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| Dayo Wong Tze Wah |
Dayo Wong Tze-Wah is a famous Stand-up
comedian, singer and actor in Hong Kong. He graduated from University of Alberta and then came back
to Hong Kong to develop in the Showbiz. His first well-known piece is a
stand-up comedy held in 1990s. After that, He has also been a main character of
several hot and famous TV-series in Hong Kong like War of
Genders, You're Hired, Men Don't Cry
and To Catch the Uncatchable.But among all types
of his art works, stand-up comedy is still the most famous one.
Stand-up comedy is a live show which first
appeared in 1970s consisted mainly of a stand-up comedian and a microphone on a
stage for getting the immediate laughs from audience by talking a series of humorous
stories.
Since Dayo was the first one who held stand-up
comedy in Cantonese in Hong Kong and there was no Chinese name for stand-up
comedy in that time, he created one for it called dungduksiu (棟篤笑). Because of this history, nowadays people usually call him the
father of dungduksiu.
The theme of Dayo’s stand-up comedy is
exploring life through the common issues human beings have like global issues,
jobs and relationships. Other than getting a laugh from audience, also lead
them to think in their life about how to live in happiness and tolerance. So
his stand-up comedies usually involve a lot of philosophies and truths. Since
philosophies and truths are often recondite and abstract, in order to let
everybody understand his views toward something, he always simplifies them into
interesting words and also gives many relevant funny examples to the audience
in his stand-up comedy. Therefore, his stand-up comedies are suitable to people
from all age groups.
Most of the examples that appear in Dayo’s
stand-up comedies are his self-experience in the past. When he prepares a script
for a stand-up comedy, he just works in front of the desk for a whole year and
think in what self-experiences can related to the show and how to make these
experiences interesting. He does not copy other’s work from the internet, although
his friend thinks it is not efficient to produce a stand-up comedy to earn
money by thinking for a whole year. He thinks that stand-up comedy is used to
make people happy. In order to surprise audience, innovation is important. All
these things make his art work unique and specific.
Every time I watch Dayo’s stand-up comedy, I
will think deeply about the message behind his words rather than just laugh
loudly. So I have learnt many things from his show, for example, how to get
along with family well. Dayo is just like our teacher and his show is our
lesson, I like the lesson very much because it is very interesting and
informative.
Usually, some audiences will suddenly ask
him some questions in his show, but Dayo can always answer them humorously,
this already becomes an unique characteristic of his stand-up comedy, I very
admire him for his intelligence. He can change all the problem, audience’s question
and even drinking water on the stage to be a part of performance. But there is
one thing bad in his show, his show is going too fast, audience may not have
enough time to digest all the philosophies thoroughly.
Author: wikipedia Title: Stand-up comedy Date of visit:12-11-2012
Author:Patrick Bromley Title: History of Stand-up Comedy in the 1970s Date of visit:12-11-2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ad0IHhhSos&feature=relmfu(5:12-5:43) (6:50-7:00) interview Date of visit:13-11-2012
Author: wen yan (文妍) Title: wong tze wah in Guangzhou (worse﹒happier) three more times in february(黃子華廣州造勢《越大鑊·越快樂》2月加演三場) Date of visit:13-11-2012
Author: wen yan (文妍) Title: father of dungduksiu wong tze wah : the relationship between philosophy and performance is like that between chicken and egg (棟篤笑始祖黃子華：哲學和表演是雞和雞蛋的關係) Date of visit:9-11-2012
Here is some examples of Dayo's stand-up comedies : http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4573D12F7312831 but they do not have subtitle.
