Tianjin 相声 (crosstalk) performer known for slow, deadpan, understated humour. His short piece 逗你玩, about a boy tricked by a thief, is still quoted across China.
Ma Sanli's solo crosstalk piece 'Teasing You' is known to every household.
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The everyday word 马大哈 'careless scatterbrain' comes from 《买猴儿》 'Buying Monkeys', a 1954 piece he made famous: its hero, a clerk called 马大哈, writes 'buy fifty monkeys' instead of fifty crates of Monkey-brand soap, and a buyer scours the country for real monkeys.
