Original title: Explore the secret of comedy, we all need truth and laughter

Shen Jiequn

Comedy programs have become popular among young people in recent years. After all, no one will refuse to be laughed at by others.

Laughter itself is a concrete and external final result. More interesting things happened before the laughter, how the speaker and listener recognized and reached a tacit understanding on the way to each other.

Gentleness reveals a secret in your heart, which is the charm of comedy. So, what's the secret of comedy?

Recently, "Single Reading" published a book, "The Secret of Comedy: From the Talk Show".

Comedy is funny, but when you ask why it is funny, the process becomes a bit serious. For example, the interviewers witnessed that the talk show actors want to do the same in their daily life as on the stage, "restrain themselves with reality" - which may also explain why we are willing to enjoy the talk show today, because at this moment, we need to be real and need to laugh.

In the preface "The Secret of Comedy", the writer Li Sheng wrote: "People's demand for information is just a need, and it is not difficult for everyone who reads the composition table of shower gel because he forgot his mobile phone on the toilet to understand this truth. Therefore, there is nothing new under the sun, and we should also consider the old things as new things. If we tell stories in another way, it is a new story."

Recently, several contestants in the fifth season program of Talk Show seemed to interpret the charm of "telling people's own stories", which also confirmed the explosive power of "truth".

Last year, the slogan of this program, which encourages ordinary people to express themselves on the stage, was "everyone can talk for five minutes". This year, it became "everyone can be happy for five minutes". The changes reflect the evolution of comedy in people's minds in the past two years. Last year, we were surprised that the seemingly ordinary office workers could tell jokes no less than professional players, and all walks of life have hidden comedy experts; Now the audience is more looking forward to whether anyone can draw their own life path or dig out some hidden "treasure" in the daily "arranged by society" track map.

A Dalian talk show newcomer named "Maodou" said that the talk show talents had been around for one and a half years, sharing their own experience and making the audience laugh. Maodou is a retired soldier, a naval cook, and once participated in the escort of the Gulf of Aden. The hard life, through his mouth but grow full of laughter.

For example, Maodou teased himself that he could avoid a lot of embarrassment as long as he "answered half", but also seemed unfathomable: "If I told him (others) that I was in the dangerous and stormy waters of the Gulf of Aden in Somalia, he would feel that this is also a cook riding the wind and breaking the waves." "My mother sent me a WeChat message and said, 'I saw that pirates on that TV were particularly dangerous and vicious.' I said, 'Mom, they are Caribbean pirates, and we are not a system.'"

In an interview, Maodou was very open-minded and grounded: "Talk shows are all kinds of dishes." For him, talk shows are about personal experiences.

Comedy rooted in the "real" soil can also help to eliminate prejudice and break stereotypes, and help people better establish a "face up" attitude.

Some performers on the stage of Talk Show have physical defects, and the audience may not laugh at first sight, but these confident and sunny performers encourage everyone to "relax" and laugh with their own humorous style of story telling.

The visually impaired player "black light" said bluntly: "The standard of dealing with disabled people is that you should not actively help them unless they ask for help from you. There is a kind of love called letting go, and sometimes not disturbing is the greatest tenderness."

It is better respect to accept others' true thoughts.

At present, young people are becoming more and more obsessed with comedy, because this art can "tear open the mouth of life" and make people feel sharp wisdom; Because comedy is the mirror of "three views", we can change a more ingenious way in interpersonal communication to build a bridge of understanding and respect.

Excellent performers are good at fishing funny threads in real daily life and weaving humorous sweaters. It's also interesting that many popular talk show actors will tell you that they don't think too much about "technology", but more about how to express their lives.

The starting point and compass of comedy are self cognition and attitude to the world.