Chapter 37: X-MAN (1)
After eating, Li Shenglin sent a few little girls back to their dormitory, and left the notebook directly for them, and did not forget to tell them to watch the year-end award ceremony before leaving.
At 5 p.m. on December 7, it was the recording of X-MAN, and Li Shenglin came to the SBS building an hour early, and this time he came out with Li Shenglin as assistant Bai Haoyu and secretary Zhang Wenli.
There is a special lounge for artists and assistants in X-MAN, and because they came early, there was no one else in the waiting room, so Zhang Wenli and Bai Haoyu were not in a hurry to leave.
At 5:20 a.m., the voices of two people talking while walking could be heard from the waiting room, and they could be heard both of them with loud voices and very familiar, and as time passed, the voices went from far to near.
Li Shenglin could clearly hear the content of their conversation through a door, and one of the more hoarse people spoke close to a whisper: "Jidong must have been a little drunk during that friendship, otherwise how could he say that kind of thing?" The other voice didn't sound so hoarse, although the voice was also very loud, and through the door, the tone didn't sound so perverse, "Alas, it's normal for Jidong to be unhappy when someone says that kind of thing, and everyone is angry, and he will curse if he is not drunk." ”
The voices of the two people talking and the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and one of them put his hand on the doorknob, and Li Shenglin could see the doorknob turning inside. "Don't talk about this matter anymore, Jidong ......" Liu Zaishi stretched out his right hand to open the door, and turned back to talk to Jiang Hudong, only to find that there was someone inside in the middle of the conversation, and immediately stopped talking. I didn't expect someone to come earlier than me.
Li Shenglin hurriedly stood up and saluted, "Hello Jiang Hudong, Liu Zaishi, I am Li Shenglin, a singer who debuted this year." "Oh, you're Jongmin's younger brother, Lee Seung-rim, who just debuted this year?" Kang Ho-dong and the two obviously heard from the production crew about Kim Jong-min letting a younger brother participate in the X-MAN show.
Li Shenglin didn't know what Kim Jong-min said to the crew, from Jiang Hudong's tone, it sounded like he didn't know his identity, it should be Kim Jong-min's agent who explained how Kim Jong-min spoke, and the agent arranged for Gao Yaotai was basically an assistant role in life, not a person with that kind of mind, it seemed that it was arranged by Lin Shanhua.
"Oh yes. Brother Zhong Min and I also have a brokerage company, and I often hear Xiao Linuna talk about the three eldest brothers. Li Shenglin politely said that in front of outsiders, his address to Li Xiaoli was much more distant.
"Oh, you are also very familiar with Xiaoli?" Jiang Hudong asked again, Liu Zaishi looked at Li Shenglin and let Jiang Hudong speak, he has not yet developed the habit of being a central character, and the character of a good man makes Liu Zaishi unable to make strong moves outside the show.
At this time, Jin Jidong also arrived, he stood at the door and looked at the five people standing together, squinted his eyes and smiled: "So lively?" "Jidong, come here, this is the newcomer introduced by Zhong Min, this newcomer is amazing, he is still very close to Xiaoli." Jiang Hudong beckoned to Jin Jidong at the door.
Kim Jidong walked over and looked around, and asked, "Jongmin hasn't arrived?" He just heard that Lee Seung-rim was introduced by Kim Jong-min, and he thought that Kim Jong-min also came with him.
Jiang Hudong and Liu Zaishi divided their attention to Bai Haoyu and Zhang Wenli, and Li Shenglin hurriedly introduced the two, "They are my agent assistants, this is Bai Haoyu, this is Zhang Wenli." Li Shenglin pointed to the two of them separately and said, "Wenli is a Chinese student at Ewha Women's University, and I have only returned from China in recent years, so I recruited her as my assistant." The two of them hurriedly greeted Liu Zaishi and the others.
"Well, hello. Jiang Hudong nodded as if he had said hello, and Liu Zaishi stretched out his hand and shook the two, "Hello." Jin Jidong also nodded with a smile, "Hello." ”
Jin Jidong is not tall, which is completely opposite to Jiang Hudong, who is huge, tall and fat, especially when Jin Jidong smiles, he squints his eyes and bars his teeth, which makes people feel particularly amiable.
"Since you are the younger brother of Xiaoli and Zhongmin, don't be polite, just call the eldest brother. "Jiang Hudong, Liu Zaishi, and Jin Jidong are the biggest among the three, so Jiang Hudong still speaks.
Li Shenglin immediately nodded and saluted: "Brother Hudong, Brother Shi, Brother Jidong." Jiang Hudong nodded with satisfaction and patted Li Shenglin's shoulder hard, "Have you ever filmed a variety show before?" "No, X-MAN is the first time to participate. Li Shenglin said that he was the president, he was capricious, and he didn't let Lin Shanhua arrange for the show to promote when he released the album.
Unless the strength of the brokerage company is strong, such as SM Company, there are not many programs that invite newcomers who are not famous, and it is not a good program, and Li Shenglin does not want to let go of the slightest popularity like ordinary newcomers, so he didn't want to participate in the show to promote his popularity at all, not to mention that the current variety show is not famous. It really started with X-MAN.
"Oh, it's the first time you're on the show, do you usually watch variety shows?" heard that Li Shengli was on the show for the first time, and Kim Jidong asked questions before the main MC of this issue, Liu Jae-seok. "...... "How do you say this, it's impossible not to watch variety shows, I've seen everything that X-MAN hasn't filmed, and there are infinite challenges in the future, and Running Man himself is even clearer, but can you say this?" What this means is to tell Jiang Hudong that they know about variety shows.
At this time, other people came one after another, and several people stopped talking, Liu Zaishi finally asked Li Shenglin some points for doing variety shows, "Talk more in the show, I will ask you a few questions, be enthusiastic and don't be too shy, understand?" Li Shenglin nodded, "Understood, thank you Brother Shi." The three of them nodded, and went to their own places to familiarize themselves with the script.
"Ah, Brother Zhong Min. Lee Seung-rim stood up and opened his hands to Kim Jong-min, who had just arrived. "Hehe, Shenglin, you came so early. Kim Jong-min smiled and hugged him.
Kim Jong-min is a member of Gao Yaotai and his stupid and stupid personality makes him very popular in the entertainment industry, and a few people came to the waiting room just now, basically Li Shenglin's seniors, Li Shenglin stood up and greeted them one by one, because the two sides did not know each other, the other party nodded and responded It was polite.
Kim Jong-min was different immediately when he came, when Kim Jong-min greeted others, everyone responded enthusiastically, Kim Jong-min also introduced Lee Seung-rim to everyone, and the two sides looked much familiar after greeting each other again.
Immediately after Kim Jong-min, Myth also arrived, the people who came were Shin Comet and Andy, although Myth can't release an album for the time being, but it also needs to show his face in front of TV often to maintain some exposure, but in the name of Mythology, you don't need to sell it like Lee Seung-rim himself, the program team will take the initiative to invite.
The relationship between Lee Seung-rim and Myth is not as close as Kim Jong-min for the time being, and the two sides said hello and nodded even if they said hello. Next is the SBS TV makeup artist who does the makeup to the people who attend the show, and before the last show, they all have to do makeup, which is to maintain the image and cover up some things that can't appear in relaxation, such as tattoos and the like.
Television stations provide make-up artists, but artists can also use their own make-up artist assistants. Li Shenglin recorded for the first time, and he didn't bring anyone except Zhang Wenli and Bai Haoyu, so he obediently admitted that SBS's makeup artist tossed casually.
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The rule of X-MAN is to communicate the information of whether you are X-MAN or not by phone in each issue, and when everyone answers the phone, there must be an X-MAN in it.
The game is divided into two teams, the first phase is the strong team and the soft team, the captains are Kang Hudong and Yoo Jae-seok, the team names of the two teams are also homonymous from the surnames of the two team captains, and the winning team in the game will receive a charity prize of 1 million won, which will be donated in the name of the winner after the game.
X-MAN's mission is to make the team lose the game and not be detected.
The show is filmed and edited into two weeks of playback, and after two weeks, there will be a chance to expose X-MAN, and if X-MAN is not discovered in the end, then even if X-MAN wins, all the prize money will be donated in the name of X-MAN alone.
The opening began with three hosts, who showed their excited and happy expressions to the audience in front of the TV in front of the camera.
Jiang Hudong: "Real!"
Kim Ji-dong: "situation!"
Liu Zaishi: "Saturday!
The three of them crossed their hands, made an X gesture, and shouted in unison, "X-MAN!"
After the opening show, the three of them began to warm up, Liu Zaishi held the teleprompter card in his hand, turned his head sideways and opened with Jiang Hudong: "Well, the real situation is ...... Saturday"
"It's amazing...... Jiang Hudong said.
"It's really, really, empowering. ”
"Yes. ”
"Energetic start. ”
"There is power, but it is really not ordinary power. ”
You always have to praise yourself when you do a show, and the theme of X-MAN is indeed very novel, but the rules are not perfect in the early days, and PD, writers, and editing directors can't find the focus that should be on making a show, and it takes about half a year to reach the peak of ratings. It's a journey that every new show goes through.
"Immediately after the first phase of X-MAN, the second phase of X-MAN, I became the main MC, thank you. Liu Zaishi shook hands left and right to express his joy. Jin Jidong squinted his eyes and shook Liu Zaishi with a smile, and when he turned to Jiang Hudong, Jiang Hudong's expression was not very good-looking.
Liu Zaishi didn't care about Jiang Hudong's face, and nodded left and right, "I became the MC of the second phase of X-MAN, and now that the second phase begins, what kind of person will this X-MAN be?"
Jin Jidong has been looking at Liu Zaishi with a smile, from the first phase of the main MC to the current auxiliary MC I don't see him angry, he has always been this squinting eyes and smiling, maybe too close, Liu Zaishi spit out the last word and sprayed him with saliva, he quickly covered his face, this is really a disaster.