The story about Degang Guo.

The foot of my bed is shining with such bright light. Is it frosty already? Looking up, I found it was moonlight-pa! "The fat man on the stage is banging on the wood." My name is Degang Guo! "

On Sunday, February 5th, Degang Guo, who likes to call himself an "unknown crosstalk performer", began to perform at Tianqiao Music Theatre at 2pm as usual. When I didn't go on stage, I mainly dozed off and talked with Beijing TV about the cooperation of new programs. The performance of Tianqiao Music lasted until around 7 pm. Next, he is going to catch up with crosstalk in a propaganda department, and then go to Guangde Building to watch crosstalk. His family lives in Daxing in the southern suburbs of Beijing. In the afternoon 1 1, he was interviewed by two media when he climbed the stairs to open the door on his way home, because the other party was about to close the deadline, and there was an interview outline lying in the mailbox. ...

Degang Guo, who wrote "I want to attend the Spring Festival Gala", did not attend this year's Spring Festival Gala. However, after a series of interviews with people in a series of programs, such as "Degang Guo Crosstalk Special" broadcast by Phoenix Satellite TV during the Spring Festival for four days, "Tell the truth" and "Press Room" by CCTV, Degang Guo was as popular as any actor who attended the Spring Festival Gala.

Less than two months ago, when the media introduced Degang Guo, he was defined as "little known among ordinary people, but warmly sought after by quite a few veteran crosstalk lovers". Many media and crosstalk lovers regarded him as a "fighter" who challenged mainstream crosstalk and opposed TV crosstalk.

The first audience to smile at him.

Degang Guo said that he has no other hobbies, such as smoking, drinking, dancing, listening to pop music, singing karaoke and driving. He picked up the mahjong tiles. He knew "80,000" and counted "eight drums". He doesn't like to recite textbooks either, but he likes to recite cross talk jokes.

198 1 year, Degang Guo was 8 years old, and he began to learn storytelling formally. The first master was Gao Xiangkai, a storytelling artist in Tianjin. Learning storytelling is not as interesting as what he saw under the stage. Every morning before the master wakes up, he has to get up, tidy up the room and make tea, and wait for the master to get up and teach him to recite jokes. When you finish teaching jokes, you should start practicing by yourself. Every morning at four or five o'clock, he would get up and go to the river to shout, recite jokes and sing. When the old man who does morning exercises comes at seven or eight, class can be over. This shout is three years.

In the next few years, Degang Guo learned Xihe Drum from blind artist Wang Tianyu and crosstalk from Tianjin artist Chang Baofeng. He/kloc-learned from the teacher at the age of 0/5.

"Traditional cross talk needs seven or eight years of childlike innocence." Degang Guo said that the so-called "speaking, learning, teasing and singing" actually includes four skills: speaking, commenting, reading and speaking. "Shuo" includes poems, couplets, riddles, explanations, tongue twisters, anyway, inverted sentences, two-part allegorical sayings, wisecracks, small jokes, anecdotes ... "Pi", while the contents of "Reading" are "Pi Shang", "Pi San Guo" and "Pi Serial".

After studying for five or six years, Degang Guo got the first chance to formally go on stage-"Tianjin Summer Crosstalk Evening". To say it's a cross talk party is actually to set up an open-air platform in the amusement center, pull a banner and hang two microphones. Degang Guo, wearing a white shirt and blue trousers, performed "Poem of Five Elements" on stage. Standing on the stage for the first time, Degang Guo looked around. There were hundreds of people eating, going to the toilet and chatting, but they didn't watch him perform. He suddenly swept to the right corner of the stage, where a big fat man with a flat head and wide-brimmed glasses sat in a wheelchair and kept smiling at him. Degang Guo doesn't care why he laughs. "Anyway, he just smiled at me."

Now Deyun Society is full every game, and it is hard to get a ticket.

Degang Guo always cared about his "solid basic skills in 10 years", although strictly speaking, he studied fine arts in Tianjin for seven years until he went to Beijing to find a way out.

A good dog is not a good dog.

"At that time, the whole country came to Beijing to develop, and even the best dogs would come to Beijing to bark." Degang Guo said that he was a "good dog" and that he had been warned before? Beijing.

1In the spring of 988, 15-year-old Degang Guo and a friend went to Beijing to apply for the All-China Federation of Trade Unions Art Troupe. He doesn't know that they are absolutely similar to Qian Qian's "good dogs" and have a unified title: "Beipiao". Friends have some connections in the group, and the two of them have stayed in the group smoothly, and occasionally they can go to Sichuan and Henan to perform.

"There is a formal unit with a fixed salary and residence, performing regularly, slowly accumulating some relationships, knowing a few big names, following TV, going to parties, and earning 8. 1 100 million a month." Degang Guo, who has just arrived in Beijing, can only imagine so much about the future.

Degang Guo didn't expect that one year later, 1989, when his personnel relationship was about to be transferred to the ACFTU Cultural and Art Troupe, Beijing unified regulations that foreign hukou must return to its original place. Without exception, Degang Guo was sent back to Tianjin, assigned to a cultural unit, and then engaged in Quyi.

After six years of boring life, Degang Guo decided to go to Beijing for the second time, dreaming of finding some relationship in the "circle", so he confidently opened a bed in the small hotel in Dashilan, Qianmen, and the price was 15 yuan a day, with more than 10 people sharing the same room. The idea of "moving there when you find a relationship" seems naive now. After five or six days, his "relationship" is unwilling to have anything to do with him. "I'm not here to stay in a hotel." Degang Guo despondently returned to Tianjin.

At this time, he began to turn to business, just for what he did. When his business failed, he began to sing opera again and went to the countryside to perform with the troupe. Once I went to perform in Wen 'an, Hebei Province, all the actors lived in their hometown houses. The local water is so alkaline that you have to wear heavy makeup when singing. When I took off my makeup, I found that the water could not be removed at all, so I had to sleep with my face painted. The next day, the makeup was blurred, so I had to draw new makeup on the old makeup, so the paint was repeated on my face. After a few days, my face was tossed red and swollen.

It is better to go to Beijing and suffer here. Degang Guo decided to go to Beijing for the third time, which was 1995. This time, Degang Guo has made full preparations. He will live in Qingta and Daxing. Wherever the house is cheap, he will attend as long as there is a chance to perform. In the end, he found a small Beijing Opera Troupe in Shazikou, and the other party promised to give him 1000 yuan a month, "at least he can have money to eat". After singing for two months, he didn't get a penny. He asked the other party for a theory and got the answer: "You can keep singing if you want money, but you can't take the previous 2000 yuan." Degang Guo had to continue singing. One day, the performance was late and the bus was gone. He couldn't afford a taxi, so he walked more than 20 kilometers from the city and walked back to Daxing's rental house.

The film and television industries are much more complicated.

Even Degang Guo himself did not expect that the transshipment started from the film and television circle. At that time, Beijing gave him the impression that "everyone has something to do with CCTV." He met some "people who claimed to be CCTV directors" and began to talk about scripts and write plans. Often, one's own script is written, and the other party takes the script to seek sponsorship. The TV series "Extraordinary Archives" and "Zheng De's Journey to the South of the Yangtze River" are all his works. I have also done special topics on Quyi, food programs and fruit juice advertisements. Degang Guo's experience of the film and television circle is "much easier to mix than the cross talk circle".

Until one day, in a teahouse in Cheng Nan, he saw a group of 10-year-old children talking cross talk, and he also stood in front of the stage on a whim. The child asked, "Did you also learn crosstalk?" "I also learned." Degang Guo said that he had been waiting for this question for many years.

Playing with tickets made Degang Guo find that there was a market for cross talk, so he began to recruit and found two other cross talk actors, Zhang Wenshun and Jing Li. Several people got together and began to talk about cross talk in a teahouse in Beijing, which was called "Beijing Cross Talk Conference" and listened to a performance of 10 yuan.

Everything at the start-up stage is almost a tragedy. Degang Guo said, "At the worst time, we tried to perform for the audience. In the cold winter, there is no one in the street. They are still standing outside the door, calling for people to come in. Finally, someone came in. Maybe he just wanted to come in and get warm. The actors on the stage are still talking about Kan Kan. After a while, the audience's cell phone rang and the actor stopped to wait for him to call. The man was embarrassed and soon finished. I came up to him and said,' Listen carefully and call me when you go to the bathroom. There are more people backstage than you. "

When Degang Guo carried out the policy of "everyone will play", he didn't know that Justin, the former theater manager of the Northern Services and Arms Company, was also in the audience, and he didn't expect to make himself an overwhelming news protagonist in the media one day.

In 200 1 year, Justin was going to do theater crosstalk in Lai Shengchuan, and wanted to expand cross-strait crosstalk exchanges, so Justin began to pay attention to Beijing-Tianjin crosstalk. After watching Degang Guo's drama crosstalk intermittently for two years, Justin recommended Degang Guo to participate in the 2003 Beijing crosstalk sketch invitational tournament. Degang Guo spent 1 hour writing "Hello, Beijing", which reached the standard of "TV crosstalk"-this is the first time that Degang Guo crosstalk has been so close to TV since it drifted north.

"It's a pity that he was the first in the final and his score was not very high, so the organizing Committee gave him a special prize." Justin recalled.

Finally hung up the "full"

June, 5438+October, 2004 10, what Degang Guo didn't expect was that the "special crosstalk show on the verge of extinction" he participated in was not only a turning point of traditional crosstalk, but also a turning point of his crosstalk career. The special program not only expanded Degang Guo's influence among veteran crosstalk lovers, but also was attracted by the "Happy Teahouse" program of Beijing Literature and Art Radio Station, and began to be specially broadcast on the radio.

"I am very pleased." Degang Guo likes to use this phrase when he comes out. He has been really happy since June 5438+ 10, 2004. After a year and a half in Tianqiao Music Theater, the ticket window was finally full.

"The Happy Teahouse broadcasts cross talk every day, but the fire is Degang Guo's cross talk." According to the analysis of Dongdong Gun, a veteran crosstalk enthusiast, Degang Guo crosstalk is "the bone of Tianjin and Beijing, the flesh of Beijing".

The joint point of "The Bone of Tianjin" is a story about the petty calculations, grievances, cowardice and fantasies of ordinary citizens. In Degang Guo's cross talk, we can hear jokes such as traffic jam in Beijing's Third Ring Road, inconvenient bathing in the bath center, and the singer's ignorance of music.

"Beijing's meat" means that he is atmospheric, upright, steady and unhurried. "As soon as he came to power, he was alive and kicking, but he didn't understand cross talk." It is not difficult to learn traditional cross talk well and make people laugh. Degang Guo said, "This old gentleman has extracted all the jokes that can constitute a burden in the China language. To this day, any joke you tell is a traditional cross talk. "

Degang Guo's traditional jokes are actually not "traditional". The original text of Dream Marriage is about a poor man who daydreamed one day and was taken back as a husband by a rich man. He changed "eight sedan chairs" to "helicopters" and "satin" to "suits and ties". The former "white wolf" has become the present "western conquest", and the "warlord exterminates bandits" has been changed to "Bush asks you to exterminate terrorists"; The article club is about how a person pretends to be knowledgeable, only to meet another person who really knows how to write. In the Republic of China, this man who could write was called Kang Youwei. Here in Degang Guo, the story structure remains the same, but Kang Youwei becomes Jin Yong.

There are more and more tightrope walkers in Degang Guo. Dongdong Gun found that one day, the last few lines of the famous "Truth" changed from "Don't worry, you can enter this crosstalk club" to "Don't worry, you can enter this Deyun club"-1978 Beijing Crosstalk Club finally got a formal name: Deyun Club. "De" is taken from Degang Guo's "De" and "Yun" is taken from Degang Guo's "Yun". This is also one of the four known folk crosstalk groups in China. The other three are all in Tianjin, namely Zhong You, Hahaha and Jiuhe.

At the end of September, 2005, Yuan's military camp war zone failed to survive. After the theater closed, he was invited by the third cross talk sketch contest to do propaganda planning-his duty was to bring insiders and the media to think of some plans and find more works for the contest.

Inviting Tianjin Crosstalk to Beijing is the first step. Justin came to Tianqiao Music Theater with screenwriter Shi Hang, drama critic Crystal and 10 media reporters. This is the first time you have seen Degang Guo's cross talk. After a performance, these people became tightrope walkers. Shi Hang and Crystal began to promote Degang Guo in various ways as much as possible, laying the groundwork for Degang Guo's blossoming in the media in June this year.

All-round media explosion

In fact, Yuan Hong took a group of people not only to Tianqiao Music Theater, but also to see the performances of Li Jindou Crosstalk Society, Tianjin Zhong You, Ha Ha Xiao and other cross talk troupes. After all, there is a "physical distance" to communicate with associations in Tianjin; Communicate with the "successful" actors of Dongcheng Crosstalk Club, "can't say to go together".

Less than a week after they saw the performance of Deyun Society,10.5, 165438, Degang Guo came to Tianjin with all the staff of Deyun Society to hold a special crosstalk show. This is the first time that Degang Guo said cross talk in the Grand Theatre. Justin and Shi Hang went to Beijing with more than 10 Beijing-based media. Most of these reporters knew about Degang Guo for the first time.

With 1 1.5 as the boundary, only a text about Degang Guo-Degang Guo crosstalk comments written by Crystal can be found before; Since then, the name "Degang Guo" has appeared in the media. 5438+In mid-February, an interview with Degang Guo, a grassroots hero in phonology circle, published by Sanlian Life Weekly was regarded as the first large-scale media report on Degang Guo phenomenon. The definition of Degang Guo in the article is "little known among ordinary people, but he has won the enthusiastic pursuit of quite a few senior crosstalk lovers".

During this period, Degang Guo's "On the Current Situation of Crosstalk in Fifty Years" was widely circulated on the Internet, and more people thought it was a speech denouncing the decadent and accumulated disadvantages of the cross talk circle.

Since then, according to the statistics of tightrope walking, the media introduced Degang Guo with daily average coverage frequency, and adjectives such as "crosstalk fighter" and "competing with the mainstream crosstalk circle" came before "Degang Guo". Until June this year, 5438+ 10, the total outbreak of high-density media interviews.

"We have made a new column called' Cultural Grand View Garden'. I heard that Degang Guo is very popular and I am considering visiting him. " Xiang Fang, the director of Phoenix Satellite TV, went to Degang Guo to see a special performance on June 2nd, 65438. "I can't laugh after listening to other cross talks for five minutes, but I can laugh after listening to Degang Guo's three sentences."

Degang Guo was in good shape that day and the interview was a success. After the program was broadcast, director Wang Jiyan felt that there were too few cross talks with Degang Guo. "Who said that the TV station didn't give cross talk for half an hour?" It is decided that the Cultural Grand View Garden will produce a solo performance by Degang Guo during the Spring Festival, lasting for four days, 1.5 hours a day-this is the first time for Phoenix Satellite TV in several years.

Wang Jiyan personally deployed the broadcast: the original two machines recorded, increased to five; In order to make the picture look good, I also told you to use the "rocker arm".

"Degang Guo didn't mention any broadcast fee. In order to cooperate with our recording, the twelfth lunar month was specially added. " Jiang Youxi, producer of Phoenix Satellite TV's Cultural Grand View Garden, said. In fact, Degang Guo's live performances never interfere with live audio and video recording. The tightrope walker recorded every performance and uploaded it to the Internet. Anyone who wants to listen can download it for free at any time. It is this way of communication that makes more people know what Degang Guo is.

Originally, Jiang was worried that the impromptu meeting would lose the atmosphere because there was no audience. Degang Guo patted his chest: "It's my treat." Just a few days before the show, he posted on the Internet to announce his attendance.

The program was officially recorded at noon 1, and the cameraman went to decorate the scene at 6: 30 in the morning. I didn't expect a lot of "steel wires" to arrive at the music gate of Tianqiao as early as 5: 30. Jiang Youxi went to Tianqiao music at 8 o'clock and almost couldn't squeeze in.

"It's the first row. I found that old people never laugh. " Degang Guo's apprentice quietly discussed this serious problem with Jiang Youxi, and they all paid great attention to the audience's reaction. Jiang Youxi looked at it and said to him, "This is Lin Zhaohua, a famous human art director." She pointed to a couple beside her: "That's Mr. and Mrs. Meng Jinghui." The apprentice smiled and said, "They have been laughing."