Sister Four was also stunned. She looked at Zhang Ye and said, “If we take it away, where will you put the manuscript? Where will you place the script at? Your program’s at least 30 minutes long. If you consider the parts that need to be edited out, then you need to record at least 40-50 minutes. That’s nearly an hour! How will you be able to record? Off script?”
But no one expected Zhang Ye to reply matter-of-factly, “Of course, it will be off script. I am a host. Do you expect me to read off a script? What a disgrace! If I am going to be a host like that, you might as well find any random person to come do it!”
Zhang Ye set very high standards for himself and his job. In his previous world, if a talk show artist were to host by reading from a script, then it would be too disgraceful. Even if they couldn’t remember their lines, they would use a teleprompter that was not filmed by the camera. Like when Zhou Libo first started doing talk shows, he had also used a rack to place his script on. Every line he said, he would refer to it. Finally, only after he was criticized and mocked by people did he slowly go off script. But Zhang Ye did not need such a process.
Sister Four and the staff around were in disbelief, “You can go totally off script?”
“This is a basic quality as a host, right?” Zhang Ye did not make much of a fuss about it. In his world, there were many outrageous people like that.
Sister Four said, “But you have to be prepared just in case.”
Another youth said, “Yeah, Teacher Zhang. If you really forget a line, at least there’s backup.”
Zhang Ye said without explaining further, “There won’t be any in the case of me. Nor will I forget. If I say to remove it, then quickly remove it. We need to hurry!”
Two miscellaneous staff could only obey and they removed the rack.
Sister Four had a bad feeling about it, so she asked, “Comrade Little Zhang, don’t tell me that it is because you don’t have a script?”
Zhang Ye replied, “I’ve never needed a script for my recordings, never ever.”
Sister Four, “…..”
Staff, “…..”
All of the Leaders and colleagues also heard this from below the stage!
No script? Not even the content for the program was written? Everyone nearly fainted. D*mn! Just how confident are you! Do you need to be so relaxed? Not even having a script prepared? Most of the masses were not optimistic about his new program to begin with, but with this, everyone would never believe that a program could be good if there wasn’t even a script! If it turned out to be a mess, the Leaders might not even approve the release of the first episode of the program!
Teacher Han was speechless, “What the hell is he doing?”
Wang Bei smiled. “This could precisely be the legend that says a skilled man is a daredevil?”
“So what if his skills are good? He’d better not mess things up. If he does, let’s see how he clears the sh*t up!” Teacher Gong had lost the last shred of confidence that he had for Zhang Ye’s program.
Even for people like them who had been in the business longer than Zhang Ye, they could not do without a script for a long program like this. It was not that they had never seen a person like that, but those were the craziest people of the hosting world. Only a few talented people were able to achieve that level of hosting. Of course, they didn’t believe that Zhang Ye could do it!