In the past ten years, at the end of each Lunar New Year, CCTV Variety Channel will present the audience with a program called "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala", which aims to provide opportunities for folk grassroots artists and excellent groups to directly access the Spring Festival Gala, of course, this threshold is very high.
Some regrets are that almost none of the cross-talk actors have appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala through "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala", and most of them are like cannon fodder.
Among these "cannon fodder" cross-talk actors, Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng are undoubtedly representative figures.
Chen Yinquan, Hou Zhenpeng
In January 2015, Chen Yinquan cooperated with Hou Zhenpeng and Zhang Xiao to participate in "I Want to Go to the Spring Festival Gala" in the form of a sketch;
In January 2016, Chen Yinquan cooperated with Hou Zhenpeng and Chi Yongzhi to participate in "I Want to Go to the Spring Festival Gala" in the form of cross-talk, in which the performance imitating the Beijing bus conductor newspaper station is still fresh in people's minds;
In January 2017, Chen Yinquan once again cooperated with Hou Zhenpeng to participate in "I Want to Go to the Spring Festival Gala", in which Chen Yinquan anti-stringed the grandmother's exquisite portrait, so that the audience remembered his other side;
Since then, Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng have continuously participated in the "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala" from 2018 to 2020, and the two "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala" in 2021 have returned as scheduled, paying tribute to the laborers busy in the city through the cross-talk "The Most Beautiful Worker"...
Unfortunately, Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng's years of efforts did not receive an invitation letter from CCTV for the Spring Festival Gala, and they became victims of the cross-talk actors who participated in the "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala" program.
Of course, the efforts of Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng also made them gain a lot.
At the 2017 CCTV Lantern Party, Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng cooperated with Jin Fei, Chen Xi and Xu Tao to perform the skit "Mediation".
In the "First China Cross-Talk Sketch Competition" in 2018, Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng won the Best Cross-Talk Author Award for their works "Taolu Long Talk".
In fact, like Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng, many cross-talk actors are obsessed with "going to the Spring Festival Gala", after all, this is the most anticipated party for the national audience every year.
Hip hop baggage shop
Actors Liu Zhao and Sun Chao from the hip-hop baggage shop have participated in "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala" for many years, and folk cross-talk groups such as Da tease cross-talk have also sent players to participate for many years, but unfortunately they have "returned without success".
However, most of the cross-talk programs on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala were directly arranged by the director.
Yue Yunpeng
For example, in the spring evening of CCTV in 2020, Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue performed the cross-talk "Interesting Talk of Life", in fact, the two received the invitation of the Spring Festival Gala director group as early as the beginning of 2019, and began to prepare for the 2020 Spring Festival Gala, coupled with the fact that the number of cross-talk works in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is getting smaller and smaller, so it is almost impossible for other cross-talk actors to pass through the Spring Festival Gala stage through "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala".
Returning to the truth, Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng belong to a relatively high level among young cross-talk actors.
Chen Yinquan
Guo Degang once commented that Chen Yinquan would be "a scourge in China's cross-talk community" if given a platform, and obviously admired his ability.
Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng's cross-talk works have distinct characteristics, vivid language, life-like, and market atmosphere. Chen Yinquan's imitation ability is strong, from the old lady, the little daughter-in-law to the little girl can imitate the exquisite portrait, and he and Hou Zhenpeng can independently support the commercial performance.
Unfortunately, the two are in an embarrassing state of "not going up and down", especially compared with Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue of the Deyun Society, who have been favored by the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in recent years.
Guo Degang
Chen Yinquan and Hou Zhenpeng are currently affiliated with the Red Kettle Cross-Talk Society, and their comprehensive strength cannot be compared with the Deyun Society behind Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue. And the relationship between CCTV and Guo Degang and Deyun Society has eased a lot, and Guo Degang also participated in the recording of CCTV's "Gold Medal Comedy Class" as a gold medal mentor, saying that the two sides are in a "hot love period", and the lover's eyes are out of the west, and it is difficult for the "third party" to intervene in this period.
Guo Degang said it well, but the polarization of wind criticism and public opinion is too obvious, and those who like it are gods and those who don't like to step on it are ants, so the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is more inclined to choose actors among Lao Guo's apprentices.
Among Guo Degang's apprentices, Yue Yunpeng is the "loyal and filial piety" in the eyes of the audience, with a down-to-earth duty, born in the countryside, with a thick appearance, a grassroots temperament, and cross-talk is also good, so it is very suitable for the main theme of the Spring Festival Gala stage.
At present, the final review of the language program of the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala has been completed, but the cross-talk program has not appeared in the final review, and in view of the increasingly close relationship between Guo Degang and CCTV, Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue are very likely to "parachute" into the Spring Festival Gala scene again, and other groups and cross-talk actors may still not have the opportunity to appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Jiang Kun
Of course, whether it is the Deyun Society cross-talk actors or Chen Yinquan, Hou Zhenpeng and other group actors on the Spring Festival Gala, the audience is more looking forward to excellent works, because the Spring Festival Gala stage has not seen "Cosmic Brand Cigarettes", "Elevator Adventure", "Tiger Mouth Reverie" and other classic cross-talk works for many years.
Wen | Song Fat Zi