Identity Of Characters And Tension Of Comedy

It has been almost twenty years since the Chinese TV situation comedy was released in China. During these periods, there are many excellent TV works which are really popular. While there are also some works that are lacks of comical characteristics. How to solve this problem and improve the level is the most concerned issue in Chinese TV industry and academic field. The identity of characters is another point of view in the study of TV situation comedy, which is different from the personality of characters, the narration structures or the style of dialogs. In this article, it is aim to discuss how to create the situation by setting the identity of characters and the function of setting the appropriate identity of characters in expand the tension of comedy. Then it also concerns about how to dig for more comedy effect by se tting the identity of characters in comedy dialogs, actions and themes, even in the development of series stories. With analyzing the theories and TV situation comedy all over the world, it concludes that the topic of identity of characters could explore more comic space than before and its virtue is too valuable to be neglected.