Years of preparation. After making two explosive variety shows of "Strange Story" and "Summer of the Band". Mi Wei finally opened a comedy variety show track. Take over season 4 of Talk Show Convention. We brought us the "Annual Comedy Contest" with Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, Yu Hewei and Li Shi as the presidents. At present, the program has been broadcast for four periods, and the Douban opening score is 8.0, which is currently maintained at 7.7 points.
The Annual Comedy Contest supports any form of comedy. It also put the concept of "co-creation" of actors and screenwriters on the stage. The format of qualifying was adopted. 55 comedians form 25 "comedy squads". Perform on stage in turn. Accepted the votes of 80 spectators and 5 "presidents" on the spot. The top 12 squads advance to the next stage. In the second stage. Xu Zheng, Yu Hewei and Huang Bo will also lead a "community" respectively. Participate in the creation of works.
Comedy variety shows have become more and more difficult to do in recent years. Even the comedy variety n generation "Happy Comedians". It also fell from 8.3 points on Douban in season 1 to 3.4 points in season 7. In the face of the comedy variety market that has become the Red Sea. Mi did not play the concept of "new comedy".
Sketch comedy is one of the most prominent. It is called "American comedy". Compared with the traditional sketches that pursue the inheritance and transformation and have profound expression. Sketch comedy, though, is also dominated by sitcoms. But there is relatively little foreshadowing and character development. Constantly upgrading the joke fruit against a "game point".
Back in 2018. Youku, Happy Media, and Laughing Fruit Culture have tried to introduce. Known for its sketch comedy, the show "Saturday Night Live", which has been popular in Europe and the United States for more than 40 years. But it didn't make much of a splash in China.
In recent years, with the audience's aesthetic fatigue of the comedy of the Spring Festival Gala". Coupled with the popularity of talk shows and short videos. It creates a new comedic atmosphere that is more "short and fast". Young comedy culture is becoming the "fragrant food" of comedy variety shows
Can a new comedy that takes a different approach replicate the success of talk shows?
Some analysts believe. Compared to talk shows. Sketch the charm of new comedies such as comedy and manga. It lies in the performance, but the expression is limited, it is difficult to produce "golden sentences" that can go out of the circle like a talk show, and it is difficult to appear "stars" like Yang Kasa and Zhou Qimo.
"The Annual Comedy Contest" played the slogan of "no heart, no lungs, double happiness". Ma Dong also expressed a similar view on the show many times: "The form is not limited, as long as you can get the applause of the audience, what do you love to do." "Whether it's an old comedy or a new comedy. Audiences are always expecting good comedy.