18th-century satireSourced
A political jab
with a chamber-pot pan.
Laurence Sterne's 1759 satire turned a church dispute into farce. One scene has a character carrying the pan of a portable toilet on his head through town.
Old literary humor
could be very earthy.
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A Political Romance · Wikimedia contributors
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