摘要
Once upon a time, Chinese live comedy meant watching two men doing a 300-yearold crosstalk routine at the teahouse.The PRC's early years were a difficult time for humor;as there was little modern material not considered either vulgar or bourgeois. In the early 1980s, the CCTV New War Gala helped shake things up with social satire, but has since become toothless and stale.
