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Mo pokertournaments lei tau , loosely translated as "makes no sense", is a type of comedy typified by pokertournaments Stephen Chows movies of pokertournaments the 1990s. A more meaningful semantic translation would be "Nine comes after eight, but eight has pokertournaments nothing to pokertournaments do with nine".Developed in Hong Kong, it is an anything goes form of nonsensical humour that can ignore narrative conventions. Typically pokertournaments pokertournaments it pokertournaments consists of rapid comic banter, non-sequiturs, anachronisms, fourth wall pokertournaments references, and Cantonese slang wordplay.

Regarded as an integral part of Culture of Hong Kong Kongs popular culture, it is often considered untranslateable in any language other pokertournaments than Cantonese.The earliest proponents of this form of humour were the pokertournaments Hui brothers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.Some example mo lei tau jokes from the film All For The Winner pokertournaments : A man is battered by villains but still able to stand upright. He bravely tells pokertournaments his friend he pokertournaments can take the beating, whereupon his friend replies: "Wow! After being hit pokertournaments so badly, you can still talk? If that was me Id be puking right now!". The man promptly starts vomiting.See alsoHK-stubTemplate:HK-film-stub Culture-stubHong Kong culturecategory:Cantonese pokertournaments terms