Comic actor from Liaoning whose 小品 sketches were a fixture of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for over twenty years. He brought the northeastern folk duet 二人转 to national TV and made the series 《乡村爱情》.
Zhào Běnshān túdì zhòngduō, chuàngbàn le Běnshān Chuánméi.
Zhao Benshan has many apprentices and founded Benshan Media.
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His 2001 sketch 卖拐 'Selling a Crutch', in which he cons a healthy man into buying a crutch, made the northeastern word 忽悠 'to con, to sweet-talk' known across China, and gave the internet the line 要啥自行车 'who needs a bike?'.
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He is nicknamed 小品王, 'king of the sketch', and 东方卓别林, 'Chaplin of the East'. His 2009 sketch 不差钱, 'money's no object', made a national star of his student 小沈阳.
