Comedy creation should not only capture and express the true feelings in current life, but also convey profound meanings in relaxed humor.

　　Comedy competitive variety shows (hereinafter referred to as "comedy variety shows") are an artistic style that has been popular among young people in recent years. Since 2024, programs such as "Easy Comedy Festival", "Happy Night", "King of Comedy Stand-up Season", and "Comedy Conference" have received attention, and the intensity of comedy variety shows to warm up should not be underestimated. However, in addition to a few "famous scenes" with memory points, some works are becoming "not that funny" to the audience. What is the relationship between comedy and funny? What are the irreplaceable functions and qualities of comedy? Similar topics have attracted attention and discussion.

　　Not down-to-earth and lack of observation of reality greatly reduce the viewability of comedy. Some creators blindly collect popular jokes and hot jokes on the Internet and put them in their works without any refinement to add jokes. Some works simply equate the farce of "just noisy, not funny" with comedy, stay away from a steaming life, and give up insight into human nature and society. Some works "forced value" to pursue deep expression, but the result is that there are fewer funny points and more embarrassment, and the audience does not buy it.

　　Comedy works are not only a concentrated presentation of public aesthetic tastes, but also an important manifestation of the trend of the times and social emotions. Those impressive works basically come from life. The less ideal life state in reality begins to have another "expression" under the artistic processing of the creators. In several popular works last year, the audience can generally feel a strong sense of "grounding", which is actually the creator's keen capture and clever expression of life.

　　Comedy creation should not only capture and express the true feelings in current life, but also convey profound meanings in relaxed humor. Previously, the work "History of the Death of Movies" that quickly "out of the circle" fictionalized a story many years later: Film Academy candidates learned from the interviewer that the movie has become a "strange thing" composed of background music, voiceover, and rough editing. Its duration is only short and not long, actors do not need lines, and characters do not need names... All this makes a young man who wants to make a feature film at a loss. The work expresses the impact of short videos on film art in an ironic way, and conveys profound meaning in dense laughs - this possible "future film" actually narrows the art and guides the audience to reflect on entertainment first and fast food culture. Such works capture changes in life and convey thoughts through humor, so they can resonate with the audience.

　　In addition to showing jokes in dilemma, the value of comedy lies in facing life in a humorous way and sootheing people's hearts. Taking the talk show that young people love as an example, people's stereotypes about the talk show stage come from the actors' intense ridicule and "offensive", but the breadth and depth that talk show can reach are ignored. The spirit of reconciliation with life has long existed in the creative tradition of Chinese comedy. This actually provides a Chinese-style narrative perspective and space for talk shows, because no matter how the times change, what motivates people must be optimism and courage, and what can move people must be warmth and kindness.

　　On the stage, we see vivid actors, and in fact we also see stories of community workers, lawyers, takeaways, teachers, and students. "Hello everyone, I am..." What opens is both their story and our story. These newcomers in the talk show industry, based on different life experiences and personal styles, have greatly changed the audience's stereotypes of talk show, providing the audience with rich ideological connotations and full emotional value.

　　After laughing from the inside out and touching the soul, excellent comedy can still give people plenty of thinking. The drama "The Sorrow of Comedy" starring Chen Daoming and He Bing has aroused a warm response and triggered a discussion about comedy. It makes people realize that laughing is the purpose of comedy, but the meaning of comedy does not end there. "It's so futile that you sit down and write before you even stand up and go to life!" This sentence from the writer Thoreau reveals the truth of creation: go to life and go deep into the real life. Comedy has never been a quick-acting product made of jokes and hot memes. It requires creators to silently accumulate energy and refine them from life. Chen Xihan

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