Toilet humour

Public reference to bodily functions is taboo in many cultures and thus arouses intense sexual pleasure in many people. For this reason, there is a whole sub-genre of humour, toilet humour (also potty humour).

Related Topics:
Taboo - Sexual pleasure - Humour

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This genre also sees substantial crossover with the sexual humour 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.

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Many artists have made their names promulgating toilet humour:

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• Much 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 humour of the animated series South Park also consists largely of toilet humour, 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 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.
• 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 gastrointernal disagreements.

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 incontinence of infants and young children or the aged or infirm. Jokes about wedgies and tighty-whitey underpants also fall in this category.

Related Topics:
Modesty - Undergarments - Incontinence - Infant - Wedgie

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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.

Related Topics:
Constipation - Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Bonzo Dog Band

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