July 30, 2025 • 10 mins
In one of the most unforgettable episodes of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray fire up the Wayback Machine and revisit the legendary tale of Joseph Pujol, aka Le Pétomane—the world’s most famous fart artist. Yes, you read that right.This episode is a hilarious deep dive into the bizarre and brilliant history of a man who turned flatulence into fine art, becoming the highest-paid performer at the Moulin Rouge in the 1890s. From farting musical notes to blowing smoke rings out of both ends, Pujol’s act was so outrageous it caused women in corsets to pass out and even gave one man a heart attack.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're going to be out and about on Friday, Yes, Friday,
we're gonna be at the Chalk Talk Casino in Resort Durant, Oklahoma,
right there by the District.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
That's the little food area.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Highly recommend if you can make it up there, you
come check us out, hang out with us. Three to
six Stale weekend. Of course, they're doing their last million
dollar giveaway for rewards club members. That is going to
be Saturday night, last one of the summer, and you
can take advantage of that's come on up and see us.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's time to go into the bitter and schedule Wayburg mission. Yeah.
I had to been sometime in the last decade, but
this happened on this day. In history on the Ben
and Skin Show, I stumbled across an article that was
about the history of a guy who was known as
the Fartist, the fart Artist. His name was Poohole. Seriously,
(00:58):
his last name was Poohole. I remember, and I have
three clips that we definitely played on the air and
discussed it's not aim I actually might be AI from
But this was again this is eight or nine or
ten years ago, the long ass time ago, before anyone
even talked about a Yeah, it might just be a
guy with a great voice reading and he explains this
(01:20):
guy And my question. When I listened to these cuts
last night, I was like, Man, I wonder if we
should have ever gone to air with this story. I
remember being funny in the moment. Well, we've all matured,
we've all gotten a little older, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The reason there's audio of this is because it was
one of those read stories now where you can hit
the audio and hear the story of it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got the full ten minutes of it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But I think it's funny because the idea of a
fart artist, the word artist, I had never heard that.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, And it's how it gets into how he you know,
entertainment back then didn't have radio to listen to, you know,
which is how most people enjoy entertainment. I think they
didn't have that. He had to put on a show
and he was able to do that. So here's the
story of Poohole. I've got three cuts here.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We should also say, for further context, where we were
on a sports station and our program director hated fart jokes, like,
we need to establish that as we talk about whether
or not we should have done this.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
We did a lot of time. Yeah, So here's the
story of poohole is how it begins.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Lessons on flatulence from a fart artist. Joseph Poujol was
once the highest paid performer at the Moulin Rouge. His
talent was unusual. Once upon a time in south of France,
a teenager named Joseph Pujol was playing in the surf
at the beach. As he bent over and prepared to
dive beneath the waves, he took a huge breath and
(02:46):
felt an icicle of cold stabbing him from the inside.
With growing horror, he realized he'd somehow inhaled a butt
full of water. The water gushed out of his rectum
a moment later, and he felt fine. Still, he ran
to the family doctor, who chuckled and told him to
forget about it, but the boy couldn't. He refused to
go swimming anymore, and he never breathed a word of
(03:06):
the incident until his early twenties, when he entered the
French Army. There in one of those crude gross out
sessions that seemed to break out whenever young men gather.
Pajol described what had happened to him that day on
the beach. His comrades thought the story hilarious and dared
him to try it again. Curiosity overcoming fear, he trumped
down to the beach on his next furlough and found
(03:28):
that he could give himself a cold, salty enema at
will that one fateful day. No one knows how Pujol
discovered that he could pull the same trick with air.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's so confusing, and we're sitting here going why did
we do this? And I'll tell you why because it
gets better, It gets better. But are you all as
confused as I am right now? Yes, I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It involves jumping in the ocean and getting water in
his butt.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Because he has a special rectum, it can quickly go
through his body so much his rectum processes it and
spits out everything out so fast. I guess. So here's
how he got in the show business.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
After inhaling the air, Pajol ripped loose the most epic
fart of his life. He was thrilled and ran off
to show his fellow soldiers Pajol spent the next several
years perfecting this skill until he could fart without interruption
for ten to fifteen seconds. He found he could vary
the pitch and volume of farts as well, playing them
like musical notes. He'd always been a theatrical boy, constantly
(04:28):
singing and dancing, and after he honed his repertoire in
the barracks, he grew a mustache and hit the road
with his act in the mid.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Eighteen Mustard, why is that a necessary detail there? There's
there's allusions to things here. Yeah, there's allusions to certain
things here.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
He grew a mustache and hit the road with his
act in the mid eighteen eighties. He dubbed himself the
pet Domain the Fardo Maniac. He finally worked up the
car Urge to audition for the famous Moonlain Rouge nightclub
in Paris in eighteen ninety two. The job interview consisted
of him dropping his trousers, cleansing his instrument by sucking
(05:10):
up order. He normally gave himself five enemas per day,
then serenading the owner. The owner, flabbergasted, hired him immediately.
Audiences didn't know what to make of the Panthomain at first,
but within two years he become the highest paid performer
in France, earning twenty thousand francs for some shows, more
(05:31):
than double what the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt did.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
See Sarah Bernhardt got out acted by this guy and
his cool trick. It's very strange, right, do we or
are we still? Are we feeling right now that maybe
we shouldn't have done it in the past, and maybe
we shouldn't do it now.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No, I think we should have done it then, and
I'm glad we're doing it now. I just like the
way that it's such a serious report and then he
just drops the word farted and it just blindsides you
ever thought.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, would you buy tickets to his show? Now?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Absolutely? I would book him for my kid's twenty first birthday.
Back then, there's probably like a nickel Yeah. Now it's
by like two point fifteen. He gotta buy a flight
to get there. Yeah, you know, hotel rooms. Oh oh,
he would tour the world, man, you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, he come see. Where would he play in Dallas?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Probably the Nasher Forward, Maybe he's at Billy Bob's. I
don't know. The Nasher the Windspear Opera House. Oh my gosh. Well, uh,
this is the details of the show that he put on.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
When the curtain opened, he appeared on stage in a
black satin tuxedo with white gloves and a red cape.
He wore the tuxedo partly for the incongruity and partly
to hide the stream of forcing himself to fart over
and over after the first laughs died down. He'd do
impressions A short high toot for a little lass, a
meaty blat for a mother in law, a bride on
(06:53):
her wedding night, a shy peep, and then a few
months into the marriage, a thunderclap. He imitated roosters, owls, ducks, bees, toads, pigs,
and a dog whose tail got caught in a door.
He brought the house down when he played a flute
backward near the end ahem. He stepped off stage and
re emerged with a tube inserted into his like a tail.
(07:15):
The other end had a lit cigarette wedged into it,
and he proceeded to blow smoke rings out of both
ends at once. For the finale, he gave a rousing
rendition of the Marseilles, then puffed out a candle from
several feet. Women in the audience, especially those wearing corsets,
often laughed so hard they passed out.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. It just
really painting a scene here.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Only the ones wearing courses, only the women wearing courses
would pass out.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I get your act together, woman, alright, held show hell
my broad passed out again. This is art. Be serious.
Quit passing out.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Often laughed so hard they passed out. One man had
a heart attack, just one.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Have you guys ever heard of since around since around
Ben probably has right.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So they used to have certain like you know, three
D glasses for movies. Yeah, there'd be certain movies that
would have sense around where they would release smells. Oh okay,
and so I'm wondering if the fartest in the sense around,
what is the smell of this act.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I've seen a show where they really smells and the
smells are like, great, it was a lemon or citrus.
If they showed like a garden, it's very strange. Oh,
here's the end of it.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Man had a heart attack. The Moulin Rouge took advantage
of this by stationing nurses around the theater and by
posting warnings about how dangerous the show was, which of
course only made people more eager to attend.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
There you go, the fartist. I uh, I mean it's funny.
I just laughed a lot, so I do think it's funny.
But what do y'all believe this? Du It's not real.
I thought it was like a whole NPR thing. Dude,
when you look it up, he's got a whole Wikipedia page.
It's great, and he's bending over in all these Yeah,
(09:21):
but it does look like a magician.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So we have our buddy Paul, and he launched a
website the other day because of the product we had
in that AI thing he did called I Said It
or whatever. Oh yeah, he launched a whole website for it.
So just because there's something on the internet or it
doesn't mean it's real.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
He launched the seidate website. Yeah, oh that's great.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Did you find it?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh yeah, dude said it. I totally got said it.
Kidding me, I've always got said it. Yeah, I said it,
And that's good. End the show today.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'll never forget the time KT looked the fartest deadness
butt and he said, well, I.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Just think in these times, I think it's really important
that we all consider everything when it comes to the
world we're living in. That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It took him twelve seconds to say absolutely nothing. Christina,
are you gonna stick around and play music?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I am all right. It's on you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Christina is gonna stick around and play tunes right here
on the eagle.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
There you going, Well, I'm gonna get my sack back. Dude,
all art
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're going to be out and about on Friday, Yes, Friday,
we're gonna be at the Chalk Talk Casino in Resort Durant, Oklahoma,
right there by the District.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
That's the little food area.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Highly recommend if you can make it up there, you
come check us out, hang out with us. Three to
six Stale weekend. Of course, they're doing their last million
dollar giveaway for rewards club members. That is going to
be Saturday night, last one of the summer, and you
can take advantage of that's come on up and see us.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's time to go into the bitter and schedule Wayburg mission. Yeah.
I had to been sometime in the last decade, but
this happened on this day. In history on the Ben
and Skin Show, I stumbled across an article that was
about the history of a guy who was known as
the Fartist, the fart Artist. His name was Poohole. Seriously,
(00:58):
his last name was Poohole. I remember, and I have
three clips that we definitely played on the air and
discussed it's not aim I actually might be AI from
But this was again this is eight or nine or
ten years ago, the long ass time ago, before anyone
even talked about a Yeah, it might just be a
guy with a great voice reading and he explains this
(01:20):
guy And my question. When I listened to these cuts
last night, I was like, Man, I wonder if we
should have ever gone to air with this story. I
remember being funny in the moment. Well, we've all matured,
we've all gotten a little older, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The reason there's audio of this is because it was
one of those read stories now where you can hit
the audio and hear the story of it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got the full ten minutes of it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But I think it's funny because the idea of a
fart artist, the word artist, I had never heard that.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, And it's how it gets into how he you know,
entertainment back then didn't have radio to listen to, you know,
which is how most people enjoy entertainment. I think they
didn't have that. He had to put on a show
and he was able to do that. So here's the
story of Poohole. I've got three cuts here.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We should also say, for further context, where we were
on a sports station and our program director hated fart jokes, like,
we need to establish that as we talk about whether
or not we should have done this.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
We did a lot of time. Yeah, So here's the
story of poohole is how it begins.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Lessons on flatulence from a fart artist. Joseph Poujol was
once the highest paid performer at the Moulin Rouge. His
talent was unusual. Once upon a time in south of France,
a teenager named Joseph Pujol was playing in the surf
at the beach. As he bent over and prepared to
dive beneath the waves, he took a huge breath and
(02:46):
felt an icicle of cold stabbing him from the inside.
With growing horror, he realized he'd somehow inhaled a butt
full of water. The water gushed out of his rectum
a moment later, and he felt fine. Still, he ran
to the family doctor, who chuckled and told him to
forget about it, but the boy couldn't. He refused to
go swimming anymore, and he never breathed a word of
(03:06):
the incident until his early twenties, when he entered the
French Army. There in one of those crude gross out
sessions that seemed to break out whenever young men gather.
Pajol described what had happened to him that day on
the beach. His comrades thought the story hilarious and dared
him to try it again. Curiosity overcoming fear, he trumped
down to the beach on his next furlough and found
(03:28):
that he could give himself a cold, salty enema at
will that one fateful day. No one knows how Pujol
discovered that he could pull the same trick with air.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's so confusing, and we're sitting here going why did
we do this? And I'll tell you why because it
gets better, It gets better. But are you all as
confused as I am right now? Yes, I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It involves jumping in the ocean and getting water in
his butt.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Because he has a special rectum, it can quickly go
through his body so much his rectum processes it and
spits out everything out so fast. I guess. So here's
how he got in the show business.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
After inhaling the air, Pajol ripped loose the most epic
fart of his life. He was thrilled and ran off
to show his fellow soldiers Pajol spent the next several
years perfecting this skill until he could fart without interruption
for ten to fifteen seconds. He found he could vary
the pitch and volume of farts as well, playing them
like musical notes. He'd always been a theatrical boy, constantly
(04:28):
singing and dancing, and after he honed his repertoire in
the barracks, he grew a mustache and hit the road
with his act in the mid.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Eighteen Mustard, why is that a necessary detail there? There's
there's allusions to things here. Yeah, there's allusions to certain
things here.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
He grew a mustache and hit the road with his
act in the mid eighteen eighties. He dubbed himself the
pet Domain the Fardo Maniac. He finally worked up the
car Urge to audition for the famous Moonlain Rouge nightclub
in Paris in eighteen ninety two. The job interview consisted
of him dropping his trousers, cleansing his instrument by sucking
(05:10):
up order. He normally gave himself five enemas per day,
then serenading the owner. The owner, flabbergasted, hired him immediately.
Audiences didn't know what to make of the Panthomain at first,
but within two years he become the highest paid performer
in France, earning twenty thousand francs for some shows, more
(05:31):
than double what the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt did.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
See Sarah Bernhardt got out acted by this guy and
his cool trick. It's very strange, right, do we or
are we still? Are we feeling right now that maybe
we shouldn't have done it in the past, and maybe
we shouldn't do it now.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No, I think we should have done it then, and
I'm glad we're doing it now. I just like the
way that it's such a serious report and then he
just drops the word farted and it just blindsides you
ever thought.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, would you buy tickets to his show? Now?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Absolutely? I would book him for my kid's twenty first birthday.
Back then, there's probably like a nickel Yeah. Now it's
by like two point fifteen. He gotta buy a flight
to get there. Yeah, you know, hotel rooms. Oh oh,
he would tour the world, man, you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, he come see. Where would he play in Dallas?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Probably the Nasher Forward, Maybe he's at Billy Bob's. I
don't know. The Nasher the Windspear Opera House. Oh my gosh. Well, uh,
this is the details of the show that he put on.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
When the curtain opened, he appeared on stage in a
black satin tuxedo with white gloves and a red cape.
He wore the tuxedo partly for the incongruity and partly
to hide the stream of forcing himself to fart over
and over after the first laughs died down. He'd do
impressions A short high toot for a little lass, a
meaty blat for a mother in law, a bride on
(06:53):
her wedding night, a shy peep, and then a few
months into the marriage, a thunderclap. He imitated roosters, owls, ducks, bees, toads, pigs,
and a dog whose tail got caught in a door.
He brought the house down when he played a flute
backward near the end ahem. He stepped off stage and
re emerged with a tube inserted into his like a tail.
(07:15):
The other end had a lit cigarette wedged into it,
and he proceeded to blow smoke rings out of both
ends at once. For the finale, he gave a rousing
rendition of the Marseilles, then puffed out a candle from
several feet. Women in the audience, especially those wearing corsets,
often laughed so hard they passed out.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. It just
really painting a scene here.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Only the ones wearing courses, only the women wearing courses
would pass out.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I get your act together, woman, alright, held show hell
my broad passed out again. This is art. Be serious.
Quit passing out.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Often laughed so hard they passed out. One man had
a heart attack, just one.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Have you guys ever heard of since around since around
Ben probably has right.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So they used to have certain like you know, three
D glasses for movies. Yeah, there'd be certain movies that
would have sense around where they would release smells. Oh okay,
and so I'm wondering if the fartest in the sense around,
what is the smell of this act.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I've seen a show where they really smells and the
smells are like, great, it was a lemon or citrus.
If they showed like a garden, it's very strange. Oh,
here's the end of it.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Man had a heart attack. The Moulin Rouge took advantage
of this by stationing nurses around the theater and by
posting warnings about how dangerous the show was, which of
course only made people more eager to attend.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
There you go, the fartist. I uh, I mean it's funny.
I just laughed a lot, so I do think it's funny.
But what do y'all believe this? Du It's not real.
I thought it was like a whole NPR thing. Dude,
when you look it up, he's got a whole Wikipedia page.
It's great, and he's bending over in all these Yeah,
(09:21):
but it does look like a magician.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So we have our buddy Paul, and he launched a
website the other day because of the product we had
in that AI thing he did called I Said It
or whatever. Oh yeah, he launched a whole website for it.
So just because there's something on the internet or it
doesn't mean it's real.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
He launched the seidate website. Yeah, oh that's great.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Did you find it?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh yeah, dude said it. I totally got said it.
Kidding me, I've always got said it. Yeah, I said it,
And that's good. End the show today.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'll never forget the time KT looked the fartest deadness
butt and he said, well, I.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Just think in these times, I think it's really important
that we all consider everything when it comes to the
world we're living in. That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It took him twelve seconds to say absolutely nothing. Christina,
are you gonna stick around and play music?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I am all right. It's on you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Christina is gonna stick around and play tunes right here
on the eagle.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
There you going, Well, I'm gonna get my sack back. Dude,
all art
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