Who was the originator of comedy? The more details, the better.

The originator of comedy was Zhang Sanlu.

Zhang Sanlu is the earliest recorded comedian in today's society. According to the relevant records and speculation: Zhang Sanlu was originally a clown performer of octagonal drums, and later changed to comic dialogues.

His artistic career began during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. In the book of the children of the "Random Joy", it is said, "Learning comedy is like returning Zhang Sanlu, the copper mule Yu Sansheng to as if it were alive."

Zhang Sanlu's experience:

Zhang Sanlu is the ancestor of Tianqiao artist "Guan'er Zhang" family, according to the artists said to have been the head of Beijing's east, west and north city artists. He was originally an octagonal drum artist, but also knew ventriloquism, juggling and other skills, and then changed to comedy.

The lower limit of his artistic activity was during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and the upper limit was during the Xianfeng or Daoguang period. The octagonal drums are divided into eight parts: blowing, beating, playing, pulling, talking, learning, teasing and singing, and there are various roles for the student, the dancer, the cleaner, the finalist and the clown. Its clown on the scene, to catch the comic relief is given priority to.

According to the cloud tourists "Jianghu Series Talks": "octagonal drum of the famous clowns for Zhang Sanlu, the art of superior, better than others, rely on the scene to catch the joke, to see the scene, adapt to the situation, do not have to die set of words, performed by the community is quite popular.

After because of the eccentricity, it is not easy to take the class, ostracized, he was angry and put down the ground. When he was on the bright land, to say, learning, teasing, singing four major skills as art, people are willing to listen to its play. Zhang Sanlu is not willing to say the octagonal drum, claiming that his art is a comic opera.