Zhang Ye smiled. “Thank you very much for watching today’s ‘Zhang Ye’s Talk Show’. I am your host, Zhang Ye. Many people must have heard about today’s program. Yes, this episode is a live broadcast. So despite being such an excellent host in this industry, I also can’t help but feel nervous!” As he said that, he adjusted his tie.
“Yi!”
“Yi!”
The audience began to boo!
Zhang Ye pretended not to hear it and carried on speaking in his jolly manner, “After the first episode’s broadcast, the response from the audience was very good. The program’s clicks steadily climbed. There were people who praised my program and there were also people who cursed my program. Someone said, Zhang Ye you are lying. You are cheating us consumers. How can you go off-script for such a long program? Impossible, absolutely impossible!”
Here it comes!
He went straight to the point!
The eyes of the audience lit up. Everyone knew the person who doubted Zhang Ye. It was Lee Parkwoo and his brainless fans!
Zhang Ye suddenly said to the camera, “What I want to say is that you guys guessed right!”
“Ah?”
“What did that mean?”
“He really isn’t doing it off-script?”
“That’s not right. I don’t see any teleprompter?”
Zhang Ye said to the camera as he pointed to an empty space before him. He began gesturing a podium-like shape, “Those watching the internet live broadcast might not understand. Actually all the live audience present can see it clearly. In front of me, yes, which is this podium. On it are all the scripts for this episode. Some netizens who are watching the live broadcast might ask. Aiyah, why can’t we see anything. Well, actually you can’t blame yourself. It’s because our Weiwo company’s technology processing is too good. I have a friend…Her name is Dong Shanshan.”
Due to the first episode, everyone could not help but laugh upon hearing Dong Shanshan’s name.
Dong Shanshan gave a look of innocence, “…”
Wang Bei roared with laughter, “He’s talking about you again, Shanshan!”
Zhang Ye said, “Those friends who watched the first episode should know. She’s my classmate from college. Right, she’s the one who goes to the stock exchange when she misses home. Back in school, she was good in her studies, especially in computer technology. So for last episode, and this episode’s live broadcast, I had pleaded for Teacher Dong Shanshan to help me do some computer processing.” He pointed towards the cameras and said, “The audience in front of your screens, the reason why you can’t see the podium in front of me is because Teacher Dong Shanshan has Photoshopped it away. Right, she has removed this table frame by frame!”
Photoshopped?
How do your Photoshop a live broadcast!
Everyone could tell what he meant as they burst out with laughter, “Hahaha!”
Zhang Ye said to the audience, “All the audience present can see this podium, right?”
“Right!”
“That’s right! Haha!”
“Pfft! There is a podium! We can bear witness!”
The live audience also followed suit and made a commotion, everyone was enjoying the joke!
Dong Shanshan, Wang Bei, Ah Qian and the others were all amused. This was self-mocking sarcasm! This sort of joke segment was generally not very effective, but Zhang Ye employed it perfectly! Zhang Ye did not fight against those doubters but instead admitted it. But the irony was that the sarcasm worked better in retaliating to their doubts and even added a sense of joy! On the surface, Zhang Ye was self-mocking. Nonsensically explaining that there was a podium in front, he wrapped his explanation up with sarcasm. This was in fact scolding those brainless fans, whom did not believe that he had gone off-script for the whole episode, and that they had no common sense!
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Viewers on the internet were all tickled with joy!
“Aiyo! Hahahaha!”
“Well said, Teacher Zhang!”
“Teacher Zhang Ye. If you say it like that, that Korean might even believe you’re for real. His intelligence is infinitely close to zero. Who knows he might even post something like ‘See, what did I tell you, Zhang Ye does use a teleprompter’, hahaha!”
“Right off the bat, he’s being sarcastic about Lee Parkwoo’s intelligence level! Teacher Zhang is indeed still that temperamental guy we know! From Beijing to Shanghai! But his temper remains the same!”
“Mighty!”
“Angrily praising Teacher Zhang Ye!”
“What did I say, what did I say! Lee Parkwoo scolded Zhang Ye? You really don’t know who he is! It’s been so many months already. Those cursing buzzwords trending on the internet, the top 5 curses still originates from Teacher Zhang Ye. No one has been able to surpass him! You still dare to scold him? You must be looking for death! With that mouth of his, even a living person can be said until he’s dead. And a dead person can be said until he lives again! Hahaha! Look, now you are being scolded already, right?”
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The live audience was also delighted!
Although they thought that this was the