“It has destroyed the Chinese nation’s excellence,” the center frothed in an open letter. This upset the Mulan Cultural Research Center.
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In 2015 she appeared on Dragon TV in a knock-out sketch reality show, reimagining Mulan as a gluttonous fool, munching on a chicken, tricked by her father into the army. She’s capable of doing a passable impression of Marilyn Monroe, a send-up of diva filmstar Fàn Bīngbīng’s 范冰冰 sex appeal, and a parody of rock singer Zhōu Xiǎo’ōu’s 周晓鸥 wistful stage style (only to have him suddenly appear behind her).īut these comedy takes have landed her in hot water in China’s insecure and sourpuss cultural protection sphere. Jia began appearing on TV shows across the country. It was the first time audiences across China had been exposed to Jia’s innovations on crosstalk, and they loved it. Here, Jia Ling is very much in control of the situation: Gone were the scholar gowns, replaced by sparkly costumes, while a male comedian was the foil of a female comedian’s put-downs.
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In interviews, she said her aim was to show that “not only can women do cross talk, they can also make it cooler!”Īll this led to the Spring Festival Gala of 2010, where she and her long-time crosstalk colleague performed a series of traditional song-and-dance numbers, but reimagined with clownish attempts at kung-fu - whereas most crosstalk was about polish and timing, these dances were hilariously clumsy. By 2009, she was running her own comedy troupe, dedicated to updating crosstalk and making it open to innovation. She slowly edged onto the cross-talk circuit, appearing in contests and small TV dramas, building a reliable name for herself.
By this time she had been admitted to the China Broadcasting Art Troupe, working under the great Féng Gǒng 冯巩, a well-known skit performer and talent nurturer. But reluctant to give up on her dreams, Jia turned to her mentor for help. Meanwhile, Jia’s family wanted to regroup: her elder sister found her a job as a highway toll collector. She lived in a basement apartment of 10 square meters, withstood taunts about her weight from a director when she was acting as a runner, and walked out on a boyfriend who wanted her to give up on her career and become his housewife. In order to make ends meet, Jia filled a plethora of odd dogsbody jobs. But when you lose them, the only thing you can feel is suffocation and helplessness.” Jia would go on to write a sketch in 2016 imagining herself traveling back in time to meet her mother. Jia later said in an interview with CCTV that it left her “tormented.” “For us, a mother’s love is like air, which has been there since you were born, so you often ignore it. If that wasn’t enough, one month into her studies, her mother died. This attitude would show throughout her crosstalk career: In a Weibo blog of 2009, Jia revealed that xiansheng theaters had no women’s changing rooms.
“A woman speaking xiansheng! It feels like going to the wrong bathhouse.” There had never been a famous female crosstalker before - the banter and mockery were a style of humor that supposedly didn’t fit women. “For a long time, I couldn’t accept being called a crosstalk actor,” Jia told Beijing Evening News in 2009. These duos had only really ever been men. She reminisced on a chat show for Shenzhen TV that she felt “incomparable happiness” when her family got central heating indoors for the first time.īut her studies at the Central Academy of Drama were also a mistake: in a mix-up during a phone call with the academy, her mother had mistakenly put her down for the xiangsheng course, or “crosstalk.”Ĭrosstalk is a Beijing institution, two men in traditional robes engaged in rounds of quick-fire banter and side-swipes. She had a very poor upbringing, growing up in a farmhouse in the 1980s. Who is Jia Ling?Ī Hubei girl who made it in comedy against very large odds. That look of dumbstruck horror was the funniest part of the entire gala – while her casting in the sketch was the most tragic. Watch Jia’s expression at the 11-minute mark as her daughter joyfully talks about her coming wedding, phrased to sound like her mother’s funeral:
In the Gala skit “Three Twists and Turns,” Jia plays an older lady who, through crossed communication with a daughter too shy to announce her engagement, is led to believe she is terminally ill. Its total box office of 5.4 billion yuan ($830 million) makes it the highest-grossing female-directed film of all time, surpassing Patty Jenkins’s 2017 Wonder Woman.
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In February, Jia’s Hi, Mom - a movie she produced, directed, and starred in that was a tribute to her dead mother - was the highest-earning film of the holiday season. But this year, there was one comedian who viewers welcomed - an overweight lady with an irresistible dimpled smile: Jiǎ Líng 贾玲.
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