[Opening] Dialogue with Chen Peisi: It is not coming back to CCTV

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　　BEIJING, November 7 client electrical

　　Reporter Zhang Xi

　　On CCTV Spring Evening in 1998, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao starred in the sketch "The Prince and the Postman".

In the sketch, the noble prince was played around by the humble postman, and the audience laughed.

　　This is the tenth time Chen Peisi has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage and the last time so far.

Screenshot of the video of "The Prince and the Postman"

　　After more than 20 years, the 66-year-old Chen Peisi stepped onto the CCTV stage again. He rarely participated in variety shows, accepted the invitation and became the tutor of "Gold Medal Comedy Class".

　　Chen Peisi does not like to use "back" or "back" to describe this cooperation. He carefully said: "It's not coming back, it's coming. This is not my unit or my place. I just came to participate in the program. )."

Why go out to record variety shows?

　　Because of the lack of experience in recording variety shows, Chen Peisi, who was sitting between Yingda and Guo Degang, looked a little cramped when facing media interviews.

　　When asked why he accepted the invitation from CCTV, he paused for a while, and Guo Degang next to him joked that "give a lot", and Chen Peisi responded, "He missed the bottom line."

　　Later, when Guo Degang and Yingda broke the news that some comedy variety shows had insider stories such as "going through the back door", "internal decision", and "passing the note", Chen Peisi couldn't help but widened his eyes, showing a surprised expression, and quickly said, "I was shocked." ".

　　"There is indeed pressure. They all have more than ten years of experience. This is my first time." In an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com, Chen Peisi expressed feelings.

Chen Peisi was full of drama outside of work.

Photo by reporter Zhang Xi

　　In fact, there have been many shows to Chen Peisi over the years, but he declined one by one. The reason is very simple, "because I can't go together."

　　How can we talk about it?

Chen Peisi's purpose is very simple. He does not seek fame and fortune, but only wants to spread his comedy theory.

　　After leaving the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, Chen Peisi is more like a scholar who studies comedy theory. He opened comedy classes and held drama tours.

This time the "Gold Medal Comedy Class" focuses on comedy inheritance, which coincides with Chen Peisi's philosophy. "After we communicated with the director team, the two sides were able to reach a consensus, so I agreed."

　　Stepping on the stage of CCTV again, turning from an actor to a mentor, Chen Peisi said that apart from his age, his mentality has not changed much. He thinks this is a good time and place. "I should become a successor now."

From left to right: Photo courtesy of Yingda, Chen Peisi, Guo Degang Program Group

I hope my son will learn from Guo Degang

　　Some people speculate that Chen Peisi’s cooperation with CCTV may be related to his son Chen Dayu.

　　In fact, Chen Peisi did not know that Chen Dayu would also participate.

"He originally said he would not participate, but then who knows how he said he would participate."

　　In fact, in the eyes of many people, Chen Dayu has already made some achievements.

He has been learning comedy acting from his father and has also acted in hundreds of plays.

But as a father, Chen Peisi rarely praised his son. His evaluation of Chen Dayu's comedy skills was-"It's not humble, really average. Now the people behind are still not good, and their ability to bear hardships and stand hard work is poor."

　　Speaking of education, Chen Peisi shook his head repeatedly, "I don't know how to educate the offspring, I really don't know."

Data map: Chen Peisi's son Chen Dayu (left) and Zhu Shimao's son Zhu Qingyang

　　He doesn't expect Chen Dayu to become popular with a certain program. He only hopes that his son can learn the craft steadily and never pursue the so-called ratings, so that he can stand on the stage forever.

　　In setting an example for his son, Chen Peisi recommended Guo Degang.

In his view, Guo Degang's cross talk is a market for spelling out.

Chen Peisi once said to his sons and students with heartfelt words, take a bowl and talk about cross talk outside, and whoever makes more money has the hard work.

　　"You have to communicate with and understand the audience, so I think Chen Dayu should learn from Guo Degang. If you want to be invincible, it depends on who has more talents."

"Gold Medal Comedy Class" poster

The contradiction of the sketch: performance or joke?

　　Since "Eating Noodles" was the first sketch on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, Chen Peisi was once named the "first person in the Spring Festival Gala".

　　Some people say that to watch Chen Peisi's sketches, one must look at the screen and not just listen to the lines.

He is good at using exaggerated and rich body movements, with vivid expressions and language, to create comic characters one after another.

　　For example, in the skit "Pepper Noodles", when Chen Peisi performed eating wontons, he was clearly in front of an empty bowl, but he performed hot hands, swallowed hot wontons and spit them into the bowl, even blowing with a sense of reality.

　　However, in recent years, the sketches have begun to develop in language programs. Compared with the performance itself, the sketches in the sketches are easier to get out of the circle.

　　Chen Peisi was a little helpless in this situation.

This also runs counter to his earliest sketches.

Image source: Screenshot of Chen Peisi's "Pepper Noodle" video

　　"When we started to explore, we paid more attention to the methods of performance and comedy composition. But later due to the participation of television, its spread speed was too fast and too wide, which destroyed the basic laws of artistic creation. After breaking the basic laws, art affirmed It is inevitable to go astray."

　　In Chen Peisi's view, comedy performance relies on language, which is the helplessness of comedy artists and a last resort change forced by life and technology.

　　"So now I hope that art can return to itself and the body of art. Let's look back at what art is and how should we treat it? This is not only a worldview, but also a choice of life."

Pure comedy life

　　Chen Peisi loves watching "The Self-cultivation of Actors" written by Soviet dramatist Stanislavsky.

　　Although he has played small clever people in many works, Chen Peisi in life is a very pure person.

　　He has been sorting out his comedy theory all these years.

Some people worry about whether he will feel lonely if he is too involved, but Chen Peisi is immersed in it. He said that he felt extremely excited when he thought of communicating with people in history through books.

Screenshot of Chen Peisi's sketch "Eating Noodles"

　　"I'm a very boring person. I don't have any other chores. I just act as a way of acting. I rely on it for food, so I act naturally and create naturally."

　　In 2014, Chen Peisi said in an interview that his golden period of acting has not yet come, and now he still thinks that it hasn't started yet.

He said that he never pursued fame and fortune, he just wanted to be an entertainer, perform every performance well, pass on the art of comedy, and don't care about other things.

　　Although in Chen Peisi’s eyes, comedy performance can turn inanimate things into souls, he thinks it’s not difficult, it’s nothing more than "window paper that breaks with one poke", which is as regular as a mathematical formula. As we thought in the past, it is unattainable or even unattainable. No, it is different from philosophy. It is art and technology."

　　But Chen Peisi also admitted that not everyone can learn and master this.

Chen Peisi feels somewhat accidental for the cute and funny paragraphs in the short video.

　　"I have eaten this bowl of rice in this industry for more than 40 years. The factors encountered are different from the active use of law to create. This is also the difference between us." (End)