤情最是晚凉天，憔悴斯人不堪怜。
In the past few years, a generation of sketches has reconciled and relieved.
Chen Peisi returned to CCTV to record "Gold Medal Comedy Class", and Fan Wei made a guest appearance in Zhao Benshan's "Liu Laogen 3".
Leave the audience in a whirlpool of memories.
Looking back at the Spring Festival Gala, the limelight used to be in sketches, overwhelming cross talk,
Over the years, it has been adjusted again, and the wind blows to the cross talk until there is no more wind.
The number of professional sketch actors has decreased sharply, and a large amount of traffic has been replaced. It is even clearer that sketch is an art with a very low threshold, but it is difficult to reach the passing line.
Guo Degang has a saying that is not unreasonable: it all depends on peers.
I can't help but feel a sense of kinship.
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I think of Zhao Lirong before she died, her illness and chemotherapy caused her hair to fall out and her weight to drop rapidly.
She instructed her son to refuse all visits, "You must hide it for me." She just wanted everyone to remember only the healthy and lively Zhao Lirong.
At the memorial service, tens of thousands of people spontaneously organized to see them off. Holding a photo of flowers, with the words "Deeply remembering a generation of celebrities", and below is Zhao Lirong's bright smiling face.
As she wished, only the smiling face.
Everyone described Zhao Lirong's death: Since then, there has been laughter in heaven.
You see, the stars at that time were the stars of the people of the whole country, and the stars now are just the stars of fans.
In the past few days, I have been rummaging through the information, and I learned that when I was acting in "Not Bad Money", Zhao Benshan had a high fever, so he always coughed; when playing "The Leading Role and Supporting Role", Zhu Shimao ripped off the strap of the pistol, and he directly poked it into the iron bolt with brute force; in the afternoon to review the show, Zhao Lirong put on her makeup first in the morning, did not lie down or sleep, and just stood up.
Dedication and talent are indispensable for acting in sketches.
Zhao Benshan once emphasized over and over again: "The biggest theme of the Spring Festival Gala sketch is happiness. ”
Instead of deliberately earning the audience's tears, forcibly sublimating the theme, and arbitrarily asserting a happy but sloppy ending.
Happiness is too simple.
It's so simple that the sketch artist has to do his best to help the audience reach the ease of that moment. It's as simple as using joy to dispel suffering, so as to drink the full cup of life.
What is a sketch, a sketch is a safe place between the suffering of yesterday and the suffering of tomorrow.
And the original intention of the sketch was Chen Peisi's sentence: "I want to tell the audience that you have the right to laugh." (Sweet Tea)
Resources:
1. "Luyu has an appointment with Chen Peisi"
2. "Lu Yu has an appointment with Zhu Shimao"
3. "Memory|Sketch "Eating Noodles" Behind the Scenes
4. "Guo Degang: Zhao Benshan once used a car of Moutai to lead the Spring Festival Gala", Metropolis Express
5. "On and off the stage, "mother and daughter" are in deep love", Dai Yueqin
6. "Heaven Has Laughter: Twenty Years After Zhao Lirong's Death", Southern People Weekly
7. "The Shackles of Language in the Spring Festival Gala", Sanlian Life Weekly
8. Research on the Art and Cultural Phenomenon of Northeast Comedy Sketches, Yang Shuai
9. "Survival Master Zhao Benshan", Southern Weekly
(Excerpted from the WeChat public account Visual Journal)