Guo Degang, a famous Chinese standup comedian, loves joking about the regime — the privileges, the perks, the quiet absurdity of power.
One of his classic bits lists every foreign luxury imaginable, then delivers the punchline: the real happiness is becoming a CCP cadre, because then all of it comes to you automatically.
That kind of satire made him famous.
This July in Wuhan he went further — improvising a revolutionary red song on stage without prior approval, changing the lyrics and adding jokes.
More importantly, it felt as if he is undermining the current regime, saying that it might be toppled
Reported → official investigation by Wuhan Culture Bureau → Xi’an show cancelled.