From Butt Trumpets to Farting Clubs: The Frolicsome History of Flatulence Humor

Let’s take Benjamin Franklin’s advice and “Fart Proudly.”

Richard Newton, Farting in good cheer, 1798 | Public Domain

It should surprise no one that the oldest recorded joke in history is a fart joke. It reads:

“Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”