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

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