Yang Zhenhua, 80, talks about current comedy performances: "Once I was so angry at a comedy show that I didn't go out for three days"

Jin Bing-Chang, Yang Zhenhua, Gong Hanlin, Fan Wei, Jia Chengbo, Chang Peiye ...... In the 1990s, a large number of popular comedians across the country had the label "Liaoning" on them.

However, in recent years, with the change of times, Northeast-style humor in the country blossomed at the moment, willing to stay in Liaoning local comedians are few and far between, they or go to the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, or to change careers. The former scenery and the current predicament, many of the comedy performers in Liaoning, had to rely on their skills to find another way out.

"Full of funny people, all play vulgar poor, difficult to say no to, three days do not go out!" This is the famous comedian Mr. Yang Zhenhua was invited to see the comedy show, he went home and wrote a poem inside a few lines.

Mr. Yang Zhenhua, 80, has been insisting on the creation of comedy segments to this day, and when interviewed by this reporter, one point he particularly emphasized was that no matter how the comedy changes, the humor used and conveyed by the comedy should not be vulgar.

"Two comedians stand on stage. One says, this is my partner. The other says, I'm not your partner, I'm your 'crotch hitch'. After watching this performance, I was so angry that I didn't go out for three days!" Yang Zhenhua, who once created such famous comedy pieces as "Animal World", "Fake Big Sky" and "So Big Money", believes that many young comedians don't understand that shallowness and vulgarity are not real humor, "The humor of the lower three ways is a goddamned thing! The humor of comedy excludes vulgarity. When a comedian stands on stage and starts to perform, he or she has to make the audience below the stage have trust in you."

Yang Zhenhua feels that high-level humor always keeps up with current events, using the performance skills of comedy, so that the audience can get happy in the appreciation: "Will not be able to save the baggage, but also do not learn very seriously, by playing the weirdness does not work at all. Standing on the stage, out of two or three lines, you have to catch the audience, this is the language of comedy."

Mu Kai: Shenyang Opera Troupe less than 10 comedians

Mu Kai

Mu Kai is the Shenyang Opera Troupe left a few comedians. In 1994, on the recommendation of the master of the comedy Jin Bing-Chang, he studied under his disciple Sun Wei. He is now the business director of the Shenyang Opera Troupe, and the representative inheritor of the non-legacy program Shenyang comedy.

Mu Kai, 38 years old, is a very active one in the Liaoning comedy circle. He told the reporter an interesting story of his year to learn from his teacher. "In 1994, Liaoning's comedy in the country as a day, Yang Zhenhua, Jin Bingchang, Wang Ping, Chang Peiye, Gong Hanlin, Fan Wei, Yan Yueming ...... much better. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a good pair of shoes or boots, and you'll be able to get a good pair of shoes or boots. I was fourteen or fifteen years old at that time, and I was mesmerized by the comedy."

Jin Bing-Chang quizzed him on counting from one to ten

Liao Tai had a weekly program that was recorded in the Workers' Cultural Palace of the then Gas Compressor Factory, and many comedians were invited to record the program. Mu Kai, who lived nearby, rode his bicycle there every week to listen to the program. After listening for a long time, he wanted to get closer to his idol. One time, Mukai was listening to the show and wandered into the backstage, where he happened to meet Wang Zhenhua, a comedian.

He walked over and asked Wang Zhenhua, "If I want to learn comedy, who do I call?" Wang Zhenhua turned around and saw a little fat kid, so he teased him, "You're looking for Kim Byung-Chang! Jin Bing-Chang is in the back!"

Mukai turned around and tried to find Kim Byung-Chang, only to be stopped by Wang Zhenhua: "Do you know his home phone number? I'll tell you?"

Mu Kai laughed and told the reporter: "I thought he saw me as a child and teased me! To know that at that time my master was already a nationally recognized comedian. Later I did not ask Wang Zhenhua why he recommended him so easily in the first place."

That day's performance ended after 8:00 p.m. The two comedians, Kim Byung-Chang and Yang Zhenhua, walked down the long flight of steps in front of the Palace of Culture, and I shouted after them, "Mr. Kim! I want to learn comedy from you!"

"My master is a particularly warm-hearted person, willing to be a man of honor." Being called out by a little chubby kid he'd never met before, he smiled and said, "If you want to learn comedy, then count for me, from one to ten."

"Let me count, one is to see if this child is a big tongue; the second is to see whether to share the flat tongue." Mukai said he did not quite distinguish the flat tongue, but Kim Byung-Chang still did not harden his heart to reject a child. Not only gave the home address about the next meeting, but also once again gave the home contact number.

Many Liaoning comedians have changed careers

Because the age difference was so great, when Mukai actually came to the door, Jin Bingchang introduced Mukai to his own disciple, the comedian Sun Wei.

"The masters in the comedy world have always been students being students and disciples being disciples. Students normally charge tuition, but masters never charge tuition to their disciples. Master and disciple as father and son, the disciple in the master's house has a job to work, eat and what the master is in charge. Understand the matter of the apprentice, three sections of the two birthday to buy some gifts to see the master, with the same relatives." Mu Kai said that at first Sun Wei did not take it too seriously, he let Mu Kai first buy a "Xinhua Dictionary" to watch, when to split the flat tongue, when to learn comedy. Two months time, 15-year-old Mu Kai put a brand new dictionary to see the thick, all the flat warble tongue are clear. This heart, let him into the teacher's door.

From the past to the present, there are few who have become famous by speaking comedy. "All the comedians are counted, all the famous, we do not care about personality personality, just say kung fu, can become famous without hard work. But satire is not acerbic, literary ruffian hard to become everyone." Mu Kai said, "At present, the Shenyang Opera Troupe less than 10 comedians. A lot of our Liaoning comedians went to the north, some of them worshiped the master, in the small theater to insist on saying comedy, some simply change profession. That being said, it is very easy for comedians to change careers."

Fan Wei, the newly crowned Golden Horse movie star, used to say comedy, actor Liu Wei used to say comedy, the late actor Fu Biao used to say comedy, and Zhu Jun, now a famous CCTV host, used to be a comedian. There are also many actors and actresses who have engaged in comedy performances as amateurs, including Ge You, Gong Hanlin and so on.

Mukai, in addition to speaking comedy, sometimes also performs sketches or commentary, "compared to Beijing, in Shenyang, specifically to pay for tickets to the small theater to listen to the comedy of the audience is too small. So it's the law of the market to leave and change careers. Comedy has been changing, whether in the theater or in the Spring Festival, the traditional comedy must be changed. Northeastern humor, wide open, hot and enthusiastic. In three to five minutes, you make the audience feel uninteresting, you can't adapt to this fast up tempo, your stage is gone."

Huashang Morning News reporter Guan Shuliu writing