Text | Zero-state LT, author | Yu Tianzi, edited by | Hu Zhanjia
The audience's laughter finally stunned the field like water, and talk show actor Rock raised a hand and tried to wipe away the non-existent beads of sweat on the door of his head.
After a long three minutes, the opening was three minutes later, he ushered in his first "effective laugh point" - a stem that has nothing to do with depression, about men and women, with a little feminist meaning, and then pulled on the topical Yang Kasa Wang Mian, so that everyone smiled easily and naturally.
This is the second game of the fourth season of the talk show conference, and the contestants who successfully advanced after a fight are divided into three groups after choosing between the three themes of "workplace", "emotion" and "mental health", and Rock chooses the last one.
As soon as he came on the court, he announced to everyone that he had recently been diagnosed with depression.
Although Rock has been very restrained, he downplays the depression, saying that it feels like "an easy to live in the mind"; he jokes about his divorce, coupled with the unhurributive cause of "moving"; and finally, he avoids the death impulses that depression patients often accompany, choosing to ridicule the mild symptom of low mobility. But the most articulated parts of these carefully selected depressions still scare the audience.
Seeing that the field was cold to the bottom, and his brave "flight" would end in failure, Rock took out his "high-level joke" at the bottom of the pressure box - "exposing" the other team members did not talk about the real "psychological problems" (the clever Xu Guangzhi even said things about his own color blindness), only he was stupid to say what he should not say, but the cold field could not be saved.
In the distance, Xiao Jia, who had just finished performing, sat on a high place, he was a player who stood out at this talk show conference, although he had a natural physical defect, he relied on his strength to make everyone laugh, everyone accepted him, loved him, accepted his illness, almost loved his disease; in a few seconds, Tranquility blurted out that he was also a severely depressed patient, and Da Zhang Wei was busy playing the round field, "Exotic? ", using a vulgar harmonic stem.
While waiting for the vote, Rock once again raised his hand to wipe his forehead, his eyes worried and painful, like a lamb that had strayed into the forbidden area, waiting or had been slaughtered.
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01 Regulated adventures
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The most frightening thing is to be regulated how you should take risks.
For example, as an actor, you can make people cry, make people laugh, make people move, make people think deeply, but when the radio of "Talk Show Conference" informs you, "Let's have the next actor", you can only run hard, sweat, and take brave adventures on the track of "making the audience laugh".
Just like although Luo Yonghao declared in the opening scene that he was responsible for the "big picture" half seriously and half seriously, on several occasions, he still patted the light at the last moment of the "pure comedy performance". When asked why he was shooting the lights, even he wondered — maybe he had watched enough talk shows, or he had a set of evaluation criteria for talk shows. Supposedly, he wouldn't shoot a light on a purely nonsensical performance, but when the laughers magically poke your laughing hole, you can't help but laugh out loud, so you involuntarily press your choice button in the big environment.
If you want to be the happiest and purest person in this game, the most worry-free and without thinking, you must adhere to the standards similar to Da Zhang Wei with great confidence, "just laugh until you pop."
Is it just that the "laughing" side of the talk show is infinitely magnified? Or is it that in order to obtain the audience's safe laughter, even the direction of "laughter" and the content of "laughter" have been secretly and strictly regulated?
Pictured: Talk show conference official micro
You can be like Yang Kasa and Yan Yiyanyue, risking some technical improvements in the circle of feminism, or you can be like Pang Bo, in a certain dose of the Yu marketing circle, how to sell milk tea, script killing and blind boxes to groups of young people, but it is not feasible to risk using a way that is no longer fashionable to spit on the married life that cannot resonate with the audience at all, let alone like Rock, to say that depression is tucked in everyone's secret corner.
We laugh at someone who is "worse" than themselves, but there is a big difference in this "difference".
In this carnival called "talk show", although the tricks are renovated, it points too many times to people who are fatter than us, uglier than us, and introverted than us, and too many times to swim in the safe fields of feminism and appearance, and occasionally Hulan and Rock laugh at our weaknesses and laugh at the absurdity of this era, which is just an embellishment of individual cases or failures.
The performers on stage perform the insignificant little flaws, the small corners are exquisite, but no one really lives on the stage - the one who lives on the stage is such a young man: his/her life seems to float with a layer of fine trivialities, but in essence it is smooth sailing, no catastrophe, no serious illness, no unforgettable love and pain, entanglement and joy, every morning, he/she dresses, eats, and then arrives from the ground or underground to the tall building, and starts his/her inner volume but also gets by.
There's a friend sitting on the stage, talking, but no longer communicating with you.
02 I was also on the road of "reality"
On March 16, 1996, a line of "who will protect consumers" flashed on television, and 33-year-old Cui Yongyuan wore a red suit jacket and brown trousers on the top of his high-necked sweater, and appeared in the "Tell the Truth" studio with his characteristic smile.
It was an era when Peking University professors could intimidate the officials of the Association in person, "What a strange logic this is."
People of that era did not know that the most popular professors in the 21st century were to teach young people how to live and how to deal with emotional problems in videos;
I don't know that the most popular talk shows in China have completely dissolved the real issues, and even a little satire toward reality is rarely rumored;
They do not know that they have been forgotten by most young people; they do not know that the "common people", although still existing, have been dissolved by a wave of equalist thinking, and they have turned around and hidden and shrunk in a more hidden and untouchable place by public opinion.
These people who have experienced the initial climax of the talk show will see a "Tonight's Post-80s Talk Show" that imitates the American talk show on May 13, 2012, and the host Wang Zijian was introduced as a "post-80s cutting-edge cross-talk actor", and a few years later he was abused by his wife and suffered from depression for a long time.
But now, at the moment when the talk show is just emerging, they will see Wang Zijian and the screenwriting team composed of Lai Bao, Wang Jianguo, Li Shi, etc. are discussing the issues of each issue in full swing, and they may be surprised by the civilian and entertaining talk show methods of Wang Zijian, and perhaps accuse the program of no longer containing the deep social concerns that they are proud of, and no longer need to use reason and logic to guide the "ordinary people" to conduct relatively independent social thinking.
But in the hearing Wang Zijian boldly open the wheat satire on the civil service, the gap between the rich and the poor, freely and frankly discuss love action movies, extramarital love, and the little nine-nine in people's hearts, they will still smile, and then be laughed at several times, although afterwards they are vaguely worried about those children who are not yet physically and mentally sound, worried that they will not recognize that this is just a door for adults to relieve pressure, enough to chat and narrate, but to cope with the arduous and complex life, it still requires some positive attitudes and scientific methods.
Until they come to 2021.
The hottest talk show of the year is the continuous fire for three seasons, ushering in the fourth season of the "Talk Show Conference", the skill of comedy has reached the peak of the level, the audience broke out of laughter from time to time, while looking at the mobile phone while eating takeaway young people "giggling" laugh non-stop, and some of the whole process is expressionless, after the meal, and then return to the workstation to continue to work.
At present, the leader of the talk show trend is a person named Li Tian, from the beginning of the decadent and low-key literary and artistic youth to the "Tonight after 80s Talk Show" behind the scenes of the scribble, gradually in the "Spit Conference" and "Strange Story" in the emergence of the circle to become the hottest talk show actor in a few years. Nowadays, when it comes to talk shows, everyone knows Li's birthday.
Although he has published two books, the outside world evaluates Li Shi, and his essence is still a "businessman". In the fourth season of the talk show conference, Li Shi shouted the slogan "Everyone can be a 5-minute talk show actor", but the audience can no longer distinguish whether this is out of a love for talk shows or hopes to attract more audiences.
Li's "happy hell" joke at the beginning of the fourth season talk show conference is impressive. Yes, welcome to Happy Hell.
03 The stage you didn't see
Headquartered at No. 18 Gaolan Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, the former home of Yu Qiaqing, a 5-story bungalow that was just rented last year, there are not enough workstations this year, so in the nearby WeWork, you may see Xiaoguo employees.
Founded in 2014, Xiaoguo Culture became famous because of the "Spit Conference", and then attracted a steady stream of investment, and up to now, the market value of Xiaoguo Culture has reached more than 3 billion yuan.
In the enterprise investigation, Li Shi, who holds the position of creative director, personally holds 5.04% of the shares, and behind the Xiaole (Shanghai) Culture and Media Center, which holds a total shareholding ratio of 7.05%, is the veteran of a number of laughing fruit culture talk show actors such as Cheng Lu, Si Wen, Zhang Boyang, etc. Among the other contestants, there are people like Zhou Qimo who are rooted in a single person, and there are also talk show actors like Yang Kasa who have signed laughter fruits themselves.
Brutal formats and unpredictable results crush the confidence of the contestants, and for desperate contestants, each elimination can plunge them into endless anxiety, and anxiety can make a talk show actor who makes a living from laughter laugh badly — and nothing scares them more.
You see all kinds of actors on the stage, but what is really dominating behind this colorful stage? It is reflected in the nearly one-minute advertising that THE VIP can not remove, milk, shampoo, electric vehicles, wall panels, etc. take turns to jump into your eyeballs, and it is also reflected in the vivid and accurate spit in the mouths of those "non-stars" and "ordinary talk show actors" Who participate in the talk show conference is like participating in the college entrance examination.
There is no doubt that "Talk Show Conference" is the fastest rising channel for these talk show actors to become famous, and an online appearance often means real performance opportunities and cash income, and under the heavy tight hoop, the actors are trembling and unable to perform the real talk show in their minds on stage. Thus, an even more hungry mouth, in a state of laughter, is being created.
Perhaps the original batch of talk show "actors" could not understand, but at least at this moment, the audience accepted a steady stream of laughter, the contestants accepted the torturous cruel format, and the city building compartments and bedrooms came out with a burst of laughter that was mostly mocking and rarely self-deprecating, which was woven with a sweet mist that gently enveloped the daily anxiety and exhaustion.