Exclusive dialogue with Meng Chuan

  Just kidding, shake hands with life

  In 2020, the hot "open wheat" talk show variety show has become popular with talk shows and a group of people who love to talk about jokes. Shandong native talk show actor Meng Chuan is one of them.

Amid the prosperity and prosperity of the talk show, Meng Chuan has not received many interviews. He said that he wanted to allow himself a lot of creative time.

  On the evening of July 16, Meng Chuan accepted an exclusive interview with Qilu Evening News Qilu Yidian.

On the evening of the 19th, the Mud Music Club where Meng Chuan is located will perform two consecutive performances at the Beichenzhiguang City Fun Theater in Jinan. He Guangzhi and Meng Chuan will all appear.

The theater is an important symbol of the upgrade of the "mud music" talk show club. The club will also open a new theater in the old commercial port of Jinan, focusing on the composite space concept of "beautiful without performances".

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  Reporter Song said

  Jokes in front of friends

  Shy man in front of parents

  Meng Chuan in the interview is as straightforward as his talk show.

In more than an hour, Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter raised dozens of questions, he basically gave the most concise and true answers without thinking.

In this regard, he said, “The first reaction is the most true. If you think too much, it will be mixed with the vanity of the master.” Meng Chuan said that he did not want to repeat the story of his previous life's ups and downs to become a talk show actor, because There are too many mechanical repetitions, and it is almost a dull memory.

  Meng Chuan called himself a "four-rate novelist."

He feels that his novels are not outstanding, and the reason he still retains this label is because he is still obsessed with the pleasure of writing novels. "Writing novels is also for expression. It is the same as a talk show, but with a different way of expression. Now I still write novels, and I have posted two articles on the official account."

  Speaking of the journey from a "four-rate novelist" to a talk show actor, Meng Chuan said it was like a joke, "I updated 8,000 words every day a month, and insisted on getting a perfect attendance award of 1,500 yuan a month, but I looked at the cervical spine at the time. I spent 2800 yuan on the illness, and I feel that I will not write novels in the future. After all, the family finances can't support it." The opportunity and reason to embark on the talk show was attributed to a medical expense for cervical strain.

When saying these words, Meng Chuan's tone was very relaxed.

It’s very much in line with the daily life of a talk show actor to take out his hard days as a joke, as the outside world said, “Just kidding, shake hands with life.

  A microphone can output jokes at any time, and find a place to tell the truth happily. This is the reason for Meng Chuan to join the talk show.

After entering the industry, Meng Chuan found that writing novels and writing paragraphs is not difficult for him, and both can express himself. "In the beginning, writing paragraphs is like writing novels. Both of them can be subjectively put into more personal concepts. When you hide what you want to express in a paragraph or story, if the reader can feel it, they will be very happy."

  It is said that creation is the biggest professional anxiety of talk show actors, but for Meng Chuan, high-frequency output is not a difficult task.

Meng Chuan writes jokes very quickly. The fastest record is a talk show of 30 minutes a week, and business slogans are easy to come by.

"To write a joke, you need to read everything. The brain is the place where the stalk is processed. The raw materials come from books, movies, news, and observations in life. This is the way to input jokes."

  After becoming a talk show actor, Meng Chuan is still a joke player in front of friends and a shy man in front of parents.

After the end of the third season of "Talk Show Conference" in 2020, Meng Chuan felt that his life had not changed much. He still wrote articles and brought children every day, frequently traveling between Jinan and Shanghai.

It’s just that after being recognized by more people, he has a trace of trouble, "There are many people who can recognize me, so you have to pay attention to the image. Especially when I just participated in the "Tucao Conference", in the photos I took My state is a bit too free and undisciplined." He doesn't have a strong idol baggage, "I didn't have any hairstyle or styling, but I didn't dare to go out wearing slippers and big pants."

  "1500 per month" is a joke

  Also reality

  Meng Chuan, who had just participated in the "Talk Show Conference" in 2020, said something rather bitter, "I have a mud music talk show theater myself, but no one will hold a performance when I am not there."

  The mud music talk show theater mentioned by Meng Chuan in the program is currently the most well-known talk show club in Jinan. It was established in April 2019. Meng Chuan, Xiaoxin and Asa are the founders, and Meng Chuan is the president of the club. .

After experiencing a round of online talk show "explosion field", since the end of last year, a large number of people with dreams of talk show flocked to the talk show, injecting fresh blood into the industry. Jinan Nile Talk Show Theater also has a lot of talks. Show fans are stationed. “Currently there are more than a dozen cast and crew members. Last year, there were some newcomers who added them. Now they can rotate normally without me and maintain the rhythm of the theater’s weekly performances.” Meng Chuan said.

  When the Mud Music Club was founded, Meng Chuan was not well-known. Later, due to Meng Chuan’s personal popularity online, he brought a large number of audiences to the offline talk show club of Mud Music. The exposure of the program also made the frequency of other talk show performers directly. Doubled.

The industry seems to be booming, but Meng Chuan fell into thinking, "It is very difficult to find an actor who talks about talk shows in Shandong, because talk show actors are not recruited in the social sense. It is a good idea for the fans of Open Mai. Just stay, and the bad ones will go away.” Meng Chuan said, because a large number of full-time talk show actors still cannot support themselves with performance fees, the economic pressures faced by actors still exist.

  As one of the founders of Jinan Mud Music Club, Meng Chuan is especially looking forward to talk show fans to participate in the club's open wheat.

Regarding the quality of the jokes of non-full-time talk show fans, Meng Chuan’s requirements have also been appropriately relaxed. “Shanghai’s standard is four stalks a minute, and my measurement standard is three stalks a minute, even a qualified talk show actor. ."

  The standards have been relaxed, but it is still difficult for some actors to stay in the mud club for a long time.

At present, the talent pool of domestic talk show actors is too small to support the booming development of the industry. This makes Meng Chuan helpless. “Shandong actually has a lot of talk show actors, but very few of them stay in Shandong because of this. It is difficult to support the income of a full-time talk show actor in the market in China. It is true that more people are willing to contact offline talk shows, but it is far from enough.” Meng Chuan said with emotion.

  On the stage of the "Talk Show Conference", He Guangzhi once used the phrase "I can earn 1,500 per month" to ridicule how poor the talk show actors are.

After the first round of online talk show broadcasts, the situation of the talk show industry has continued to improve. "After the "Talk Show Conference", our income has generally been much higher. This is a real change that we can feel." There are also many people who still only earn 1,500 yuan a month.

Meng Chuan said, "The income of these talk show performers is low, but it has nothing to do with the industry market."

  Will try this year

  Add something profound

  "Talk show actors need to be made by someone who is slightly smarter. Sometimes actors are competing with the audience for IQ. If a piece is first guessed by the audience, then you have failed." Meng Chuan believes that the talk show can be made. The audience laughed relaxedly. It is inseparable from their personal abilities. It requires the creators to strictly train their own strength to achieve this. Especially for actors who are not so talented, more writing and more training is the "success of the talk show" "Password", "If you write 100 paragraphs and you will get one, then if you write 1000, you will get 10. That is to write more, write more, write more, it will always be good to write more." Meng Chuan said vigorously three times "Write more", "because no matter how prosperous the industry, what determines the income of talk show actors is still the skill of'writing jokes'." Meng Chuan said.

  “The success rate of talk shows is not as high as imagined, but people who work harder in this industry earn quite a bit.” Meng Chuan said with a smile, “Since signing with Xiaoguo Culture, they have received monthly salary and income. Very stable!"

  In Xiaoguo Culture Company, Meng Chuan has two identities, one is a creator, and the other is a "teacher" who trains newcomers.

Meng Chuan also participated in the fourth season of "Talk Show Conference" this year and is currently recording, "I don't think I will rank better this year than last year. There are strong new talk show actors this year, many of whom I have trained. ,I know."

  Newcomers to the talk show in the new season did not make Meng Chuan feel "new and old" anxious, "I am not anxious when I am not working. Now that I have a job, what am I anxious about? It feels good to see outstanding newcomers. of."

  Meng Chuan said frankly that he still needs to make tentative progress after he has been in the industry for more than three years.

Compared with the stories that came from life in the past two years, Meng Chuan’s creation has changed a little this year. “In the past two years, I felt that I couldn’t control the particularly profound content. This year I will try to add a little bit of thinking.

  Currently still in

  The state of "powering for love"

  "The Mud Music Club does not need other financial support and can support itself. I think it has succeeded." Most people live in the present and look forward to the future, but Meng Chuan only thinks about living in the present." I didn't set any career goals for myself. I am not a very ambitious person, but because I like it, I want to do a good job of talk show." In the fast-growing talk show industry, Meng Chuan has his own rhythm. "I don’t have a sense of mission in the industry. This is too great. It’s not like what I should do. Teacher Siwen are pioneers, and they can’t survive without a sense of mission. Our group is still'powering for love'. status."

  From talk show enthusiasts to providing a platform for talk show enthusiasts, Meng Chuan does not think that he is a "career-oriented" who promotes the development of the industry. He even recognizes the identity of a "teacher". "I think I do the best in this industry. Contribution means that I have contributed a large number of very good Shandong talk show actors to this industry.” On the stage of the fourth quarter of this year, the "Talk Show Conference", there are many newcomers worth looking forward to, two of them are from Shandong Among the talented newcomers, one is an actor from the Jinan Mud Music Club. "Talk show actor Xu Zhisheng is an excellent talk show actor who ran from Jining to the Beijing club to talk about Open Mai, and Zhang Haozhe from our club also participated in the fourth season. These two are excellent actors worth looking forward to." Meng Chuan introduced.

  The offline talk show club showed great vitality. When talking about the future development of the Jinan Mud Music Talk Show Club, Meng Chuan scratched his head and said he hadn’t dared to think too much. “Although Mud Music is a lucrative theater, it still has some One thing people do for hobbies, we never think about how profitable the mud music talk show theater can be. This venue is more like an interest group.” But it is undeniable that the inside of the mud music talk show club has already quietly gathered. Confident atmosphere, "Seven of our club’s talk show actors were signed by Xiaoguo Culture. Few second-tier clubs can be signed by Xiaoguo Culture. This is really a sense of accomplishment. "