This seemingly meaningless network variety show hides a precious philosophy of life.

Text | Z Ryan

Recently, the first season of iQiyi's first comedy network comprehensive "The Law of Joy" came to an end. At the end, a clue that the program has been buried for the longest time was solved: when Wei Chilinjia, the mayor of Huantuo City, was surrounded by flowers, the ringtone of the mobile phone suddenly rang, and then the screen was blurred. Wei Chi's identity instantly became a field worker, and she was awakened by the ringing of the telephone while sleeping against the light box. At this time, there was no one under the stage.

Cheng Yang told Xiaoxian Variety reporter that beauty, ugliness, fatness and thinness are all a set of rules in reality, but "in the' happy market', our rule is' no law'. All we have to do is smile and reverse. "

This is the program, no PK, no "sensational". Every detail is like a pair of hands scratching your smile. "Bo Jun smiled" and it was hearty. This is the greatest significance given by Cheng Yang to the law of happiness.

Sensational? Ideas?

No, we're talking nonsense!

As an ice-breaking work of comedy network synthesis, the Law of Joy Disturbance also fell into "embarrassment" as soon as it was broadcast. Many viewers are looking forward to this program with "Happy Comedian", but the whole program is performed in the form of "drawer" popular overseas, and the stories all take place in a virtual "Huantuo City". Each program has many elements such as songs and dances, talk shows, unit dramas, etc., and the theme is wide open, and even the word "Huantuo" is brought to the extreme.

But the near meaning of "Huantuo" is "unintelligible". After the first few issues of "The Law of Happiness" were broadcast, the audience's response was flat, and most of them began to vomit. Why is there no PK, no cross show? As soon as I came up, I inexplicably played a sitcom with no intention for 40 minutes. In Cheng Yang's view, it is expected that the audience will not accept and adapt, because everyone does not understand this program.

"Our program is to jump when you are happy and end when you are playing. I always think that comedies don't have to be complete. What does it matter if it ends with dancing? This is a happy ending. "

In Cheng Yang's view, "irregularity" is the biggest rule in Huan Tuo's law. Both talk shows and dances are just nonsense elements in the plot without routines. "For example, we robbed the third phase of the bank, such as robbing the end of the bank. We let the actors sing" A Big River ",which is just the arrangement of comedy elements. These comedians can't dance well and sing out of tune, but suddenly there is a very unreasonable reversal in such a plot, which will surprise everyone and we have achieved our goal. "

Cheng Yang revealed that at present, the sensational comedy has begun to enter the aesthetic fatigue period, and she hopes that the joy rule will bring more choices to the comedy market. "Now netizens don't like you to preach with your works. I'd rather do some absurd and relaxed stories. If you don't talk much about the people's livelihood, you will talk nonsense. I believe that the audience will gradually begin to understand what we are doing, and new things always need someone to do. " Cheng Yang told Xiaoxian variety reporter.

I wrote 60 paragraphs for three months in the first season, but I can't record them.

The actor's live off-tone has a comedy effect.

For comedy variety, the most important thing is the content itself.

Compared with The Happy Comedian, each issue is a masterpiece of "hard dishes". The Law of Joy is more like a rare and exquisite side dish in the fast food era, abandoning the extremely "rolling" creation. Each small work does not even change the relationship between the characters and the scene, but only considers the changes of luggage.

In the first season of The Law of Joy, Cheng Yang led a small team of eight screenwriters to create more than 60 paragraphs in three months, with an average of five works a week. Sometimes every script has to be revised five or six times after it comes out. Even the day before the rehearsal, because of the poor effect, the book will be completely overturned, and then the script and props will be changed overnight.

However, under such great creative pressure, the program still ensures the creativity of Huantuo. Such as "Sound System" and "deja vu". "We used the structure of overseas mature works, but the story background and plot are all newly created by us, and the key point is how to change them."

And dance and advertising oral broadcast also need to be all original, especially talk shows. Cheng Yang revealed that each talk show team will carefully combine the works and roles performed by live guests with hot topics in modern society. But Cheng Yang also admitted that China's acceptance of talk shows is still not high, and many viewers still don't understand what Wei Chilinjia is saying. "But I don't care, because I understand that talk show is a good thing, and I will definitely continue to carry it forward."

In addition to working hard on the content, as a program with "not ng" as the shooting mode, Cheng Yang also pursues the effect of stage play in beauty, lighting and sound effects. Whether it is the sound effect of "Sound Error" or the noise of "Magic Academy", the actors "perform synchronously" with microphones on the spot. Including guest singing and live accompaniment, were not recorded in advance. Such a difficult design can be described as Cheng Yang's gamble on recording.

"I am very sensitive to sound. If we record in advance, it is not as good as singing live. " Cheng Yang revealed that, for example, in Legend of the White Snake, when two actors sang on the turntable, the scene was actually out of tune, but she still insisted on using the original sound. "Because the actress cried, she has been sobbing. Sing, why don't we have real feelings? "

In Cheng Yang's view, it is precisely because they are comedians that their singing is not perfect, but it is also an alternative comedy effect. Without full assurance, she dare not gamble on comedy programs, but it turns out that this gamble really makes the law of joy show the most real effect on the comedy stage to the maximum extent.

I wanted to be an amateur comedy network, but I compromised in the second season.

The Red Sea in comedy market seems to return to the Blue Ocean with the exhaustion of resources, and many TV comedy variety shows begin to invite stars to perform "cross-border" performances. However, the general director of "Happy Comedian" once said that "cross-border" is just playing with tickets, and only professional comedians can "play" a real comedy.

In this regard, Cheng Yang was once convinced. The network platform has given her a lot of creative space, the program is no longer limited by the duration, and the content can be more free. "For example, at first, the audience didn't like dancing and talk shows, so I can change them at any time according to the needs of the audience." However, only under the pure "amateur" orientation of Huantuo Jing did Cheng Yang feel lost.

"In the past, I always felt that relying on stars to do programs, the audience would not rely on comedy and emotion itself." Therefore, in the lineup, most of the actors she invited were Twist FunAge, and the heroine Hai Bao also played Charlotte in the stage version of Goodbye Mr. Loser. As for the star, she only gave the program for ten minutes. Stars not only have to squeeze out the rehearsal schedule, but also basically record it for an hour and a half, sometimes even after midnight. "Many people think that stars just go up and say a few words, but they are not. All the actors who came to perform spent two or three days rehearsing. So that Ye Zuxin and Sean didn't enjoy themselves at the end of the recording, saying,' There are too few shots. Can you do it again?' "Cheng Yang said with a smile.

Even so, during the broadcast of The Law of Joy, many viewers will complain that they don't know the actors. Similarly, many people in the industry have expressed their regret to Cheng Yang. If the actors of TV comedy variety show are brought to The Law of Joy, the show will definitely be popular. After all, even if Cheng Yang makes the comedy more exquisite and fireworks, without the popularity of stars, it is difficult for the program to become popular.

"I will compromise in the second season." Cheng Yang said with a smile: "If it is a TV program, the audience will be wider. But the online audience is still different. After we filmed the first season, we realized that comedy or not, it was impossible not to be a star. They asked me what I was going to do in the second season of The Law of Happiness, and I said I would invite big stars. If you want to be a program with attention, even the network can't be twisted with the market. "

Cheng Yang revealed that PIKARU Studio is currently preparing for the second season of The Law of Joy. Apart from the changes in star invitations, others will still maintain the consistent "happy" style, and even add new concepts such as "horror comedy" to continue this "nonsense" comedy dream.

Just as at the end of this season, Wei Chilinjia pointed out the sincerity of the whole program "The Law of Happiness": looking for the shadow of life in absurdity and absurdity.

In the end, Cheng Yang realized all his happy dreams. At that moment, this program was really as absurd as "Stephen Chow". I still remember that when A Chinese Odyssey was released, the box office was bleak. In just a few years, the audience realized the most precious philosophy of life under the seemingly nonsense spoof. The same is true of the method of Huan tuo.

In the stage when comedy variety has been blown out and comedy network has not yet started, the law of joy seems to be difficult to match it. But in Cheng Yang's view, the Law of Joy has no routines and rules, and they have enough time to adjust the audience's comedy taste.

"At that time, an audience said in the barrage that the third issue was no funnier than the first and second issues. But why don't you look good and watch three issues in a row? " Cheng said that in her opinion, as long as the audience is willing to evaluate the comedy reversal and accident of The Law of Joy, the program can continue.

Source: Xiaoxian Variety Show

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