Quote: Old Feller "I beg to differ, Le Petomane's (sic) performances had to be stewarded by extra staff to loosen the corsets of women who were laughing so much that they were in danger of asphyxiation.
Mediocre he certainly was not.
But he was French, Joseph Pujol.'"
The Petomaine reference was the stinking, the mediocrity reference was entirely to M. Alibert.
Everyone knows farts are funny.