Toilet humour

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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 (albeit rare).[citation needed]

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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.
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