How to play comedy variety shows? Two years ago, the "Annual Comedy Contest" once gave a standard answer. After two years of hiatus, "Joyful Wonderful Night", created by Ma Miwei, the original cast of "One Joy" and "Two Happiness", restarted the comedy competition variety show on a new platform. This time, the start was burning, and the comedians familiar to the audience are back.
From the perspective of the competition system, "Wonderful Night" continues the performance form of "Annual Comedy Competition", and each episode of the program is grouped by different comedy teams to present complete comedy passages, and the form still adopts the "sketch comedy" (Sketch) promoted that year. According to the official explanation, the so-called "sketch comedy" is to find a comedy game (Game) point, around which to do different designs and structures ("ascension"), which can be infinitely extended, can also be processed and sublimated.
Like the "One Joy" and "Two Happiness" of the year, the program aims to provide the audience with an unusual type of comedy, which is neither a cross talk sketch nor a certain stage play, but a work that is eclectic in form and only to find moving comedy expression. In the starting lineup, Zhang Youwei and Yan Peilun, who have participated in two seasons of comedy competitions, formed "Another Round Plus", and the "Nine People" and "Cool Tianfang" who lost in "Erxi" returned, while Liu Yang and Song Tianshuo formed a new group "Four Soils in the Same Hall", although Tudou and Lu Yan dismantled, but Lu Yan appeared as a new group "Quantum Mechanics".
For many viewers, the necessary "old man" lineup means that the show is directly related to the comedy competition, and the audience's perception of the show does not have so many thresholds, while the familiar artists have instead created a style of meeting old friends, which also has more advantages than disadvantages for the maintenance of fan stickiness. Judging from the first episode of the program, "Joyful and Wonderful Night" adopts the expression strategy of content over form.
The first class of works is represented by "Staying Up Wonderful Night", "Year-end Award", "She at Work", etc., which describe the lifestyle of contemporary youth in the form of white drawings, and are evaluated as "camera variety shows" by the industry; The other type of works starts with literary classics that are familiar to young people, such as "Hulu Brothers" and "The World of Sketches", which reconstruct and interpret the literary and artistic images that the audience is familiar with, and put forward sincere reflections in the continuous reconstruction.
Here we focus on Lu Yan's "The World of Sketches". This show is actually a reflection on the form of sketches that everyone is accustomed to from the perspective of contemporary audiences. The child in the sketch played by Lu Yan doubts that he lives in "Truman's world" every day, and his parents around him often rhyme with four or six lines, and they seem to have everything preset for their life choices. Lu Yan's group used a problem-solving method to reproduce the classic characters and lines in the sketch, such as "Sledgehammer 80, Hammer 40", such as the appearance of the "Little Foot Mediation Team", and even the usual technique of "making dumplings" in the sketch.
He Huan, another acting member in this work, is actually a sketch actor. This work shows the dilemma of the sketch man who is difficult to break through himself, and also expresses his determination to change the status quo. Under Ma Dong's interpretation, the complaints about the sketch routines do not stop at complaining, but hope to express the demands of the audience in the new era, and at the same time spur contemporary comedians to dare to step out of the "suit" to make changes. This work has also become the most out-of-the-circle existence in the first episode of the program, if you are familiar with the classic sketches in the work, the audience can generally feel the sincerity of the expression of the work.
Let's talk about change. "One Happiness" and "Two Happiness" have been suspended for two years, and the audience has been waiting for the recovery of "Three Happiness". Ma Dong, founder of Fang Miwei Media, the production product of "Joyful and Wonderful Night", said in an interview that all cultural products are current products and are an observation of social reactions. Previously, most of the works that broke the circle in the comedy contest were like this, such as "Internet Experience", which satirized the phenomena of web pop-ups, repeated charges, and advanced on-demand, and "Idol Waiter", which "white depicted" the Internet star-making industry and idol ecology.
In this new show, the works out of the circle also maintain such commonality, "The World of Sketches" shouted out the audience's aesthetic fatigue of sketches, "She at Work" reproduces the tiredness of workers day after day, and "Year-end Award" focuses on the subtle emotions of getting along with superiors in the workplace, and these works have aroused strong resonance from the audience.
In 2024, do audiences still need comedy variety shows? In Ma Dong's view, the answer is clearly yes. "The audience's demand for comedy has always been strong, and this demand has not changed because of the emergence of short videos and short dramas. The need is bigger than we thought, and all the people who do comedy are like they are reclaiming the sea in Jingwei. ”
The actors who came out of the comedy contest went to all corners of film and television dramas, Jiang Long, Zhang Chi, Shi Ce, etc. starred in the TV series "Hometown, Don't Come to Harm" and "Dog Leftovers Run" as the protagonists, Tudou and Lu Yan entered the short drama track, and Yan Peilun had a wonderful performance in "My Altay". "Wonderful Night" is likely to become a platform for launching a new round of comedians, and seeing the "delightful" return to the stage, as well as the continuous release of good works, this summer has become even more worth looking forward to.
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