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'No Poop July' Jokes Are All Over TikTok. Some Doctors Urge Users ...

(NBC) - "No Poop July" is taking over "For You" pages on TikTok again, and some doctors are hoping users do not take the challenge seriously.

The trend involves young people, often men, pretending they haven't had bowel movements since the beginning of the month. Videos show men sweating profusely while fighting the urge to defecate while crowds cheer them on. The videos often include what day of "No Poop July" the alleged participant is on.

The videos are clearly jokes, and it does not appear the TikTok users are seriously preventing themselves from having bowel movements all month long.

Some doctors warn that the trend should remain a joke, saying those who are successful at holding in their bowel movements could disrupt their gastrointestinal health. That could cause issues like hemorrhoids and a temporary dependence on laxatives for regular bowel movements.

"It's a funny thing to joke about, but it's a potentially serious thing to do," said Dr. Steven Miller, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Miller discouraged those who might be tempted to avoid going a whole month without using the bathroom.

"No Poop July" likely dates as early as 2020, when a Reddit post said the phrase was trending on TikTok. Some joked about their valiant attempts to complete "No Poop July" again last year, and the trend kicked up again early this month. The hashtag has amassed more than 112 million views on TikTok.

Google Trends shows that the term started to pick up traction in 2020 and that it has become more popular each July since, with "No Poop July" roughly tripling in worldwide popularity this year.

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The Sklar Brothers On The Best Poop Jokes Of All-Time

Everyone Poops, Taro Gomi's classic picture book, which methodically documents the way in which every living thing—one-hump camels, two-hump camels, rabbits, horses, humans—poops, and what those poops look like, communicated a simple message to generations of children: shitting is a universal condition.

Perhaps no piece of popular culture since Gomi's tale, the Noah's Arc of feces, has grappled with this idea—of how elemental, yet sneakily stigmatized poop is—as directly as Poop Talk, a new documentary from director Aaron Feldman and the identical twin comedians, producers Jason and Randy Sklar. A patchwork of poop-related horror stories, jokes and sociopolitical commentary from a who's-who of popular comics—including Rob Corddry, Pete Holmes, Kumail Nanjiani, Bobby Lee, Aisha Tyler, Nikki Glaser and many more—the film is as much about shitting itself as it is the way we do (and don't) talk about shitting. Despite its many outrageous anecdotes—the most extreme of which involves comedian Nick Swardson shitting on his friend's floor, and blaming it on the dog—the movie manages to offer some sobering insights into the kinds of things we as a society try to cover up, and why.

Poop Talk opens in select cities and becomes available to stream on Amazon and iTunes tomorrow. I caught up with the Sklar brothers to discuss the making of the documentary, the best poop jokes of all-time and America's absurd resistance to the bidet.

Sam Eichner: How did this project come about? Were you guys just talking poop one day and decide to make a documentary about it...?Randy Sklar: An old friend of ours, Aaron Feldman, came to us with this idea. He said it's about poop and we were like, nah I don't think we can do this. But we thought about it and we came back to him and said, [we could do it] if we can have an honest discussion. If we got our funny friends together to really discuss it in an honest way, what would come of that? That's the movie we'd want to see.Sam: I tend to think you can be talking about the most high-minded thing amongst friends and eventually devolve into a conversation about pooping or ejaculating.Jason Sklar: I think what also happens is you sort of walk the line—in this movie, too—between people sharing hilarious poop stories from their lives mixed with anxieties and attitudes and truthful feelings towards the way we talk about it. We like to say, "This is not necessarily a movie we had to make, but it had to come out. Like a good poop."

Sam: In addition to all these funny people talking about poop, the movie felt like cultural exploration of poop in a way. Did you guys come to any profound conclusions after making this film, about why humans do or don't like talking about their shit so much?Jason: I mean it is a grand equalizer. It is part of the human condition. And for whatever reason, society has stepped away from us doing this outside where people will see us, or we have to try and hide it. Pete Holmes, in the movie, talks about how in a restaurant someone goes to the bathroom, and we all pretend it's not happening 12 feet away from us. We do whatever we can to cover it up. We sort of spend our lives doing that, when in essence there is this crazy connection we have when we start talking about it. These comedians, a lot of them we've known for over a decade, but once we started talking about this stuff, we gained new perspective on who they are as people.Randy: Pete Holmes was talking about how if he has a good poop, he shared it with his fiancée at the time. And I was like okay now I have an insight into their relationship, they're open enough with each other where he could be like, "Here honey, come on in here and see this."Jason: Over the course of making this movie, I've changed my attitude towards pooping. I used to be super uncomfortable talking about it—and now I just have more of an open approach to it, and I'm not afraid to talk about it or share. So in a weird way, we're trying to knock down a stigma of something, just by having these people be so open and vulnerable about it.

Sam: Is there anything you learned over the course of making this film, from a biological or cultural perspective, that really surprised you?Randy: The biggest man who you would think would be able to talk about it so easily, may not be able to. And then a woman who you might think be protective just unloads. It's amazing, the universality of the whole thing. I secretly think that this is the type of movie that reaches farther than what we see right now, because everybody's fascinated by it.Jason: The thing I learned the most is how much we need to bring the bidet into American culture. The fact that we've held out seems bizarre. There was a description [given] in the film [from Vijal Patel], like, if you had crap on your arm would you just go get a towel and wipe it off and just say you're good? No, you'd wash it off with water first. That simple example for me was the most eye-opening thing in the world.Sam: Maybe this movie will start a movement.Randy: No pun intended.Jason: I think if you put one in every nice hotel, people would start to bring them into their daily lives.Sam: Why do you think about Americans as so resistant?Jason: I think Americans fear the mess associated with it—that they won't be able to control the water.Randy: I also think it's a very European idea, and there's this bizarre backlash towards European ideas and ideology.Sam: I think Americans are less comfortable with things going up or towards their butt than Europeans.Randy: There might be a bizarre homophobic thing.Jason: Rob Corddry talking about the different types of water flows he can conjure up in his special toilet, the joy with which he talks about that...Even talking about his kids...I mean he might be more joyful about that, and he loves the hell out of his kids. 

Sam: Where would you guys rank poop on the list of subjects that are conducive to great comedy? Are poo jokes ever considered hacky or low-hanging fruit?Randy: The key is, how do you do it in a way that's really smart and funny and talks more about the human condition? That's what we were trying to explore in this movie. Like why is it funny? Slowly this whole movie becomes about how we deal with an uncomfortable subject. Because poo is uncomfortable for people to talk about, to me it makes it so much more fun comedically. I rank it pretty high, but it's a high degree of difficulty, because if you handle it in a way that feels like low-hanging fruit and you're just hackily going towards it, you can do a lot damage to yourself.

Sam: Do you have an all-time favorite poop joke? Is there someone you think is the best all-time poop comedian?Jason: I love whenever Sarah Silverman talks about poop. That's pretty magical. I love Jordan Rubin's joke—I don't know if he did this in the movie, but his joke was, "I smuggled diarrhea in from Mexico in my ass."Randy: My favorite joke about poop ever was from Dave Attell. And we didn't get it for the movie, but it was a great joke where he was like, "I never understood Glade or air fresheners. Like, who are they fooling with this? It's basically a fight between lemons and ass, and ass is winning."Jason: That's a great joke because what it preys upon is not the shit of it all but the cover up of it. I think what's interesting is that we as a society are moving more and more towards only showing people the best versions of ourselves, certainly on social media. You're always only showing people the best corner of who you are. And I think when you're pooping, you're at your least attractive and most vulnerable, but most relatable. That's what we tried to capture in this movie.

Sam: Were there any jokes or stories that were too crass to put in there?Jason: I don't think so.Randy: Did we put in the story with Corolla where his friends put poop in his ear?Jason: We may've abridged that. He had a great epic story of actual human feces—Randy: Being shoved into his ear by a high school friend.Jason: But that is a crazy story. To sit there and think about that is nuts. But all the other stories were very human.

Sam: I really enjoyed the section of the movie about the difference between men and women talking about poo. Do you think women may feel liberated to talk about their shit now than at any other point in history? Randy: Who knows, maybe after this movie they will be. You never know. Maybe we start a #MePoo movement [laughs]. No, but I do think we are at a point where everyone should be able to speak about it, and we hope that the movie will have the same affect on us that it will have on the general audience. Open up. Share. Let's de-stigmatize it in some ways. The movie is a metaphor for pooping itself—when you hold it in and you don't let it out, that's when problems start.

What's Better After The Apocalypse: Dick Jokes Or Poop Jokes? We ...

Emma Watson, aka Hermione from the Harry Potter movies, shows up and steals supplies from James Franco and his friends, in the latest trailer for This is the End. But how did Rogen and his co-director/co-writer Evan Goldberg coax a crazy comedy performance out of Watson? And what sort of humor was going too far for this apocalyptic movie? We asked them, and they told us.

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We caught up with Rogen and Goldberg for an exclusive interview at Wondercon over the weekend, and they told us everything we wanted to know about the apocalypse and celebrities.

What's more appropriate for the apocalypse: dick jokes or poop jokes? And why?

Goldberg: We recorded both…

Rogen: And people seemed to respond better to dick jokes.

Goldberg: We had to cut a lot of poop jokes

Rogen: America told us: "Dick jokes."

Why do you think America prefers dick jokes after the apocalypse?

Rogen: I think poop jokes are just too gross for people, honestly.

Goldberg: I personally don't love 'em.

Rogen: I think people are just grossed out by poop jokes. We saw first hand. We literally, in the movie we resort to drinking our own bodily — there's some drinking of our own pee, because we run out of water. And we filmed, we explored the idea on camera of eating our own poo, and there was a mass rejection.

Goldberg: It was like, the last day when everybody was having a good time, and they all got our jokes, and they all understood our humor.

Rogen: The crew were cool. We were friends with a lot of the people who worked on the movie, so they were very honest with us about how funny or not funny they thought what we were filming was at any given moment. And the way we filmed the poo thing, it was just me and Evan in a little room. With this confessional camera we had set up. We were alone in there…

Goldberg: We had microwaved a chocolate bar.

Rogen: We microwaved a chocolate bar, and it was like… [mimes eating]… and then I came out, and we were expecting the crew to be standing there laughing at the video monitors, and everyone was just like [mimes hanging his head].

Goldberg: And the DP, who has the exact same sense of humor as us, Brandon Trost, came up to us, and was like, "That wasn't cool."

Rogen: He was like, "That wasn't funny."

Goldberg: "Don't do any more of that."

Rogen: "There's no way you'll get any of that into the movie." So the answer is: Dick. Not poo.

Goldberg: Dick, not poo.

Rogen: That's our motto.

So how hard was it to bring out the weirdo in Emma Watson? And how weird was it working with Rihanna?

Rogen: The answer for both was, not very.

Goldberg: The thing was, once you got to the set, there was like ten of us. And there's a vibe when you have ten different actors who are all working together, and all the producers all knew the actors. So you kind of like were coming to a summer camp that was already in session, and they just kind of slid right into it.

Rogen: Emma thought it was super funny what we were doing, and she was really funny. And Rihanna was awesome. She was great. She improvised. She did some stuntwork that she didn't think she was going to be doing. [Laughs] And it was great. It was really easy. There were some days where I looked around, and there's like 20 movie stars on the set right now, and everyone was kind of coexisting in a great way. It was almost like no-one wanted to be the asshole, because there were so many people there that you didn't want to be the one who was the fucking asshole.

Goldberg: Hearing you say that, I'm picturing one of them acting up, and it would have been a disaster for them. Everybody would have just zoned in on them.

Emma Watson, though, seems to have less of a comedy background than most of the people in the movie. How did she adjust?

Goldberg: She definitely, for the first half of her first scene, was unsure of how it was going to go. But once she got it, she just dove in hard, and was improv-ing like the rest of the guys, and doing all of that good stuff.

Rogen: And she's like… one of her jokes in the movie is like, so funny, and it's a pretty edgy joke. And it's awesome, how she played it.

Do you think there's a certain amount of wish fulfillment in seeing famous people get killed?

Rogen: Probably. To some degree. [Laughs]

Goldberg: I think it's like wish fulfillment people didn't even know they had.

Rogen: I didn't know I had it until I saw. [Laughs] But yeah, I think there is some… I don't know why.

Goldberg: Also, when they get hurt. You're like, "That's not just a character. That's Craig Robinson. And I know who that is. And it makes you care a little more, and laugh a little more."

Rogen: It makes it that much more absurd in a way, that it is these people, and these terrible things are happening to them. You know? I don't know if people like it because it's the people getting hurt, but I think people definitely have a very big reaction to seeing these very graphic things happen to these very famous people. As themselves, especially. It's fun. It's nice. Honestly, they react exactly how we hoped they would.

Besides the poop jokes, with the apocalypse, was there material that was too horrifying or too upsetting, that you had to back away from?

Goldberg: Just the poop stuff. That's really the answer.

Rogen: We kind of tried to delve into the darker elements a little bit. But again, it's a comedy. It's not that dark a movie. But I think we explore a lot of the themes that you would expect to find in one of these types of movies. We probably have two more dick jokes than The Road.

What can you tell me about Cannibal Santa?

Rogen: Oh yeah. That's written on IMDB [on the cast list]. I can't tell you what Cannibal Santa is! I actually let that go, just to see if anyone would notice. All I will say is, there is a character in the movie called Cannibal Santa, but I'm not going to tell you what he does. But he's there, and that's not a typo.

Is there something about bromance that's stronger than the end of days?

Goldberg: What's bromance? [Laughs]

Rogen: I don't know. For the sake of comedy, we make it that way. But I don't know if in real life, it has any bearing. I mean, this is a movie about a lot of dudes, and it's a movie about the inner dynamics of a large group of friends. So I think in this movie, we definitely explore how the power of bromance collides with the power of the apocalypse. The fact that I just said the word "bromance" so many times makes me want to kill myself.

Goldberg: We never attach that word to us.

It took decades to go from the classic Westerns to Blazing Saddles. Do you think there's a similar process with apocalyptic movies?

Rogen: Maybe. I think our movies are somewhat… I don't want to say they're making fun of the genres they're in, but they're kind of commenting on them in a way. And I think, like, the more familiar people are with the conventions of these types of movies, the easier it is for us to play off those expectations and make jokes about them, and stuff like that.

Goldberg: A few countries won't get each of our movies.

Rogen: For us, anyway, it's easier to make a type of movie like this now that there's so many movies like this happening. Because it just makes it funnier, honestly. The more movies like this, the more our jokes are funny, because we're kind of playing off of the expectations that you have for a movie like this. You know?

But do you think it's doing something similar to what Blazing Saddles did with westerns?

Rogen: Hey, if you want to compare us to Mel Brooks, I'll take it. [Laughs]

Goldberg: It is exactly like Blazing Saddles. [Laughs] If you like Blazing Saddles, you will love this movie. [Laughs at the absurdity of that statement]

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