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Sui Sui Nian links to the title. Recently, stand-up comedy has been dominating the Weibo list. Things are developing so fast that it is too late to have a complete thought. I write a blog to record my thoughts.
What is the audience’s purpose of watching stand-up comedy, is to get happiness, and the way to get happiness is to watch the performance, performance or text or interaction of stand-up comedians. Some stand-up comedy has points, but often the points are interspersed with the jokes, and if a show is all opinions and no jokes, it’s not stand-up, it’s speech.
To offend means to speak or behave impolitely and to offend the other party. Everyone’s growth experience, living environment and sensitivity are different. Offense is a completely subjective concept. The subject of offense is very important. Whoever initiates the offense will get a completely different response. This is related to the status of both parties. Direct relationship. If I feel offended by words, then I can point out that you just offended me. Note that this is verbal communication, not using power to fight back (such as Will Smith’s fist). Offenses are collateral damage to free speech.
“(Stand-up) comedy is the art of offense”?
As mentioned earlier, the purpose of watching stand-up comedy is to gain happiness. If an actor offends a specific individual or a certain group, someone in the audience will feel offended, so will he get happiness at this point in time? If it were me, no. In my opinion, offense is a kind of pandering, a technique, a technique used to quickly close the distance, a technique to close the distance between some groups by offending some groups, and the technique serves the content, if the actor only offends Without content, there is no way to bring back the audience who has been distanced by offending, and it is very likely that they will be greeted with silence.
Was the atmosphere good during that recording? Well, many people will say it’s not funny, that’s because they only listened to the recording, and the offline performance should be judged by the audience’s reaction, instead of judging whether a joke is funny or not. If “Big News” is moved to the present, and the one-minute recording of “something happened to xx” is intercepted, is it funny? Is it offensive? Different people have different definitions. We can’t praise people who dared to speak 20 years ago while killing those who are still talking. To respond to this incident with the phrase “comedy is the art of offense” is laziness. .
Stand-up comedy is a play. What is said in the play and what is played in the play are all the play itself.
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