More weekend fun since last week: "The Annual Comedy Contest." Simply put, it is to give yourself the experience of smiling once a week until your face hurts.
I believe that even if you didn't watch the show, last weekend you saw the "Internet Physical Examination" that was forwarded to 180,000 times.
And on this Saturday morning, have you been swept away by the "drama spirit navigation"?
These works are from the Annual Comedy Contest.
Before the show started, many viewers expected it, because it was not produced by Mi, and because comedy and Ma Dong had a lot of roots. Before "Strange Story" did the debate, "Summer of the Band" did the band, and the team could develop a new theme every time;
The "Organizing Committee" lineup configuration is good: Huang Bo Xu Zheng is a comedy film master, Yu Hewei understands acting, and Li Tian understands duanzi. The only regret is that there are no women resident. A small suggestion: After the show invites more female comedians to comment, can it be good? - But fortunately, after the two episodes of the show, the female comedians are also very eye-catching.
There have been hits for two consecutive weekends, and the first thing that "The Annual Comedy Contest" gives people is that many of the laughs in the works are particularly close to life. It is not blindly chasing hot spots or repeating the popular spit on the Internet, but grasping the small details of our daily lives to make a comedy.
The "Internet Physical Examination", which started the first shot, is actually not complicated, from the beginning we know that we must be the Internet's tired routines, used in the physical examination routines.
But this is the high level, the idea of this work is simple, the execution is super perfect, and each bridge section is full of color.
They are serious about performing the opening ads and pop-up ads, and usually the more you crash into the brainwashing ads, the more crazy you laugh when you see the ads restored by their excellent acting skills.
Leaking privacy everywhere, advertising everywhere, letting the next app go... Even "advanced on demand". What is particularly coincidental is that the last episode of the program was broadcast just in time for the "advanced on-demand" to be turned off, which shows that the creator's insight into life is even ahead of the network hotspots.
Huang Bo himself recorded the festival on the same day, and he still encountered similar Internet routines.
What is more rare than reality is that it is even more surreal.
In this work, the Routine of the Internet is transplanted into the physical examination, the blood is drawn without money to buy the acceleration package, the physical examination doctor personally broadcasts the goods, and the absurdity of the work is the absurdity of life.
Every hit show in The Annual Comedy Contest is both realistic and surreal.
Last week, another popular "Three Hairs Defense War" I also liked very much, the actor played the bald man's head only three hairs, just listening to this idea is funny and sad. The look of three hairs fighting bravely and heroically sacrificing, pierced the heart of whom!
Oh first of all, Xu Zheng's.
This week's "Drama Fine Navigation" is based on the embarrassment of not being able to find the road when driving in reality, and the navigation is not accurate, but it makes the navigation have a personality.
"Good Girlfriend" focuses on the social phobia of young people, so that they all use dolls to tell the truth.
It's realistic and absurd, so there's an experience where the audience can't stop laughing.
What I personally like is that the Annual Comedy Contest gives plenty of room for experimental content and can see the creators' vibrant ideas. Although this kind of content is not necessarily funny, it is full of innovative energy and possibilities. This is more rare than following the routine to be hilarious.
This week there has been quite a whimsical work: Wang Zi's mime "Karate Master". Some netizens commented that he was like an animation film.
On the small stage, wang zi is obviously alone, but his superb mime performance almost conjures up a new universe, which is magical.
What is even more rare is that this performance is completed with the audience. The audience will learn From Wang Zi's expression and interact with him, and Wang Zi will also consciously train the audience to perform with himself, and everyone seems to be able to play with him like this all the time.
Mime is not a new form, and "Eat Chicken" and "Pepper Noodles" on the Spring Festival Gala stage in the past also have similar forms. But in the current domestic comedy programs, mime is still quite rare, and the performance is difficult, Wang Zi performed mime is studied for ten years, only to have the confidence and freedom on the stage, he seems to be every joint of the body will move!
Wang Zi has also been innovating, his mime incorporates elements including dance, ventriloquism, clown plays, etc., and he has also combined a set of mime languages, like a living minion!
The pleasure that the audience gets in Wang Zi's show comes not only from the baggage, but also from the imaginative feeling of our own minds! His performance seems to control our imagination switch, and this joy is even more evocative.
There are many works like "Karate Master" that give "new" meanings.
In just two issues, the "Annual Comedy Competition" has emerged new forms and elements such as sketch comedy, comic talent, monologue, and mime. What kind of "dog crumbs" performance style, object drama, ah, I was first popularized in the "Annual Comedy Competition".
Last week, a comic talent who poked me with a special neurotic laugh performed "Strange Neighbor seat on the bus", which was really nerve and funny. Don't ask what the meaning of this work is, the meaning is super funny.
Before the competition began, Li Pointed to some of the contestants in the audience and said that they were "the most powerful comedic characters in China". Although the wording is a bit exaggerated, the players he refers to do have a good reputation in the circle.
Wang Zi and Wu Liuqi are indeed very good mime actors in China, and the two are also small and progressive together. Wang Zi is good at performing without physical objects, and Wu Liuqi is good at "object dramas" with props, and both have participated in many international drama festivals and won many awards.
In the show, there is also Lai Shengchuan's ace actor, Zong Juntao. Zong Juntao is quite popular in the drama circle. Before he appeared, many contestants had already made fancy confessions to his posters.
He himself was also very busy, and before the recording of the first show began, he participated in the tour of the drama "Treasure Island and a Village" in other places. Zong Juntao only slept for 2 hours, and the boat and car came to the scene of the program, insisted on rehearsal, and performed the "Sanmao Defense War", which refreshed the highest score of the program group in one fell swoop.
A comedy show, the sum of acting skills exceeds many acting programs, everyone has a sense of faith, and the absurd is so reasonable, so it has a super humor effect.
It's also a show for female comedians, and we see a lot of talented and capable comedian girls.
In the first issue of the popular network's "Internet Physical Examination", Jiang Shimeng, who played the role of a female doctor who played chicken blood, had previously won the championship in the "Gold Medal Comedy Class".
In the second issue of "Drama Spirit Navigation", Yin Beixi, who seamlessly switches to imitate Guanyin, Ziwei and chartered mother, is a model actor in the Happy Twist team.
She is not only versatile, but also has her own cheerful temperament, and wherever she goes, there is laughter. Huang Bo directly predicted that her future was immeasurable. Please remember the name of the humorous sister now - Yin Beshi!
Shi Ce, who plays the lovelorn woman in "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", is also very good. She has appeared in many film and television dramas before, and has also acted in "Hello, Li Huanying".
She and her partner Wang Hao began to create their own because they could not find more opportunities. In this week's show, the lovelorn woman played by Shi Ce is very exaggerated, but her tears and pain are so real, if someone without acting skills is replaced, this work will not be funny but embarrassing.
Li Shi said that Shi Ce's group is the only work in which both roles are normal people, no abnormal people or things appear, play the actor's strengths, and seize the current young state, but it is also funny.
Shi Ce is very modest, saying that he has no imagination and can only think about trivial matters, but this is great. Yu Hewei and Huang Bo both liked her delicacy and richness, and Huang Bo even said that he wanted to invite her to act directly in the future.
The heroine in "Good Girlfriend" has social phobia and a flattering personality, which makes the audience resonate very much. The heroine Zhang Nana is actually not a professional actor, she is a graduate of the Department of Literature and one of the screenwriters of this play.
In addition, "The Annual Comedy Competition" also has Jin Jing and her old partner Liu Shengying, which is also very exciting. Jin Jing and Liu Shengying have been creating comedies together since college, and the two broke through in "Paramount Tonight", and their work "Airport Sister Flowers" was also on the Spring Festival Gala.
Sisters come on, humor needs female strength!
There have also been many comedy shows in the past few years, but most of them inevitably fall into the clichés. Some are a few embarrassing routines to use back and forth, will not be funny on the forced use of northeast cavity, do not know how to humor on the strange sound to make a grimace; some are to see the sublimation of excellent works, no nutrition content also forcibly sublimated the theme; and some are very embarrassing editing, before the laughter appears to add words, the audience as an idiot without understanding.
The "Annual Comedy Competition" respects the performance in the presentation of the program, without adding extra words and special effects, so that the charm of the actors can be fully displayed without interference.
Although the preliminary preparation process is a one-off, we can feel from the program that the selection criterion is the creation itself.
Ma Dong said the show was hoping to find "new comedians." The program group advocates "joint row co-creation", allowing actors and screenwriting teams to create together, so that comedians from different fields can get together to collide and regroup.
Nine months before the official recording, the different types of comedians and screenwriters participating in the competition were created and rehearsed in the Miwei Company, and after the review and voting of the small theater audience, they were constantly eliminated, reorganized and collided, and only then did the current twenty-five groups of comedy squads. Those who can stay are masters of acting and creation. They win with the "hard truth" of being funny.
That's why we see that these comedians themselves have a high level of performance.
The biggest advantage for me is that comedy no longer has routines, only humor that respects the audience.
When interviewing Ning Hao a few years ago, he once asked why all the popular movies now are "laughing with tears", as if there is no other story mode, making movies is like making mooncakes one by one according to the mold. He's talking about movies, but it can also be extended to more expressions, especially comedy.
From Weibo paragraphs to short videos, to the bridge sections in the party and movies, it seems that everyone needs to vent their emotions very much. Routine creation first follows the trend of network segments, and then forcibly carries superficial meaning and affection.
"Laughter with tears" is not not excellent, but it is not the only excellent, and it does not have to be a routine that everyone imitates. "The Annual Comedy Contest" returns to comedy itself, using acting skills and story tension to be funny first, and then talk about other things.
For example, what is the meaning of a mime about a knife that is too sharp, but the audience who likes it thinks that it is quite advanced.
Our laughter may be different, but it is so happy to see that all the creations can be encouraged, and everyone is particularly serious about making the audience laugh.