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Toilet humour or scatological humour is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation, urination, regurgitation and other bodily functions. Public reference to bodily functions is taboo in many cultures. This genre also sees substantial crossover with sexual humour, such as penis jokes. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... The term off-color humor (also known as dirty jokes or blue humor) is used to describe various dirty jokes, prose, poems, black comedy and skits that deal with topics that are considered to be in poor taste or overly vulgar by the prevailing morals in a culture. ... Anatomy of the anus and rectum Defecation is the act or process by which organisms eliminate solid or semisolid waste material (feces) from the digestive tract via the anus. ... Manneken Pis of Brussels. ... Regurgitation is the controlled flow of stomach contents back into the oesophagus and mouth. ... This article is about cultural prohibitions in general, for other uses, see Taboo (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Off-color humor. ...

Many researchers interpret toilet humour as a rejection of society's demand to reject the taboo. Laughing at toilet humour is thus seen as an act of rebellion.^[1]

Exploitation

Many artists have made their names exploiting toilet humour:

• Eddie Shit's entire act was based on toilet humour interpretations of popular songs, including 'Pohemian Crapsody' and 'Space Jobbity'.
• Urinetown, the Broadway musical.
• 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).
• The Japanese manga Enomoto: New Elements that Shake the World has been praised as a series of "innovative comics that are almost entirely concerned with bodily functions."^[2]
• William Bubel's MegaZeux games in the Cans series and many other MegaZeux games feature toilet humour.
• A first-person shooter video game called HURL uses much potty humor, but no violence, in order that the game be considered suitable for children.
• 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, draining the dragon, and beating the JBoxer' 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 "shitter") 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.
• 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 diarrhetic reaction.
• The band Bloodhound Gang's songs and music videos feature numerous toilet humour references.
• The show Drawn Together contains frequent toilet humour scenes. For example, Spanky Ham once ordered a pizza and defecated on it, returning it to the delivery man, saying, "Wait, I didn't order this pizza with sausage".
• Blink 182 is known for their toliet humour, as shown on their live album, The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back).

• In the nudie-cartoon magazine series Sex to Sexty, one story is that a kid in a bathroom sings a jingle (from a 70s commercial) "Chewy chewy tootsie roll lasts a long time."

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• The Austin Powers film series features lots of toilet humor. A character name Fat Bastard is even dedicated to it.

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Flatulence

Flatulence (more commonly known as farting) is often used in humour referring to the flatulence length, tone, and the "wetness." This article is about the word fart itself. ...

Many comedians start off toilet humour with "One time I had a fart so long..."

Other names for flatulence are: fart (as referred to above), short 'n sweet, stink bomb, whiffer, toot, and atom. (See also: shart.)

A newspaper typo in a restaurant ad: "The seafood at Constantino's is as refreshing as a seat breeze." (Source: Earle Tempel) Spaghetti with seafood (Spaghetti allo scoglio). ...

See also

• Grotesque body
• Lighting farts
• Scatology
• Toilet tipping
• The Diarrhea Song
• Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)
• Dirty Sanchez (sexual act)
• The Left Rights
• Urinals
• Bum trilogy

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Shows, films, websites, etc.

• Gross-out film
• Gross out
• Urinetown
• Barry Welsh is Coming
• South Park
• Family Guy
• Robot Chicken
• Chappelle's Show
• Beavis and Butt-head
• The Poopsmith
• Le Pétomane
• Captain Underpants
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Mr. Hankey
• 6teen
• Carl Squared
• Drawn Together
• Mind of Mencia
• Twisted Kaiju Theater

george loves celeste is a sub-genre of comedy movies in which the producers aim to gross out their audience with disgusting and disturbing material, such as sexual or toilet humor. ... // Gross Out describes a celebrated movement in art (often comic), which aims to shock the audience with controversial material including toilet humour, nudity, and darkly twisted League of Gentlemen-style sordidity, usually serving the purpose of popular entertainment, though sometimes a vehicle of satirical social comment. ... Henry Millers Theatre 2003, Charles Shaughnessy. ... Barry Welsh is Coming was a sketch show that appeared exclusively in Wales. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Family Guy is an Emmy Award-winning American animated television series about a dysfunctional family in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. ... Robot Chicken is an Emmy Award-Winning American stop motion animated television series produced by Stoopid Monkey, ShadowMachine Films, Williams Street, and Sony Pictures Digital, currently airing in the US as a part of Cartoon Networks Adult Swim line-up, in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of... Chappelles Show is an American comedy television series starring comedian Dave Chappelle. ... Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. ... The poopsmith dressed up as a singer for a band in the Strong Bad Email senior prom, which is ironic, for he doesnt talk at all. ... Le Pétomane Le Pétomane was the stage name of the French professional farter and entertainer Joseph Pujol (June 1, 1857 - 1945). ... The first Captain Underpants book. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Recurring South Park characters. ... 6teen is an animated Canadian sitcom created by Jennifer Pertsch and Tom McGillis for Teletoon as one of its original productions. ... Carl² is a Canadian animated series targeting youths of all ages. ... Drawn Together is an American animated television series that uses a sitcom format with a TV reality show setting. ... Mind of Mencia is an American television comedy show on the cable channel Comedy Central. ... Twisted Kaiju Theater or TKT is a humorous photo-based webcomic by Sean McGuinness created on August 11, 2000. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Poop-Culture-America-Grossest-National/dp/193259521X Poop Culture: How America is Shaped by its Grossest National Product by Dave Praeger ISBN 1-932-59521-X
2. ^ Devlin, Tom. "King of Shit.(AKA Jason Boxer anthem) " The Comics Journal #238, October 2001, pp. 65-67.

• Henderson, Jeffrey The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy 1991 Oxford University Press ISBN 0195066855
• Slater, W. J. review of The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy by Jeffrey Henderson. Phoenix, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 291-293 doi:10.2307/1087300