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Fart: A Documentary Page #8
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- 2016
- 74 min
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it depends on the company,
I guess.
Sometimes I just--
you know, I sneak them out...
Same as everybody else does.
Female interviewer :
Right. Yeah.
( fart noise )
Um, originally,
when I started, obviously,
I discovered this ability
to breathe, um--
with the bottom end.
I'm just gonna
give you one for level.
Yeah?
( farting )
( laughing )
That was, uh,
that was George Michael,
that was.
( laughing )
A careless whisper.
I was introduced
by Kelsey Grammer--
Fraser of Cheers...
Two, one...
( laughter )
...you know,
and he gives a monologue
and then he's
with a lady actress,
um, I think her name
was Brett Butler,
and she says,
"Oh, that farting guy
was awful."
You know,
his anecdote is...
it's the first thing
we ever laugh at in life,
and possibly the only thing
I-- I think--
I think you know what's
going on here now.
Um, then it becomes
less funny and, uh,
adults who are--
who aspire to be more
sophisticated and cultured
tend to try
and distance themselves
from that kind of humor.
Uh, but it's like
any taboo, I suppose,
uh, it always
has the potential
to resurface
in humorous ways.
And so,
it always tends
to have a-- you know,
a-- a humorous
potential farting.
Um, but, yes,
I mean, it's--
it's more
associated with, uh,
children
and childish humor.
Which is a shame.
Swift, you know,
wrote a lot of things
about people farting
because he saw
that as an expression
of our basic humanity
that we're always
trying to cover up.
And, therefore,
it's always funnier
than it really is.
Didn't you say something
about the...
You were in
the underground in London
- with a lot of people.
- Oh, that's right.
- What is it?
- I went to a soccer match--
football match--
many years ago,
and it was
absolutely packed, you--
like sardines...
Woman over P.A.:
This is a Piccadilly line
service to Oxbridge.
...and you couldn't move.
Couldn't move.
One of my colleagues
from work had been
drinking beer,
hot dogs, onions--
- the whole lot...
- What a mixture.
Well, anyway,
halfway along the journey,
he dropped one.
The moment, um, I...
I tentatively
made this claim,
to be the world's
only performing flatulist.
There were moans and...
You could tell--
passing up the coach,
the carriage
I'm not so tentative now,
because I know
there are other flatulists
or other people
who perform my art.
As the complaints
moved up the train,
gosh, and nobody could--
you couldn't escape.
You couldn't walk away.
You couldn't do anything.
- ( laughing )
- It was disgusting.
But to actually go out there
and perform a show
and-- and--
and make a living out of it,
uh, which I do...
- ( farting )
- ...Strangely, I--
I still find it bizarre.
You know, and there's times
when I try and retire.
And it's like a calling,
it pulls me back.
It pulls me back.
It says, "You won't do that.
No. You will
go to Japan, you know,
and you will fart on the
television on Fuji TV.
Okay.
One, two...
For the entertainment value,
of course.
Not-- not lots of times,
but on the few occasions
I've had hostile,
um, sort of reactions
from an audience.
( farting )
Luckily, it's not
a lot of the time.
And I've had to sort of say,
well, obviously,
it's not for you
and just wind it up.
I think once
I am ready.
Is the orchestra ready?
- Are you ready?
- Yes.
( fart )
Oldfield:
He said, come on the show
and we'll sing a duet.
So I came on the show
and we sang a duet
of "Da Doo Ron Ron."
I met him on a Monday
It was, you know,
it was a piece
of classic television.
That was it.
And by today's standards
it's quite mild.
- And his name was Bill
But at the time,
it was just, no, no.
I mean, we're going back,
I think it was '90...
'97-- 1997, so, you know,
attitudes were different.
( farting )
And, really,
when I create something,
it's a labor of love.
I just take it
and reform it,
but, you know,
This is what I do
as a job.
And-- and-- and to me,
that's a work of art.
Da doo ron ron ron
- ( farting )
- ( laughing )
It's just a fart.
You know to me,
all you have to do
is fart over it.
You don't realize
what a lot of hard work
goes into that,
um, farting, really.
You know, I once
recorded a version
of "In The Air Tonight"
by Phil Collins.
- I remember
- ( farting )
It's a very...
You know, music
is a precious creation.
It's something
they've created.
So they're very--
you like to laugh.
A lot of big artists
like the fact
that I've done
"In The Air Tonight"
by Phil Collins.
You know, but if you
turn around to them and say,
well, could we do one
of your tracks?
Oh, no, no,
no, no, no, no.
So, they like to laugh,
but you-- we mustn't
despoil their work.
( laughter, applause )
All right.
I do understand
that-- that, you know,
when you create something
and it's a work of,
you know, in your eyes
that's a work of art--
it's a labor of love,
and then a guy comes along
and farts all over it.
- I remember--
- ( farts )
Jim Dawson:
In this country,
there's been some big changes
since my book came out.
In 1999,
when "Who Cut The Cheese?"
came out, uh,
of course,
there were a lot
of films by that time
that had farting gags
in 'em.
But the "L.A. Times,"
for example,
would not
use that word.
And then over time,
I saw that--
that they've started
using the word "fart"
in the, you know...
If they were talking
about old people, you know,
he's a, you know,
he's an old fart.
We're so old,
we fart dust.
And then gradually,
they would start--
they would
quote someone
that said something
about fart jokes
because
after a while,
the idea of fart
jokes and films
became sort of like
a big topic out here.
Because every comedy
had at least
one fart joke scene.
You know, and it became
sort of like, you know,
like a, um...
a bad example
of comedy.
You know,
is there, you know,
can there be at least
one comedy film
that doesn't have
a fart joke in it?
But I-- I think
a lot of the--
a lot of sort
Yeah, well,
"Blazing Saddles"
is the classic.
Well, if somebody
would make a comment like that,
the "L.A. Times"
would print it.
So, gradually, they would,
you know, they would...
The word "fart"
crept into the, um, newspaper,
and I think
that really expresses
the overall acceptance
that's been going
on for the last,
well, let's see,
what, this is,
uh, 2013.
So we're
talking about,
you know,
if it was 14 years ago.
for people to get them out.
- Ah...
- ( laughs )
- Because...
- ( indistinct )
...there's nothing
worse than a cooked one.
( all laughing )
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