Deyun Club, Guo Degang and others looked forward to it for two months, looking through Qiushui, but they didn't wait for the second visit in summer, nor did they wait for the person sent by Tianxia Entertainment to sign the contract.

Only then did they finally give up and knew that the summer patronage was just by chance and did not sign them. Therefore, they had to give up their fantasies, cheer up again, and continue to suffer.

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In fact, there is another important reason why Guo Degang was not signed in summer because he was not optimistic about the development of the traditional art of crosstalk.

In fact, in the past life, before Guo Degang became popular with the help of the Internet, crosstalk had already begun to decline.

Jiang Kun, who has released excellent works such as "So Photos", "Elevator Adventure", and "Tiger Mouth Reverie", later only knew how to accumulate online jokes. The joke "I'm sorry, I'm looking for Zhou Runfa" appeared on the Internet a few years ago.

Niu Qun, who has launched "The Thief Company", "Auction", "Idea Company" and "Accomplished Names", also broke the hole. Niu Qun once withdrew from the entertainment industry, and Feng Gong's works are nominally cross-talk dramas, but in fact they are no different from sketches.

In addition, like Li Jinxian, who has launched "The Mouse Night Talk" and "Wu Song Fights the Tiger", Liu Junjie, who has launched "Find Faults", Ma Ji, who has launched "Five Features Fighting for Merit", and Ma Ji, who has launched "Multi-Floor Hotel", etc., a series of famous crosstalk artists have faded from the stage one after another, making crosstalk that once fell to the point where no one listened to it.

The reason for this is that the previous crosstalk is funny because of the existence of poor information.

At that time, the scope of national activities was very narrow. Many people had never been to the county town several times in their lives, let alone the sacrificial words. Therefore, even if crosstalk actors learn dialect, they would make the people happy.

With the rise of the Internet, the whole world has become a global village. As long as you can access the Internet, you can master all the information around the world. People's horizons have opened their horizons and the information they are exposed to is dozens and hundreds of times that they have before.

The advantage of crosstalk's information difference is gone. In people's eyes, they are not even humorous and funny in the Internet jokes, so they naturally don't like to watch or listen to them.

Second, before, domestic TV programs were very poor and could not meet the entertainment needs of the people. The art form of crosstalk was very simple, and two people could say it, and it was more than ten minutes to say it, which was enough for half a episode of TV series, but the cost was much lower than that of TV series. Therefore, in order to fill the time, many TV stations have programs similar to "Happy Station" and "Happy Moment".

But later, the output of domestic TV programs exceeded the demand, and half of the TV series could not be broadcast every year. TV stations did not have enough time to broadcast TV series, so there was naturally no need to broadcast crosstalk. After all, no matter how exciting the crosstalk was, it was not as interesting as TV series.

Third, crosstalk has lost its ironic meaning.

Irony is high-level humor. Crosstalk loses irony, just like a bee loses a needle.

Although traditional crosstalk artists were inferior to others at the beginning, the crosstalk they talked about was also full of irony.

For example, "The Removal of the Wax" satirizes the selfish and shameless petty citizens; "The Wax Chisel" satirizes the unworthy descendants; "The Dream Marriage" satirizes the speculative and overbearing elements; "Selling Cloth Head" satirizes the fraudulent small merchants; "Guan Gong Fighting Qin Qiong" satirizes the ignorant power...

In the 1980s, at the beginning of reform and opening up, a series of ironic excellent crosstalks such as "Cosmic Brand Cigarettes", "Elevator Adventures", "Crazy Names", "Multi-storey Hotel", "Wu Song Fighting Tigers", and "Thieves Company" were also born in China.

It exposes the disgraceful side of society, criticizes some ugly phenomena, and criticizes some people with low quality. In short, it speaks for the people from the standpoint of the people and speaks the people's hearts.

But later, this ironic crosstalk disappeared on TV, and was replaced by praise-style crosstalk and missionary crosstalk, full of propaganda, clichés, false flattery, saying, "Farmers drive BMWs, buy laptops, live in villas and foreign buildings", etc., which are fake and empty, not down-to-earth at all, and naturally make the people unable to like it.

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The reason why Guo Degang's crosstalk is popular is that he moved the crosstalk stage back to a small theater, which avoids the necessary sanitary review on TV and retains the satirical function of crosstalk.

Guo Degang's crosstalk jokes were very ironic in the early days. For example, "I Want to Go to the Spring Festival Gala", which ruined the Spring Festival Gala program team; "On the Strange Situation of Crosstalk in Fifty Years" revealed the pickled areas of the crosstalk world; "I Want to Have a Scandal" exposed the bad phenomena in the entertainment industry...

Second, Guo Degang created and organized a large number of excellent crosstalk jokes. Many of them were said and listened to before. They were very fresh and naturally popular.

For example, in "Dream of the West", this crosstalk was adapted from the old joke "The Victory Picture" in the late Qing Dynasty. No one has heard of the old jokes from nearly a hundred years ago. After he brought them, he added modern content and exchanged them for new wine, which instantly won the audience's love.

Third, Guo Degang caught up with the dividends of the Internet video era. Guo Degang became famous all over the country in 2005, and in 2005, Tudou.com, the first domestic video website, was officially launched.

At that time, many netizens spread Guo Degang's crosstalk jokes online. Because there were few online videos at that time, Guo Degang's crosstalk quickly stood out, attracting the attention of netizens across the country, and then made him famous and soon became popular all over the country. Even if he was not good at crosstalk, a large number of fans supported him.

After that, someone could not even be able to repeat Guo Degang's miracle. Because the Internet dividends are gone, there are so many online videos now, like the number of videos uploaded by Bilibili in a day, it is so difficult to stand out.

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However, even if Guo Degang's crosstalk is popular, he can't do it alone if he wants to revitalize the crosstalk industry.

Just like Du Qifeng is so powerful, it is difficult to save Hong Kong movies alone.

The decline of crosstalk is a major trend. First, it is difficult to become a talent. It requires students to learn crosstalk from elementary school and practice basic skills for several years, and may not be able to become a corner in the end. In the early years, it was the poor who had no choice but to let their children learn this career, life and death are destined, and wealth is in heaven.
Chapter completed!