Can Jiang Kun tell traditional jokes and sing traditional plays?

Jiang Kun didn't perform many traditional cross talk jokes. More famous is that he went to Tianjin a few years ago and performed a video with eight fan screens at the request of Tianjin audience. Later, Jiang Kun himself mentioned this matter, saying that he passed the test of Tianjin audience with this passage. However, in my opinion, Jiang Kun's infiltration performance is not "good".

The reason why traditional cross talk is respected is that it contains the crystallization of cross talk skills summarized by predecessors (this is the "cross talk tradition" mentioned by @ Dongdong Gun), and copying traditional jokes is a good means to learn cross talk skills.

But traditional jokes are just a form of performance, not the purpose and limitation of performance, nor the only way to acquire basic skills.

We can't allow crosstalk performers to have poor basic skills, but should allow crosstalk performers not to perform traditional crosstalk.

If it is true, Ma Lao's singing skill is average, but Mr. Hou's penetrating power is not outstanding. Now there will be all kinds of powder accusations on the internet, but it has not stopped the masters from becoming classics.

To repeat my point in other answers: those traditional jokes were also innovative when they were introduced, and creative performances became traditions after they stood the test of history. The same is true of cross talk works now.

Say something more violent: the jokes adapted from traditional cross talk are ingenious ways to acquire new things and creative skills. It is much easier to fill in the content of the times than to create a new masterpiece.

If an industry can never leave history, it will be difficult to stay in the future. This is true of literature and art, sports and even ideology and culture. This is an inherent defect of our civilization, and we cannot ignore it.