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Gross out

Gross out describes a movement

Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement more or less strictly so restricted ....
in art (often comic), which aims to shock the audience

Audience

An audience is a group of person who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature , theatre, music or academics in any Media ....
with controversial material such as toilet humour

Toilet humour

Toilet humour, or scatological humour, is a type of off-color humor dealing with defecation, urination, flatulence, vomiting and other bodily functions....
or nudity

Nudity

Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing.Based on scientific research into louse it is estimated that humans have been wearing clothing for 650,000 years....
.

Television
Jackass
Jackass (TV series)

Jackass is an American television series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, and Self-harm stunts and pranks....
and its UK cousin, Dirty Sanchez, were the pioneers of "gross out television". Featuring dangerous stunts, nudity

Nudity

Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing.Based on scientific research into louse it is estimated that humans have been wearing clothing for 650,000 years....
, profanity

Profanity

The original meaning of the adjective profane referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest sacred building," or "besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings"....
, and furious action never seen before on the small screen, both series started on MTV

MTV

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Gross out describes a movement

Art movement

Audience

An audience is a group of person who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature , theatre, music or academics in any Media ....
with controversial material such as toilet humour

Toilet humour

Toilet humour, or scatological humour, is a type of off-color humor dealing with defecation, urination, flatulence, vomiting and other bodily functions....
or nudity

Nudity

Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing.Based on scientific research into louse it is estimated that humans have been wearing clothing for 650,000 years....
.

Television

Jackass
Jackass (TV series)

Jackass is an American television series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, and Self-harm stunts and pranks....
and its UK cousin, Dirty Sanchez, were the pioneers of "gross out television". Featuring dangerous stunts, nudity

Nudity

Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing.Based on scientific research into louse it is estimated that humans have been wearing clothing for 650,000 years....
, profanity

Profanity

MTV

MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
, and progressed to iconic feature-length movies. Beavis and Butthead and South Park
South Park

South Park is an United Statesn animation situation comedy, notorious for its toilet humour, surrealism, and often black comedy, which satirizes Subject matter in South Park including religion, politics, violence, abuse, sexuality, and mental disorder....
transferred the gross-out television genre to the media of small screen animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of Motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways....
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Theatre

Gross-out theatre

Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
is increasingly practised on stage, in particular at the Edinburgh Festival

Edinburgh Festival

Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for several simultaneous Arts festival festivals that take place during August each year in Edinburgh, Scotland....
, but also in the larger, more adventurous, British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
theatres.

The prime examples of the above are the stage version of the contemporary drama Trainspotting
Trainspotting (novel)

Trainspotting is the first novel by Scotland writer Irvine Welsh. It is written in the form of short chapters narrated in the first person by various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serv...
by bestselling playwright and author Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is a contemporary Scottish novelists, best known for his novel Trainspotting . He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films....
; the controversial New York musical Urinetown
Urinetown

Urinetown is an United States award-winning satirical comedy musical theatre that pokes fun at capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty small town politics....
by Kotis and Hollmann; the outrageous anarchistic schlockomedy (shock horror comedy) musical about a Manchester jobcentre by Komedy Kollective; and performances by another United Kingdom-based act, Forced Entertainment, who devised the iconic theatrical gorefest

Gorefest

Gorefest is a Netherlands band from the Zeeland region of the Netherlands which was founded in 1989 as a death metal outfit by De Koeyer, Harthoorn, van Schaik and Hoogendoorn....
Bloody Mess . Their recent show, The World In Pictures, featured cavemen and women, dodgy

Dodgy

Dodgy are an England powerpop rock music Trio that rose to prominence during the Britpop era of the 1990s, best known for their hit single "Staying Out For The Summer" , "If You're Thinking Of Me" and "Good Enough" ....
haircuts, semi-nudity, and plenty of improvisation

Improvisation

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings....
, accompanied by an offbeat

Off-beat (music)

The Off-beat is a musical term commonly applied to rhythms that emphasize the weak beats of a bar. According to Grove Music, the ?Offbeat? is [often] where the downbeat is replaced by a rest or is tied over from the preceding bar"....
soundtrack

Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
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Art

Controversial American cartoonist and vaudeville performer Basil Wolverton

Basil Wolverton

File:Basil wolverton.jpgBasil Wolverton was an United States cartoonist, illustrator, Comic book creator and professed "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet", whose many publishers included Marvel Comics and Mad ....
invented his trademark "spaghetti

Spaghetti

Spaghetti is a long, thin, cylindrical pasta of Italy origin. A variety of pasta dishes are based on it, from spaghetti with cheese and pepper or garlic and oil to a spaghetti with tomato, meat, and other sauces....
and meatballs" style of artwork.

Various mainly-British artists helped create a flourishing gross-out art scene, which began mainly in the 1990s, the most famous of which were Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst

Damien Steven Hirst is an England artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" . Hirst dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned....
, known for encasing mutilated rotting cattle

Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat , dairy products , leather and as draft animals ....
in formaldehyde

Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde is a chemical compound with the chemical formula H2CO. It is the simplest aldehyde. Formaldehyde exists in several forms aside from H2CO: the cyclic trimer trioxane and the polymer Polyoxymethylene....
, and making art of endangered marine

Marine (ocean)

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology....
species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
such as shark

Shark

Sharks are a type of fish with a full Cartilage skeleton and a highly Streamlines, streaklines and pathlinesd body. They respire with the use of five to seven gill slits....
s in formaldehyde tanks, and Tracy Emin, whose exhibit

Art exhibition

Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition"....
of an unmade bed

Bed

A bed is a piece of furniture used as a place to sleep, and as a primary place for relaxation and sexual intercourse.To make beds more comfortable, mattresses are usually placed on top of them....
featured used tampons, condoms and blood-stained underwear. Once he had established his popstar status in the artsworld, Hirst also made a short comedy

Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
movie featuring Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard

Edward John "Eddie" Izzard is an Emmy Award-winning British stand-up comedy and dramatic actor. He is also known for his transvestitism. His comedy style is expressed in rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime....
.

Music

Gross out themes are common in popular music genres, especially rap and heavy rock, where shock value helps create marketable notoriety. Bands include Blink182 famous for including breast

Breast

The breast is the upper ventral region of an animal?s torso, particularly that of mammals, including human beings. The breasts of a female primate?s body contain the mammary glands, which secrete milk used to feed infants....
and fart

Fart

Fart is an English language vulgarism most commonly used in reference to flatulence. The word "fart" is generally considered unsuitable in a formal environment by modern English speakers, and it may be considered vulgar or offensive in some situations....
jokes in their songs, Agoraphobic Nosebleed

Agoraphobic Nosebleed

Agoraphobic Nosebleed is a grindcore band formed in 1994 in Massachusetts, United States. Its line-up has changed often during the years, leaving the only permanent member Scott Hull , also a guitarist in Pig Destroyer....
, and many others, whose material shocks the music world.

Sometimes the line between truth and urban myth is blurred by the sensationalist sections of the media. For example, Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
never ate steaming excrement live on-stage, and the famed incident involving Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
biting a head off of a bat was actually unintentional (he thought the bat was a prop).

Similar themes are also sometimes conveyed in music videos, the aptly-named Gross Out, a single

Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
from popular indie

Indie (music)

In popular music, independent music, often abbreviated as indie, is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous, DIY ethic to recording and publishing....
/garage rock

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 in music to 1967 in music. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name....
band, The Vines

The Vines

The Vines are an Australian Garage rock#Revival band notable for producing a musical hybrid of '60s rock and '90s alternative music. Since 2006 their line-up has consisted of vocalist and lead guitarist Craig Nicholls, rhythm guitarist Ryan Griffiths , bassist Brad Heald and drummer Hamish Rosser....
' whose second single from their third album

Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
Vision Valley, had a video shot in 16mm, filmed by director Josh Logue.

Gross out

Television

Theatre

Art

Music

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