From storytellers to crosstalk, they are in the same line. So why are there fewer and fewer storytellers, but more and more crosstalk people?

When it comes to stand-up comedy, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is the stand-up comedy king Liu Baorui, who is a master figure who can compete with Hou Baolin and Ma Sanli. Nowadays, there are very few people who talk about stand-up comedy. There are still some people who talk about it, but they usually mix a few short jokes and short paragraphs together to create a short stand-up comedy, such as Fang Qingping, who talks long stories. few.

The objective reasons are determined by the general environment.

For stand-up comedy like storytelling, almost no one talks about it anymore because there is no way to say it. In today's cross talk performances, a cross talk is generally controlled to be about ten minutes, and no longer can exceed fifteen minutes. In such a short time, what can you say about the book? For fifteen minutes, you haven't even begun to speak. Even if you say a short paragraph, it will take nearly an hour. On a stage like this, a party lasts only two or three hours. If you do a stand-up comedy, it will take an hour. How can you let others perform? It's even more impossible to do it on TV. If you can speak for more than an hour, the TV station can't broadcast other programs. People don't know how full the schedule is for TV series, movies, and variety shows.

The only place where it can be used is in broadcasting. Not to mention that broadcasting is already in decline, and human broadcasting has been taken over by storytellers. The principle is the same. In cross talk, you can say short stand-up pieces, you can also say dialogue, and you can perform on the stage. There is no way to do storytelling. They only have one segment that takes at least half an hour, so their traditional territory is on the radio.

The subjective reason is that stand-up comedy is the most difficult

There is also the subjective reason of the crosstalk actor himself. Stand-up comedy is the most difficult one among the twelve crosstalk skills. The most difficult thing to say is When it comes to stand-up comedy, it’s much more difficult to do it with one person than with two people.

Two people talk about being complimentary and funny, and they can also have fun with each other and compete with each other. The stage looks lively and the effect is easy to come out. One-liners are not good. , it’s like a big show. Do you think it’s difficult for one person to perform in a big show?

In stand-up comedy, the most difficult thing is storytelling. Even though storytelling seems to be just like endorsement, it is extremely difficult here. Why are there so many incomplete jokes in stand-up comedy that have never been completed? It’s because it’s too difficult. Each word has its own meaning, and a change in a small plot may lead to the collapse of the entire stand-up comedy. Some people have made up for it, but in the end they were removed. . To do a job like stand-up comedy, one has to be extremely talented and beautiful.

Single-talk is not conducive to solving employment problems

Another reason is that it is said that one-stop talk can solve the employment and work problems of two employees, but one-stop talk can only be used by one person, which is a waste of stage time. Don't laugh, it's true. Many leaders really considered it this way, especially various art troupes. Young Master has a representative joke called "Dispute". The original script was about stand-up, so I showed it to their leaders. The boss said that if you talk about stand-up comedy, you don't consider the feelings of your partners. You are not uniting with your comrades. Finally it was changed to the counterpart.

So for various reasons, storyteller-type stand-up comedy is basically invisible in today’s cross-talk performances. It is even said that except for old gentlemen, most middle-aged cross-talk actors cannot speak You have learned to be a stand-up storyteller, but you can’t use it. If you don’t use it, it will be wasted over time. This is especially true for the younger generation. Some masters even stop teaching their disciples how to do stand-up comedy. They are not very good at it themselves and would not be able to use it even if they teach them.

Nowadays, among the middle-aged and younger generation of crosstalk actors, there are very few who can really speak stand-up comedy, especially those who are good at story-telling stand-up comedy. Famous ones may include Guo Degang, Meng Fangui, Fang Qingping, Wang Yuebo, Xu Liang and others. Guo Degang's one-liners are more likely to focus on battles between gods and demons, monsters, foxes and ghosts. Simple fairy tales from his mouth will always contain dense jokes, such as Zhang Xiaoyi's trip to Nanjing, also called the haunted house. The whole story is not very long. , but the jokes are really too dense. And after laughing, there is also a little reflection on people and society, meeting by chance, repaying kindness, doing good and evil, and persuading people to do good. These are Guo Degang's abilities. I suggest you listen to it.

Another very interesting phenomenon is that the current disciples of Deyun Society are not outstanding in stand-up. On the contrary, Cao Yunjin’s "A Dream of Brothel", "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" and "The Murderous House in Leather Pants Alley" are not outstanding. ” and so on, He Yunwei also has many famous stand-ups.