So, it's a natural, human bodily function anyway, so... Female interviewer: But it was seen as rude.
It was seen as rude, absolutely.
The louder you sing, the louder I fart.
( speaking native language ) I do feel in any case, um, in company, there's a time and a place for the farting.
And-- and-- and I don't start to fart around the dinner table, you know, unless I really know the people there, and they're comfortable with it 'cause they understand that social etiquette.
- I am ready.
- Let's start!
All together now.
Let's do it!
( fart )
Man:
My name is-- ( fart ) Yes, that's exactly what my name is.
And today, I give you the history of the whoopee cushion.
( farts ) No, but at my wedding they tried to put a whoopee cushion on my chair, and my kid thought that was-- My uncles are the ones that brought the darn thing.
Announcer: Ready, set-- ( airhorn blares ) - ( fart ) - ( woman cheering ) The first known item that resembled a whoopee cushion was used by a Roman emperor by the name of... Elagabalus.
And he tried to get me to go sit down and tried to, you know, be all nice and lead me by my hand and-- like he was gonna see his mother and all... And I saw the thing underneath my seat cover and that blew the whole thing off of him-- all of 'em.
So, I didn't sit on it.
( audience cheering ) This company put the word "whoopee" on-- on-- on-- on this cushion-- whoopee cushion-- and bingo.
Then years later in the early 1900s, two factory workers who were experimenting with leftover scraps of rubber... ( farting ) ...discovered that if they glued two pieces of rubber together, they could make them "farter face." ( farting ) - ( audience cheering )
- Man:
Go! Go!
It wasn't the sort of thing that you would put, have a big advertisement in the "New Yorker," you know?
( audience cheering ) But the thing, you know, caught on and-- and-- uh, and these were like mail-order companies.
The owner of Gem Rubber Co., the company where the factory workers worked, took this new item to the marketing geniuses of Samuel Adams of sneezing powder fame in the early 1900s, but he passed on the product saying that it was completely and totally undignified.
You'd see them in the back of a-- of a-- just a regular magazine comic book and order it and they would send it to your door.
And it became part of our culture.
The rubber guy then went to Sam's competitor... That one was silent.
