Crosstalk: Stop playing with your uncle!

Chapter 17: Variety show without rules

When Qi Long got home, he opened the magical app on his phone and started learning how to sing in opera style.

This teaching method, which can help him to gain a rough understanding of opera singing, consists of three lessons. The first lesson is a breathing lesson, which teaches him how to breathe while singing.

Inhale through the mouth and nose at the same time. This will allow you to take in air as quickly as possible, and complete the inhalation in a short breath to continue singing the next part.

Qi Long has already watched this class.

It’s amazing that he doesn’t need to practice much, he can learn it just by watching.

Wow, if the basic skills of a crosstalk actor can be learned by watching a video, then anyone with eyes, ears and mouth can perform crosstalk!
The second lesson is a lesson on vocal position, and the third lesson is a rough explanation of sheng, dan, jing, mo, and chou. After watching these three videos, your opera singing will be able to reach a level that can impress laymen, which is completely enough for a crosstalk actor.

After watching two consecutive lessons, Qi Long pressed the return key, ready to exit the software and go to sleep.

The next morning, he had to go to Tang Deyun's company to discuss their small theater performance with Vice President Luan Yunping.

Today is a special situation. We can't not follow the program every time and ask other actors to speed up their performance to make time for them!

However, as soon as I clicked the back button and returned to the homepage, the first season of "Extreme Challenge" that I had drawn during lunch time today appeared in a prominent position.

Based on Qi Long's stereotype of variety shows in this world, he had no interest in them.

But thinking that he had already won the prize, he still clicked on the variety show, planning to watch it for a while and then go to bed.

To his surprise, this was not a studio variety show, but an outdoor variety show. At the beginning, the director woke up the performers in the hotel, and then the guests used a turntable to draw a way to wake up the next person.

There are mobile phones on the turntable to play music, make lipstick marks, splash water, etc.

The first actor who looked fierce, named Honglei, drew a mobile phone to play music. He complained to the director that it was too easy, and the director directly asked if he wanted to change it.

what?
This can still be changed! Director, what are your rules?
But from the audience's perspective, I really want to change to something more interesting.

Isn’t this the effect of the show?

From the very beginning, Qi Long was amused by this novel model and the staff and director who broke the rules at will. He continued to watch and found it more and more interesting.

I watched several episodes in a row in one go. These people really didn't follow the director's design and routine. They broke the rules if they were told to.

The director will not stop their behavior of breaking the rules. Instead, he has prepared many contingency plans so that the story can continue in time when they break the rules.

Why are the jokes in improvisational crosstalk so funny? Because they go beyond the familiar crosstalk framework, creating an unexpected effect.

This variety show is the same. The guest breaks the rules, and the director uses the preparations he has made in advance to control the overall situation and allow him to complete it smoothly.

That’s the real skill!

It's like performing crosstalk, one person mixes up all kinds of nonsense, while the other person can still maintain the integrity of the crosstalk structure and story and perform it for him.

For example, like the drunken scene in "Fenhe Bay", no matter how panicked Guo Degang was inside, he didn't show it on his face and still finished the performance!
Interesting, really interesting.

If it weren't for the biological clock that Qi Long developed during his more than a year in the hospital, which made him too sleepy to open his eyes at twelve o'clock, he would definitely have continued watching.

Is the variety show from another world so magical?
When he went to bed, Qi Long always slept with a smile on his face. He had just watched Go Fighting, which has nine seasons, and there would be more to watch later. It felt like he had found a show that suited his taste and had several seasons. It made him look forward to tomorrow because he could continue watching it tomorrow!
While Qi Long was watching the variety show "Another World", the crosstalk he and Gao Dongqiang performed at the Sanlitun Theater was also posted online by enthusiastic audiences.

This time was not like the commercial performances, when crosstalk lovers would first focus on Guo Degang and Yu Qian. This time it was just a small theater performance. When they learned that Guo Degang was going, they announced that Qi Long and others had joined Deyun Society.

Qi Long and Dong Qiang also performed a segment. Those who had an impression of "Uncle Deyun" rushed to watch it, including some UP hosts who commented on crosstalk.

Led by Wen Dalu, everyone started watching the live broadcast to find resources.

"Criticizing the Three Kingdoms" is also an old joke, but the two people's introduction and several weird questions in the first half of the show are full of novelty, just like the live show, making the audience watching this segment on the Internet grin from ear to ear.

The audience was enjoying the fun, while the bloggers who were commenting on the crosstalk saw something and praised the chemistry between Qi Long and Gao Dongqiang.

The rhythm is tight, the jokes are frequent, and each one is loud. The funny part isn't so loud, but the supporting part is loud.

This is kung fu, and it is something that cannot be mastered without years of collaboration.

"De Yun Society now has two new great generals. Although they are older than us, they are still young. In the future, there will be another pair of highlights in De Yun Society's major commercial performances of crosstalk!" This is Wen Dalu's beautiful description of the future of De Yun Society.

Some live broadcast viewers felt that it was an exaggeration.

Some crosstalk performers only have those three tricks. Maybe one or two of their segments are interesting when they first become popular, but later on they become just like most crosstalk performers, mediocre. Whether they can succeed or not depends on further testing by the market!
Moreover, the supporting role is not that outstanding. The highlight is the funny role, who narrates the story with clear logic and uses funny expressions and language at will. In comparison, Gao Dongqiang doesn't talk much and just knows how to gossip, so he is not that outstanding.

I don’t know if it was because of Guo Degang’s official announcement that Qi Long joined Deyun Club that the officials of the National Crosstalk Competition wanted to take advantage of it, and Qi Long and Gao Dongqiang’s semi-final entries were released first.

Not necessarily, because they happened to be the first ones to perform.

This is really tough for the crosstalk blogger who is about to end the broadcast. Just as he is about to end, the screen is flooded with videos of Qi Long and Gao Dongqiang participating in a crosstalk competition. He has to watch them before going off the screen!

This resource is easy to find. Accounts have been set up on various crosstalk competition platforms, so you can just look at it directly.

I just thought Gao Dongqiang was unremarkable, but this crosstalk completely slapped my face. The grumpy man's "Turn on the air conditioner!!!" left a deep impression on everyone, and it still made us laugh after watching it over and over again.

The hilarious skits in the first half and the admirable tea bowl allegro in the second half will make everyone say: Good!
When Qi Long woke up, he saw that there were about 800 more coins out of nowhere.

Overnight, nearly 80,000 audiences praised the two crosstalk performances by Qi Long and Dong Qiang.

That's great. Now I don't feel bad at all about buying the later episodes of Go Fighting. It's only 30 coins per episode, so I can buy all nine seasons without any problem.

Just when Qi Long was about to make a big spending spree, he discovered something was wrong, because the cast list for the fifth season was missing a lot of the people who made him laugh so hard during the first season yesterday, and from the later seasons, only the big squirrel Brother Xun was left, and everyone else was nowhere to be seen.

He bought an episode tentatively, and he couldn't bear to watch the friendly exchanges between the group of people who followed the rules and were polite to each other.

If he hadn't watched the first season directly, Qi Long, who had only watched the studio variety shows, might have been able to watch these, but since he had already seen the good ones, who would want to watch the worse ones?

The good mood I had originally felt dissipated in an instant.

You found a TV series that you like and has been updated for several seasons, but because the show became popular, the cast was replaced in the later seasons, including some of your favorite characters. How can you be happy?

(End of this chapter)