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Public reference to bodily functions such as urination and defecation is taboo in many cultures and thus arouses intense anxiety in many people. For this reason, there is a whole sub-genre of humour, toilet humour (or bathroom humour) based around excretion. This genre is particularly popular with children.Many artists have made their names promulgating toilet humour:
- 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 as a recurring character.
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- Ubu RoiUbu Roi is a theatre play written by Alfred Jarry in 1896 that is the defining classic of the Dada art movement in theater. by Alfred Jarry, translated as King Turd, opens with the line "Merdre!" (translated as "Shitter!") and is filled with scatological humor. Now regarded as one of the first examples of the Theater of the Absurd, Jarry was only 14 years old when he began it as a spoof of one of his teachers.
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.
Constipation is another source of toilet humor. Screaming 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.
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