Toilet humor or potty humor (humour in Commonwealth English) is a type of humor dealing with bodily toilet functions. Public reference to bodily functions is taboo in many cultures. This genre also sees substantial crossover with the sexual humor genre, most likely because of the multiple-function nature of the body parts involved in both genre as well as the sexual fetishism involved with certain bathroom functions. Commonwealth English is intended as a collective term for the perceived standard English language used in the Commonwealth of Nations1, applying in theory to Australian English, British English, Caribbean English, Canadian English, Hiberno-English (Irish English)2, Hong Kong English3, Indian English (includes Pakistani English), formal Malaysian English, New Zealand... Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. ... A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) relating to any area of human activity or social custom declared as sacred and forbidden; breaking of the taboo is usually considered objectionable or abhorrent by society. ... This article concerns the concept of fetishism in anthropology. ...

Many artists have made their names promulgating toilet humor:

• Much of the lyrical content of avant-garde rock musician Frank Zappa's songs revolved around toilet humor, 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 humor, even going so far as to have a talking piece of excrement 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 humor. 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 humor.
• The movie Dumb and Dumber featured a lengthy toilet scene played by actor Jeff Daniels.
• Paska (Finnish for "shit") is a Finnish one man band. It was once disbanded because of internal disagreements.

Toilet humor 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 incontinence of infants and young children or the aged or infirm. Jokes about wedgies and tighty-whitey underpants also fall in this category. 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 (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer and satirist. ... Husky is a general term for several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs. ... Urine is liquid waste excreted by the kidneys and is produced by the process of filtration. ... The snow in Utah is world famous. ... Apostrophe () is an album by Frank Zappa. ... 12 frames per second is the typical rate for an animated cartoon. ... South Park is an animated series created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. ... Mr. ... North American edition of Volume 1, featuring Arale. ... A page from the Marmalade Boy manga, volume 1 (Japanese version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics and/or cartoons (not necessarily animated, this includes print cartoons); outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... Akira Toriyama Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明 Toriyama Akira, born on April 5, 1955 in Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. ... Dragon Ball Volume 1 (Japanese version). ... Scatology, or coprology, in medicine, biology and paleontology, 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. ... Broadway Poster of Dame Edna Everage John Barry Humphries AO (b. ... Slang is the non-standard or non-dialectal use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another 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 – 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. ... Profanity is a word choice or usage which its audience considers to be offensive. ... 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 Théâtre 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 spoof comic magazine. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... 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. ... Shit is a vernacular word in Modern English denoting feces, the byproduct of digestion. ... Modesty describes a set of culturally 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. ... The word incontinence has several distinct meanings: urinary incontinence is the inability to control urination fecal incontinence is the inability to control defecation the word incontinence can also be used to mean a lack of self-control governing morality. ... A human infant The word infant derives from the Latin word in-fans, meaning unable to speak. It is commonly used as a slightly more formal word for baby (the youngest category of child). ... A school prank is a prank pulled on a student by another student. ... A pair of mens briefs Briefs are a type of Y-shaped mens underwear and swimwear. ...

Constipation is another source of toilet humor. 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 is a condition of the digestive system where a person (or other animal) experiences hard feces that is difficult to eliminate; it may be extremely painful, and in extreme cases (fecal impaction) lead to symptoms of bowel obstruction. ... Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin Jay Hawkins (July 18, 1929 – 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. // Early career Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Hawkins originally set out to become an... The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (more often the Bonzo Dog Band) was the brainchild of the British art-school set of the 1960s. ...

Toilet slang

A form of toilet humor is toilet slang, in which bodily functions and parts are replaced by euphemisms and witticisms. Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces, or in the case of doublespeak to make it less troublesome for the speaker. ...

See also

• Gross-out film
• Le Pétomane
• Lighting farts
• Mr Hanky
• South Park
• Scatology
• The Poopsmith
• Sexual slang
• Porta-Potty Tipping