Comedy as a genre of theater, the performance range is very wide, it can show the life of the ugly, corrupt things, but also can eulogize the beautiful things, the performance of brilliant dream ideal, express praise and joy mood, but also reflect the life of grief, suffering side. Due to the different objects of comedy, the different attitudes of the artists, the laughter it causes also has a different nature, which gives comedy different aesthetic attributes and aesthetic value.
Lu Xun pointed out in "On the Fall of Leifeng Tower" that "Tragedy destroys the valuable things in life for people to see, and comedy tears down the worthless ones for people to see. Sarcasm is only a branch of comedy. But tragedy and sarcasm are all enemies of decadence, for they are all destructive, though in different ways. If the disease of the ten scenes were to survive in China, not only would there be no madmen like Rousseau, but there would never be a tragedian or a comedian or a satirical poet. All that is left is that the comic characters or the non-comedic non-tragic characters, living in the ten scenes of each other's molds, each carries the disease of the ten scenes on one side."
Comedians want to be recognized through the efforts of everyone, so start a variety of caveman, frequent exposure to all kinds of stage, there is no excuse, after all, to engage in comedy also need to cost, but everything has to have a degree, know how to stop, or it will be counterproductive. In recent years, the comedy program is to take the commercial route, the East Satellite TV is the operation of the gods, from the three seasons of "Joyful Comedian" to three seasons of "Smiling Proudly Wanderer" and then I'm going to talk about the "Legend of the Laughing Stock" today, professional actors, grassroots stars gathered together, hilarious. Driven by Oriental Satellite TV, a number of followers soon appeared such as Zhejiang Satellite TV's "Total Comedy" and Beijing Satellite TV's "King of Cross-Border Comedy".
In my opinion, "Legend of Laughter" is a continuation of the work of the mink, the form of pseudo-innovation, the work of less sincerity, how to see how to over-consume the suspicion of comedy stars. China's entertainment is never short of imitation and cottage, from the "Superwoman" to "Superboy", from "China's Got Talent" to "Happy Chinese", from "Comedy Story" to "cross-border comedy king", "Ace vs. Ace" to "Run for it Brothers" from the outdoors to the indoors, "Extreme Challenge" followed by a change in the soup and not a change in the medicine ...... The Legend of Laughter" played the gimmick of a large-scale star-vegetable challenge competition show, two by two PK, in fact, or "Joyful Comedian", "Laughing Proudly Wanderer" terrain. Actors, in addition to Cai Ming, Dabing, the rest are basically familiar faces from the previous two programs, which is nothing more than the evolution of the supporting role into the main role, supporting role into the main character. Although there is no lack of similar "reverse emperor" Jia Bing such a surprise, but the overall quality of the first two blocks of the program compared to the gap is not small, especially Bai Kainan, Dazhang Wei, Shen Ling, once in Hunan Satellite Television, "big show" leftover rice fried and fried, rigid, like a fish in the throat.
I say this, perhaps the actors will be very aggrieved, they have worked very hard, and have their own creative principles, but the program group to bring them together, they become unable to do anything. The "Comedians" and "The Proud Wanderer" are the best proof of this. I have no intention of questioning the original intention of the program team to please the audience, nor do I oppose the intention of the producers to pursue ratings. I just think that the reason why China can not produce Chaplin, Bean, such as dedication to the art of comedy masters, can not produce Chen Pesi, Zhao Lirong, such as moral and artistic comedy artists, and comedy soil is not unrelated, it is worth pondering.
To reiterate, I do not oppose the commercialization of comedy, like Zhao Benshan to make sketches into an industry, Guo Degang to make the comedy into an industry, the inheritance and promotion of the art of comedy is more good than bad, if more of such art industry, the tomorrow of China's art will certainly be better.
A family of words, not to vomit, just to throw a brick to attract jade.