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Toilet humour or potty humour (humor in American English) is a type of humour dealing with defecation, urination, regurgitation and other bodily functions. Public reference to bodily functions is taboo in many cultures. English language spread in the United States. ... Look up humor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Manneken Pis of Brussels. ... Regurgitation is the controlled flow of stomach contents back into the oesophagus and mouth. ... Homosexuality is considered taboo in many cultures around the world. ...

This genre also sees substantial crossover with the genre of sexual humour, most likely because of the multiple-function nature of the body parts involved in both genres as well as the sexual fetishism involved with certain toilet functions. The basic idea of sexual fetishism is sexual arousal and satisfaction through an inanimate object, the fetish. ...

1 Examples
2 Exploitation
3 See also
- 3.1 Shows, films, etc.
4 External links

Examples

Toilet humour also refers to jokes around modesty, such as if one is seen naked or in his/her undergarments. It can also refer to jokes revolving around the urinary and fecal incontinence of infants and young children or the aged or infirm. Jokes about wedgies and tighty-whitey underpants also fall in this category. Modesty comprises a set of culturally or religiously determined values that relate to the presentation of the self to others. ... A pair of mens briefs Undergarments, also called underwear or sometimes intimate clothing, are clothes worn next to the skin, usually under other clothes. ... Urinary incontinence is the involuntary excretion of urine from ones body. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... A human infant An infant or baby is an extremely young person. ... A school prank is a prank pulled on a student by another student. ... Briefs are a type of Y-shaped underwear and swimwear, as opposed to styles where the material extends down the legs. ...

Constipation is another source of toilet humour. Screamin' Jay Hawkins recorded his "Constipation Blues" with his trademark yells after his first bout with blockage and the Bonzo Dog Band recorded "The Strain" on the same topic and with many of the same sound effects. Constipation or irregularity, is a condition of the digestive system where a person (or animal) experiences hard feces that are difficult to eliminate; it may be extremely painful, and in severe cases (fecal impaction) lead to symptoms of bowel obstruction. ... Screamin Jay Hawkins Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin Jay Hawkins (July 18, 1929 â€“ February 12, 2000) was an African-American singer famed for his wildly theatrical performances of songs like I Put a Spell on You and Constipation Blues. // Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Hawkins originally set out... The Bonzo Dog Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as The Bonzos) was the brainchild of a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. ...

It is also common in public toilets to find graffiti: humorous poems, cartoons and other jokes (often of a sexual nature) written on the walls. (see also latrinalia) Please note that such graffiti is not always written in pencil or pen, and in some cases, fecal matter and semen (albeit rare).^{[citation needed]} An ultramodern mens washroom, showing a row of sinks embedded into a large marble slab on the right. ... Graffiti is the unofficial application of graphics on publicly viewable surfaces. ... Latrinalia is a type of deliberately inscribed marking made by humans on bathroom, or restroom, walls. ... Feces, faeces, or fÃ¦ces (see spelling differences) is waste product from an animals digestive tract expelled through the anus (or cloaca) during defecation. ... Horse semen being collected for breeding purposes. ...

Exploitation

Many artists have made their names exploiting toilet humour:

Some of the lyrical content of avant-garde rock musician Frank Zappa's songs revolved around toilet humour, for example, "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow" (from the album Apostrophe).
In addition to social satire, the animated series South Park also uses a lot of toilet humour, even going so far as to have a talking poo called Mr. Hankey as a recurring character.
Dr. Slump, a manga from Akira Toriyama (the creator of Dragon Ball), also had a strong scatological bent.
The Private Eye comic strip Barry McKenzie written by Barry Humphries and drawn by Nicholas Garland are a treasure trove of chundering, parking the tiger, splashing the boots, and draining the dragon, with much of the allegedly Australian slang created by Humphries himself.
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, translated as King Turd, opens with the line "Merdre!" (a corruption of the French merde, translated by Barbara Wright as "shittr") and is filled with scatological humour. Though Jarry was only 14 years old when he began it as a spoof of one of his teachers, it is now regarded as one of the first examples of the Theatre of the Absurd.
The adult comic magazine Viz has, over 25 years, built a publishing empire from toilet humour.
It is a commonly used convention in movies directed by the Farrelly Brothers. For example, their movie Dumb and Dumber featured a lengthy toilet scene played by actor Jeff Daniels involving a diahrretic reaction.
Doodie.com, a site created by cartoonist Tom Winkler, has most of its content based upon feces. Winkler has even created a feces-themed superhero, respectfully named "Doodieman".
In The Simpsons, Bart flushed a cherry bomb down the boys' toilet, and the subsequent force of the explosion in the pipes caused Agnes Skinner to be blown off the girls' toilet by the sudden gush.
In Ultimate Muscle, Kid Muscle, King Muscle, Monsieur Cheeks are known to use gas attack during a match. In addition, there are wrestlers modelled after lavatory and urinal.
In the second level of the Zipper Interactive game SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs if the player blows up an outhouse using C4, Jester comments "I guess I'll have to hold it, right Sir?"
Restart by the UK's Komedy Kollective, combines crazy toilet humour with serious political satire.
The band Bloodhound Gang's songs and music videos feature numerous toilet humour references.
The opening credits for the Dukes of Hazzard show an outhouse being blown up. There have also been a number of outhouses destroyed on the show, with at one point the Balladeer/Narrator commenting on this.
The Xbox 360 role-playing game Blue Dragon has enemies in the game known as Unchisunekku (ウンチスネック), which translates into "Poop Snake" and is a coil of fecal matter with a snake head and a mouth at its base. Players also obtain extra gold in the game by digging through fecal matter left by fallen enemies.
The American Pie series of movies uses toilet humor combined with sexual audacities as their main comic conventions.

Toilet slang entries in WikiSaurus
bathroom toilet vomit	urination defecation flatulence

A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 â€“ December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. ... Husky is a general term for several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Animation of snowcover changing with the seasons. ... Apostrophe () is an album by Frank Zappa. ... Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of 2-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. ... South Park is a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning American animated television series about four fourth grade school boys who live in the small town of South Park, Colorado. ... Rabbit feces are usually 0. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Recurring South Park characters. ... Dr. Slump (Japanese: Dr. ã‚¹ãƒ©ãƒ³ãƒ— ) is one of the most popular manga (Japanese comic books) of Akira Toriyama. ... Manga ) is the Japanese word for comics and print cartoons. ... Akira Toriyama Akira Toriyama (é³¥å±± æ˜Ž Toriyama Akira, born on April 5, 1955 in Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. ... For the microprocessor used in Palm Pilot PDAs, see Freescale DragonBall. ... In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of feces. ... Private eye may mean: Look up Private eye on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Private Eye a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop (as of 2005) A private investigator, a private detective for hire (see also crime fiction and detective fiction) Private Eye, a song by Alkaline Trio... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Barry McKenzie or Bazza McKenzie is a fictional character originally created by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries for a comic strip in the magazine Private Eye. ... John Barry Humphries AO (b. ... Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ... Ubu Roi (King Ubu) is a play written by Alfred Jarry in 1896 that is widely acknowledged as a theatrical precursor to the Absurdist, Dada and Surrealist art movements. ... Alfred Jarry Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 â€“ November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mothers side. ... Look up Profanity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the fictional character in the Doctor Who TV series, please see Barbara Wright (Doctor Who) Barbara Wright (b. ... The Theatre of the Absurd or Le ThÃ©Ã¢tre de lAbsurde is a phrase used in reference to particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. ... Cover of Viz (issue 57) Viz is a popular British adult comic magazine that has been running since 1979. ... The Farrelly brothers, Peter (b. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 comedy film starring Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas and Jeff Daniels as Harry Dunne. ... Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton in a scene from the TNT cable network remake of The Goodbye Girl Jeff Daniels (born February 19, 1955 in Athens, Georgia) is an American actor. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Bartholomew Bart JoJo Simpson is a main character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Nancy Cartwright. ... Cherry bombs are exploding fireworks, usually round, approximately one inch (2. ... Agnes Skinner (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, and Principal Seymour Skinners mother, with whom he still lives. ... Cover to Kinnikuman II #13. ... Flush toilet A toilet is a plumbing fixture devised for the disposal of bodily wastes, including urine, feces, methane, semen and vomit. ... A urinal is a specialized toilet designed to be used only for urination, not defecation, and almost always by a standing male. ... Zipper Interactive is a software developer located in Redmond, Washington. ... SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs is a first-person shooter video game developed by Zipper Interactive and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as an exclusive title for the PlayStation 2. ... Outhouse near Crabapple Lake, USA, with chipboard walls, and a fiberglass ceiling This article refers to an outhouse, privy or kybo that is an old type of toilet in a small structure separate from the main building which does not have a flush or sewer attached. ... C4 or C-4 can mean: C4 chicano rapper C4 carbon fixation, a pathway for carbon fixation in photosynthesis. ... The Bloodhound Gang is an American rock/hip-hop band with a punk-influenced sound. ... The Dukes of Hazzard is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985. ... Outhouse near Crabapple Lake, USA, with chipboard walls, and a fiberglass ceiling This article refers to an outhouse, privy or kybo that is an old type of toilet in a small structure separate from the main building which does not have a flush or sewer attached. ... The Xbox 360 is the successor to Microsofts Xbox video game console, developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, Samsung and SiS. Information on the console first came through viral marketing campaigns and it was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information divulged... 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External links

Scat collection - a repository on Newgrounds for toilet humour.
PoopReport.com - Dedicated to the intellectual appreciation of toilet humour.
DidYouJustPoop.com - Collection of toilet humour related subjects.
Say No to Crack - Site with a collection of toilet humour

Categories: Articles with unsourced statements | Humor | Toilets | Euphemisms Newgrounds is a website headquartered in Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA and created in 1995 that primarily hosts Adobe Flash animated films and games. ...

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