Ânus que Cantava

CONHEÇA A HISTÓRIA DO ÂNUS QUE ENCANTOU A EUROPA PORQUE FUMAVA, TOCAVA FLAUTA E SUGAVA ÁGUA DE BACIA

Existiu um artista francês chamado Lé Pétomane, que nasceu em 1857 e morreu em 1945. Ele ficou famoso não somente em seu país como também no restante da Europa.

Era padeiro, mas descobriu o talento de que era portador ao nadar no mar. Quando estava dentro d'água, sentiu algo gelado entrando em seu ânus. Descobriu que havia sugado parte da água salgada por meio do seu bumbum.

Também descobriu que podia fazer sucção do ar. Passou a imitar diversos sons, liberando puns. Podia passar vários minutos soltando ar pelo ânus, sem interrupção.

Ganhou fama. Frequentemente se apresentava nos melhores cabarés franceses. O vento que saía de seu ânus era capaz de apagar velas; tinha a habilidade de fumar cigarro e de tocar flautas.

Em pleno espetáculo conseguia sugar água de uma bacia e lançá-la a distância. Tudo isso pelo ânus, obviamente.

Não para por aí. Era capaz de imitar o som de canhões e de trovões. Muitos espectadores passavam mal de tantas gargalhadas, em função das peripécias do artista.

O auge da festa era quando Petomane baixava as calças e tocava o hino nacional francês através dos puns que liberava.

Não foi por menos que muitas celebridades europeias se deslocavam aos espetáculos somente para conferir de perto aquele show bizarro. Uma dessas celebridades foi o famoso psicanalista, Sigmund Freud.

Le Pétomane

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Le Pétomane

Le Pétomane (/ləˈpɛtəmeɪn/, French pronunciation: ​[ləpetɔˈman]) was the stage name of the French flatulist (professional farter) and entertainer Joseph Pujol (June 1, 1857 – 1945). He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly fart at will. His stage name combines the French verb péter, "to fart" with the -mane, "-maniac" suffix, which translates to "fartomaniac". The profession is also referred to as "flatulist", "farteur", or "fartiste".^[1]
It is a common misconception that Joseph Pujol actually passed intestinal gas as part of his stage performance. Rather, Pujol was able to "inhale" or move air into his rectum and then control the release of that air with his anal sphincter muscles. Evidence of his ability to control those muscles was seen in the early accounts of demonstrations of his abilities to fellow soldiers.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Legacy
• 3 See also
• 4 Notes and references
• 5 Further reading
• 6 External links

Biography

Le Pétomane ca. 1890

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Le Pétomane du Moulin Rouge, 1900 (silent film clip)

Joseph Pujol was born in Marseilles, one of 5 children of stonemason/sculptor François Pujol and his wife Rose. Soon after Pujol left school, he had a strange experience while swimming in the sea. He put his head under the water and held his breath, whereupon he felt an icy cold penetrating his rear. He ran ashore in fright and was amazed to sense water pouring from his anus. A doctor assured him that there was nothing to worry about.^{[citation needed]}
While serving in the army, he told his fellow soldiers about his special ability, and repeated it for their amusement, sucking up water from a pan into his rectum and then projecting it up to several yards. He found that he could suck in air as well. A baker, Pujol would sometimes entertain his customers by imitating musical instruments, and claim to be playing them behind the counter. Pujol decided to try the stage, and debuted in Marseilles in 1887. When his act was well received, he moved to Paris, where he appeared at the Moulin Rouge in 1892.^{[citation needed]}
Some of the highlights of his stage act involved sound effects of cannon fire and thunderstorms, as well as playing "'O Sole Mio" and "La Marseillaise" on an ocarina through a rubber tube in his anus.^[2] He could also blow out a candle from several yards away.^[1] His audience included Edward, Prince of Wales; King Leopold II of the Belgians; and Sigmund Freud.^[3]
In 1894, the managers of the Moulin Rouge sued Pujol for an impromptu exhibition he gave to aid a friend struggling with economic difficulties. Pujol was fined 3,000 francs, and the Moulin Rouge lost their star attraction as the disagreement led him to set up his own travelling show called the Theatre Pompadour.^{[citation needed]}
In the following decade Pujol tried to 'refine' and make his acts 'gentler'; one of his favourite numbers became a rhyme about a farm which he himself composed, and which he punctuated with anal renditions of the animals' sounds.^{[citation needed]}
With the outbreak of World War I, Pujol, horrified by the inhumanity of the conflict, retired from the stage and returned to his bakery in Marseilles.^{[citation needed]} Later he opened a biscuit factory in Toulon. He died in 1945,^[4] aged 88, and was buried in the cemetery of La Valette-du-Var, where his grave can still be seen today. The Sorbonne offered his family a large sum of money to study his body after his death, but they refused the offer.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

Le Pétomane left an enduring legacy and has inspired a number of artistic works. These include several musicals based on his life, such as The Fartiste (awarded Best Musical at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival) and Seth Rozin's A Passing Wind which was premiered at the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts in 2011. In addition, Le Pétomane was added to David Lee's 2007 reworked revival of the 1953 Broadway play Can-Can, which had originally been written by Abe Burroughs and Cole Porter. The updated play, staged at the Pasadena Playhouse, featured musical theatre actor Robert Yacko as the fartiste, with sound effects provided by the band's trombone and piccolo players. More recently, the re-released works of English toilet humour specialist Ivor Biggun include "Southern Breeze", a song about a "Famous French Farteur" who describes in rhyme a stroll through a farmyard, accompanied by appropriate farting noises.^{[citation needed]}
Los Angeles-based Sherbourne Press published Jean Nohain and F. Caradec's Le Pétomane as a small hardcover English language edition in 1967. Due to its ‘sensitive’ nature, the usual national publicity venues shied away, some claiming that an author was needed for interviews (both elderly writers lived in France). However, ‘behind the curtain’ acceptance created a buzz within the national radio/TV promotional circuit and word-of-mouth discussion kept the book in stores for several years. Dorset Press, a division of Barnes & Noble, reissued the book in 1993.^{[citation needed]}
The character has been portrayed several times in film. In 1979 Ian MacNaughton made a short humorous film, written by Galton and Simpson called Le Pétomane, based on Pujol's story and starring veteran comic actor Leonard Rossiter.^[5] The 1983 Italian movie Il Petomane, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and starring Ugo Tognazzi, gives a poetic rendition of the character, contrasting his deep longing for normalcy with the condition of 'freak' to which his act relegated him. The 1998 documentary Le Pétomane by Igor Vamos examines Joseph Pujol's place in history through archival films (none of which actually include him), historical documents, photographs, recreations and fake or tongue-in-cheek interviews.^[6] He briefly appears as one of the performers in Moulin Rouge!, played by Keith Robertson.
Le Petomane is also referenced in Blazing Saddles, a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Brooks appears in multiple supporting roles, including the dim-witted Governor William J. Le Petomane, whose name suggests he is full of hot air.^{[citation needed]}
Le Petomane is the name of the university in Up the Creek, a 1984 college movie starring Tim Matheson involving a whitewater rafting race.