On Artistic Charm of Chen Pei-si's Skit Comedies —— Perversion and Dislocation

Chen Pei-si is one the founders of Chinese skit comedies which have become a new type of Chinese sketches. Through creation of over ten years, they have formed their unique artistic styles. Chen Pei-si's skit comedies, on the one hand, have excavated comedy theories and made perfect design of aesthetic concepts, characters' roles and actors' lines. On the other hand, through the simple and relaxing verbal language and stage expression like exaggeration and uglified body movements, Chen has shaped the typical images with bright personality, which has produced great comic effect. When producingsucheffect, the comedies have reflected the social phenomena which have drawn universal attention and triggered the audiences' profound reflection on some social issues after their laughter.