Passing down the art However, Tien Shih-lin, a winner of the Spoken Arts Heritage Award maintains, "The history and humor of modern comic dialogues are not necessarily linked in a direct line with that of ancient theater, because it is exclusively an art form developed among the people from the humorous jargon of public squares or tea houses."
「不過」，得過說唱藝術薪傳獎的田士林表示，「近代相聲和古代優伶的歷史及趣味不必連成一線，因為它純屬民間廣場或茶園裡發展出的諧趣語言的藝術形式。」