New expansion of comedy concept, content and form
In recent years, comedy variety shows have been loved by audiences.
On the screen, "Happy Comedian" and "Cross-Boundary Comedy King" complement each other.
The Central Radio and Television Station launched the academic-style "Gold Medal Comedy Class". The students' actual combat performance and the instructor's personal teaching complemented each other and won a warm response.
The comedy variety show on the Internet is even more prosperous.
"Talk Show Conference" and "Serious Gaga" have good reputation, especially "Talk Show Conference", which was broadcast in the fourth season, and the limelight is still very strong, showing continued market potential.
The "Annual Comedy Contest" co-created by iQiyi and Miwei Media came from behind, and its comprehensive expansion of the concept, content and form of comedy art is worthy of careful examination.
The positioning and type, the concept of comedy, and the talent selection mechanism are the comprehensive manifestation of the concept of program creation.
At present, various variety shows generally adopt the competition mode, and the "Annual Comedy Competition" focuses on exploring the creativity of outstanding screenwriters and young actors who are not well-known.
The show discovers comedy talents, respects and stimulates their creativity, and the platform, director team, and post-production become incubators and work together.
In comedy performances, traditional cross talk and sketches rely more on the expressiveness and imitation of language.
The "Annual Comedy Contest" has obviously higher requirements for actors' comedy talent and comprehensive expressiveness. In addition to the charm of playful language, the importance of physical expressiveness has been significantly strengthened.
For example, in plays such as "Idol Waiter", "Romantic Leak" and "The Last Lesson", the actors' facial expressions and body language are very joyful. Latin dance, rap, opera, musical, playing and singing are interspersed. The comprehensive quality and expressiveness have brought about the comprehensive transcendence of the concept and form of comedy.
In addition, the means of triggering the sense of joy have also been expanded. For example, the ingenious use of intertextuality in "A Blow of Zhisheng" has produced a strong comedy effect.
It is a fundamental characteristic of comedy to make people laugh, and at the same time, comedy obviously cannot stop at laughter.
The sublimation of the theme of comedy is natural, and excellent comedy variety shows often trigger the audience's thinking through laughter.
This is fully reflected in the works of "Annual Comedy Contest".
For example, the exchange of other people's lives in "Parallel Time and Space Hotel" reflects the general desire to experience more wonderful lives.
"Ten Years of Work under the Stage" shows me and the "young me" adherence to the original intention of opera, which is touching.
Most of the comedy programs represented by "Talk Show Conference" and "Annual Comedy Contest" are influenced by similar foreign art forms, but they have undergone successful localization transformation and properly integrated into the era's concerns and society of Chinese comedy variety shows. think.
The content of the "Annual Comedy Contest" program fully shows the profound accumulation of life of the main creative team, which can always be seen from what people see in daily life.
"Internet Checkup" vividly satirizes the frequent interference of online push pop-up advertisements, as well as the cumbersome and funny online verification, which is admirable for its creativity.
"Transparent" satirizes the abuse of big data, and "Where Has Time Gone" reproduces the state of urban people's mobile phone addiction, which is full of fun and timely.
The repertoire constructs dramatic situations with imaginative creativity, and the free transformation across time and space greatly expands the stage performance.
Comedy variety shows such as "Annual Comedy Contest" have expanded the concept of comedy, excavated and expressed the life of the times, expanded the form of comedy expression, accumulated experience that can be used for reference in the future creation of the same type, and also contributed to the growth of comedy talents and domestic production. Comedy film and television creation provides a talent pool.
(The author Dai Qing is a professor at the School of Drama, Film and Television, Communication University of China)