Crosstalk: Stop playing with your uncle!

Chapter 58: Fighting Laughter Society

Crosstalk performers on the stage rely on each other. They can interfere with each other, but they must not interfere to the point of knocking each other off the stage.

Once this happens, it is a stage accident.

When Qi Long was messing with Jin Henan, he had already thought about how to resolve each problem.

He also knew that Gao Dongqiang must have thought of a solution when he improvised a question on stage, but he was also curious, so he asked: "What would you say if I didn't pick up "Blocking the Light"?"

"I just said you're not good at Peking opera, and then asked about Ping opera excerpts 'Eighteen Farewells' and Huangmei opera 'The Female Prince Consort', and asked about Bangzi. You said you're good at Bangzi, so I just mentioned 'Fenhe Bay'!" Gao Dongqiang smiled and answered, "It's not my fault. Brother Qian gave me the idea. After filming yesterday, I went to Brother Qian's horse farm to drink!"

"Whenever your master drinks, something bad will happen to our sect. Luckily I react quickly!" Qi Long joked.

The two of them walked backstage with smiles on their faces, and were called by Guo and Yu to listen to the crosstalk performed by the actors in the back.

In this crosstalk performance, the first pair of actors rocked the show, which was both a good thing and a bad thing for the second pair of actors.

The good thing is that the atmosphere has become lively and it's easy to make people laugh no matter what you say.

The bad side is, of course, that things are too good at the beginning and psychological expectations are too high. If you fail to meet them, the audience will gradually become cold and the place will become a mess.

Guo Qilin and Meng Hetang suffered this loss.

Their mediocre comedy show didn't cause much waves.

This is why, when a talented actor shoots backwards, the one behind him won’t be able to catch up!
As expected, No. 38 Qiqi once again got the highest number of votes!

However, since they were just joking around, no one took the ranking seriously. Instead, after the recording session, Lao Guo said to Qi Long, "Junior brother, September is coming soon, and the Wire Festival is coming. For this large-scale performance, can you perform "Ba Ma Gua" with us?"

The Wire Festival is a large-scale performance organized by the Deyun Society on Lao Guo’s birthday, and it has been held for many years in a row.

The group crosstalk "Ba Ma Gua" is basically a regular feature of the Wire Festival. Every year, Guo Yujia or someone else performs a segment of it, and many of his apprentices have performed it.

Qi Long naturally had no objection and nodded: "Okay!"

"Qi Long and I both love watching your version of 'Ba Ma Gua'. It completely changes the supporting actor's character!" Dong Qiang said from the side.

Yu Qian agreed with his eyes: "Indeed, his innovation is amazing!"

Originally, "Peeling the Ma Gua" was a joke to cover up a lie. The funny man's speech was vague and incoherent, and he relied on the fact that someone was wearing his Ma Gua to cover up his lie. The audience watched it for the novelty. How could he cover up such a ridiculous lie?
The supporting actor in the middle is an honest man who passes messages around.

As "Ba Ma Gua" is performed more and more often and broadcast on TV, the audience knows the answers to many of the lies and no longer has the feeling of applauding when seeing a clever lie being covered up.

Lao Guo made a change. His supporting actor was no longer an honest man, but a funny guy who likes to stir up trouble. He made trouble here and there, which added a lot of jokes.

"It's interesting to innovate the old stuff!" Dongqiang nodded vigorously.

When Qi Long heard this, he thought of the highly-played crosstalk from another world: "Then I have to innovate too!"

When he said this, the three of them looked at him, asking him what he thought.

"I will dig and dig. Before you tell me the riddle, I will reveal the answer to it, directly testing Brother Qian's memory of riddles."

After hearing what he said, the three of them's eyes lit up. This idea was quite unique and they thought it was worth a try.

Guo Degang said: "Our "Ba Ma Gua" prelude is basically a talent show, and then I kept stirring it up, and Nifenger (the character wearing a Ma Gua) couldn't stand it and shouted that he wanted to quit. Then Teacher Yu took off your Ma Gua and started the real work. You got ready and we'll do the rehearsal in a few days!"

"Okay!" Qi Long nodded in agreement.

After a while, Qi Long and Dong Qiang began to try out new tricks in the small theater. On the one hand, the Wire Festival was approaching, and on the other hand, the tickets for their special tour in October had also started to sell. In the middle of the process, the brothers also participated in the preliminary review of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and passed it smoothly.

As time went by, "Deyun Douxiaoshe" was officially launched on Penguin Video.

The variety show section of Penguin Video is very optimistic about this outdoor variety show and directly gave it top-level recommendation resources. When you open the Penguin Video page, there is a three-second non-skippable advertisement for "De Yun Dou Xiao She".

In the past two or three weeks, many German crosstalk actors have repeatedly mentioned it during their performances. Once it was released online, many crosstalk fans clicked in to watch it immediately.

In this world without outdoor variety shows, in this world where outdoor recordings are mostly a small part of studio variety shows, a group of people's thrilling chase outdoors immediately makes everyone see the freshness.

Can variety shows be played like this?

The recording took a whole day, and the editing was naturally done to keep the funniest parts while keeping the story structure intact. Most of the audience laughed from beginning to end.

"I came here for the crosstalk. It's funnier than crosstalk!"

"Qi Long made me laugh to death. He brought a group of Guo Degang's disciples to scold Guo Degang."

"The director is a genius. Guo Degang is Yu Qian and Yu Qian is Guo Degang. Hahahaha!"

"In the blink of an eye, an hour and a half has passed. I didn't even feel the passage of time!"

The show received rave reviews on various platforms, and major groups also seized the opportunity to spend money to buy trending searches.

The purpose of spending this money is to prevent Weibo from being stuck in the trending searches, otherwise the money spent will be put on you.
With a large number of viewers who have watched the show and commented on it, the broadcast data of "De Yun Dou Xiao She" is getting higher and higher, and more and more people are joining the army of recommendations to recommend this hilarious variety show.

In less than a day, this variety show became a hit. To what extent? Many people asked Yan Min if she needed guests, and some even offered to reduce the price. It was so popular.

Look at the crosstalk performers participating in the show, they all have some variety show labels.

Qi Long, the guy who formed an alliance with Gao Dongqiang to steal the five weapons at the beginning and deceived several nephews, was given the title of "Deyun's Bad Uncle" by everyone;

The muscular man Dong Qiang is called Brother Qiang by everyone because he is really strong and can basically kill Shao Bing, Qin Xiaoxian and others in seconds.

The pitiful Qin Xiaoxian, the teased vice president Luan Yunping, and the smart Cao Heyang all left a deep impression on everyone.

The number of fans of these people soared, except Qi Long who does not have a Weibo account.

But Qi Long’s harvest was not small either. The number of coins increased rapidly and directly exceeded ten thousand.

This aroused Qi Long's interest, as he always won some disposable items in the guaranteed draws during this period.

Recently, he has won the following: [Throat lozenges that keep your throat from getting dry all day long], [Nutrients that guarantee to prevent you from shedding your skin], [Functional drink that can restore your energy with just a sip of water when you are tired], [A sleeping pill that can help you sleep till dawn without dreaming], [Insoles that guarantee to prevent you from spraining your ankle], and so on.

In short, they are all things: useful, but not very useful.

There were many things that made you "fight! Have fun", but Qi Long had no place to use them.

He seriously suspected that the software was targeting him, just to make him spend money so that he couldn't draw skill books or anything like that, so he chose to use 20,000 coins to buy the "Intermediate Tutorial of Opera". It didn't matter, with the growth rate of the group variety show, it would be fine as soon as the second episode was aired.

[Tip: The same program and the same crosstalk show have the same time, but considering that this software is a conscientious software, the coins obtained in the second period will be multiplied by one tenth, and the third period will be the same.]

Qi Long couldn't help but complain: "Where is your conscience? You feel guilty, don't you?!"

Recently there is news that the third episode of Dou Xiao She is expected to be broadcast in the second half of the year. I hope the director is still Director Yan, as his variety shows are more to my taste (except for the new travel notes)
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