Toilet humour
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Toilet humour or scatological humour is a type of off-color 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 dick jokes.
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[edit] Definition
Skidmark refers to markings of feces on ones underpants. The anus if not wiped properly after defecation will emit feces onto the material covering ones anus. This marking is generally in the form of a skid, or wiping motion and is therefore termed as a skidmark. Also, commonly used as a nickname for annoying or dirty persons who have the odour of feces.
[edit] Exploitation
Many artists have made their names exploiting toilet humour:
- 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).
- 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 "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 humor scenes. For example, Spanky Ham once ordered a pizza and defecated on it, returning it to the delevery man.
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[edit] See also
- Grotesque body
- Freckles (punk game)
- Lighting farts
- Scatology
- Toilet tipping
- The Diarrhea Song
- Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)
- Dirty Sanchez
