What happened to the history of "crosstalk performers", from being popular all over the country to being ignored?

1998, Degang Guo went to Beijing for the first time, and he was just introduced to Yu Qian. At that time, he was still an unknown crosstalk performer in Beipiao, and it was still more than ten years before he became the "crosstalk emperor".

However, in June 5438+10 of the same year, the well-known Xiang dialect crosstalk actor "Qi Zhibing" had received an invitation from the Spring Festival Gala crew.

At that time, the soldiers were full of ambition and boundless scenery. For him, having a glib mouth is the key to success in life.

But he never imagined that a few years later, because of this "wonderful mouth", he was "forced" to disappear in the cross talk circle because of his outspoken public anger.

What did he experience from the fire spread all over the country to "disappearing", soldier?

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Because of his wonderful mouth, the early life of soldiers can be described as smooth sailing.

1968165438+1October 8, then known as "Ren Jun", a native of Changsha City, Hunan Province.

The child has been diagnosed with ADHD since childhood. This disease sounds scary, but it doesn't affect children's intelligence, but they are emotionally impulsive.

Ren Jun spent his whole student days in his hometown, studying in Yanwachi Primary School in Changsha, Changsha No.1 Middle School and Hunan Normal University.

At that time, Ren Jun got excellent grades and loved literature and art. ..

When I was in high school, I participated in the New Year's Day cultural performance held by the school and won the first prize for performing stand-up crosstalk "Speaking Mandarin".

This should be the first art award in his life, which not only shows his love and talent for cross talk, but also greatly encourages his future life choices, because he knows that he has a wonderful mouth that can make people laugh and win glory.

After graduating from college, the soldier began to "eat by mouth", and all his work was related to this "wonderful mouth"

From 199 1 to 1993, I worked in the performance team of a political department of China People's Liberation Army, and finally turned my hobby into a career, enjoying it and winning many awards.

1993 Ren Jun, who was demobilized back to Changsha, applied to work in Changsha People's Broadcasting Station for a period of time.

At that time, according to his status as a demobilized soldier, he gave himself a stage name "soldier" and planned to continue to realize his literary pursuit on the radio.

Although the next year, because he failed to renew his contract with the radio station, the soldiers had to stay at home. Fortunately, soldiers with "wonderful mouths" do not lack a platform for "eating by mouth".

Looking back at the 1990s, China was in the prosperous period of market economy. Many trendsetters broke away from the system and made their own living. Many of them reached the peak and made a fortune.

At that time, the entertainment industry in Changsha was booming, and various dance halls and bars sprang up like mushrooms after rain. Soldiers rely on their cross talk talent to tour local entertainment places and make money by hosting programs and cross talk.

Although there is no problem with income, it is too late to realize the dream of getting rich, because there are many similar runners, but it is difficult to find a high-level crosstalk partner.

Just when the soldier gave up his lofty ideals and concentrated on making money in entertainment places, he was reunited with a "big brother" who could change his future life.

Moreover, this eldest brother used to be his original crosstalk teacher.

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1984 The soldier who was still a high school student said a stand-up comedy at the school party and won the first prize. He was very excited.

Yang Qizhi, his future crosstalk teacher and partner for many years, was transferred from the army art troupe to the Hunan Quyi Association, specializing in crosstalk creation and performance.

Born in 1953, this veteran of the literary and art front, whose stage name is "Qizhi", although not from Hunan, has worked and lived here for a long time and eventually became an important figure in promoting the cross talk of the Southern School.

The connection between soldiers and Qizhi is in Changsha Martyrs Park.

At that time, Yang Qizhi was practicing his new crosstalk with his partner in the park to prepare for the upcoming national crosstalk competition. For two days in a row, a short and thin boy in a blue school uniform found this remote corner and stood quietly watching.

When they finished practicing, the teenager finally ran to Yang Qizhi and said, "Teacher, my name is Ren Jun, and I study in No.1 Middle School. I especially like cross talk. Can you teach me? "

Yang Qizhi was moved by the sincerity of the young soldier and told him where he lived.

From then on, the soldier ran to Yang Qizhi's house with a tape recorder every weekend, and began to study seriously from the most basic knowledge of crosstalk.

Although this mentoring relationship was not very formal, in the following years, the soldiers never denied that Yang Qizhi was their original crosstalk instructor.

So, one day on 1995, the two met unexpectedly in a performance occasion, and the soldier naturally asked: Do you want us to perform together and make money together? Yang Qizhi was very happy. He knows the level of his former students and is happy to find a suitable partner.

The two hit it off, became a group of "intellectual soldiers" and began to run around and perform.

Every afternoon, they go to Qizhi's office in Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles to create works, and in the evening, they go to karaoke bars to perform with new jokes. Because the economy is not well off, Qizhi rides an old motorcycle and carries soldiers around rain or shine.

After more than a year of hard work, this pair of mentoring has finally become the most popular funny group in Changsha entertainment venues.

It is said that since 1996, they have to run five venues almost every night, and their business is too busy. Also in this year, they were invited to perform in the variety show "Lucky 372 1" in Shi Jing, Hunan Province. An interesting "Upstairs and Downstairs" made the audience hooked up and received rave reviews.

In view of this, the TV station specially opened up a series of programs for them, so the two of them successively created and performed classic crosstalk jokes such as "I am 1 10", "Examining thieves" and "Funeral".

Through the TV media, the fame of Qizhi and the soldiers went out of Changsha and spread throughout Hunan and even the whole southern Hunan region.

At that time, well-known crosstalk performers performed more than 200 performances a year, while "Qi Zhibing" could perform more than 1500 performances a year.

Of course, the best moment of mentoring is still on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Evening.

The Spring Festival Evening is the most important talent show stage in the entertainment circle, and it is the holy land that all artists dream of, not to mention that the Internet has just taken shape at the end of last century.

1998 After receiving the invitation of the Spring Festival Evening, the couple were very surprised. They carefully polished the cross talk work "Free to Eat", and passed the first and second trials of the Spring Festival Evening after twists and turns of strict selection. In the meantime, they also experienced the thrilling experience of being "killed" and "resurrected" by the director group during the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Evening.

Fortunately, in the end, they finally boarded the stage of 1999 Spring Festival Gala, officially appeared in front of the national audience and became popular all over the country.

So that people all over the country know that "there are Niu Fenggong in the north and strange soldiers in the south".

In just four years, the soldier went from obscurity to fire all over the country and became the most famous person in phonology.

However, "prosperity will decline" seems to be an inescapable law, because "it is easy to start a business, but difficult to keep it"

The soldier reached the peak of his life with a wonderful mouth, but he "floated" in front of great fame and fortune. He was completely carried away by the overnight explosion of red, unable to grasp the balance between "true temperament" and "arrogance", and his outspoken words made him go downhill.

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The beginning of the downhill road is the strange "split point" (crosstalk term, that is, no longer cooperation) between the soldier's partner and his teacher friend for many years.

In the cross talk industry, tacit partners are as rare as caring couples. Therefore, the news that Qizhi and the soldiers terminated their cooperation not only shocked the phonograph industry, but also made the national audience relish it.

Although neither side has publicly explained the reasons, from the media reports, we can draw the conclusion that the popular soldiers are more "floating" in all aspects.

Because the soldier is a joke, most jokes come from him. Naturally, he is more and more old-fashioned, and he is more and more dissatisfied with the 50-50 split model.

He turned the "wonderful mouth" into a "convenient mouth" and "cut" his ambition of being in the same boat.

According to media reports, the two announced the cessation of cooperation in 2003. But in fact, as early as a few years ago, the two had already buried the crisis of breaking up.

At that time, there was a fierce quarrel between master and apprentice because of a cross talk joke.

The soldiers not only sharply criticized Qizhi, but also angrily refused to perform, so Qizhi had to cooperate with the host of the karaoke bar to tell a few short jokes temporarily.

Audiences who are familiar with them may notice that in the last two years of their cooperation, almost no * * * has collaborated on new cross talk works.

As a big brother, Qizhi has been adjusting himself and trying to keep the soldiers.

In the karaoke room where he often performs, he offered to change the host from the original "strange ambition, soldiers" to "soldiers, strange ambition"; In the last cooperation, he has been "carrying mineral water to the soldier's house for a while."

But in the end, he failed to do so. Late at night on February 28th, 2003, he received a phone call from a soldier:

"QiZhi, I don't think we need to hide anything. Let's break up. "

"What about the' consumer' party in March 15?"

After a short silence, the soldier replied, "I have other plans that day."

At this time, the soldiers were sought after by the national media, invited to perform in various places, and the financial resources were rolling in. I thought it was time to change partners.

After all, it is an old adage that "honor and disgrace are common, wealth is difficult".

After that, the soldier chose to partner with crosstalk actor Zhao Weiguo, and the two of them also created and performed crosstalk works such as "Who Makes You Excellent" and "Free". Although they have also achieved some repercussions, they are not as good as those in the era of Enlightenment and Private, and the response is enthusiastic.

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Looking back on the road to fame of Qizhi and Dabing, we have reason to guess: Perhaps it is with Qizhi, a teacher and old friend who is more than ten years older than him that Dabing didn't have an accident in his early years because of his outspoken words.

I left Qizhi because I couldn't control my mouth, and "disaster comes from my mouth."

In 2009, the soldiers signed a variety show and often invited some folk artists to perform imitation shows in the show.

In a program, the artists who performed on stage dressed up funny and said:

"I want to sing the song I really love you by Hong Kong singer Huang Jiagou."

In all fairness, this behavior of "smashing celebrities (that is, joking on the spot)" is a common phenomenon in the comedy world, but it is not appropriate at this moment.

Because according to the rules, the object of being "smashed" should be your other half or a very familiar friend.

Not to mention Ka Kui Wong's grandmaster position in the Asian rock circle and the tragic fate of his untimely death. Let's just say that his relationship with the mainland comedy industry has nothing to do with the artists who performed this performance!

This artist obviously wants to skillfully use Ka Kui Wong's name, but this funny way is very vulgar and disrespectful.

As the host, the soldier should make a rounder, but he read smoothly and then said glibly:

"The yellow dog is dead, and you will be angry if you don't die. When Ka Kui Wong went to Japan to perform, you died like this! "

After the program was broadcast, there was a flood of bad comments.

Not only fans of Ka Kui Wong, but also many music-loving audiences can't accept that the soldiers make fun of a dead musician.

For a time, the soldiers were pushed to the forefront of public opinion, met with resistance and disgust, and even some netizens directly shouted for the soldiers to apologize!

He may feel very popular and pushy. The soldier is indifferent to these public opinion trends. He responded by saying, "I'm just kidding."

But he didn't realize that this not only failed to calm the anger of netizens, but also brought an unstoppable decline to his career.

Since then, the invitations received by soldiers have gradually decreased, and the opportunities to appear in the news have gradually decreased.

But even though their careers have declined, the soldiers are still stubborn and refuse to reflect.

In fact, he really should listen to the words of his equally popular colleague Degang Guo: "We can only talk about ourselves, our partners, our peers and not others."

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Seven years later, the soldiers once again "brushed the screen" in the media.

On the afternoon of 20 16 12 1, a short video was circulated on the internet. In the video, there is a comic actor and soldier teacher, who has not heard from him for many years. At the scene of the car accident, he quarreled with others excitedly and choked the traffic police:

"Who are you?"

Video quickly spread throughout the online world and caused a sensation in reality.

Almost all the audience's first reaction was "the soldiers are so arrogant that they dare to accuse the traffic police!" As a result, just like seven years ago, the reputation of soldiers once again fell to the bottom and was widely negatively evaluated.

As a result, the soldiers had to urgently record an apology video and upload it to the Internet.

Obviously, the soldiers were dissatisfied with the handling of the traffic police at that time, and blurted out this sentence in a rage, which attracted ridicule in the online world, instantly exhausted the original accumulated audience, and the already bad reputation completely fell to the bottom.

In all fairness, soldiers can handle this matter in a gentler and more appropriate way instead of getting an apology themselves, which is still notorious.

Even after a lapse of two years, he re-appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening to perform a sketch, which did not restore much popularity.

If the soldiers look back at the scene of the Spring Festival Gala when they and their teachers started 20 years ago, they should have various tastes in their hearts.

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In the same year that soldiers were criticized for choking on food, another young actor, Yun-peng Yue, became popular in the music industry.

This "Xiao Ping Kelei" who is very good at selling cute and playing cheap on the show also "floated" for a while in front of flowers and applause. He also had a good temper in Deyun Society and began to talk uncontrollably.

Seeing this, his master Degang Guo called him home for dinner and taught him earnestly: To be a man, you should be clear about your position, reflect on how you got here, and don't be carried away by small fame and fortune.

Yun-peng Yue listened, restrained his youth and frivolous, and polished his skills seriously. Until now, 202 1, he is still active in the phonological circle and various TV variety shows, and has appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening many times.

Just imagine, if this soldier had not left his good partner Qi Zhi, who was also his mentor, would he have another world today?