The emergence and development of China's comedy sketches

Essays can walk out of the ivory tower. CCTV Spring Festival Evening has contributed a lot from the initial practical works of drama and opera colleges to the well-known and deeply rooted literary style today. Wang Xiao, the producer of Twenty Years of China Essays, held the first CCTV Comedy Essay Competition last year. He said that in the 1980 s, at the beginning of reform and opening up, with the development of science and technology, television entered people's homes, and sketching gradually became an art ... If the progress of science and technology is not fast enough, if television is not widely spread, and if there is no Spring Festival party, then the audience may learn about TV sketches later.

1983 At the first CCTV Spring Festival party, the sketch first appeared on TV. For fun, the director arranged a sketch "Tigress Ah Q's Visit to Beijing Power Plant", with actors Gaowa Siqin and Yan Shunkai. One is provocative and playful, the other is silly and funny, and the comedy effect is excellent. Although it is only an episode, the live effect and the attraction to the audience are what everyone values. That year, there was a pantomime "Eat Chicken" performed by Wang Jingyu.

During the period of 1984, the sketch "Eating Noodles" co-operated by Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao was an unprecedented success in the Spring Festival Evening, which laid the foundation for the sketch to become a reserved program in the Spring Festival Evening. Although 1985' s Spring Festival Gala in Workers' Gymnasium was unsuccessful as a whole, Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao's sketch "Making a Movie" was once again successful. Zhu Jinghe, a senior editor of China Television Artists Association, believes in the General History of China Television Art that careful people can see the taste of tragedy from Peisi Chen's comedy sketches, which is an important reason why it can stand the test of time better than other sketches. Peisi Chen has made great contributions to the survival of sketches, so that even though he hasn't performed sketches for more than ten years, people still haven't forgotten him.

1990, Zhao Benshan stepped onto the stage of the Spring Festival Gala with strength after several failed attempts to give gifts through the back door. He and Huang Xiaojuan starred in Blind Date and won the first place in the variety show. In 1990s, the sketch stage was a duet of Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan. After the time series entered the new millennium, although veterans such as Huang Hong, Gong Hanlin and Yan Shunkai often staged The Return of Willow Waves, the spotlight on the sketch stage always unfairly surrounded Zhao Benshan. Liu Lianqun, director of Tianjin Art Research Institute, believes that Zhao Benshan has won the first prize every year since the last Spring Festival party. In the early 1990s, three graduate students had planned his sketches. Now Zhao Benshan is a troika of sketches, duets and movies, because Zhao Benshan can no longer hold the stage of sketches.