bathroom humor

noun

: humor relating to bathroom activities : scatological humor

Into this pit of storytelling possibilities, Spielberg tosses two hours of relentless slapstick, broad farce, and bathroom humor.

—David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Jan. 1980

… the next thing he's delivering wince-inducing gag lines built on bathroom humor and unconvincing malaprops.

—Margot Mifflin, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Apr. 1999

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

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