<h2>A man who can't get it</h2>
"Thanks to the laughing fruit culture."
This is Zhou Qimo's winning speech at the award ceremony, and Li Shi bowed twice in a row on the side, saying that Boss Zhou "<b>deserves it</b>, <b>our honor</b>". Behind Zhou Qimo, there stood a group of laughing fruit signed artists and his only single colleague Xu Zhisheng in the final.
At this moment, Xiaoguo almost became the background board of "Boss Zhou".
The rumor that Zhou Qimo will join Xiaoguo has been continuous, and the interaction between the two can be called close.
This year, Zhou Qimo's personal special "Long Live Not Understanding" toured the country, and the organizer behind it was "Laughing Fruit Culture". In Shanghai, Suzhou, Changsha and other places, Zhou Qimo took the lead in standing on the thousand-person grand theater, which is the largest special tour of mainland talk show actors to date.
In the big IP "Talk Show Conference", Zhou Qimo also received a rare "insider" treatment.
In the past three talk show conventions, the championships have been picked by people with laughing fruit culture. Since Xiaoguo is both the organizer and the agent of the contestants, it can directly profit from the competition results of its artists. And the championship attribution is the peak of the business interests of the network, so there has been no shortage of "conspiracy theories" that laugh at the fruit of "supporting their own people".
However, in the recording of this program, as the pillar of the laughing fruit special, Zhou Qimo got a green light from the program group. Before the finals, Li Shi also personally came forward to help Zhou Qimo break the siege and escorted The Boss Zhou, who appeared as a "big axis". Zhou Qimo also repeatedly thanked Pang Bo, Cheng Lu and others in the program for helping to change the paragraph.
There are rumors that pulling Zhou Qimo into the laughing fruit has become the company's invisible KPI. In Zhou Qimo's last comment, Li Shi directly made a joke, "(Zhou) admitted that we were in the same group with him."
Prior to this, Shan Liren joined the well-known actors of Laughing Fruit to pull out a long list, such as Yang Kasa, Yang Meng'en, ROCK, Tong Monan, etc. were once the resident actors of Shan Liren. But Boss Zhou may be an exception to this list.
However, compared with the above actors, Zhou Qimo is not only an actor of the "top pillar" level of the single person, but also a shareholder of the single person. According to the enterprise investigation data, Zhou Qimo and the head of the church, Liu Yang, hold the shares of zhongliren win-win culture and media center in the proportion of 40% and 12% respectively, while the latter owns 15.75% of the shares of the single person.
If the single person is valued at 200 million yuan, the equity in Zhou Qimo's hands is worth about 12.6 million. So far, on the official website of Shan Liren, Zhou Qimo is still the "third person of Shan Liren" after the two co-founders. Zhou Qimo's Weibo introduction also impressively wrote ""Talk Show Conference" Cass Single-person Comedy Signed Actor".
Xiao Guo wanted to poach Zhou Qimo, which was much more difficult than it was when he poached Yang Kasa. But this did not prevent Zhou Qimo from staying, and it still became the focus of attention of the entire talk show community.
On the podcast program "Harmonic Star Chat", Zhou Qimo was asked what is the difference between Shan Li and Ye Shang (Note: Shan Li Ren internally jokingly calls Xiao Guo 'Ye Shang' to respond to the name of the outside world's 'friend businessman')" after switching from a full-time Shan Liren to a part-time cooperation with Xiao Guo.
Zhou Qimo took the microphone and spat out a golden sentence in the form of a talk show:
<b>"Wildflowers are not as good as domestic flowers, and domestic flowers do not have wildflower fragrance." </b>
As for why wildflowers are so fragrant, "just push a few trade orders for you."
Obviously, if there is no laughing fruit, it is difficult to launch a national phenomenon-level IP just by relying on the strength of Zhou Qimo and the single person behind him. Even if a single person has a good offline stage, Xiao Guo is the one who masters the traffic and wealth code.
This may have something to do with the genes of both teams. The actors behind Shan Liren have strong offline performance skills, but they are not very suitable for online style. Even today, when Zhou Qimo won the championship, Boss Zhou is still the old actor with the smallest number of Weibo fans in the top seven of this conference.
As of press time, Zhou Qimo's Weibo followers still have only 247,000 followers. In contrast, Yang Kasa has 2.211 million fans, Pang Bo has 2.537 million, and the "leader" Li Shi has 8.966 million votes. Even Xu Zhisheng, who has just "debuted" this year, has reached 243,000 Weibo fans.
The top brands of the two labels are also the top brands, Pang Bo's fan base is 10 times that of Zhou Qimo, and Li Shi is 36 times that of Zhou Qimo. The difference in influence between labels is evident.
<b>"You see you don't have anything on hand. You don't have the resources, you don't have anything to take the initiative, you just have to be ready at all times, you wait to be arranged. Zhou</b> Qimo said in the "Harmonic Star Chat Meeting", and next to him, only one person, sat the founder of Shan Liren, Shi Boss.
The smiling stone boss did not answer the phone. There is also a little "plateau red" on his face.
However, the metaphor of "home flower" and "wild flower", although a little awkward for Shan Liren, has fully illustrated Zhou Qimo's attitude towards two different labels:
Shan Liren is Zhou Qimo's home, and Xiaoguo is more like an exchange of benefits.
If there is no laughing fruit culture, Zhou Qimo will not win two consecutive "peaks" this year; but if there is no long-term cultivation of Shan Liren, Zhou Qimo may not be Zhou Qimo.
<h2>Xiao Guo is missing more than one Zhou Qimo</h2>
If Zhou Qimo needs to laugh fruit, it is out of the instinctive pursuit of influence by entertainers. Why is the laughing fruit of the "brilliant stars" obsessed with Zhou Qimo?
<b>Xiaoguo lacks the "top stream" of an offline scene. </b>From the perspective of the broader market, the "top stream" of the offline special scene of Xiaoguo in recent years is in a state of attrition.
The most famous is 2020 Chi Zi and Cam, who left the stage of Laughing Fruit for reasons that are well known. Both men's stage styles were once extremely aggressive, with frequent explosions in offline performances.
In addition to the "passive" attrition, some of the top stars of the laughing fruit are gradually drifting away from stand-up comedy, focusing more on the screenwriting function rather than stage presentation.
<b>Big names such as Li Tian, last year has not been much about their own talk show. </b>
In an exclusive interview with "People", Li Shi attributed his return to the backstage to the relationship between "knife" and "sheath". Li Said, "The best sheath is good enough, there is no need to set a knife", "If you are a better sheath, everyone will have respect for you when they see the shell.".
It's not just Li Shi. Cheng Lu's focus of work has changed from a stand-up comedy artist to the chief screenwriter of Xiaoguo; Pang Bo has become the host and screenwriter of "Ring And Ring"; In addition to being a part-time screenwriter, Hu Lan has also connected three variety shows in 2020, which has been "rumored" to be a sky-high appearance fee.
Yang Kasa was busy receiving various commercial advertisements and photo albums. In the program, Yang Kasa revealed that in the past year, because of concerns about safety, all offline performances did not exceed 10 times.
Talk show is an art form that creates a lot, a lot of elimination, and a lot of polishing. If an artist does not open up the mai performance, it will not only lose the perception of the stage, but also difficult to accumulate a sufficient scale of the reserves. Reflected in the stage performance, it is "only the sheath of the knife, no knife".
There's no problem playing on the spot and telling a few good strips, but fighting for 60 minutes like a stand-up comedian has become a scarce quality. Reflected offline, it is more and more difficult for the "top streamers" to come out of the special session.
Hu Lan's last special show was before the first season of "Spit Conference"; Li Tian's most recent special show was "Li Shi and His Friends" in 2019; Cheng Lu's last special show was also a husband and wife file with Si Wen in 2019; Pang Bo only launched his first personal special "Three Little Things" in 2020. In addition, after the end of the third season of "Talk Show Conference", Xiaoguo launched a series of "Laughing Fields".
Some of these scenes, although they are named "special games", are often suspected of "fighting".
There is not enough reserves, and the paragraphs that are reflected in the game that are close to reality become scarce. And there are more and more "internal terriers", "harmonic terriers", and "saliva words".
In the game, Li Yan vividly called the above "lazy" way "dirty things".
The more later, these internal stems, which Li called "dirty things", became more and more extensive, and the elements belonging to stand-up comedy itself naturally became less and less. For example, when Pombo performed in the penultimate (final) stage, there was even an extreme situation in which the whole section was from beginning to end, all using internal events in the industry.
Storm, the director of comedy syndicates, has sharply criticized similar artistic attitudes in his solo podcast. In Storm's view, to be away from the stage is to stay in the comfort zone, which is essentially an act of "betrayal" stand-up comedy.
Compared with Pang Bo and Yang Kasa, Zhou Qimo has maintained a relatively high content output ability throughout the game.
Zhou Qimo is probably one of the few players in the whole field, and he completely avoided the "Xu Zhisheng appearance" players throughout the whole process. Even in the later period, when the inventory was not much, Zhou Qimo still made a careful re-creation around the internal stem. <b>Rather than saying that Zhou Qimo is the "ceiling" of the industry, it is better to say that he is a stand-up comedian who is close to "model". </b>Long-term accumulation allows him to do what an actor should do in a down-to-earth manner - with mature performance skills and stage control ability, sufficient rich reserves of paragraphs, and dexterous and timely creative ability.
<b>Those who have Zhou Qimo's creative ability do not have his acting skills; those who have rich performance skills do not have his console aura; and all the people here do not have his reserves of passages. And that's all a mature offline performer can do. </b>
Li Once commented on Zhou Qimo, saying that Zhou was a "person who is not so enthusiastic about variety shows." "His greatest passion is still in the theater."
Zhou Qimo wanted to talk about clean talk shows.
It is said that Zhou Qimo's idol is Jerry Seinfeld, an extremely clean and observational talk show master, and his special scenes are difficult to find even a foul mouth.
Zhou Qimo will avoid those passages that may make some viewers uncomfortable. When a female audience member tells him that certain details will make her feel too offensive, he will generously discard them. Of course, he wouldn't point to the noses of a group of people and scold the garbage, nor would he open his clothes in public to reveal his stomach and slap it.
This may make his passages lack challenge and impact, and many people will dislike Zhou Qimo's "dullness".
On the network platform, the short and fast style, exaggerated performance, and book bag-like golden sentences will make some passages more suitable for dissemination on the Internet. Although the content may seem a bit abrupt, rather than a whole, or even like stand-up comedy. But on the contrary, it is also difficult to imagine that Zhou Qimo will take drugs, prostitute himself, indulge in commercial endorsements and online synthesis. He is an actor with a high emotional intelligence, which are "family flowers" and which are "wild flowers", and he thinks very clearly about his future path.
<h2>Laughing fruit of confusion</h2>
"It's our responsibility as comedians to find the bottom line of language and get past it."
—George Carlin
In fact, the original meaning of talk show is talk-show, which refers more to TV talk shows. The content presented in "Talk Show Conference" is more commonly recognized as stand-up comedy, that is, stand-up comedy.
<b>Stand-up comedian Song Wanbo believes that Stand-up Comedian can correspond to Stand-up Fighter in English:</b>
"In the world of boxing, there's a term for those who can stand tall enough in the face of their opponent's swift fists. So by extension, if a comedian stands on stage, facing the audience's ridicule, ridicule, coaxing, answering, cold field, can still stand, called Stand-up Comedian. In that sense, every one of us comedians is a warrior. ”
Stand-up comedy was considered a "challenging" art when it was founded.
Song Wanbo further quoted stand-up comedian George Carlin as saying, "<b>Our responsibility as comedians is to find the bottom line of language and cross the past." </b>”
If you look back at the several outbreaks of laughing fruit culture, it is actually originally an offense to mainstream values.
For example, at that time, Li Shi exported the discourse system of "funeral culture", "nativity Buddhism", "lying flat", and "the world is not worth it", which to some extent became a weapon for young people to resist pressure at that time. Therefore, in that context, the more "Buddhist" discourse, placed in the society at that time, had a "rock" color.
In the same way, Yang Kasa used highly offensive language to shock the traditional male-dominated public opinion system. She also provides new words as a weapon for many women facing gender difficulties.
<b>It is these controversial contents that shape The Fruit of Laughter into a source of social transcendent topics. </b>
However, the experience that Xiaoguo summed up from it is not to remain critical, but to pursue "human design" more and more in the program.
For example, Yang Kasa was challenging male power last season, but this season has basically become an extension of the previous season. This means that Yang Kasa is actually pandering to her audience, taking the initiative to say what her audience likes, even if it is only some non-painful gender topic such as "who is the child". There may not be anything wrong with this, but it can be a bit of a pity.
These controversial contents, which originally belong to long-term hot topics in society, are promoted by the fast pace of variety talk shows, but they have not been able to tap the value brought by the topic for a long time. Originally a radical critic, Yang Kasa only a year later, on the stage of stand-up comedy, her content went to rapid decay.
Since then, there has been no such phenomenon-level bridge section as "Pu But Faith".
How to find a balance between the rapidly decaying traffic and the tempting money may be something that The Laughing Fruit needs to think about. In the end, Xiaoguo needs to be clear about whether he is a network company or a stand-up comedy company. Top stars also need to be clear about whether they are a traffic artist or a stand-up comedian.
Perhaps another example is huang xi saying in an interview with the media, "The outbreak of Chinese talk shows is too fast." The eight-year and ten-year tempering period abroad is likely to be eight months in China. "Perhaps the adolescent talk show industry itself needs more time to precipitate."
Remembering Yang Kasa turning his head on the field and asking Yang Meng'en, do you think the talk show needs to be funny or expressive?
Yang Meng'en said, I think talk shows are enough, leave it alone.
Resources:
"Telling a History of Stand-Up Comedy", Stand-up Comedy Song Wanbo (Bilibili)
"Zhou Qimo is a champion", look at the ideal
"Sour Grape Actor Review [Talk Show Conference 4]", Cut to take care of him
"Li Tian Tu Kuo", a character
"Lame Year after Year, Harmonic Chat Came to 2021", Harmonic Star Chat
"Huang Xi: Poor, rich, good, bad, I'm the life of a talk show", a character