- Toilet humour
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Toilet humour, or scatological humour, is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation, urination, and flatulence, and to a lesser extent vomiting and other body functions. It sees substantial crossover with sexual humour, such as penis jokes.
Toilet humour is popular among a wide range of ages, but is especially popular with children and teenagers, for whom cultural taboos related to acknowledgement of waste excretion still have a degree of novelty. The humour comes from the rejection of such taboos, and is a part of modern culture.[1] Examples can also be found in earlier literature, including The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
See also
- Bum trilogy
- Dick joke
- Flatulence
- Grotesque body
- Lighting farts
- Scatology
- Toilet tipping
- Gross-out film
- Gross out
References
- Henderson, Jeffrey The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy 1991 Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-506685-5
- 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
Categories:- Humor
- Toilets
- Vomiting
- Euphemisms
- Comedy stubs
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