Cover news reporter Liu Fu Shichen
Huang Zihua announced that he was going to harvest the wheat. He called "Golden Pot Mouth", which will be staged in July this year, his last "Dong Du Laugh" (talk show) performance.
He also said that all seventeen performances would only be performed at the Hung Hom Sports Centre in Hong Kong.
The "Dong Du Laugh" comedian, who has stood in the Cantonese-speaking region for twenty-eight years, made the decision not to "go north" to try stand-up comedy performances at the age of nearly sixty, although he once said it was "something definitely going to try once" and "a must-go trip". Even if he just did one and couldn't do it again, he didn't care.
That same month, a story about Chinese stand-up comedy was published in the Financial Times, beginning with a photograph of a pool. Like Li Shi, Chi Zi is a resident guest of the domestic talk show "Spit Conference".
Talk shows come from the Western "talk show", which means a tv program type in English, or more precisely, a casual talk show. For translational reasons, in mainland China, stand-up comedy is often classified as stand-up comedy, which is an art form similar to the "Dong Du Laugh" pioneered by Huang Zihua. This can be seen as a symbol: in the two years when the founder of "Dong Du Laugh" gradually withdrew from the jianghu, the mainland talk show embraced the larger market.
"Suicidal behavior"
As early as 2003, Huang Zihua had seriously thought about ending his Dong Du laughing career with "No Carbon", and even planned to change his name to "Golden Plate Mouth", which was an end and then let life be reborn. But in the end, he found that he was reluctant to force the second half of his heart addiction not to attack.
Wong introduced "stand-up comedy" to Hong Kong in 1990. In the IlashabeTh Stadium, which can only accommodate more than 300 people in the Hong Kong Cultural Center, Huang Zihua opened the first "Dong Du Laugh" in his life , "The History of Flesh and Blood in the Entertainment Industry". The script took him nine months, and he single-handedly monologues about this autobiographical poignant history in self-deprecating form for nearly two hours.
Before this, Hong Kong was not without the same type of stand-up comedy performances, and Hui Guanwen, one of the founders of Hong Kong-style comedy, would occasionally make cameo appearances in public performances for more than ten or twenty minutes, but it was the first time that a person like Huang Zihua kept talking for ninety minutes. Xu Guanwen calls this form of performance "suicidal behavior."
Indeed, a person on the stage to tell jokes for nearly two hours is extremely testing people's logical ability, language organization ability and psychological quality, first of all, long-term content creation is very laborious, "Dong Du Xiao" manuscript has hundreds of pages, are Huang Zihua alone to create. Second, joke tellers care most about the audience's reaction, and laughter is the atmosphere that is the hardest to hide but also the hardest to disguise. Laughing all the way, there was no cold field, Huang Zihua did it.
Since then, from 1990 to 2014, he has done a total of 14 Dong Du laughs alone, and there are three Dong Du laughs cooperated with Zhang Daming and Wu Zhenyu, each of which is about two hours long, all of which are full and added.
In each session, Huang Zihua has a distinct theme, and in each large field, there are many topics, subdivided into several small sections, and the connection between the topics is carefully designed, and the layers are promoted, driving people to think about the entire theme.
In the two hours, Huang Zihua talked about the entertainment industry, politics, society, and emotions, and the more "heavy" things were, the more "light" he said. More importantly, it is definitely not like some comedies with vulgar and vulgar content, desperately trying to make you laugh, so that you only feel embarrassed when you laugh later. Listening to Huang Zihua's Dong Du laugh, many people's feelings are: Obviously want to laugh and why they cry.
Happy or unhappy
This is probably because Under Huang Zihua's seemingly absurd exaggeration, cynicism, and hippie smile, there is always an essential introversion and sensitivity. The character he portrays is like each of us ordinary people, grinning, but quite sensitive, afraid to die, taking care of him left and right, using "nothing" to cover up his frustration and loneliness, and the sad background.
Thanks to various interviews, everyone has already dug up Huang Zihua's life: he grew up in a divorced family and returned to Hong Kong to perform after obtaining a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Alberta in Canada. He has an incalculable passion for acting, so he tried everything he could to act. Unfortunately, because of the bumpy road of "not beautiful enough" acting, from the screenwriter to the small actor to re-act in the drama and even the radio DJ, no one has ever appreciated it, which makes him discouraged.
In order to repay the wish, Huang Zihua on the eve of his 30th birthday, at his own expense, spent tens of thousands of dollars to open a Stand-up Comedy, telling his own years in the entertainment industry downturn, the dragon set experience of seeing people's faces, and a hippie smile: Funny and tragic:
"Manager, actually I think, it's the lights, I'm not ugly, it's the lights... Manager, no, it's me fat, I lost weight and was handsome! Manager, you look at me carefully, in fact, I am very well read ah... Manager, if you ask me to come in, you say that I can't act, because I talk dirty, I get tattooed, because I read less, I admit my fate, I have to be responsible, but because I am not handsome enough, you can't blame me, it's not my business, you should go to my parents. OK, if anyone is not handsome in the future, his parents are not allowed to act! ”
The result was a name for itself. The people watching in the audience laughed and said, no one knew that he still cared about his appearance.
This almost sets the tone for Huang Zihuadong's laughter — he always uses himself to emphasize the repeated struggles of individuals in society. If in the expression of Dong Du laugh, the easiest way to get a laugh is to joke with a person, then Huang Zihua is the most mean and sarcastic on the stage is himself. He is reluctant to ridicule others by name, and can only constantly reveal his scars to please the audience.
And he grinned and said these sentences that seemed to be "shaking and clever", and there was not a single sentence that did not come out with feeling. In an interview with "Zhiyun Rice Bureau", Huang Zihua was restrained and spoke slowly, and Chen Zhiyun thought carefully about every time he threw out a question before answering, completely without the meanness, laughter and flexibility of Dong Du laughing on the stage. And as soon as I mention the past, my eyes are wet.
No one knows how many tempered ups and downs he has experienced in his heart to achieve the transparency and openness of "the world is drunk and I am awake". Everyone can only spy a little bit in Huang Biyun's famous "A Cruel Comedian":
"When I went to see "Huang Zihua Dong Du Laugh", it was like watching the fighting beast——— thrilling cruelty, and it was rare that everyone laughed. The memories of Huang Zihua are often cruel. ”
She described him as "a trepidation, a fear not to last forever." Always speaking of Nietzsche, occasionally of existentialism. "At that time, he was not red, he was not handsome, and every day he was doing the boring work of printing and copying materials in the huge office, doing it, and he couldn't help but cry."
In 1996, Huang Zihua wrote a preface to Zhang Daming's book "Changing Socks and Mourning", and he mentioned this article written by Huang Biyun to him, calling it the best preface he had ever read. In 2015, in an interview with New Weekly, he explained, "That's because Huang Biyun looks at everything cruelly, she is a cruel writer, she sees it as cruel, it is absurd to me." ”
His focus became absurd: "The world, I don't go to infer whether it's cruel or happy, but at the same time, it's all absurd." When one day I no longer feel that the world is ridiculous, I will not do it again. ”
Perhaps this pompous comedian who "wears the most flashy shirt and dresses very emotionally" has changed from exchanging unhappiness for happiness to now, and he will be amused by himself.
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