On "Thirteen Invitations", Xu Zhiyuan asked Ma Dong, and Ma Dong felt that his father should not like "Strange Story" because it was too disturbing. So follow this line of thought, what about "The Annual Comedy Contest"?
Written by | Blue Hole Business Zhao Weiwei
- What is the slowest in Beijing?
- The Beijing subway project is the slowest, and several large ditches there have not been buried so far.
……
What do you say is the shortest in Beijing?
- Shortest? I said that the bulb in Beijing has the shortest lifespan. (Laughter, applause)
- What's wrong?
- Hold one in less than three days.
- Maybe individually.
—— Later, I changed it to one that didn't hold back.
- That's not bad.
- The lamphole fell.
- What is the most in Beijing?
——Beijing has risen the most prices in the past two years.
- What is the most expensive in Beijing?
——Beijing tomatoes are the most expensive, a piece of five one basket.
- That's not expensive.
- A basket to pick out what you can eat.
This clip comes from Mr. Ma Ji's cross-talk "The Best of Beijing" created in the early 1980s. Because in the cross-talk, it satirized many backward status quos in Beijing society, such as crowded corridors, water and electricity cuts, etc., which hit the social mood at that time and caused extensive discussion.
That was the second peak of Ma Ji's creation, and if the previous peak was the praise type of crosstalk, then the peak of the early 80s was critical satire realism. One of the most widely known works is "Cosmic Brand Cigarettes", which satirizes the fake and shoddy products on the market at that time through advertising to fake the real.
Similar laughter appeared in Mi Wei's recently launched "Annual Comedy Competition", and "Internet Checkup" is also critical of satirical realism. This program was first broadcast in this variety show, and it is also the most widely disseminated.
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Satirical comedy is often a sharp critical weapon of the times and society, and "Internet Physical Examination" even satirizes the program broadcast platform iQiyi, which is the same as the spiritual core of "The Best of Beijing", which is the afterglow of realist criticism.
In the matter of doing comedy, Ma Dong can't get around Ma Ji, if Ma Dong's comedy variety show can be done, the first credit must be Ma Ji.
Shame on the Son of Man
Ma Ji is not willing to do this line of ma donggan cross-talk, eating this bowl of rice behind Lao Tzu, "there is no outlet", he does not want his son to repeat his mistakes, after all, there are many children in the family, and there are very few who are better than blue out of blue.
Ma Ji also said an offending sentence at the time: I like crosstalk too much, but I hate this team too much. "I can overcome some of the bad habits of the crosstalk world, but I'm afraid my son will go with the flow."
Even if Ma Ji was away from home for 8 months a year, how could Ma Dong not be influenced by growing up in such a family.
Just like Ma Ji's apprenticeship in Shanghai when he was a teenager, following the radio to learn Liu Baorui's cross-talk and Gao Yuanjun's Shandong Fast Book, Ma Dong was able to recite the entire allegro book "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Regiment" at the age of four and a half, which frightened Ma Ji, and when he asked, he knew that Ma Dong learned it with the radio.
Ma Dong of course likes cross-talk, and when he was a child, he secretly looked through the books created by Ma Ji and laughed in the room while reading them. Ma Ji looked over, it turned out that Ma Dong was watching Liu Baorui's "Four Books", and when he saw the wonderful place, he couldn't help but laugh, and after laughing, Ma Dong mastered it.
Ma Ji once created a cross-talk "Toponymy", after writing with great interest, he called Ma Dong, and the teenage Ma Dong listened to it with his mother, and Ma Dong said: Ideological is not strong. Ma Ji thought about it later, changed it a little cleverly, more interesting, and later performed at the National Youth Federation, which the audience liked very much.
"Ma Dong's words made my understanding of crosstalk more mature." Ma Ji recalls in his later years.
The audience is watching the bright stage, and the family knows the troubles of life behind the scenes. Ma Ji is an easy-going person, but When Ma Dong was seven or eight years old, he had seen his father's helplessness in revising his works, and at that time he knew a word called "shooting", "When you can talk about cruelty, but you don't let you talk about this degree, you know the uncomfortable feeling." ”
Ma Dong did not repeat his father's mistakes, at the age of 18, he went to Australia to work and study, and his family went bankrupt and exchanged 30,000 yuan for 10,000 Australian dollars, half tuition and half living expenses, on the eve of leaving, his father Ma Ji's message to his son was the hardships of his 13-year-old apprenticeship in Shanghai.
It was still 1947, Ma Ji went to Shanghai Hongde Weaving Factory to make pillowcases and tablecloths, the master slept on the table ironed during the day, Ma Ji could only lay a mat to sleep on the ground, get up in the morning to pour a toilet and a washbasin for the master, and serve the master to eat breakfast.
Father and son have suffered hardships, Ma Dong studied in Australia is also to experience the embarrassment of life, he not only has to overcome the language barrier to learn computers, but also to go to the leather goods factory to work before dawn, in the sour factory to wash the kangaroo testicular skin and knead it into a lady's money bag.
Therefore, many years later, when Xu Zhiyuan read about sydney's metropolitan style in "Thirteen Invitations", Ma Dong's response was, "This man thinks too much."
Even if he later got a green card, his daily salary was higher than his father's monthly salary, but Ma Dong still felt that this was a wandering country, he studied computers, and what he longed for was art.
The complexity after celebrities is that the 25-year-old Ma Dong will compare his father's 25-year-old with himself, when his father has written a cross-talk "Find Uncle" and is famous, and Ma Dong's self-evaluation at that time was: Nothing is worthy of being a son of man.
Not only compared with himself, but also by public opinion, for a long time, Ma Dong's performance after returning to China was attributed to Ma Ji's aura and wings. Whether it is doing "There is Something to Say" on Hunan Satellite TV, or competing for CCTV to host "Challenge the Host" and "Cultural Interview", Ma Dong's efforts to find an opportunity and position for a host are actually against his father's desire not to let him become a public figure.
That is the self-proof after the celebrity, just like although he did not do the cross-talk business, but a long time ago Feng Gong said to Ma Dong: You have to do this line sooner or later, Ma Dong felt, "Will he be unfortunate enough to say it?" Only God knows. ”
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Ma Dong is good at grasping the pulse of the times.
In 2013, iQIYI's backstage data showed that the mobile side surpassed the PC side for the first time, which is an iconic trend, and this year he joined iQIYI.
Still following the old path of culture rather than entertainment, his first variety show launched by iQiyi was called "Chinese Character Hero", which was first launched, and fell into an infringement storm, because this name was pioneered by Southern Weekend, the guest name was also called "Mr. Chinese Character", and the trademark registration time was also earlier than iQIYI.
However, "Southern Weekend" suffered a loss, at that time, it only took "Chinese character hero" as a link in the evening, and Ma Dong took a step ahead of others, directly invited Gao Xiaosong, Yu Dan, Zhang Yiwu and others to make a variety show of knowledge competition, and later did three seasons in a row. So even if there is controversy, it will not be resolved in the end.
"The Annual Comedy Contest" once again verifies Ma Dong's soft and flexible figure.
The second season of "Summer of the Band" has not been as well received as the first season, will it be better to run it for another year? Can't solve this problem, then retreat to the second, turn to the red sea of comedy to do micro-innovation. Therefore, "Annual Comedy Competition" has the shadow of many previous comedy programs, such as "Serious Gaga", "Paramount Tonight" and so on.
In the show, Ma Dong smiled happily, he did not pretend, he said that it was the first time he saw the real performance of the full program, this kind of "improvisation" is similar to the "hanging" in crosstalk, in fact, it continues his hosting style since the TV station.
"It's very sad to be a comedy expert, how uncomfortable it is to always look at the doorway", "As long as you can get the applause of the audience, what do you love to do", Ma Dong can always reduce himself to the posture of an ordinary audience, rather than output a clear-cut comment like Li Shi and Xu Zheng, he is the organizer, not the referee on the stage.
But in fact, doesn't he understand "mancai"? Don't know how to talk show? In the memoirs he helped his father sort out, it is clearly written that Ma Ji's observations on Man Cai and other art programs when he visited Japan that year, and Ma Ji had already expressed the view that xiangsheng should learn from american talk shows at the political association that year.
In addition to the program, it is not Mu Wei, the co-founder of Mi Wei, who came out for an interview, in fact, she is the one who convinces everyone to do this comedy show, even if she knows more behind the scenes, it is Ma Dong who is interviewed to expound the concept of Mi Wei's comedy, which is still conveying the value proposition of embracing young people and positive direction.
Nowadays, it is difficult for you to capture the other side of Ma Dong, who is good at expression, and Ma Dong, who is good at expression, will not easily express his preferences and tastes for many things. Once upon a time, he also debated with his father about the social role of crosstalk, and his father was negative, "you can only say what you have to say, and then the two people will clash."
The praiseworthy innovation is that the "Annual Comedy Competition" not only has to have a variety of different types of comedy, but also has the process of comedy birth, so each work is signed with the name of the screenwriter, and after the performance, Ma Dong will also let the screenwriter tell a creative process, which is to amplify the role of the screenwriter and respect the creation itself.
If you look back, the respect for creation itself in the "Annual Comedy Competition" is also the proper meaning of Ma Dong's comedy.
In his later years, Ma Ji reflected on the downturn of cross-talk, and he felt that the problem was still in the creation, the jokes were the "external flower arrangement" that the predecessors repeatedly opposed, the structure was not the structure, the baggage was not the baggage, and all the baggage was familiar.
"The correct creative path of cross-talk is 'deep into life', in the past we went to the countryside to squat, and it took 7 months to write a cross-talk book. What is it now? In the 'computer age', Xiucai does not go out, he knows the world. But what about feelings? Emotionally you are not connected to life, can you produce immortal works? ”
In 1963, Ma Ji followed the cultural team to the countryside of Wendeng County, Shandong Province, where he ate, lived and worked with the peasants, harvested a lot for several months, and went to Zhongnanhai to perform for Chairman Mao after returning to Beijing. Ma Ji performed three paragraphs of "Portrait", "Dancing God" and "Black Spot Disease", and the chairman smiled and shook Ma Ji's hand and said: "It is better to go down!" ”
In his later years, Ma Ji reflected on the influence of the medium on comedy, and his later works such as "Five Senses Struggle" were written in various places to experience life, and he was also willing to perform face-to-face with the audience, "Crosstalk is picked up by the people, and you have to go back to the place where the people want you to go." ”
This is the same as after the "Talk Show Conference", the media praised and denigrated Zhou Qimo and Xiaoguo culture, which is the same. In his last interview before his death, Ma Ji felt that he was no longer adapted to the TV stage such as CCTV, "Leaving face to face, the vitality is poor." ”
When talking about the road to the revival of cross-talk, Ma Ji said with emotion: We want to inherit the legacy of our ancestors, which is absolutely true, this is the truth. He remembered that before Hou Baolin died, he took his hand from the hospital bed and said: Ma Ji, improvisation is the main skill of crosstalk, don't lose it.
The only thing that is certain is that Ma Ji likes "harmonic terriers", and his stage name actually comes from the Hungarian film "The Goose Herding Boy Ma Ji", but he says that he is also a "master of Marxism".
Some references:
Matt: Unfinished Lessons, Southern People Weekly
"Only the masses, no culture", Wang Xiaofeng
"A Lifetime of Waiting", Ma Ji
"My Father Ma Ji", Ma Dong