Chapter 476 - Got onto a live broadcast? (2/2)

Yao Jiancai laughed loudly, ”Come on then, who's afraid of who!”

The two of them only had less than a day’s worth of practice, so they obviously were not able to polish the details of their performance from beginning till the end. As they were in a rush for time, Zhang Ye could only practice a few joke segments together with Old Yao and coordinating their timings on when to use a certain expression or a line. Any other thing was left to their improvisation onstage. Lucky for them, Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai both had a very good understanding of each other, as though they were long lost friends from back in the day. With this understanding, some of Zhang Ye's far-fetched ideas could still be followed up by Yao Jiancai. This made Zhang Ye very delighted as it wasn't easy finding another actor who could match oneself.

There was laughter coming from the set.

Tang Dazhang's two disciples were currently performing their crosstalk segments.

Zhang Xiao: ”So what this segment teaches us is that we must all get as far away from the World Cup as possible!”

Liu Yuan: ”Yes, we need to get far away from it, but we need to get even farther away from you.”

Zhang Xiao: ”Why do you need to get far away from me?”

Liu Yuan: ”Because you've been talking bad about my dad!”

”Hur Hur Hur Hur.”

”Haha.”

The audience was very flattering as they reacted positively.

Zhang Ye was getting gooseb.u.mps, ”What's so funny about that?”

Yao Jiancai threw up his hands and shrugged, ”How would I know? I didn't hear it from the beginning, but I've heard them perform before and they are not too bad.”

Zhang Ye scoffed. Not bad? This can be considered not bad? When he decided to take part in the crosstalk compet.i.tion yesterday, he did some research about the good performances in crosstalk of this world. He found out that it was similar to the mainstream crosstalk performance of his previous world, basically the gala type of crosstalk. It had a little bit of laughing points, had different levels to it and had structure, but did not go out of line. It did not seem to be that popular and was not as funny as Zhang Ye thought it would be. To him, it probably matched the crosstalks of the early 2000s in his world, but what was different was that those years were when the crosstalks of his previous world was at a low and on a downturn. In this world, however, it wasn't so. The art of crosstalk was still very popular and welcomed by the ma.s.ses.

As a result, Zhang Ye had been wondering since yesterday about the current world. He considered bringing some non-mainstream crosstalk works over here, but wondered if the audience would accept it. Zhang Ye always felt that any kind of art form had its own developmental path. Starting from creation, dissemination, rapid development, bottleneck, commercialization, breaking past the bottleneck, and continued development. That was the general path it would move in, but not necessarily in that same order. It was the same for crosstalk, but the only problem now was that the current situation in the crosstalk of this world was not suffering from a bottleneck of development and downturn. If he brought about the change to commercialization of the industry too early, then would the audience approve of it?

It was worth a try!

Zhang Ye didn't use any of the more common and politically correct gala style crosstalks even when he had a lot of them in his head. It just wasn't his style. He was ready to make a name for himself in this world by going down a different path from the others. He did not wish to do things that others could do. Instead, he only did the things that others didn't or couldn't do. If he did not even have such courage to attempt something new, he would not have the fame he was enjoying right now. For him to have reached where he currently was, it was all because he did things that no one else could attempt to do!

I can do what all of you can do!

But what I can do is not doable by any of you!

That is why he already had a clear answer in his mind. Zhang Ye was going for the challenge of introducing a new style of crosstalk!

Bba Bba Bba Bba!

The audience's applause rang out. It wasn't too enthusiastic, nor too cold, so it would mean that the performance was quite alright.

The judges' comments could be heard.

The set was a place which could accommodate a few hundred people. It was larger than the recording studio which Zhang Ye used for his talk show. The place was filled with audience members and, in the front row, was a row of tables where the three judges sat at.

An old crosstalk actor, who was one of the judges for this round of compet.i.tion, said, ”It was quite well spoken and the content is considered to be new. The structure was also clear. Hur Hur. that's all I have to say since I can't pick out any issues with it. I'll be looking forward to your second round of performances then.”

A woman who was a gala director said, ”Hur Hur, I want to add on something. This  performance's ending was a little soft, so I don't think it was wrapped up too well. I get a feeling that the overall performance was not well supported by the ending.”

The contestant, Zhang Xiao said, ”Your criticism is right, we will improve on that.”

The last judge, a man said, ”But your overall performance was still quite good. If I were to give points for it, I would award the two of you 80 points.”

Zhang Xiao and Liu Yuan both bowed, ”Thank you, judges.”

The female judge nudged her gla.s.ses up, ”Alright then, you can go backstage and have a rest. Let's have the next group.” As she said that, she picked up her list and read it, ”Let me see which group is next....Eh?”

Zhang Ye?

Yao Jiancai?

The three judges looked at one another.

At this moment, a staff member went over to the cameraman and said a few words to him. He also communicated a little with the other technical staffs.

The cameraman and technical staffs were all stunned!

That person was still whispering quickly about something, as though he was giving the technical team some task.

All of this went unnoticed by the other contestants and judges.

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