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Toilet humour or potty humour is a type of off-colour humour dealing with: defecation (including diarrhea and constipation), in which case it is called scatological humour (compare scatology); urination; flatulence, in which case it is called flatulence humor; or, to a lesser extent, vomiting and other bodily functions.
Toilet humour is commonly an interest of toddlers and young children, for whom cultural related to acknowledgement of Bodily waste excretion still have a degree of novelty. The humour comes from the rejection of such taboos, and is a part of modern culture.
Detroit rapper Eminem famously utilises crude humour throughout his discography. His most notorious example of toilet humour was featured on the 2017 album Revival, where he raps "Your booty is heavy duty, like diarrhea", a line which received extensive lament from critics. The Los Angeles Times comments: "If Hannibal Lecter could have recorded a rap album, this would have been it. Brilliant, sinister, scatological and a parent's nightmare."
Czech goregrind band Gutalax, along with some grindcore bands uses cloaca humour as its primary musical themes....
The American comedy duo Tim & Eric have made numerous comedy sketches based around toilet humour. For example, they have made fake commercials for non-existent products such as the "Poop Tube" (a device that lets people release liquefied faecal matter into a urinal while standing up), the "fla'Hat" (a hat that is connected to the wearer's anus which expands when storing flatulence), and "D-Pants" (an undergarment invented by "Diah Riha-Jones" that captures "uncontrollable diarrhea").
In the series South Park, the Canadian comedy duo Terrance and Phillip are noted for toilet humour and often make comedic use of their flatulence e.g. in the song "Uncle Fucker".
English actor Ade Edmondson, who appeared in many shows utilising toilet humour, is quoted as saying, "Toilet humour is like jazz: everybody has an idea what it is, and most people don't like it. But the people who do like it are fervent about it and like it until they die."
More recently, one of the most popular books about defecation, diarrhea and accidents in toilets is by straight-talking physician Jane Wilson-Howarth, a guide that began as Shitting Pretty and then was relaunched as How to Shit around the World.
The famous Russian literary satirist Vladimir Voinovich included toilet humour to criticize food policies in the Soviet Union. His novel Moscow 2042 (1987) presents a negative utopia in which a fictional communist government recycles faeces to create food for common citizens while the powerful eat proper food. In Voinovich’s previous novel Life and Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1969/ 1975), a farmer experiments with urine and faeces and brews vodka out of excrement.
The children's book series Captain Underpants makes copious use of toilet humor. "Doctor Diaper", "The Bionic Booger Boy", and "Professor Pippy Pee-Pee Poopypants" are among the villains in the series.
Toilet humour is also versatile in the Metal Gear franchise. Solid Snake can protect himself from wolf attacks by having one urinate on him. In , Solid Snake can spot soldiers urination themselves several times and also stand under them. In , Raiden is instructed in order to use a terminal, he first needs to "defecation", which is an abbreviation for "digital-optical output mounted proxy".
Kojima's later game Death Stranding included a mechanic allowing the player character to urinate in the field, as well as urinate or defecate in his room's bathroom, where his bodily output can be processed into grenades of types "number 1" and "number 2".
A trait of Wario from the eponymous spin-off franchise is a powerful flatulence attack extensively used in his Super Smash Bros. appearance.
Mattel fashion doll Barbie has a plastic golden retriever, named Tanner, which has been an available toy in different variations since the 1990s. Tanner the dog eats brown bean-like beads and then poops them out when its tail is pressed. Barbie can then pick up the plastic poop with a scooper that comes with the playsets.
Infant dolls, typically targeted towards little girls, have existed for decades that urinate and defecate (into diapers or potties) as a play feature. Variants include "Magic Potty Baby" (a 1990s Tyco brand doll) and "Baby Alive" (and Amazon knock-off counterfeit variants) that pee, poop and release glitter from their rear ends. The trend of scatological dolls for girls was mocked on the 1970s British comedy TV series Are You Being Served? in the episode "A Change Is as Good as a Rest"; salesman Mr. Lucas fills Ms. Brahms's peeing dollies with fizzy carbonated lemonade; another gag features character Mrs. Slocombe displaying two doll variants to a customer: the one manufactured in Britain is blonde-haired and says "I want to go to the potty" when a string on its back is pulled, while a similar doll with sandy hair manufactured in India says "my name is Yasmin, and I have just been to the potty" when its string is pulled.
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