preface
"A word can make things happen, a word can do bad things, a word can produce a harmonious society, can you be sunny in your heart?"
This is a classic line in the 2010 CCTV Spring Festival Gala sketch "One Sentence Thing", and friends who must have watched it must be deeply impressed.
As an important figure in the sketch actors, Guo Donglin has appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala 20 times, bringing many laughter and classic jokes to everyone.
But since 2017, he seems to have disappeared from the public eye. And behind Guo Donglin's retreat to the second line, there is still an unknown truth hidden!
was claimed 100 million yuan for a line, what happened to Guo Donglin?
Guo Donglin has always been actively active on the comedy stage, and is committed to using real scenes to bring everyone happy sketch enjoyment.
In 2017, Guo Donglin was invited to participate in the Spring Festival Gala of Beijing Satellite TV. On stage, he co-starred with another collaborator in a skit called "Withdraw Money".
The content of the show is probably about the story of an enthusiastic uncle played by Guo Donglin who prevents an old lady from transferring money to a fraudster. Through witty and humorous narration and vivid interpretation, Guo Donglin has created a cute and kind image of a kind-hearted person.
The plot and hilarious lines of the two quarreling with each other are even more refreshing, and it is a ridiculous oolong incident.
The effect of this show is outstanding, and the content is also very praiseworthy, which not only brings happiness to everyone, but also warns the audience and friends, especially the elderly, to avoid falling into the trap set by scammers in advance.
But unexpectedly, a phone call from a liar on the show completely changed the flavor of this sketch! It turned out that many viewers said that the liar in the sketch spoke a "Henan dialect", and the scammer's Henan accent made many Henan netizens dissatisfied, thinking that this was a phenomenon of regional discrimination against Henan people.
For a time, the scammer's Henan accent caused a frenzied public opinion attack. What is even more exaggerated is that a lawyer from Henan Province sued Guo Donglin in court on the grounds of "regional discrimination" and "infringement of Henan people's right to reputation", demanding that he pay one yuan in compensation to each Henan person.
You must know that Henan is a well-known province with a large population, and one yuan per person may not seem like much, but the total compensation is as high as more than 100 million yuan!
Information source: February 9, 2017 published in Huashang Daily - "Guo Donglin's sketch is suspected of discrimination, lawyer sues: pay 1 yuan to Henan people each"
This huge amount of compensation is really not something that ordinary people can afford, and Guo Donglin was also involved in the whirlpool of public opinion because of this, and even became the target of public criticism.
With the surging heat of the discussion on regional discrimination against Henan people, Wei Xin, the screenwriter of the sketch, stood up and spoke out, saying that the liar's Henan dialect had nothing to do with Guo Donglin, and the voice of the liar calling was recorded by Wei Xin.
According to Wei Xin, he is from Shandong, and his hometown is very close to Henan, so his accent is similar. At that time, when dubbing, I just spoke in a dialect I was familiar with, and there was no meaning of regional discrimination. Finally, Wei Xin expressed his sincere thanks to everyone.
In addition, after the court ruled that this was just a presentation of literary and artistic works, and Guo Donglin was not really compensated more than 100 million yuan. In this way, it seems that this is just an oolong incident caused by a misunderstanding.
But unfortunately, this incident still had a certain impact on Guo Donglin, and even many netizens' favorability towards him plummeted. Since then, Guo Donglin has gradually faded out of the public eye, and he has not even been seen on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 2018.
What is surprising is that "a word can make things happen, and a word can do bad things" really fulfilled in Guo Donglin's body in the way of a boomerang!
But thankfully, Guo Donglin did not completely disappear from the comedy stage. Now he has become "Mr. Warm Man", continuing to tell vivid and interesting stories to everyone in the form of short videos, providing real and humorous comedy works.
It can be seen that although that incident has had a certain impact on Guo Donglin's reputation, there are still many audiences who like his performances. As a popular video creator, Guo Donglin has tens of millions of fans, and he is still shining on the way to bring laughter to everyone.
As an important figure in the field of Chinese sketch comedy, Guo Donglin's start was not as easy as imagined!
Coming from a poor life, Guo Donglin, who plays a small person, has great ability!
Guo Donglin was born in an artistic family, his parents are both quyi workers, his father is Shandong Kuaishu performance artist Guo Changyi, and his mother is a Xuzhou qinshu actor. Since the age of five, Guo Donglin has been performing with his mother.
Guo Donglin is not a lucky child, he was faced with the dilemma of his family falling in the middle of the road shortly after birth, and his parents' income has reached the point of stretching, and even the most basic food and clothing cannot be satisfied.
At night, Guo Donglin was so hungry that his father had to steal something from the food factory the next day to feed his children, but in the end, he lost his job because he was caught stealing, and had to go to the streets to pull coal for a living.
In the most difficult time, when Guo Donglin and his father went out to pull coal and deliver goods together, the two could only eat a cake together, and sometimes they had to eat the leftover soup that their father asked for from others.
But even so, the god of luck did not favor them. Guo Donglin's father accidentally fell while carrying things, and his leg was also smashed, and he had to recuperate at home for a year.
In this way, the mother is left with a labor force in the family. At that time, the young Guo Donglin went out to perform with his singing mother, and he was ignorant and occasionally made trouble next to him, so his mother beat him up first, and then held the child to tell what happened today, so that he could learn to be sensible early.
The bleak experience made Guo Donglin realize the difficulties of the life of the people at the bottom early on, and these rich insights also became an important source of inspiration for him to create comedies later.
Not only that, but it is precisely because he has personally experienced the bits and pieces of ordinary people's lives that Guo Donglin will shine in the interpretation of the role of the little people in the future.
Later, Guo Donglin was successfully admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy, and after graduation, he applied for Beijing Renyi. Guo Donglin has always demanded himself with the artist's code of conduct, diligently and steadfastly researched performance, based on real life, and played every role full of life, down-to-earth, and into the hearts of every audience.
In 1993, Guo Donglin appeared on the stage of the Central Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and collaborated with Zhang Ci and Italy Fabio in the sketch "Market Sketch". It was also from then on that Guo Donglin began to slowly enter the public eye.
Later, he participated in "You Speak Something" in the 1995 Spring Festival Gala, creating a kind and cute image but also a braggart image, and his down-to-earth interpretation made the audience laugh and boosted his fame.
Immediately afterwards, there will be Guo Donglin in the Spring Festival Gala almost every year. From the "thin-skinned" and "big-stuffed" Goubuli buns in "Old Songs and New Songs" partnered with Feng Gong to "One Sentence of Things" to "One Sentence Can Make Things, One Sentence Can Be Bad"......
Guo Donglin has created a lot of vivid and humorous characters, and has also brought countless laughter and laughter to the audience, which is deeply loved by everyone.
epilogue
The funny and cute "national bald head" Guo Donglin started from scratch and stood in the center of the Chinese comedy sketch stage step by step.
Even after experiencing the turmoil of public opinion, he still did not forget his original intention and firmly brought happiness to everyone.
Information source: Published on April 5, 2023 in The Paper - "20 times on the Spring Festival Gala, 100 million was claimed for one sentence!" Where did this once-smash hit Spring Festival Gala nail household go? 》