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In the hearts of the audience, the Spring Festival Gala is an indispensable classic program on Chinese New Year's Eve. And the Spring Festival Gala in the past few decades has not only brought laughter to the people, but also achieved many well-known sketch artists, such as Zhao Benshan, Song Dandan, etc.
Among these famous sketch artists, there is a bald actor who is extremely impressive. He was nicknamed the "Nail Household of the Spring Festival Gala" because he appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala more than 20 times, and he was Guo Donglin.
Guo Donglin dedicated most of his life to the sketch acting career, but in 2017, he was claimed 100 million yuan by a professional lawyer because of a line.
Now 58 years old, he is alone, he has never been married and has no children, how is he doing now?
The cultivation of a well-known comedian
Generally speaking, compared with those big-name stars with big shelves, down-to-earth artists will be more sought after by the people.
Guo Donglin is such a star, he is good at interpreting stories close to life, giving people a relaxed and gentle feeling, which is related to his background.
In 1966, Guo Donglin was born in Huai'an City, Anhui Province. He was born into a literary family, his parents are traditional music artists, his father is Shandong Kuaishu performance artist Guo Changyi, and his mother is a Xuzhou qin and book actor.
Under the influence of such an artistic atmosphere, Guo Donglin has cultivated his outstanding acting talent since childhood. At the age of five, he began to follow his parents around performing storytelling. At the age of ten, he was already able to perform on stage on his own.
He has already received countless applause on the stage, which also made Guo Donglin confirm his goal in his heart since he was a child, and he wants to mix up the world in the music industry like his parents.
Although he has been around his parents since he was a child, he has not received systematic training after all, so Guo Donglin wants to go to a professional college to receive formal acting training. After graduating from high school, he was successfully admitted to the acting department of the Shanghai Theater Academy.
In the four years of university, Guo Donglin conscientiously studied professional knowledge and actively participated in some performance practice activities held by the school.
After graduation, Guo Donglin entered Beijing Renyi and learned a lot of acting skills from his predecessors.
However, due to the abundance of talents in Beijing, for a rookie actor like Guo Donglin, he does not have many acting opportunities, so Guo Donglin resigned a few years after entering Renyi.
In 1992, he starred in "The Story of the Editorial Department". Guo Donglin has made a name for himself in the entertainment industry. Therefore, in 1993, he appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and collaborated with Zhang Ci, Fabio and others in the sketch "Market Sketch".
But the Spring Festival Gala in the 90s was in an era of a hundred flowers, and language arts programs were even more masters, and in 1993, there were excellent sketch actors such as Zhao Benshan, Feng Gong, Niu Qun, and Hou Yaowen on stage.
Therefore, Guo Donglin, who is a fledgling in the sketch world, did not make any waves this year, and after the Spring Festival Gala, there were not many audiences discussing his performance.
But failure is the mother of success, and after taking the stage this time, Guo Donglin summed up some lessons and learned by himself, and worked harder offstage to study the burden and performance methods with personal characteristics, waiting for the next opportunity to come.
At the peak of his career
In 1995, CCTV Spring Festival Gala invited Guo Donglin again. This time, he cooperated with Li Wenqi and Mai Hongmei to perform the sketch "Something You Say".
In this story, Guo Donglin plays Guo Zi who brags in front of leaders, colleagues, and friends. This time, the witty lines and lifelike performances made the people of the whole country remember the name Guo Donglin in bursts of laughter.
After that, Guo Donglin has appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for many years, relying on these "face brushing" to make the audience more familiar with his performance methods, and he has also become a well-known artist with a reputation in the sketch industry.
It wasn't until 2001 that Guo Donglin became popular again, and he cooperated with Feng Gong in the Spring Festival Gala this year on the cross talk "Inch by Inch".
This cross talk won the first prize in the miscellaneous category of the "My Favorite Spring Festival Gala" program that year, and this honor is an incentive for Guo Donglin, inspiring him to continue to innovate and produce better works in the cross talk sketch industry.
For the next 18 consecutive years, Guo Donglin appeared on time on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Because most of the characters Guo Donglin performs in sketches every year are a "husband" who has a lot of rivalry with his "wife", but the actors who play his "wife" are changing every year, including Mai Hongmei, Cai Ming, Liu Tao, Niu Li, etc.
Therefore, he was also ridiculed by netizens as "the man who opened a harem in the Spring Festival Gala".
Guo Donglin also has his own unique influence in business, and he and Feng Gong once used an allegro performance to introduce Tianjin's famous dog eating buns in the cross talk work "Old Songs and New Words".
A catchy allegro advertising slogan made Goubuli Bun a hit that year, and even boosted Tianjin's tourism industry.
After that, Guo Donglin reported on time on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala every year, and also received a lot of advertisements. The sales of Jiangzhong Stomach Digesting Tablets that he once endorsed increased from 100 million at the beginning to more than 1.4 billion later, which can be said to have created a legend in the advertising industry.
He once endorsed Tide laundry detergent, and with the brainwashing advertising slogan "There are tides, there are no stains", Tide became the favorite laundry detergent brand of housewives during that time.
After the controversy, start again
However, an incident happened in 2017 that almost ruined Guo Donglin's acting career. The reason for the incident was that on the stage of the Beijing Spring Festival Gala in 2017, Guo Donglin participated in the sketch "Take Money".
There is such a plot in the sketch, the male protagonist played by Guo Donglin meets a woman who has been defrauded by telecommunications on the side of the road, and when the telecommunications fraudster calls, he uses a Henan dialect.
However, the other characters in the whole show speak their lines in Mandarin, and only this negative character uses Henan dialect.
Therefore, after the show was broadcast, many Henan netizens questioned: Does the setting of this plot imply that there are many liars in Henan? Is there a tendency to be discriminatory? For a while, public opinion was in an uproar, and Guo Donglin's career was also affected.
A professional lawyer from Henan also sued Guo Donglin in court on the grounds of "regional discrimination" and "infringement of the reputation rights of the people of Henan", demanding that he compensate each Henan person for one yuan for moral damages, so Guo Donglin needs to pay a total of nearly 100 million yuan in compensation.
Although the court did not accept the case, the screenwriter of the sketch soon came forward to explain, saying that the liar's lines were dubbed by him in his hometown dialect, but Guo Donglin's career was still affected to a certain extent.
On the major Spring Festival Gala stages in 2018, there is no Guo Donglin. It wasn't until 2019 that he and Shao Feng performed the sketch "Love's Substitute Driver" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. After that, in 2022 and 2023, Guo Donglin will participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Now 58 years old, Guo Donglin still has no wife and no children. He was once thought to be a real couple because he and Niu Li played husband and wife on the sketch stage many times, but in fact, the two were just simple colleagues, and Niu Li also had her own family.
Except for the rumors of Wagyu Li, Guo Donglin has not even had any scandals for so many years. He has always appeared in front of the public as a pistachio, and perhaps he has already regarded the audience who likes him as his closest family.
It is reported that Guo Donglin has multiple accounts on the short video platform, and he will often post some small jokes designed by himself to make netizens laugh. His videos have been viewed as many as 9.3 billion times on the Kuaishou platform, which is enough to see that he is still loved by the people.
Guo Donglin's story tells us that as a public figure, no matter how small words and deeds may be amplified, so we must be cautious in our words and deeds and set an example.
Guo Donglin has brought many wonderful works to the audience with his conscientious work in the past few decades, and hopes that his career in the second half of his life will be smooth sailing and his life will be happy and healthy.
Resources
[1] 20 times on the Spring Festival Gala, I was claimed 100 million for one sentence! Where did this once-smash hit Spring Festival Gala nail household go? - Today's Women's Daily