Ma Ji's Top Ten Classic Comic Strips

Ma Ji's Top Ten Classic Comic Strips: "Ask the Doctor", "Make a Phone Call", "Pair of Couplets", "Wang Jinlong and Zhu Yingtai", "Selling Cloths", "Wonderful Words", "Female Captain", "Ten Thousand Purple Reds around the Barracks", "Ten Thousand Purple Reds Around the Barracks", "Cosmic Brand Cigarettes".

"Cosmic Brand Cigarettes" is a representative masterpiece of Ma Ji's classic comedy, a monologue. It was performed on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1984. This work satirized false advertisements, admonished the current evils, and penetrated into the hearts of the people, but also lacked of humor, and also drew on the essence of the performance of the drama, which broadened the form of performance of the comedy, and became the opening work of the "sketches of the comedy".

Ma Ji's biography and comedy characteristics:

Ma Ji was born in Beijing, China, and is originally from Baodi, Tianjin, China. He is a famous performing artist and master of comedy. When he was young, he was an apprentice in Shanghai Hongde Weaving Factory. He carries on his work, and his comic art has influenced and entertained two generations. He is one of the most important representatives of the comic art of new China, and studied under Hou Bao Lin, who has been practicing his art for 50 years, and has taken on nearly 20 disciples.

Compared with other works at that time, Ma Ji, as always, insisted on the style of teaching and criticizing current affairs. At that time, the comic generally sick, just a laugh and embarrassment, Ma Ji's comedy is undoubtedly a stream of fresh air, dare to hit the social bad image at the same time to maintain not vulgarity and not flattering, but also showed his strength in the comedy.