Since the birth of the Spring Festival Gala, language programs have become the most popular "hard dishes" among the people, especially the sketches.
At the most brilliant time of the sketch, Chen Peisi, Zhao Benshan, and Zhao Lirong were rated by the media as the "troika" that supported the Spring Festival Gala.
In 38 years, hundreds of sketches were born on the Spring Festival Gala stage, and it is really difficult to answer which is the most classic, "Protagonist and Supporting Role", "Selling Abduction", "Adventures in Part-time Work", "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" are all strong competitors. It is also difficult to judge who is the king of sketches, Chen Peisi, Zhao Benshan, Zhao Lirong and even Song Dandan are all good at winning, and no one can stabilize the other three.
However, to evaluate the most controversial, or the most failed Spring Festival Gala sketch, it is basically not controversial. There is no doubt that this title belongs to Huang Hong's performance of "Cheering" 22 years ago.
In 1999, Huang Hong and Period once again appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage with the sketch "Cheering", which was already the 9th time that Huang Hong landed on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Huang Hong is not a simple person, the popularity of the late 90s is second only to Zhao Benshan, and the classic degree of works such as "Super Life Guerrilla", "Shoe Stud", "Homecoming", "Playing Poker" and so on, does not lose most of Zhao Benshan's works. It can be said that if it were not for the lack of follow-up works, Huang Hong would have every opportunity to break his wrist with Zhao Benshan.
Unfortunately, Huang Hong personally ruined this hope, and the sketch "Pumping" showed this sign.
The content of "Pumping" should be familiar to everyone, telling the employees whose careers are not going well, the bicycle tires are out of gas, and when looking for someone to cheer, they complain and complain. Saying that he was unlucky, he was transferred from the Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature to the District Women's Federation, and then from the District Women's Federation to the Street Office, and everyone else went to a high place, and he was like water flowing to a low place.
Huang Hong, a fighter, said the opposite all the way, and the more the two people talked, the more they choked on the fire, and finally the end was angry, scolding Huang Hong for "standing and talking without waist pain."
At this time, Huang Hong finally couldn't help but reveal his identity and said the following classic line:
Obviously, this sketch reflects the problem of the wave of layoffs in state-owned enterprises that year. Keeping up with social hotspots, this is Huang Hong's consistent style, always maintaining positive publicity, which is also Huang Hong's consistent style.
This skit caused a sensation in that year and received rave reviews. In that era when print media was king, the sketch "Cheering" appeared on the front page of major major newspapers and was praised for a time.
To put it bluntly, if you hadn't run into "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", "Cheering" would probably have been the first prize work of the Spring Festival Gala language program that year.
Huang Hong's spirit of sacrificing the small self and taking care of the big self has touched countless people, and planted the seeds of "self-sacrifice" in the hearts of many post-80s. But it has also hurt a large number of people, especially the laid-off workers who lost their jobs and lost their lives in that restructuring.
At that time, these people had no channel to speak, and no matter how many grievances they had, they could only swallow in their stomachs and listen to Liu Huan's words to "start from the beginning again." After 20 years of developed networks, the people have a full voice, this old account should naturally be calculated.
First of all, there is no problem with the core idea of the sketch. In those difficult years, there were always people who had to make sacrifices, after all, they caught up with the two waves of state-owned enterprise restructuring + financial crisis, and the country was not well.
However, the expression of the sketch is very problematic. The mission of literary and artistic works to speak out for the times is not false, but we must pay attention to ways and methods. The problem with "Pumping" is that the preaching meaning is too strong, only doing binary cutting at the macro level, but seeing the suffering of tens of thousands of laid-off workers as nothing. They are people, not screws, and they can't be useless to unload and throw on the side of the road. At this time, the excessive emphasis on sacrifice and the emphasis on Wei Guangzheng is undoubtedly sprinkling salt on their wounds.
Again, with Huang Hong's supreme status at that time, playing this skit was also seriously unconvincing. Many people don't know that for a long time, Huang Hong was the best among the comedians. Head of the sketch comedy art troupe, enjoy the treatment of deputy military.
Performing this kind of sketch in this capacity is really "standing and talking without waist pain". Netizens expressed disgust with nature.
In recent years, Huang Hong has gradually fallen from the altar, and the sketch "Cheering" has also completely become infamous. In the final analysis, artistic creation should be rooted in the toiling masses, and should not blindly be a propaganda machine.