Farty-arty: the place of farts in the arts ✔️

I re-visited my Instagram account today. I had forgotten this post from 2024:

Cartoon illustration of a William Shakespeare look-alike to go with doggerel verse about the Slow Horses TV series

Farts have a role in Slow Horses

A TV drama that of course is

Proof of the pudding that farts

Have a part to to play in the Arts

I wrote here about the fart in TV’s The Celebrity Traitors. It was presented as an unscripted extra from Celia Imrie. Her fart was audible but modest and she apologised for it. Gary Oldman’s Slow Horses character, Jackson Lamb, makes no apology for his flatulent exhuberance. His powerful farts are an essential part of the development of the character of the scruffy and maladorous Lamb. Oldman deserves an award for the total authenticity of Lamb’s “raspberry tarts”.

These examples may turn out to be early trumpet calls for the return of professional flatulists to the world of popular entertainment.