Song Dandan is a very popular Chinese skit

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 and sitcom actress.

Biography

She was trained and started as a drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 actress. But it was her skit

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 debut, A Date with Slug, in 1989 CCTV New Year's Gala

CCTV New Year's Gala

The CCTV New Year's Gala is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Central Television. Broadcast on the eve of Chinese New Year on its flagship CCTV-1, satellite channels CCTV-4, CCTV-9, CCTV-E, CCTV-F, and CCTV-HD, the broadcast has a yearly viewership of over 700 million viewers, making it...

 that brought her immediate success. Afterwards she costarred firstly with Huang Hong

Huang Hong

Huang Hong is a Chinese skit and sitcom actor and writer. He is also less successful as a TV series and movie producer and director.Born in Harbin, he joined the PLA when he was only 13. He studied philosophy at Liaoning University and performance at Academy of Arts for PLA...

 then with her most successful partner, Zhao Benshan

Zhao Benshan

Zhao Benshan is a Chinese skit and sitcom actor, and recently turned TV director. He appears regularly on the CCTV New Year's Gala.-Biography:...

 in many Gala show skits. Some of her highlights included "Anti-family plan Guerilla", and "Yesterday, today and Tomorrow". On television her most famous role was in I Love My Family

I Love My Family

I Love My Family is a Chinese sitcom. It was China's first multi-camera sitcom and it originally aired from 1993 to 1994 with 120 episodes. It is also the first Mandarin-language sitcom. It was directed by Yīng Dá 英达 and Lin Cong and written primarily by Liáng Zuǒ 梁左 and Wáng Shuò 王朔...

(我爱我家). In recent years, Home with Kids

Home with Kids

Home with Kids , is a sitcom/drama from Mainland China. There are four series of Home with Kids, i.e. Home with Kids 1, Home with Kids 2, Home with Kids 3 and Home with Kids 4, which were released respectively in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. It is considered to be an equivelant to Growing Pains, a...

(家有儿女) is also a notable sitcom she starred in.

Song Dandan also has a cameo role in House of Flying Daggers

House of Flying Daggers

House of Flying Daggers is a 2004 wuxia film directed by Zhang Yimou. It differs from other wuxia films in that it is more of a love story than a straight martial arts film....

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