In the paper, the complex cultural representations of the 1980s Zhu GeLiang’s Night Club Live Show are examined by considering twoperspectives—namely the transformation of television technology andindustry and the cultural implication of televised entertainment—and by analyzing the documents and the texts of his shows. This paper demonstrates that the cultural politics of Zhu Ge Liang’s Night Club Live Show is consistent with Freud’s thesis of “the return of the repressed.” However, the processes of the return were indirect and ambiguous. The indirectness and ambiguity stimulated laughter and pleasure, which were welcomed by the audience. Therefore, it also contributed to the transformation of communication technologies and the communication industry at the time.