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Standup comedy entered China in the two-thousands, and blossomed during the late twenty-tens thanks to streaming platforms and Chinese TikTok.

In bar basements, shopping malls, and performance halls, young comics talked subtly and sardonically about the lack of job prospects, the rat race of education, and the pressures to marry and bear children.

Using the mike as a generational megaphone, they described what early adult life is like in a decade when the economy has plateaued.

What's behind the promising market is a wide and enthusiastic audience. Those in their twenties and thirties living in top-tier cities such as Shanghai and Beijing are willing to pay to laugh, given their higher salaries and the pressure they face in daily life.

生詞短語:

comic n. 喜劇演員；連環漫畫

subtly adv. 精細地；巧妙地

sardonically adv. 冷嘲地；諷刺地

mike n. 麥克風，話筒；

megaphone n. 擴音器，喇叭筒

promising adj. 有希望的，有前途的

standup comedy 脫口秀，單口喜劇

the late twenty-tens 21世紀10年代晚期：2016年-2019年

streaming platform 流媒體平臺

job prospects 就業前景

top-tier 頂級的，一流的

pay to do sth. 花錢去做某事