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相声以嬉笑怒骂通达世事、洞悉人生，它起源于北京，繁荣于天津。天津这座城市，在中国的相声发展史上，有着浓墨重彩的一笔。上个世纪二十年代后，许多相声艺人从北京的天桥来到天津，先从撂地演出开始，逐步地进入了茶社、剧场，在四十年代达到鼎盛，之后走入低谷，直到十年前相声才又开始重新恢复生机。天津，人们不但可以随时从收音机里听到相声，电视机里看到相声，还可以在茶馆剧场里近距离地欣赏相声。可以说，相声这门笑的艺术，已经成为天津人生活中不能缺少的一部分。
Cross talk, which uses jokes and scolding to understand the world and understand life, originated in Beijing and flourished in Tianjin. The city of Tianjin, in the history of the development of cross talk in China, has a strong brush. After the 1920s, many crosstalk artists came to Tianjin from the Tianqiao in Beijing. They began to perform in teahouses and theaters, reached its peak in the 1940s, and then went into a slump. Crosstalk did not begin to regain its vitality until ten years ago. In Tianjin, people can not only hear crosstalk on the radio, see crosstalk on TV, but also enjoy crosstalk up close in the teahouse theater. It can be said that cross talk, the art of laughter, has become an indispensable part of Tianjin people's lives.