I have adored Cai Kang Yong for, I guess, more than ten years. We may like some artists when we begin to know them, but afterwards we lose the feelings toward them. Sometimes there are some reasons we can analyze, while sometimes it just happened without any justifiable explanations. Both Zhou Xu (周迅) and Andy Lao (劉德華), for example, are the latter case for me. However, I didn’t mitigate my appreciation for Cai Kang Yong as time goes by.
The rationale may be his unique attitude of life and bizarre thoughts toward things that we have taken for granted since childhood. In his most famous talk show (真情指數), which always invited successful and influential celebrities to have one by one interview, he tried to take out the masks of some religion leaders, expose the true thoughts of those movie stars and singers who disguise themselves to grab more popularity in the market, and manifest the hypocritical faces of those politicians. In his another program (兩代電力公司) aimed at generation gap, he had the nerve to ask the adolescents an immoral presuming question – if the death of their parents in the air flight accidents could compensate them a great amount of money, would they choose to get the wealth regardless of the lives of their parents? Surprisingly, most of the adolescents chose to get the compensation from the insure companies. For Tsai, he thought that every body might have some immature, odd thoughts in their adolescence and it would be better to talk about it so that the parents and the children could get more chances to discuss about those developing thoughts. These above-mentioned TV programs somehow have been closed.
Admittedly, it is another talk show called The Advent of Kang Xi (康熙來了), a name combined one word of his name and another hostess, the small S, that makes he and small S to become well-known both in Taiwan and in China. This show is purely an entertaining program that bears no any educational purposes, making it suitable for stressful people living in the busy and fast-changing society. I was amazed how popular this program turned out to be in mainland China. One can buy the cheap DVDs of the program, of course they are pirated products, from every DVD vendors, or download each episode of the programs by Internet. Besides, recently I found that I can also satisfy my appetites for the program via Youtube and 6room, a video sharing website imitated from Youtube.
Yesterday, I found that Cai Kang Yong also begun writing his blog on Sina website and the click count easily reached more than 1 millions clicks in about half month. It is a brilliant idea to take advantage of Internet to reach his audience not only because he is good at writing – he have published several books – but also because there is very low possibility for him to host any programs in China with many TV programs regulations on the style, contents, etc. In addition, I learned that he will direct a movie with the investment of Chinese capital. I am looking forward to his works. His heyday will certainly continue for many years.
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