What is "baggage" in comedy?

The artistic language used in comedy to make people laugh is called "baggage". It is a term used by comedians, but in fact it means exactly the same as joke or gag. It is used in the process of "tying baggage" and "shaking baggage".

Generally speaking, a joke can be told with one or two "baggage". A comic must have at least four or five "baggage", otherwise it is easy to warm up to the end, affecting the performance effect. From the development of jokes into the process of comedy, is constantly enriching the content, increase the "baggage" process. For example, Hou Baolin organized and performed "Guan Gong Battle Qin Qiong", which has nearly 3,000 words, while the original joke only has more than 300 words. Many of the traditional comedy tracks are made up of small "cushion words".

The main artistic tool of comedy is to make people laugh. Therefore, without "baggage", it would not be a comic opera. Laughing should be a laugh of praise and blame, a laugh of love and hate. To make the laugher feel inspired, inspired, enlightened and alert. Can not just laugh, just happy. Jokes are natural. Should do "I have no intention to tell jokes, who knows the joke forced people to come. Writing and speaking comedy is also like this. In addition to the correct attitude to create, but also need to master some of the most basic knowledge, and constantly explore the "baggage" generated by the law, with natural, healthy laughter, to enrich the spiritual life of the people. The "baggage" should be generated from some comedic factors that make people laugh. It must truly reflect the life, use the refined and generalized language, cleverly arranged structure and echoing plot and other means to produce artistic effects. The "baggage" must be funny but not vulgar, humorous but not slippery, unexpected, but in reason, stand out and give people the enjoyment of beauty. At the same time, the actor should also be good at innovation, not stick to the same old thing.

Ten methods of composing "baggage"

The arrangement of "baggage" in the comedy, we should be good at drawing on traditional techniques, and constantly innovate to meet the needs of the times. There are many ways to compose "baggage", the most important of which are repetition, negation, anomaly, illusion, pun, exaggeration, interruption, misinterpretation, harmonization, argument and other ten.

(1) Repetition

The contradiction of the illusion repeated three times, the fourth time to subtly mutate, revealing the true picture of things. For example, "Ode to Friendship": A: foreign countries can understand the comedy? B: It does not matter if you do not understand, there is a translation! (for the creation of false impression padding) A: Oh! A: Oh! An actor standing next to an interpreter, say a sentence, turn a sentence? B: That's great! (Continue to lay the groundwork) A: Now we begin to say a comedy. B: Wino Bighorn, Coruscuscuscus. (First time) A: Comedy is a Chinese folk art. B: Krauszück, Yerbauk Atzichner. (Second time) A: The form of comedy is lively and combative. B: Itaslev, Liam Miletente. (Third time) A: This form is a shoe without an awl - really good! The dog chases the duck - quack. B: this ...... A: flip which! B: I can not turn over, playful how to turn which? (The fourth shake "baggage") This technique actors call it "three times four shake".

(2) Negative method

The people who do not agree with each other, say one thing, do another, often self-denial, can not explain themselves. For example, "Buying a Buddhist niche": B: What did the young man say? A: "Auntie, on the street, buy a Buddhist niche ah!" Isn't that a good sentence? B: Ah! A: The old lady doesn't want to hear it!" Young people have no rules. This is a Buddhist niche, can you say buy? You have to say please!" B: Please. A: "Ma'am, I don't understand, how much did you pay for that?" "It's just a piece of shit fucking 80 cents!" B: how ...... A: a heartache money curse on it!

(3) perverse method

The thing that violates the norm, according to the norm to speak. For example, "love merits": A: two people in love are love each other's merits. B: That's right! A: the man to the woman to seek advice are so say: "Zhang, we have been in contact for so long, you talk about what else to say?" B: Seek advice. What does the woman say? A: "I don't have any opinion, I like you very much, I feel that you have a lot of advantages worthy of my study, you are of good character, serious, especially like you is that you are willing to help people, can do self-sacrifice, selflessness." B: This is how good wow! A: Is there a special love for each other's shortcomings? B: I've never heard of it. A: The man asked for advice: "Xiao Zhang, what exactly do you love about me?" B: Xiao Zhang said what? A: "What do I love about you? First, I love you will tell lies, we have known each other for such a long time, you really do not have a word!" B: ooh! A: "Second, I love you bold, whose money you dare to steal." B: blind! A: "Especially love you the most is that you do not hygiene, three months do not wash a foot." B: never heard of it.

(4) illusion method

The illusion of being right due to the illusion. For example, the female captain: A: I led the reporter out of the village, far away, I saw wearing a red-brimmed straw hat. B: That's your lover. A: I rushed over: "Guiying! The reporter is looking for you to talk, Gui ...... moncler outlet!" B: Why are you called a grandpa? A: With two beards which!

(5) Double entendre

A double entendre creates misunderstanding. For example, the old stationmaster: B: Where do you live? A: Hebei Shanghai. B: Hebei Shanghai? A: ah! Hebei Province upstream commune haizi brigade. Hebei Shanghai. B: Who understands this!

(6) exaggeration

The development of things according to the law, to be exaggerated and analyzed. For example, the theory of crying and laughing: A: It is often said that a smile is less than a smile. B: No, it should be laugh a decade less. A: A smile is ten years younger, then who dares to listen to the comedy. B: How dare you not listen to ah? A: How old are you this year? B: Forty. A: Laugh a time left thirty, laugh two times left twenty, laugh three times left ten years old, say what do not dare to laugh again. B: What? A: I can't laugh anymore! I rode a bicycle when I came here, but I carried it away when I left! The theater has been changed into a nursery! ("baggage")

(7) interruption method

The use of interruption techniques, deliberately interruptions, make people laugh. For example, the soccer match: B: I'll perform this one. A: The exhibition game, that can be brilliant ah! Is it singles or doubles? B: Who will play? A: I'll deal with you on a plate, let you kick off first. B: Kick off? I can bounce the ball. A: Bouncing, I'll block it back for you. B: I have to catch it! A: If you can't catch it, it's out of bounds and you lose one point. ("Baggage") B: This is one point? You have to wait! A: Wait, it's out of bounds, you lose another point. ("Baggage") B: Hey! How did I run into it? A: I'm in trouble? That's what I call it. I've lost another point. ("baggage")

(8) misinterpretation

People are familiar with some common knowledge, deliberately misinterpreted and distorted. A: How? B: All gentlemen are good at soccer. ("baggage") A: that ...... "fair lady"? B: At that time they played bad, net loss (lady) to the female. ("baggage") A: you this all what ah?

(9) Harmonization

The clever use of homophonic words can be interesting. For example, in the "beating and spoiling": B: Where do the children live? A: They are living in the "public house" by the river. B: public house? A: ...... ooh, really good, a row of four rooms, up and down two floors. B: simple building? A: The ash pipe. B: That's called a public house? A: Whose pipe is it? B: the public. A: public pipe (Museum) well! ("Wrapped") B: Hey!

(10) Argumentative method

Stubbornness, strong words, pursued vigorously, and vibrant words. For example, the "small lift": B: listen to the benefits of comedy! A: Oh! Can avoid three disasters to eight difficulties, lice do not bite, fleas do not bite, rats do not come, no money to money, no face to face, not thirsty, not hungry, not sick, not worried. ("Baggage") B: not so great benefits, a little benefit. A: Buy me a pair of shoes? B: No matter what you buy. A: Then what other benefits? B: For example, you, a little pain in the heart. A: Why wouldn't I? B: Let's say you're a little upset. A: I'm not annoyed! B: You are a little twisted. A: Who am I upset with? B: I don't know! ("baggage") you come here to enter the door to listen to the comedy, the ballast can be forgotten. A: Oh! That's the way it is, then I listen to the end of a door, and remembered the awkward thing to do? B: then ...... you don't go!

Chernyshevsky said: "Laughter is a fire, it can burn away all the dirty and filthy things." The role of the comic "baggage" is exactly the same.