What is a sketch? What is crosstalk?

Sketch and crosstalk rehearsal belong to the same artistic language, and they are both artistic forms to express emotions and realize entertainment and education through language exchange, but there are still great differences between them.

First, the form is different.

Crosstalk, a traditional artistic expression, is characterized by humor and satire, and it is very entertaining. It is a popular artistic performance form for many people. Mainly speaking, learning, teasing and singing are important means of expression.

Comedy sketches mainly refer to relatively small works of art, and narrow sketches mainly refer to personal art related to language and performance. Actors must pay attention to the natural form and clear cloud sound in the process of performance.

Second, huge differences.

Compared with the two, crosstalk is less dramatic, and comedy sketches pay more attention to the stage effect. With the development, the gap between comedy sketch and crosstalk is getting smaller and smaller, and many skills in crosstalk performance are also fully used in comedy sketch.

Third, the emphasis is different.

Crosstalk generally has the common characteristics of short sketches, humor and wit, but the difference lies in: Crosstalk is "teaching and singing", focusing on "talking", generally without props and makeup; The sketch should not only use props, but also make up, focusing on "acting" and achieving the effect through performance. Talking more and doing less is easy to make people think of cross talk; Acting without talking became a pantomime.

Fourth, the actors have different orientations.

The sketch has a strong sense of substitution. When the characters appear on the stage, the relationship between the characters in the sketch is very clear. If you want to explain something clearly, you must explain it to the audience before you speak. The actor's role in the sketch is fixed. Zhang San is Zhang San and can never be another one. Crosstalk actors admit many storylines in cross talk dialogue, and actors need to constantly change their identities according to different stories.