Breaking through the boundaries of comedy, returning to the theater and the audience; Guo Degang is the convener, and Li Xueqin is the team leader
"Happy Comedian 7": Audience paying is the biggest compliment
Last Sunday, the seventh season of "Happy Comedian" officially returned with a new look.
Since its premiere in the first season of 2015, how to make a comedy that the audience likes and laughs from the heart has always been the biggest challenge facing this evergreen variety show.
The new season of "Happy Comedians" once again breaks through the boundaries of comedy, with returning to the theater and returning to the audience as the "initial heart", ushering in a new group of "fugitive comedians".
They come from actors, idols, hosts, Internet celebrities and other fields, and for the first time entered a real comedy theater from the screen.
They will improve their comedy abilities in real ticket sales performances, bravely accept the audience's most realistic laughter test, and finally stand on the stage of real comedians.
In this season of "Happy Comedians", competitions and rankings seem to have become less important. The audience’s laughter is the only criterion and the biggest compliment to comedians.
New faces widen the boundaries of comedy and use performances to gain audience recognition
Shen Teng, Jia Ling, Yue Yunpeng, Song Xiaobao, Wen Song...The stage of "Happy Comedian" has emerged as the mainstay of many Chinese comedy circles.
What’s different from the past is that this year’s "Happy Comedian 7" created a new definition of "happy man", breaking the boundaries of professional comedy with a group of "non-comedy" new faces-Guo Degang as the convener, talk show rookie Li Xueqin served as the team leader, and "happy people" from different fields, such as Innocent Awei, Fan Dandan, Li Yitong, Odie, Qin Xiaoxian, Xiong Ziqi, Zhang Da, etc., entered the comedy field; while mature comedians Yue Yunpeng and Song Xiaobao were "promoted" to two top comedies. The label’s “teaching teacher” helps the “happy people” grow into true “happy comedians” through a series of learning and exercises.
These comedy newcomers have been well recognized in the past field-Li Yitong once stood on the highest podium of idols and won the love of tens of millions of fans; "Innocent Ah Wei" is a hot Douyin Internet celebrity, The number of likes for a single video exceeded one million.
However, in the first episode of the program, faced with the high-intensity task of performing on stage for the first time in 24 hours, the "happy people" could not hide their tension.
For example, Awei, who came out of the short video platform, showed tension and discomfort from the small screen performance to the offline theater for the first time. Although the work has been performed completely, the "funny" index is slightly lower.
The importance and respect for the audience has allowed the "happy people" to come to the stage of "Happy Comedian 7", undergoing the test of the public and facing the lack of self-performing ability; and getting the audience's recognition is also the most important thing for them to come to this stage. Original intention.
Return to offline theater, "audience" is the original intention of comedy
"Happy Comedian 7" has also undergone a comprehensive upgrade in the competition system-"Happy People" will return to the real offline theaters "Liu Laogen Stage" and "Deyun Club" for development before the official stage competition Learning-all the audience here buy tickets through daily channels; if the audience is not satisfied with the performance, they can refund their tickets at any time.
In this season's show, the audience is the only measure of whether a comedy is good or not.
In the first episode of the program, six "happy people" were the first to be sent to the "Liu Laogen Stage" to complete the preliminary test of comedy ability and the first offline theater performance.
Li Xueqin gave a talk show on the stage in his hometown for the first time. Qin Xiaoxian climbed to the raised table to perform "Bondi", which brought a refreshing viewing experience to the audience.
At present, most professional comedians are rooted in the theater and grew up in the theater. Through close interaction and feedback with the audience all the year round, they have explored their own way of comedy performance.
For "happy people" who are not comedy majors, real guns in the theater can not only test their live performance skills, their psychological endurance to face the audience's true reactions, and the ability to interact with the audience, but also in a short time, Under high intensity, feel the charm of different comedy forms and the characteristics of theater culture more truly, and complete the psychological transformation from "happy man" to comedian faster.
In addition, "Happy Comedian 7" has also added a large number of audience interaction links online and offline. For example, in the first issue, Zhang Da and Yang Shulin formed the "Lin Zi Da" combination which claimed to be Qi Qin and Luo Dayou apprentices, using the out-of-tune version of " Around Winter" and "Childhood" brainwashed the audience and successfully led the audience away; Fan Dandan, with his own variety effects, as the first Shanghainese to perform a duo, mobilized the atmosphere of the audience as soon as he went on stage.
The "busy" interaction with the audience was not seen on the comedy stage in previous seasons.
For the "happy people", paying the bill is the greatest compliment for them; and returning to the cultivation model of offline theater, bringing more people to understand the theater, know the behind-the-scenes life of comedians, and then like theater, enter the theater, right "Happy Comedian" is also a return to the comedy "not forgetting the original heart".
Written by/Beijing News reporter Zhang He