Chapter 1458 Guo Degang
Tea and snacks came up quickly. The stage was first filled with opera, and the gongs and drums were noisy. Little Wenwu looked at the colorful costumes on the stage and kept waving his hands and trying to grab them. Children of this age are very sensitive to bright colors.
After the opera, there was crosstalk. Seeing the fat man Yang Dongxu who was performing crosstalk on the stage, he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Do you know him?" Bai Qian was feeding little Wenwu water, so she noticed the look on Yang Dongxu's face at the first time.
"I guess so. You know Anhui Province's "Super Winner", right? He is one of the hosts." Yang Dongxu said with a smile.
"Really?" Bai Qian watched TV for a while when she was pregnant and stayed at home. As a current domestic phenomenon-level variety show "Super Winner", Bai Qian naturally watched it.
But he remembered that the male host was a thin man with squinty eyes, and it seemed that he was not the fat man on the stage.
"It happened two years ago in 2003. I didn't do it for a long time and then I stopped doing it. I just happened to remember it." Yang Dongxu recalled and said.
"Oh, how can a host perform crosstalk?" Bai Qian asked casually.
"It seems that he was born to be a crosstalk performer, and being a host is just a part-time job." Yang Dongxu replied.
Bai Xi nodded without saying anything, raised her hand to call the waiter over to get a pot of hot boiled water, and then she opened her bag and started to make milk powder for the little guy.
The little guy has grown up for more than six months and his appetite has increased a lot. When he is happy, he likes to hold the milk pot in his arms and suck it, just like adults tasting tea.
Yang Dongxu focused his eyes on the fat man on the stage. This person is none other than Guo Degang, who was later called the one who saved Chinese crosstalk.
Compared with the crosstalk master in Yang Dongxu's memory, Guo Degang now seems to be more immature. Although he is also fat, he is not as temperamental as he will be in the future.
In short, although Lao Guo is now over 30 years old, he can only be regarded as a newcomer in the crosstalk world. This newcomer does not mean that he learned crosstalk late, but that he has performed crosstalk on stage for too short a time, so he is a newcomer in crosstalk.
It is said that Lao Guo started learning storytelling at the age of seven, learned crosstalk at the age of nine, and later learned Hexi drum. He started learning very early.
However, the time when he really started to perform crosstalk on stage can only be counted from the past two years. Although Lao Guo became a migrant worker in Beijing in 1995, he never succeeded.
The sentence Lao Guo said in his previous life, which was very popular on the Internet, "I was willing to be your dog at the beginning, but you didn't want it, and you forced me to become a dragon", was about this period of drifting in Beijing.
Lao Guo started looking for other opportunities after failing to drift in Beijing. He also left Yanjing and went to Anhui Province to be a host, but still failed.
It was not until last year that he became a disciple of crosstalk master Hou that he was considered to be settled in the crosstalk industry. Then he performed with the troupe and performed crosstalk in high-end teahouses like the one in front of him.
He also joined the Railway Art Troupe, and at the same time changed to a program host on Anhui Satellite TV, and occasionally played guest roles in some TV dramas.
However, even with the support of the teacher above, he can be regarded as a legitimate crosstalk insider. But Lao Guo is not comfortable in this industry at all.
Some crosstalk masters commented that he did not know how to respect his teachers, his crosstalk was very vulgar, and he was simply a scum in the crosstalk world.
But no matter what these comments were, Lao Guo was able to come to the stage as a crosstalkist, and then he got better and better, and finally became the representative of the Chinese crosstalk world.
There is a saying, "If there was no Lao Guo, Chinese crosstalk would be yellow, and with Lao Guo, Chinese crosstalk would be even more yellow."
Although this sentence is a joke, the first half of the sentence undoubtedly shows Guo Degang's status in the Chinese crosstalk world.
Let's put it this way, if there was no Bolt, people probably wouldn't care much about the 100-meter men's long-distance race, and without Guo Degang's Deyun Club, perhaps China's crosstalk dance would not be as popular as it is in later generations.
"Why is this person telling crosstalk like this?" Listening to the laughter around her, Bai Xi frowned.
Guo Degang and his partner on the stage just told a relatively dirty joke, of course not full of dirty words, but a kind of non-dirty ridicule or metaphor that both men and women understand.
"It's OK as long as it can make people laugh." Yang Dongxu said.
"But this is too..." Bai Xi was a little unhappy. In fact, Bai Xi also laughed at the slightly colored joke just now.
But this kind of laughter turned into a frown after thinking of her son. It's harmless to laugh at adults who always say that they understand the metaphors in it, but for children.
In fact, this is also the reason why Guo Degang is criticized now. After all, sometimes you put the jokes you make in private on the stage, and it is indeed inappropriate to say these things in occasions with children.
"Next time, don't bring children. These jokes are indeed not suitable for children." Yang Dongxu said.
However, this inappropriateness is only temporary. When the Internet is extremely developed in the future, the little brats in their teens know more than the big guys in their twenties now, and even the various dirty techniques and corrupt techniques in the second dimension are even worse.
Of course, it seems that Lao Guo's crosstalk is a bit rebellious now, especially when many crosstalk masters always want to raise crosstalk to the level of alternative clothing art like Paris Fashion Week.
This kind of crosstalk, which is like two rough people teasing and "greeting" each other, is indeed a bit vulgar.
But crosstalk was originally performed for vulgar people. You want to elevate it to the level of art, but those so-called artists don't like crosstalk very much. They like more artistic dramas, go to see operas, and listen to piano. They don't appreciate your art.
So we have to elevate crosstalk to the height of art, and make every crosstalk educational. People originally wanted to have fun watching crosstalk, but they were educated by your crosstalk. Why don't they just watch legal programs?
In fact, everyone likes meaningful crosstalk, and they can learn something while having fun. But only teaching without making people happy is the reason why crosstalk is declining. When you can't make people happy, naturally no one will watch crosstalk.
Unfortunately, the mainstream of crosstalk is to shout about elegance and art every day, and funny is just a by-product. If elegance and art require it, then even funny is not a by-product.
So suddenly there is a person like Lao Guo, especially such a crosstalk that people like and support. On the contrary, no one watches the elegance and art that the masters keep shouting. If everyone doesn't gang up to blame you, who else can they blame?
"Are you optimistic about him?" Bai Xi asked curiously.
"I guess so." Yang Dongxu nodded.
One of the people who will save the Chinese crosstalk world in the future, it is not that Yang Dongxu is optimistic about Lao Guo, but that Lao Guo is indeed capable.
Bai Xi couldn't help but look at the fat and somewhat immature Lao Guo on the stage a few more times. Anyone who can be favored by her man must have some skills.
It's a pity that Lao Guo has too much flesh, and it's impossible to see what specific skills he has.
"Send 10 flower baskets over." Yang Dongxu waved to the waiter and said.
A flower basket costs 100 yuan, but the purpose is not to buy flower baskets to send people, but to reward. Some guests feel that the people on the stage perform well and send flower baskets, and the performers on the stage have a share.
"Thank you, the gentleman upstairs, this gentleman is generous, and you look like a real dragon descending to the earth and an immortal." Hearing the reward of 10 flower baskets, Lao Guo on the stage praised him highly, which made Yang Dongxu a little bit amused.
Other guests thought it was interesting, and followed suit to send some flower baskets, and continued to listen to Lao Guo's various jokes on the stage.
To be honest, he agrees with what Lao Guo said about "knowledge" and "education" being two different things.
For example, Lao Guo didn't graduate from junior high school, but he was not a learned man, but at least he had half a belly of ink. He might not be a professional in humanities and historical knowledge, but he didn't necessarily know less than the professionals.
"Did you come here to see him today?" Bai Xi asked.
"It's a coincidence." Yang Dongxu replied.
It was indeed a coincidence. When someone greeted him at the meeting at Haina, he did think of Lao Guo. But he just thought about it and didn't pay much attention to it.
Because even if he didn't intervene, Lao Guo would be popular with his own ability, and he didn't care about the little money Lao Guo made by investing. At the same time, he didn't care about this network relationship.
After all, even if Lao Guo really became popular, with the difference in status between the two people, only the other party would want to cling to him, not him to take the initiative to make friends with the other party.
So Yang Dongxu thought most about traditional cultural tourist attractions and promoting the craze for ancient costumes. This can not only be combined with Sanwan Travel Agency.
It can also bring Zhuo Qing'er's clothing business. In recent years, grand ancient costume weddings have expanded some markets. After all, people of this era still have a strong desire for a formal wedding with a sedan chair carried by eight people.
As long as there are conditions to hold such a grand ancient costume wedding, it is really more prestigious than those Western-style weddings in the minds of the older generation.
Therefore, if we can promote the ancient costume craze through tourist attractions, and then have a suitable opportunity to hold a grand wedding on the spot, there will definitely be people interested in this wedding model.
So although the above mentioned the declining traditional entertainment industry such as opera and crosstalk, Yang Dongxu expanded it to promote the entire traditional culture, not just the two industries of crosstalk and opera.
However, the above kicked him out directly, and he happened to be in Yanjing. Anyway, I came here to listen to the opera when I had nothing to do in the evening. I didn't expect to meet Lao Guo by chance.
After listening to the crosstalk, there was another section of storytelling, which felt very good.
However, it was already past nine in the evening and the little guy was nodding his head sleepily. Yang Dongxu had to carry him and Bai Xi away together. The son is the biggest person in the world, and the one who sleeps the most is the son.
Carrying the child to the parking lot, he happened to meet Lao Guo who was coming out of the backstage and preparing to go home. There was also a partner beside him, not Aunt Yu who liked to smoke and perm her hair, but a stranger.
"Hey, sir, what a coincidence, it's really fate."
Seeing Yang Dongxu, Lao Guo hurriedly greeted him, and his mouth was still as sloppy as before on the stage.
But he was very perceptive. Seeing that Yang Dongxu fell asleep with the child in his arms, and there were women around him, he didn't get too close and didn't make a loud noise.
"I'm at a disadvantage for having fate with you, and you're not a beauty." Yang Dongxu said with a smile.
"So why didn't the fortune teller tell me today that I would meet a noble person when I go out!" Lao Guo said with a smile.
"Then when you encounter something in the future, just report my name, and I'll protect you." Seeing Lao Guo's sloppy energy, Yang Dongxu smiled and teased.
"You are so generous. You promoted me without any hesitation!" Old Guo gave a thumbs up and praised.