Tang Congsheng

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Personal experience

Tang Congsheng graduated from the drama department of the National Academy of Arts (now National Taipei University of Arts) in 1996. He has performed in performing workshops, green light troupe and other groups. He is famous for imitating Li Ao and Chen Shui Bian in Zhongtian TV's variety show. In 2000, he was promoted from director Zhu Yanping to eight major TV stations to participate in the program "son of Taiwan". The program's interior decoration "Chen Shui plaque" is lifelike. When Chen Shui Bian came to power, he was once known as "Tang a Bian".

Main works

Take part in TV series

Take part in the film

variety show

Take part in drama

Dubbing works

Publishing works

Create for others

Character evaluation

Tang Congsheng has only one role to play in the big stuffy cauldron, which is "cruel role - Li Ao". Tang Congsheng is one of the best variety show hosts of the new generation. He has a professional background in drama performance, received formal training, studied Beijing opera, crosstalk and stage play performance, and occasionally starred in movies, which can also make him shine. After he started to do imitation shows on TV, he soon became a household name in Taiwan by imitating Chen Shui Bian and Li Ao. His imitation of Li Ao is particularly outstanding. He can be regarded as the most vivid imitation image in Taiwan, the classic among the classics. Five years ago, Deng Zhihong imitated Li Ao in the program "listen to who's talking", which was the most similar to Li Ao at that time. He also went to Li Ao's study to communicate with Li Ao face to face. Tang Congsheng fully grasped the characteristics and logic of Li Ao's speech, and created a comic version of "Li Ao", which has surpassed Deng Zhihong's version of Li Ao.

Tang Congsheng presided over the program "the champion of jokes" all year round, and his head was full of jokes. His previous experience in performing cross talk and stage plays made him master the skill of mouth watering, and he could freely change his mood when reading large lines. He was especially good at connecting various jokes with current events. Almost every time he appeared on the program, there were one or two periods of jokes, pointing at the mulberry, cursing the locust, and mixing meat and vegetable, Sometimes solemn and heavy, sometimes joking and exaggerating, full of passion, it is clear that the stand up crosstalk show. On the basis of achieving 90% similarity with Li Ao's image, Li Ao has incorporated a lot of entertainment elements. For example, he will put a telescopic baton to his throat to perform iron throat skill on the spot, tie a rope on a CD to make a blood drop to assassinate special guests, and sing a duet with other guests.

Tang Congsheng closely follows Li Ao's words and deeds, and is willing to make preparations. Therefore, Li Ao's image will not be out of date in the next few years. With this role alone, Tang Congsheng can keep on playing two or three times a week, but he continues to perform with new ideas.

Character controversy

Pneumothorax incident

In March 1999, Tang Congsheng went to the General Hospital of the three armed forces for medical treatment about 10 days before the performance of the stage play thirteen point relationship in the performance workshop. He was diagnosed with pneumothorax and needed to be hospitalized immediately for surgery. Because the thirteen Jiao relationship is about to be officially performed, Tang Congsheng asked the doctor if he could wait for his performance to be finished before surgery. The doctor told him that if he left the hospital now, he might not even be able to go on stage. The next day, Tang Congsheng contacted the performance workshop, and Lai Shengchuan, the director of thirteen point relationship, urgently asked Zhao Ziqiang to replace him. Zhao Ziqiang was ordered in the face of danger, so that the "Thirteen point relationship" safely through the premiere. In July 1999, in the stage play "marriage? Knot faint! After Zhao Ziqiang finished his announcement and arrived at the meeting, Tang Congsheng hugged Zhao Ziqiang and cried for 20 minutes.

Reduce the number of programs hosted

Tang Congsheng presided over six programs at the same time in "cable" and "wireless" TV stations, which made him too busy to breathe. Due to his serious lack of sleep, he had to rely on supplements. Tang Congsheng has already felt that he can't do what he wants, and worried about affecting the quality of hosting programs, so he decided to host only four programs. The audience saw the program hosted by Tang Congsheng on TV for half an hour at most. But I don't know that he is hosting the festival. At present, there are rehearsals and program planning meetings in advance to participate in, which is not easy at all. He took part in the program planning meeting of "invincible Saturday" of China TV, which lasted from after dinner until more than 12 o'clock in the night.

Seeing her son getting thinner on TV in Tainan, mother Tang repeatedly asked to go north to live with Tang Congsheng in order to take care of him nearby. Tang Congsheng knew that his mother would be more sad to see him working hard day and night, so he didn't let his mother go north to live with him. Tang's mother loves her son very much. Every time she goes to the north, she brings her son all kinds of tonics. Now Tang Congsheng sometimes misses his dinner due to his busy work, so she just takes tonics as a meal. Tang Congsheng said that there are all kinds of bird's nests. Tang Congsheng can only sleep about four or five hours a day now. Even if he relies on hard support, he still can't bear his physical strength. He has decided to reduce the number of programs he hosts because he is worried that his poor spirit will affect the quality of the programs he hosts.

Scolded by Xu Nailin

On September 29, 2017, when Xu Nailin, a senior host from Taiwan, China, was recording the Chinese TV program "genius chongchong" two days ago, he was dissatisfied with the younger generation's video playing and fishing, and his speech was sour and impolite. He scolded the guest Tang Congsheng (Congsheng) at the video scene, which was recorded by the staff on the scene and uploaded to the website, causing an uproar. Two days later, Xu Nailin said that he was "no longer angry" after precipitation. However, he admitted that there was no possibility to be in the same frame with Tang Congsheng in the future. Later, Xu Nailin asked: "many younger generation artists are mixing up in videos. Shouldn't I scold them?"

After the outbreak of the incident, many netizens pointed out that Xu Nailin "had a bad temper originally", while his partner Zeng Guocheng clarified for him: "it's rare these years, and he won't scold me. At most, I'm a few minutes late for the video recording. I've hardly seen him so angry. People get along with each other by tacit understanding. I know him very well."

Just now, Xu Nailin also issued a statement through his agency, saying that he was sorry to the producers and the public because of the communication problems in the recorded program, and promised to be more cautious in the future.