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Goofball Academy, also known as Xià yīgè xǐjù yǎnyuán (Chinese: 下一个喜剧演员) was a Chinese reality competition based on the titular franchise.
Format
Casting calls were accepted online. Participation was only available for contestants over the age of 18.
Judges' timeline
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
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Season summary
Season | Premiere | Finale | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | Judges (chair order) | ||
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1 | April 15, 2004 | June 17, 2004 | ||||||
2 | April 21, 2005 | June 23, 2005 | ||||||
3 | April 13, 2006 | June 15, 2006 | ||||||
4 | April 19, 2007 | June 21, 2007 | ||||||
5 | April 17, 2008 | June 19, 2008 | ||||||
6 | April 23, 2009 | June 25, 2009 | ||||||
7 | April 15, 2010 | June 17, 2010 | ||||||
8 | April 28, 2011 | June 30, 2011 | ||||||
9 | April 26, 2012 | June 28, 2012 | ||||||
10 | April 18, 2013 | June 20, 2013 | ||||||
11 | April 10, 2014 | June 12, 2014 | ||||||
12 | April 23, 2015 | June 25, 2015 | ||||||
13 | April 21, 2016 | June 23, 2016 | ||||||
14 | April 13, 2017 | June 15, 2017 | ||||||
15 | April 19, 2018 | June 21, 2018 | ||||||
16 | April 11, 2019 | June 13, 2019 | ||||||
17 | April 16, 2020 | June 18, 2020 | ||||||
18 | April 22, 2021 | June 29, 2021 |
Cancellation
Only days before the season 17 finale aired, DragonTV announced that season 18 would be the last. Since the show's inception in 2004, it peaked in viewership at roughly 50 viewers per episode in 2007, slipping to nearly 10 million viewers per episode in 2013, and down further since with an average of about 7.20 million viewers per episode in 2020.