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At around 7:30 p.m. on April 29, Yang Yu, who was about to appear on the talk show Open Mic stage to polish his new work, was pacing back and forth outside the venue, looking nervous.
"Welcome to our first actor of the day - Yang Yu!" After a while, the host in the venue handed the microphone to him, and he immediately switched to a state again. At this time, he was humorous and confident, and he received a lot of laughter and applause.
Yang Yu presided over the scene
This night, he was about to take the stage to start a new day of performance, and he was interviewed by a cover news reporter, telling the story of how he transformed from a novice to a "joker".
"I've always loved 'funny'"
Yang Yu's real name is Feng Kexiang, and his stage name Yang Yu is split from the word "Xiang" in his name, and he is 26 years old this year, he is a full-time talk show actor. After graduating, he tried many professions, sales, brokerage...... At that time, he didn't think he had the talent to be a stand-up comedian.
In recent years, some talk shows have become phenomenal variety shows, and Yang Yu gradually learned about this industry through the Internet, and also joined the talk show offline club in Chengdu after contact.
"Because I've always loved 'funny', and I like to make fun of people when I'm going to school and work. After joining the club, he also had the opportunity to perform offline.
He introduced that his talk show performances are mainly divided into commercial performances and open mics, which are equivalent to a "testing ground", a small stage for new actors to take the stage for the first time or old actors to try new jokes, and commercial performances are formal performances.
Sheep Feather performs at the Open Wheat Stage
At that time, he was surprised and delighted by the hard-won opportunity to perform, and he prepared the manuscript three months in advance after work. In March last year, he took his jokes to the open mic stage of a café. "When I first went on stage, there weren't many people, about 20, and the atmosphere was very good, but it was very tense. Yang Yu said.
In May last year, he was appreciated by the boss of the team he is now working on, so he changed his amateur to full-time, and the performance stage changed from open mic to commercial performance, and he also had a larger audience. "If 'funny' can make money, I think it might be a better fit for me, because I've always loved 'funny'," he said. ”
"I feel like I'm glowing"
Most of the inspiration for the work of stand-up comedians comes from their own lives, and Yang Yu said: "We all have to make original content in this industry. I love to make up a story about my life and tell it to others. ”
"We look at life from a different perspective than everyone else. Yang Yu said that when he encountered a bad thing, he thought more about how to write it funny, and whether there was any angle to deal with it into a paragraph.
He said frankly that many jokes are ordinary trivial things in daily life, but different people will have different thinking angles and different forms of expression, and the effect will be different.
Yang Yu loves the stage, but after hundreds of performances, he is still nervous when he returns to the stage. He said that until now it has been difficult for him to overcome his fear of the stage.
The work is not funny, uninspired, and cannot write good jokes...... It can also make him extra anxious. When his carefully polished work does not get the feedback he imagined, he will also reflect on the problem of the content itself or the problem of expression. He said that at this time, the actors will help each other revise the draft, and he himself will think about how to polish and improve the work. Therefore, many veteran actors will appear on the stage of the open mic many times, constantly observing the feedback of new audiences on new jokes.
For him, audience feedback is important. He said that these feedbacks actually represent the audience's recognition of the actors. "Our judgment of how funny a (joke) is from laughing, to (receiving) applause, and then to exploding. Frying means the audience applauding, cheering, and laughing, which is our highest standard. ”
Yang Yu interacts with the audience
Yang Yu, who has not been in the industry for a long time, also has such a highlight moment, when he feels that he is surrounded by the lights of the stage, and he feels that he is also shining.
"Even if it's just a little bit"
Recently, Yang Yu posted an interactive clip of himself as a performance host on the short video platform, and his quick response and humorous expression on the stage have gained wave after wave of attention.
He said that before the official talk show performance, the host's opening interaction was to warm up the actors, without a script, relying on his own improvisational control ability. "My strength is the interaction, to see the audience's reaction, every show is different. It's more fun, so I'll publish this kind of content online, so I have a little bit of traffic. Of course, the works of other actors are excellent, but there is no way to put them online. ”
Now, the following and likes on the web have turned into motivation for him. However, there will also be some negative comments, "Some people will say it's not funny, and some people will say who I'm imitating, and I'll automatically block it." ”
At this stage, he has set a small goal for himself: to open a personal talk show. And in the future, Yang Yu said bluntly: "I want to do what I like anyway, I happen to not have such a high material pursuit, I hope that I can be happier and make what I do every day more meaningful, so I will do (talk show)." ”
"I was able to make some unhappy people feel a little bit of happiness through something I said, even if it was just a little bit, and I felt that it was very meaningful. ”
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