"Is this, of course, joking?"

"Haha~" At the recording site of KBS's "Funny Concert", the audience laughed with Jung Woo-sung who was performing on stage saying his habitual catchphrase mantra, but this laughter was a little more standardized than the applause that Jung Hyung-don's predecessor's "Doremi Trio" received in the previous performance, and it seemed extremely weak.

Gagman's road was far more difficult than Zheng Yucheng thought, and it wasn't until after his debut that he realized that becoming a gagman did not indicate the success of his dreams, but only the beginning of everything. Then comes the most important popularity for all newcomers, that is, the issue of popularity, in order to let more people know that their newcomers are racking their brains towards funny ideas, hoping to jump up and start popularity.

But it's like the threshold that can be seen but can't be touched, and the question of whether it's funny or not is constantly placed in front of newcomers, many people can only leave silently and sadly, and more are half-red and purple comedy stars like Zheng Yucheng at this time, struggling to move forward on the road of becoming a funny gagman that seems to have no end in sight.

The rookie period is the no-name period, and if there is no fame, it means that there will not be many programs that will invite you to participate, and without the promotion of the show, you will not be able to enhance your fame, all of which is like a vicious circle that constantly consumes the passion of the newcomer Gagman. Even Yoo Jae-seok's predecessors, who have now become a national MC, also had a long period of no-name, and the other party's experience of persevering step by step in the eight-year nameless period is also one of the motivations for Zheng Yucheng to motivate himself to persist in Gagman.

"I, in fact, ......" for five minutes, this is the program "Joke" that "Funny Concert" can perform for Zheng Yucheng. In fact, the PD of this show gives Zheng Yucheng five minutes of performance time, which is more to fill the gap between the previous program and the later program, as a warm-up for the atmosphere of prop arrangement and preparation.

But even so, Zheng Yucheng still cherishes this hard-won performance opportunity, and every performance does his best to show the performance content he has prepared.

“…… One day I was ......" Compared with the gagman group that performed in pairs and pairs, Zheng Yu standing alone on the stage seemed a bit lonely, and on the empty and quiet stage, he was like an individual who was deliberately placed on the top, facing the unfamiliar faces of the dense audience, the distant and vague but noisy squirting sound, everything turned into an invisible atmosphere, constantly oppressing Zheng Yucheng on the stage.

And on the stage, in the face of this performance atmosphere that can be described as terrible, Zheng Yucheng can still perform his own performance with that fairly stable appearance, which also comes from the result of this exercise in the show, on the cruel stage of "Funny Concert", which is either staying or leaving for newcomers, there is not even the possibility of allowing mistakes, and what about the tight time......

“…… Then, just as ......" eyes swept over the audience, many of the audience had obviously shown a little impatient expression, obviously their performance today did not reach the level of excitement they imagined. Indeed, no matter how hard you try, it is impossible to make everyone laugh all at once, pressing this helpless regret in his heart, Zheng Yucheng continued his performance, there is still a minute and a half left, take advantage of it!

"How's it going, are you ready for the next show?"

"It's done, just wait for the end of this performance on stage now and start ......"

"Then, let the newcomer on the stage finish quickly, the effect is not very good anyway, and I will tell him that the time will be reduced to three minutes in the future......"

"Understood, I'll tell him ......"

"Isn't that, of course, joking? I ......" offstage, the sudden gesture of the writer of the "Funny Concert" made Zheng Yucheng's next performance come to an abrupt halt, although he didn't know the reason, Zheng Yucheng still chose to follow the instructions of the program writer and ended his performance that he had been preparing to practice for a night, "Kang Sanmida (thank you)!" He bowed to the audience and turned around and walked off the stage.

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"Zheng Yucheng, get ready, what about your performance of "Laughing" in the future? The time should be compressed to three minutes...... "If you leave PD in a hurry, the program writer will leave directly to prepare for the performance of the next program, because the backstage of "Funny Concert" is more busy than the general recording program, and the relationship between the performance gagman personnel also makes the staff and gagman seem to be extraordinarily regular or indifferent.

The busy backstage is full of the laughter and performances of the gagmans, and you can see the gagmans' funny appearance as far as the eye can see, but this, under the lively atmosphere like a celebration, the bitterness mixed with it has quietly climbed into the heart of Zheng Yucheng who walked into the audience.

silently walked to the crowded dressing room temporarily prepared by the show for Gagman, changed out of the costume he borrowed for the performance, and put on his own clothes, the original blue jeans have become a little white due to the relationship between many changes, and the shoes are wearing sneakers that have been with Zheng Yucheng since he came to Seoul, and the heavily rubbed soles indicate the owner's poor living situation.

Carefully folded the costumes of the performance and put them into the prepared plastic bag, Zheng Yucheng began to comb his appearance in front of the mirror in the dressing room, and picked his long hair in the mirror, the ponytail in the mirror was tied up and hung down obediently, and a few strands of long black hair appeared in front of the eyes from time to time to block the vision in front of him, this special long hair is Zheng Yucheng became different from other gagman and deliberately kept long, the slender black hair in the mirror is matched with Zheng Yucheng's good-looking facial features, There is even a feeling of being a little delicate.

"Goodbye, hard work, goodbye seniors......" said hello to the staff or gagman he met on the road, although it was just a new entry who debuted in half a year, but in the updated gagman, there have been a lot of juniors. And Zheng Yucheng, who was greeting the juniors, had already finished his schedule for today's show and was ready to go back. The short three-minute performance of "Funny Concert" is his only opportunity to appear on the TV screen in a week, for him who can't even afford his agent, the TV station's appearance schedule is completely out of reach, and in the six months since his debut, the performance opportunities he got can be summed up in a pitiful acting career with very few.

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