The three of them joked with each other and talked about it. Although He Xiangdong met Mr. Hou for the first time, he was not at all apart from him. Perhaps it was because Mr. Hou was not arrogant and very friendly, or it was also possible that the two were born to join forces.

The three of them were like this, and they said I was blocking it, making it look like they were talking about crosstalk. There were bursts of laughter and joy. Those passing by at the door looked inside in surprise.

After chatting with the formation, he became familiar with it. He Xiangdong didn't feel too late to speak. He said, "Uncle Hou, you are just chatting with me today."

Mr. Hou San said, "Why can't you chat? I'll take out my working hours to chat with you. What else are you not satisfied with?"

He Xiangdong looked at Xue Guo and said to Master Hou San in surprise: "This is really an artist. You are the first person who can make the sophisticated and smooth worker say so fresh and refined."

"Go to yours." Master Hou San cursed with a smile.

Everyone was laughing.

After laughing, Master Hou San said to He Xiangdong: "Actually, I mainly want to meet you, Fang Wenqi's apprentice. Your master was an amazing person back then."

He Xiangdong was a little surprised this time. His master was a little famous back then, and he could be regarded as such a person, but this depends on who said it. Of course, it is okay for a less famous artist to say this.

But who is Hou Sanye? The third son of the Hou family is, and there is no need to say much about the status of the Hou family in the crosstalk world. All the people who come and go, are all famous big players.

In this way, Master Hou San actually commented on his master like this.

Mr. Hou San looked at He Xiangdong who was surprised and couldn't help laughing: "It's surprising? Actually, I'm several decades younger than your master. When he left the Quyi Troupe, I was still a child and didn't know much about him. But later, I often heard my old man mention your father. My old man highly praised your master. Although the two had some conflicts in their ideas back then, there were many conflicts. Oh, hey, let's not talk about this anymore, it's all in the past. Tell me, I heard you have run a crosstalk garden?"

He Xiangdong nodded and said, "Yes."

Mr. Hou looked at Xue Guo and smiled and said, "I heard Xue Guo tell you a lot of things in your garden. It's pretty good. It's good to be willing to speak crosstalk."

"Hehe" He Xiangdong just smiled, and he knew that Mr. Hou must have some more details.

Mr. Hou San continued: "Whether it is a folk or a professional group, as long as it is a crosstalk, everyone is a family member. There is no difference. They are all in the crosstalk team. Actually, I still like what you said in the folk."

"The garden says that he is closer to the audience. He needs to pay for everything to eat and drink. If the audience is not satisfied, the actors will go hungry. This is a very good way to improve the actors' level. However, this kind of life is not easy to live with drought and flood. It seems that it is very difficult for you to have a garden last year."

He Xiangdong smiled freely and casually: "It's all over. Now the business in the garden is very good and there are a lot of audiences."

Mr. Hou San said seriously: "This is the audience's recognition of you. This is the most precious thing. Nowadays, many viewers don't like to watch crosstalk or listen to crosstalk. Our industry is not prosperous. You are talking crosstalk among the people, and there are so many viewers willing to spend money to support you. I am really happy."

He Xiangdong also smiled and said, "If you have time, come and help us stand and help us."

Xue Guo laughed and scolded: "You really dare to say it, how much money are you going to give?"

He Xiangdong said righteously: "What is this? It's so vulgar about money."

Xue Guo said in shock: "Don't you give it?"

Mr. Hou waved his hand, interrupted the conversation between the two, and said to He Xiangdong: "It's okay to go to your garden. To be honest, I also want to go to your garden to feel the feeling, and see if there is any distortion."

He Xiangdong was overjoyed. The one in front of him asked casually. Unexpectedly, Master Hou San agreed so readily. He hurriedly said, "That's good. If you go, the ticket will definitely be crazy."

Mr. Hou smiled and said, "Don't let it go, different occasions and different performances. Can I do my job in your garden? It's not a matter of time." He asked again, "You can use all the jokes in your garden."

He Xiangdong nodded and said, "It's basically the case, there are fewer restrictions in the theater."

Upon hearing this, Master Hou San sighed slightly and said, "Your master insisted on keeping all the jokes that could make others laugh, but improved the group but purified the stage and cut out a lot of things. This conflict came about. Oh, your master's personality is more than to bend."

After so many years, He Xiangdong actually knows a lot about this past period. He asked Mr. Hou San: "What do you think?"

Mr. Hou San looked at He Xiangdong's eyes deeply, with meaningful eyes. He said, "It's not easy for us to speak crosstalk. Your joke is too vulgar. The audience laughs loudly when they hear it, but after laughing, they will scold you as vulgar. If you make a joke that is too elegant, it will be difficult to make a sound, especially for some actors who are not good at their level. It is actually difficult to grasp the scale here."

He Xiangdong laughed at himself. He has been performing in folk for many years, but he actually saw it more clearly than Master Hou San: "It's not just crosstalk, but comedy. If you want to make people laugh, how to make you laugh, you have to show the ugly side and let the audience see the ugly actors on the stage. But the actors themselves don't know how ugly they are. Instead, they think they are beautiful. This is how funny it is. Who can laugh when you all recite poems on the stage? You personally misread them, and everyone laughs, but this actor is ugly."

He Xiangdong sighed long, and the self-deprecating taste was even more serious: "To put it bluntly, we are all doing comedy, we are trashing ourselves, and others are performing sketches, and the audience knows that they are expressing the characters, and they all know that they are laughing because they are performing the characters, not the actors. We are speaking crosstalk and using ourselves to express the characters, and the audience thinks that our crosstalk actors are ugly, and they will not think that the character you play is ugly. Who will tell who this principle?"

Both Mr. Hou San and Xue Guo were silent. They were all people in this group, so who didn’t know the truth about it?

He Xiangdong shook his head and smiled: "It's not easy to do this. The actors become big stars after acting in a few movies. The audience likes crazy. The family is full of their posters. But who is the one who does comedy? The old man said it well, we are just the joyful insects in front of the audience. You make people amuse themselves, and they will scold you when they turn around."

"There is not a very famous actor in Hong Kong who does comedy now. He is called Stephen Chow. Now Beijing is full of pirated discs. I have an apprentice and I secretly buy discs with pocket money to watch them. They are very well-known and have a big wrist, but who would admire him like a singer and a movie star? Comedy is OK."

He Xiangdong smiled bitterly.

In fact, Stephen Chow was indeed like this at that time. He was already very popular in the 1990s. Whether in Hong Kong, Taiwan or the mainland, his discs were everywhere. His nonsense and funny style was very popular.

But even he himself said that Hong Kong people are watching my videos, but after watching them, they call me a bad person. It is particularly popular to post celebrity posters in the 1990s, but the places where they buy posters are sold for the four kings, Little Tigers, and the Condor Heroes, but Stephen Chow's is not.

In the mainstream view of society at that time, making comedy was just a mess, not a serious matter. Therefore, many people born in the 1980s and 1990s were hiding from their parents' secret views, and did not dare to tell others that they admired a comedian because this was a shameful thing.

This is the general background of society. The values ​​at that time were like this. Comedians were not valued at all, even Stephen Chow, let alone others.

This will continue until the growth of the 1980s and 1990s, and the Internet will be connected, which will give these people who like comedy a place to communicate. In addition, the rise of the entertainment industry, comedy no longer feels like an inappropriate embarrassing thing.

At that time, the overall environment also changed. Isn’t the real revitalization of comedy inseparable from the Internet and the Westward Journey to the real popularity?

With the profound background he had laid before, Stephen Chow gradually became a god-like character among the communication between many young people who grew up watching Stephen Chow's movies, and later became the most box office appealing figure in Chinese movies. It was nothing.

Comedy is not easy, crosstalk is even more difficult. Artists engaged in crosstalk are the most difficult. I hope they will all get better. To be continued.
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