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Toilet humour or scatological humour is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation, urination, flatulence, regurgitation and other presumably disgusting 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.

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]

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 toilet 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." His mother yells, "Put that nasty thing back in the toilet!"
• The Austin Powers film series features lots of toilet humor. A character name Fat Bastard is even dedicated to it.
• South Park
• The Ren and Stimpy Show
• Family Guy
• Beavis and Butt-head

• 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

• 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

• 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