The "Annual Comedy Contest" has come to an end.
From 8.0 at the beginning of the minute, it went all the way to 8.4 points.
Many works and contestants in the program have successfully gone out of the circle.
This wave of comedians in front of and behind the scenes has finally survived.
Along with laughter, comedy variety shows were once again pushed to the cusp of the storm.
but.
The more popular the "Annual Comedy Contest", the more Uncle Fish misses another national variety show.
It was born 12 years ago, the same comedy variety show, the same stage short drama presentation form.
However, it encountered rectification at the right time of red, stopped broadcasting, infighting, and disbanded.
It's a pity.
"The Annual Comedy Contest" is good.
But in Uncle Fish's mind, the real comedy national comprehensive ceiling, it has to be it -
"Laughing Room"
Douban 9.3 points, the memories of a generation.
In addition to feelings, it has more significance of the times -
It has created a precedent for theatrical comedy variety shows.
It has also sent a group of excellent comedians to the entertainment industry.
The "Love To Laugh" team of "Love To Laugh Room" has always been a big surprise in the circle.
Netizens felt that if they could survive at that time, they would definitely be the most talented comedy team in China.
It's just a matter of creating people.
A group of the best comedians, but failed to catch up with the best era of comedy.
Today Uncle Fish wants to talk about "Love Laughing Conference Room".
How good were they back then?
For the iron fans of "Love to Laugh Room", only one sentence can evoke common memories:
"Our great king wants a fried cake."
"Give me a big scene of two thousand people."
"If you want cement, find Qi Bin."
There are too many such "secret codes".
Because in its heyday, the "Love To Laugh" team left behind a number of classic works.
Some of the best works are still talked about more than a decade later.
Click on the relevant comments on Weibo and B station, and there are still people picking up the stem.
Let's start with the most famous "The Story of Fried Cakes".
King Sham Yerushalayevich wants to eat a delicious fried cake.
But there are no fried cakes in their own countries, and they must go to neighboring countries to pick them up.
A group of soldiers in British uniforms received the order.
Captain Zhang Alascu, with four soldiers, set out on the road.
The whole team reported their own numbers, and their names were Togen, Howyugan, and Jiajia Brugan.
Then he performed strange rituals in Russian "Garvas".
Less than two minutes after the opening, a large number of strange names, strange movements, and information explosions.
The audience is overwhelmed, but it is also full of laughter.
Those awkward names later became famous memes.
A group crossed the five-fold blockade of the border, only one person returned alive.
After retrieving the fried bread, the king said he wanted to order vinegar and peppers.
But their own country still does not have it, and they have to go to neighboring countries to get it.
So another group of people hit the road again.
They shouted, "Can you tell us what the country really is?"
This show is the pinnacle of the "Love Laugh" team's absurd comedy.
The strongest of the "Love Smile" team is the vigorous creativity.
Their work is completely different, and even forms and genres are constantly innovating.
For example, there is the cabaret comedy "Spanish Love Song".
Flamenco music with the lyrics "You eat a popsicle and you're gone".
There is also a crazy dancing dancer in red, and the comedic effect is full.
There is the costume comedy "The Messenger", which begins with the breaking of the treaty of "the messenger who fights each other".
In the end, the messenger was forced to communicate with his neighbors only with a microphone.
At the same time, the "Love To Laugh" team has further broadened the boundaries of comedy variety shows and launched a "series".
The most classic is the "Audition" series.
Zhang Zidong played a newcomer actor, auditioned according to the director's requirements.
Originally, one person played two roles.
He jumped left and right, quickly switching identities.
From greeting each other, to eating together, to getting one on the bus and the other catching up with the bus.
The difficulty continued to escalate, and after tossing and turning for a long time, the director suddenly came to a sentence:
Zhang Zidong was momentarily confused, and then he picked up a chair and chased after the director, "We have two thousand brothers, what are we afraid of?"
Such a program belongs to the "Love Laughter" team, and others cannot imitate it.
It's all about the comedic talent of the actors.
There are also series of comedies that parody Hollywood blockbusters.
Includes 007, Superman and other series.
Even the characters have separate series.
Zhang Yiming's "Yiming Understanding" and Qiao Shan's "Shanran Tears" series.
In the story, various call backs constitute the earliest "laughing universe".
The small stage of a few square meters on that side was developed to the extreme by them.
These high-quality works are inseparable from each member.
At that time, the "Love to Laugh" team was all high-caliber students in Chinese opera, Beiyin, and Chinese transmission.
Everyone is a choreographer, director, and acting triathlon, multi-talented.
They have complete autonomy over their work and can fully express themselves.
A group of professional people get together to do professional things, and "Love To Laugh Room" becomes that's it.
After all, before that, most comedy variety shows were very rough and relatively low-level.
Nothing more than through the host's cutscenes, a series of sketches and cross-talk.
Such a show is difficult to attract young audiences.
The emergence of "Love Laughing Room" has become the first theatrical comedy variety show in China.
Each show is carefully choreographed to make the audience feel as if they are in a small theater.
It also re-attracted a large number of young audiences.
"Love Laughing Room" officially pushes the domestic comedy variety show to the road of "high-quality".
What "Laughing Room" left on stage was comedy.
But outside the stage, the show itself is a literal tragedy.
Speaking of the birth of this show, one word: poor.
The earliest members of the Love to Laugh team were five people:
Xiu Rui, Zhang Yiming, Zhang Zidong, Cui Zhijia, Xiao Xu.
Zhang Zidong is both the captain and the main brain of creation.
They are poor, and the set and props for the show are rudimentary.
The cost of a play can only be controlled at a few hundred yuan.
Dai Jun of Liaoning Satellite TV was the first noble person the "Love Smile" team met.
Not only help them pull sponsorship.
They will also invite friends to be guests during the recording, and then lead everyone to laugh together.
In May 2010, "Love Smile Conference Room" was featured on the screen for the first time as a sub-column of Liaoning Satellite TV's "Who is the Protagonist" program.
With the help of network communication, the "Love Smile" team became a blockbuster and became a little famous.
Later, the "Love Smile" team switched from Liaoning Satellite TV to Heilongjiang Satellite TV.
"Laughing Room" became an independent show.
The "Love Smile" team also welcomed qiao shan, Pan Binlong, Wang Rui, Guzheng, Debai and other newcomers to join.
It was the sweet season of the "Love to Laugh" team, the team grew, and the show was prolific.
The twist soon came.
For an ace comedy variety show, the most appropriate time should be the golden file of family fun.
The broadcast time of "Love Smile Conference Room" was moved to 10:30 pm on the weekend.
Counting the advertisement in the middle, it was almost twelve o'clock in the evening.
The show missed a large part of the audience.
Television stations do not pay enough attention to the program and fail to position themselves.
Despite this, the members insisted on a high level of creation and maintained the reputation of the show.
What really made the "Love Smile" team unbearable was that the TV station began to interfere in the creation.
In June 2011, captain Zhang Zidong tweeted that the scope of the TV station's control was too large and many things were banned.
Even the nostril digging has been accused of indecent and cannot appear.
There are even some elaborate programs that say cut and cut, and directly do not let it be broadcast.
For example, the "Recruitment" currently circulating on the Internet does not have a station logo in the picture.
Because it broke some unspoken rules, it was accused of innuendoing the recruitment mechanism within the TV station.
On July 7, 2011, captain Zhang Zidong quit the "Love Smile" team.
Regarding the situation at that time, he later sent a Weibo message saying:
"Pick what you like to see, don't look at everything so beautiful."
After Zhang Zidong left, many contradictions within the "Love Smile" team also began to erupt.
Because the TV station changed the program mode of "Love Laughing Room" -
Perform on stage first, then settle your salary.
In today's parlance, this directly led to a team roll-in, vicious competition.
Everyone is more tired than before, and the salary in hand is only enough to make ends meet.
Xiao Xu sometimes threw up directly after stepping down from the stage, Zhang Yiming was tired to the point of retinal detachment, and Cui Zhijia suffered from depression.
Almost everyone falls ill.
Even if I am sick, sometimes I don't even dare to take medicine in order to ensure the smooth broadcast of the program.
I was worried about being sleepy after taking the medicine and delaying my creation.
Most egregiously, in such difficult conditions, management has no respect for team members.
Qiao Shan said in an interview that the TV station compared the newcomer and the old man to two groups of dogs, both competing for the bones in the middle.
Moreover, there have also been divisions within the team, creative concepts are not compatible, and commercial interests are competing.
Qiao Shan said: "Originally, I was already very tired of creating short plays, but later the personnel struggle was even more tiring than the creation."
Soon after, Zhang Yiming, Qiao Shan, Xiu Rui, and Cui Zhijia successively quit the "Love Smile" team.
The only member of the first generation was Xiao Xu.
Due to large-scale personnel changes, "Laughing Room" had to be discontinued in March 2013 for rectification.
It was rebroadcast after more than half a year, but the quality of the program plummeted, and the actors' acting skills could not keep up.
You can also feel the amount of views from the video website.
Early videos were millions of views.
After changing a group of people, the cliff fell, leaving only a hundred thousand plays.
In 2014, Heilongjiang Satellite TV also "abandoned" "Love Laughing Room".
Xiao Xu led all the members of "Love Smile" to switch to Hunan Satellite TV.
Launched a new show "We All Love to Laugh".
Although still under the banner of the "Love to Laugh" team.
But there has been a change of people, not the original taste.
True iron fans, now mention "Love Laughing Conference Room", also only recognize the early programs of Liaoning Satellite TV and Heilongjiang Satellite TV.
It's a pity.
Such a gifted group of comedians, because of the common creative philosophy gathered together.
After insisting on it for so long in the years of poverty, I thought it was to keep the clouds open and see the moon.
I didn't expect to be crushed by force majeure.
Imagine if they could have left the tv station and toured as an independent theater company.
Could it be a different outcome?
For "Laughing Room".
The story off the stage is as ups and downs as the story above the stage.
Too many regrets, too many helplessness.
These deeds have now become talking points, adding a bit of legend to "Love to Laugh".
However, like the one said above.
Fortunately, several of the first members of the "Love To Laugh" team are from the class.
So after leaving the "Love To Laugh" team, each has a good development.
Qiao Shan met Dapeng.
In the web drama "Di Si Men", he became the "father of great health care".
He also starred in "Pancake Man" and "Sewing Machine Band" directed by Dapeng in succession.
Last year, he starred in the movie "The Bath King".
Zhang Yiming joined Happy Twist and became a golden supporting role.
He has had impressive performances in the movies "Charlotte Troubles" and "The Richest Man in Xihong".
Cui Zhijia partnered with Pan Binlong to break into the finals of the second season of "Happy Comedians".
He later became a resident guest of Happy Comedians.
Now he's starting to make movies.
Xiu Rui has had cameos in some web dramas and movies.
Then he went into a drama career.
The year before yesterday, he participated in the variety show "Drama New Life".
Watching the "Love Smile" team go to a broader stage and be known by more people can also make old fans feel comforted.
If anything, there is any regret in this.
I am afraid that zhang Zidong, the soul of the "love to laugh" team, has never really caught fire.
His talent at that time was obvious to all.
Not only can you create a story, but your acting skills are even more remarkable.
Every time you appear, without talking, a look or an expression is enough to make the audience laugh.
After leaving the "Love To Laugh" team, Zhang Zidong still insisted on his comedy style.
However, without the cooperation of the "Love to Laugh" team, the comedic effect is also discounted.
He went to "Happy Comedians" and finished at the bottom.
After recording the variety show "Seven Brothers of Melon", he began to make cameos in comedy movies continuously.
But these movies, without exception, are bad movies.
Last year's starring movie "Billion Cowards", the Douban score was only 3.8.
Zhang Zidong's repeated attempts may also illustrate that the funny way of relying on body language and dense line output may not be suitable for movies.
Only a stage performance close to the audience can truly be successful.
There were rumors that Happy Twist had wanted to sign him, but he refused.
He pursues freedom, but freedom often comes with a price.
This also led to his development in the circle not going well.
Click on Zhang Zidong's Weibo comment area, there are only a few.
And it's all "laughing" old fans to play with the terrier.
After the dissolution of the original "Love Smile" team.
The domestic comedy market has undergone earth-shaking changes.
In 2014, it was called "the first year of domestic comedy variety shows".
The number of comedy variety shows shows a "blowout" trend -
"The Ever-Changing Big Cafe Show", "We All Love to Laugh", "Laughing Proud of the River", "Happy Comedians", "Comedy Story", "Crossover Comedy King", "I'm a Comedy Maniac"...
Each David TV, everyone has a show, the audience is almost unable to watch.
More and more comedians and comedy labels are emerging.
Looking back now, this is not the foundation laid by "Love And Smile Room".
It was then, and to this day, that comedy has become increasingly important in everyday life.
Being able to make people laugh has become a profitable business.
Just look at the total box office of Shen Teng's movie.
He only needs to be himself, to act in his true colors, and someone will pay for tickets.
Has anyone really cared about Shen Teng's acting skills? No, but I wanted to laugh when I saw him.
In this era when laughter is becoming more and more extravagant, in this era when comedy is becoming more and more valuable.
The more we will miss the "Love Laughing Room" of that year.
But think of it another way.
Today's creative environment is probably no longer the ideal utopia in the minds of the "Love Smile" team.
Perhaps ten years ago, the rapids retreated, which was the best choice.
Their persistence and idealism did not ruin the sign of "Laughing Room".
Looking at it again today is also a good story.
Life is hard and stressful.
Fortunately, there was such a "laughing conference room".