Ji Yibiao

Biography

Ji Yibiao is a Pingtan artist and comedian from Suzhou. He is an actor with the Shanghai Fire Department's Jindun Art Troupe. He graduated from Suzhou Pingtan School in 1986. Due to the lack of a performing partner, he briefly switched to singing popular songs and breakdancing, and later performed Pingtan with Wei Meng. He joined the Ministry of Public Security Jindun Art Troupe in 1993 and subsequently became a regular on screen, appearing in television series. He became well known to Shanghai audiences for playing the effeminate manager Qiao Guang in the Shanghai sitcom "Happy Apartment." In 2000, he performed the相声 "Heroic Essence" and won an Excellence Award at the CCTV First Red Eagle Cup相声 Competition. In 2008, he participated in the Shanghai Oriental TV "Laugh Forest Assembly – Shanghai Top Ten Comedians Competition," was selected as one of the Shanghai Top Ten Comedians (the only non-Huaju comedian to be chosen), and also received the title of "Most Audience-Loved Comedian." He comes from an artistic family; both his parents were actors in the Suzhou Huaju Troupe, his father being Ji Yutang. His wife Wei Meng is a Pingtan artist.