What's more scary about watching comedy than not being funny? There is an answer in the barrage of the Annual Comedy Contest. Whenever a show has signs of emotional turning, everyone will appeal - please, don't sensationalize!
For me, like "joy and sorrow", the old tricks that I really get tired of are: abusing Internet language, abusing dialects, infinitely amplifying stereotypes to create jokes, etc., so that every time I open a new comedy show, I feel uneasy in my heart, afraid that I will not be laughed at, but will be embarrassed.
Last week, I was attracted by "Internet Physical Examination" to see the new variety show "Annual Comedy Competition", chased two episodes and watched more than a dozen programs, and finally can rest assured: there is no hard value here, only funny.
Just like Ma Dong introduced at the beginning, he said that this is a competition for new comedians, and my feeling is the same after watching it, and finally I see a rare novelty in comedy.
It was first new in several participating programs where the topic was very current. Everyone should have brushed the "Internet Physical Examination" on social networks, using the shell of the physical examination, satirizing the outrageous advertising and charging behavior of major APPS, from the game pop-up window that cannot be turned off to the paid acceleration package, advanced on-demand, downloading the application to see the full version and so on.
Li Tian said that this paragraph is a cool drama in the comedy, which means that their baggage is expected, but because the design is very dense, every two or three sentences will change a stem, each frame is the blood and tears experience of the majority of netizens, and even in iQiyi's program, it also mocked iQiyi himself, everyone is so resonant that they can continue to watch, until the satire of the live broadcast room when acting, I finally laughed out loud without controversy.
In the latest episode of tonight's update, there is a program "Platform", which is based on Zhu Ziqing's essay "Back Shadow", which uses the popular ethical meme of taking advantage on the Internet: "You stand here and don't move, I will buy you oranges", saying this sentence to others is equivalent to saying that I am your father.
It is actually about the subtle embarrassment of parents and children who are ashamed to express their feelings to each other, turning this inner drama into a hug at the time of parting, exhausting all kinds of exaggerated body movements, showing that both people have that heart, but it is always yin and yang that they can't hug, this small insight will be very poking once it is accurate, Yu Hewei even cried.
There is also "Three Hairs Defense War" about hair loss, the three actors each play a hair, look around at the master's head is left with these three hairs, just when the three people discuss how to support each other, a strong wind came over, and another comrade-in-arms died.
They solemnly performed the passage as a drama, and the tears in their eyes were at the climax, and the most amusing sentence "It is not easy to be hairy" was said in a recitation, and the sense of belief was extremely strong, and the more serious the audience looked at it, the more funny it was.
The comedic character image in this variety show is also new, at least in the first two issues, I did not see the pretentious twisted and stubborn wife Guan Yan little man and the silly big sister who was screaming. Especially female characters, Yu Qian said that it is very difficult for women to do comedy, because there are too many things that cannot be done, ethical terriers are inconvenient to say, can not be beautiful, and can not be smart or strong, have to take their own appearance, age from ridicule, or pretend to be stupid and stupid.
There is a blind date story called "Girlfriend" that completely breaks these conventions, the heroine is quiet, and some angles look slightly like Wu Junmei.
Her personality is social fear + flattering personality, so when she went on a blind date, she brought a doll as her girlfriend, said those spit and rejected words for her, opened herself in this way, and found a true friend. This show also put the "borrow the mouth of the doll to tell the truth" setting out of a new one, for everyone's viewing experience I will not spoil, recommended to see the film.
It is not a little sensational from beginning to end, the male protagonist a pair of bean eyes and Xu Zhisheng, belong to the idol faction of comedians, they are still throwing stems until the last second, but they see everyone crying and laughing.
Jin Jing said that this is a romantic work, and she sighed after reading it, no matter how strange you are, there will always be someone who loves you.
Another full-vote through the direct promotion of the show "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", is a life flow comedy, the situation is particularly simple, that is, the girl fell out of love after going to ride a carpool, in front of the driver there is a small willfulness when the emotional collapse, but also to try to control, hold the dignity of adults, so as to trigger the laughter, and finally talk about the mutual understanding and companionship between urban strangers.
Both shows sparked live discussions, with Ma Dong saying the function of comedy is to let you see yourself in the work and then be healed.
The heroine of "Girlfriend" is the screenwriter herself, and the starting point of this work is what she proposed. It can be seen that women doing comedy is not only not a disadvantage, but also has a major advantage, they can contribute a lot of delicate perspectives that make people feel.
I used to have an inherent impression of comedy, thinking that if the paragraphs are not related to reality, just pure amusement, they will not really be funny. But in this variety show, what makes me laugh incessantly is two shows that do not have a clear theme.
One is the comic talent drama "Strange Pro Seat on the Bus", about the bus, an inexplicable person came over and said that I am your brother, he does not have four or six fingers of deer as a horse, the other person desperately wants to clear up, obviously the evidence listed by the other party is very ridiculous, but he is more and more in the other party's routine.
The other is "This Killer Is Not Cold" that is sealed as the ceiling by the opponents, telling that a killer wants to kill a musician, the musician encounters the guitar in his hand in a hurry, and accidentally finds that the killer once sang in the underground passage, the music is his switch, as long as he plucks the strings, the killer can't help but sing and dance, the brain wants to kill, but the body is very honest.
The beauty of these two shows is difficult to describe clearly in words, and they both remind me of many of Zhang Wei's improvisational stems, which have a kind of bizarre amusement.
These new insights, new characters, new structures, all come from the new actors and new screenwriters behind them. The new here does not refer to the length of years they have been engaged in this industry, but their public recognition is generally not high, even if some people are actresses who have performed many times in Happy Twist, some people are pillars of Lai Shengchuan's theater, some people have been on the Spring Festival Gala, and more than once, the audience still can't call their names. Many people laugh at themselves as waist actors, even ankle actors, and some people come to the show with the mentality of giving themselves one last chance.
Shi Ce, the heroine of "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", played a volleyball team member in "Hello, Li Huanying". This work is so big, but it doesn't bring her much bonus.
Another of her well-known works is "The Unknown Generation", and the program team took out each shot of her appearance and counted it individually, a total of only three. She laughed to herself that every time her family went to her movies, they came back and told her they couldn't find anyone.
Her partner is even more miserable, and the peak of her career so far is to play a passerby in a comedy variety show.
The two actors of "This Killer Is Not Cold" are temporary teams, and one of the introducers introduces his partner, saying that he is the second male number in the famous thunder film "Dream Showbiz".
I thought it was miserable enough, who knew that the person in question also received a clarification: not even the male number two.
The two of them rehearsed for two months for the 7-minute show, grinded five or six times on the offline stage, and at first the results were counted down, and then the effect was better than the next, until they went on the show.
I also saw Tang Malu and Xiao Ai often appearing in the papi sauce video in the panorama of the contestants who swept by. And the above people at least we have heard the name of the works, has been well developed, more people are constantly changing between small theaters, small bars, Wang Zi, who plays mime, spent ten years to study this form.
This is where comedy is particularly cruel, Huang Bo said that comedy is a physiological reaction, and the subtext is that laughter cannot be pretended. Those precise pokes to the premise of acupuncture points, the subtle rhythm of performance, the difference is thousands of miles, it takes a lot of time to repeatedly polish, to face the audience again and again, when it has not yet formed a personal style, it is bound to be very famous and low in income.
But when you have practiced a skill to master, practiced a big killing move, and faced with a new problem is that the more explosive this stem is, the more it cannot be reused, and the audience's expectations have been raised since then, and every time you go on the stage, you have to return to zero. Ma Dong and Xu Zheng have explained to the players who have directly advanced several times: they will come up with new ideas in the next round.
However, the great thing about this variety show is that it took several months to do a creative workshop before the opening of the recording, allowing the contestants to collide and polish, and someone changed seven books to finally find the most suitable for themselves. It can be seen that they don't just want to harvest the audience's attention to comedy, but as Ma Dong said, they want more actors with waists to be seen, which can make the environment of this industry better. So they not only shoot actors, but also give each work of the screenwriting shots, six beasts from The Lone Man contributed three scripts, ranking second, fifth, and seventh respectively, respectively, Xu Zheng directly went on stage to send him an offer and invited him to be a film screenwriter.
Only the entire comedy ecology can get better, the actors even have food at the waist, and the fame has room to return to creation, which is the best result.
Jin Jing said in an interview that after she finished acting in the famous work "Airport Trainer", she was put on the shelf for a long time and did not dare to do the next work. Because "Airport" was created in 20 minutes, this inspiration actually made her fall into a kind of fear, afraid that if she did not succeed next time, she would have to face the reality that she was not a genius at all, and become an accident in the industry.
In the preview of the next episode of the latest episode of the show, she and Liu Shengying were directly eliminated. And this time, she did not show those entanglements and burdens, but smiled and believed that all the contestants would not really care whether they were promoted or eliminated, and no matter what the result was, they would keep their heads held high to do it, because in the process it was enough to be really happy.
It seems that comedy not only makes the audience happy, but ultimately heals the actors themselves. Maybe this is the reason why these "waist actors" can insist on doing comedy for several years and more than ten years, and laughter itself is the greatest vitality.