Crosstalk: Stop playing with your uncle!

Chapter 47: Language art should amuse passers-by, not just fans
After the recording ended that day, the head of the variety show department of Penguin Video who was accompanying the recording pulled Qi Long aside to chat and praised Qi Long highly.

"To be honest, we were not very optimistic about this outdoor variety show at first, but after watching it today, I feel relieved. It's great, especially you. You set the pace for a lot of things, and you were the first to say a lot of the jokes. It's so interesting. I laughed for a long time!"

The person in charge, who had been drunk a little too much by Deyun's disciples, became a chatterbox, praising Qi Long non-stop and patting his chest to guarantee that he would definitely arrange whatever show Qi Long wanted to be on.

Qi Long laughed it off. He was not interested in studio-recorded variety shows and preferred this kind of random outdoor variety show.

So he joked: "We are crosstalk performers. If your variety show needs crosstalk, then I will go."

"Oh, there aren't many crosstalks that need to be told directly. I'll tell you when I have one. You'll definitely come!"

Next to Qi Long, Gao Dongqiang, the health ambassador, was saying to his senior brother Sun Yue, "Senior brother, you really should lose weight. Although your stage image is good, it will be easy to have problems when you are older!"

Sun Yue waved his hand: "I don't have the perseverance of you, Shaobing, and Qi Lin. I feel uncomfortable after moving for a few times, and my bodyweight exercise will damage my knees!"

"You can start with what you eat. Replace refined grains with coarse grains, fatty meat with lean meat, starchy potatoes and the like with vegetarian dishes. Just eat until you are 70% full!" said Gao Dongqiang.

Sun Yue obviously didn't like what he heard, but the junior fellow apprentice still doted on him and nodded mechanically.

Seeing this, Qi Long helped push Gao Dongqiang: "Hello, my partner is quite interested in the girl group talent show on your video platform!"

"Go to hell, don't use me as a cover to say what you want to do, okay?" Gao Dongqiang immediately retorted.

Everyone laughed, and Gao Dongqiang was forced to pause his lecture to his senior brother.

Director Yan Min took the person in charge away to have a drink, and Qi Long sat down and said, "Dongqiang, you like to talk about fitness and weight loss so much, why don't we turn this into a joke and make something interesting!"

Sun Yue looked at Qi Long gratefully and raised his glass in gesture.

Gao Dongqiang is most interested in two things: fitness and crosstalk, and crosstalk ranks above fitness. As soon as this topic is mentioned, he really becomes interested: "What do you think?"

"Just assume that you were a fat guy before, and then you tried to lose weight but fell into many traps and made many jokes, so you made up this story!" Qi Long had some ideas in his mind.

Gao Dongqiang nodded thoughtfully: "What about the real work? Which part?"

"I need to think about this," Qi Long pondered.

Guo Degang next to him gave a suggestion: "Well, say he got sick from losing weight, and then he can work on "Western Prescriptions"!"

Dongqiang wondered, "That's not right. When we talk about losing weight, I am me and he is him. The funny guy in "Western Pharmacy" has to play a person who claims to be a doctor!"

"This is easy. I'll just say that when I was in the hospital, I met an old gentleman who passed on all his lifelong medical skills to me!" Qi Long immediately thought of a method.

"Well, your special performance is about to be put on the agenda. You can practice some new jokes in the small theater. These new works will be useful later!" Guo Degang agreed.

All the work must be polished in the small theater. The good gags are kept, the bad ones are deleted, and the essence is taken and the dross is removed to put it in commercial performances to double the effect. Of course, the good gags in the small theater are not necessarily really good. Some audiences come for you and will laugh at whatever you say.

Shang Jiuxi is like this, when he makes jokes in the small theater, the audience responds with joy.

It doesn’t work when it comes to commercial performances.

Moreover, his partner He Jiuhua was not satisfied with some of his jokes and simply refused to perform them on stage. As a result, the funny man felt that the supporting actor was not giving him face.

If this continues, the hole will crack sooner or later!
"Brother, have you requested Jiuxi recently?" Qi Long asked.

Guo Degang's expression immediately drooped: "It was you who suggested that he take your sister-in-law to shop online, right? My goodness, the courier box at home can almost buy a crosstalk ticket!"

"That's definitely not from our Deyun Society. The tickets to Deyun Society are expensive!" Qi Long continued with a smile.

"No, no, no, I've already bought enough for commercial performances!" Guo Degang exaggerated: "Come to think of it, I did talk to him and asked him to use less evil baggage!"

"The evil bag can be used, but it can't become more evil the more it is used. The key is that after he used it, He Jiuhua didn't understand and he always felt aggrieved, saying that Jiuhua didn't support him well. The two even quarreled in private!" Qi Long said to Guo Degang.

This basically makes the point clear. You should quickly reconcile your two disciples, otherwise the relationship will break up.

To be honest, Lao Guo has too many disciples. With so many disciples, he is destined to not have enough energy to pay attention to each of them. He only personally taught Yunzi, Hezi and Toujiu, and the rest were basically taught by Gao Feng.

Guo Degang frowned. Is it so serious?
"I suggest that they should be like Qi Long and Dong Qiang, and take turns performing in different teams to see the effect in different venues. Team Seven is a very united team. Generally, people who like one of them will like the other members of the team. Their performance will definitely be accepted by the audience. Only by changing to other venues can they see their true level!" Sun Yue spoke.

If the audience likes you, they will pick up on your jokes. It's like a fan filter.

Many idols are like this, grown men act cute and adorable, fans cheer and support them, passersby don’t feel anything, but if you act too cute, it’s even disgusting.

It's like a naughty child. If you are the child's grandfather, you would think it's cute if he pulls your beard. Otherwise, you would find it annoying.

Qi Long doesn't want a crosstalk artist to develop into someone who can only entertain fans and only have fans buy in. If that's the case, what kind of language art is that?
In the Deyun Society of another world, some actors have become overly idolized. Except for their fans, other people, even the crosstalk fans of the Deyun Society, don’t like to listen to their crosstalk. That’s a bit too much!

At least they should be able to entertain passers-by with crosstalk, rather than relying on their looks or hyping up CPs.
He cannot control the other world, but he has to control this world. Qi Long does not like the preaching method, so he can set an example himself or teach on the stage, just like the literary disciple Qin Xiaoxian.

Since that temporary cooperation on fast-talking, Xiao Qin has obviously started to pay more attention to fast-talking. He can have two or three fast-talking performances in a week, practicing his basic skills. This is progress!
Qi Long and Gao Dongqiang are vigorous and resolute executors when it comes to crosstalk.

As soon as they returned to the imperial capital, Dongqiang ran to the house he and Qilong "shared" and started discussing work together.

Dongqiang mainly talks about some common misunderstandings and scams in weight loss and fitness, and packages them into jokes through the use of crosstalk techniques.

A lot of jokes were made, and the next day's performance at the Tianqiao Theater was changed to this: "Dongqiang's Weight Loss Diary"!
(End of this chapter)