She may be an Olivier award-winning actor, a Variety magazine “Icon” and a Women in Film and Television Lifetime Achievement Award winner; a Screen Actors Guild nominee and beloved star of Bridget Jones, Absolutely Fabulous, Mamma Mia – Here We Go Again, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Calendar Girls – but Celia Imrie’s most memorable moment might just go down in history as the time she farted on Celebrity Traitors.
If there was a Tony Award for impeccable comedic timing, this would be it: the distinguished actress, 73, letting one go in the middle of a tense scene in the castle cabin, moments after Claudia Winkleman welcomes them to the “worst team-building away-day experience in history”. You can say that again.
Imrie, to her absolute credit, fesses up immediately when Winkleman (clearly screaming, crying, throwing up) asks what just happened, saying: “I just farted, Claudia, I’m so sorry. It’s nerves – but I always own up.”
The rest of the group, predictably, are hysterical. When it comes to breaking the ice, breaking wind simply can’t be beaten, and Imrie proved she’s every inch a team player with this one, light guff. Stop the sniggering at the back.
Like the rest of the nation, I’m utterly hooked on Celebrity Traitors anyway – watching Alan Carr’s facial expressions every time he has to do something naughty gives me something to live for – but this moment? This tiny, seemingly inconsequential slip of etiquette? Unbeatable, I’m afraid.
And somehow, thankfully, there’s absolutely nothing humiliating or disparaging or belittling about Imrie’s slip-up – I have a strong hunch it will only endear her to the nation all the more. Why? Because it humanises her, despite her unequivocal status as a national treasure. It also shows that when it comes to gas and human bodies, those we call “celebrities” are just like the rest of us. It makes their showbiz status that little bit more accessible. It levels them. And in Celia’s case, I have a feeling it’s so endearing it could make her a winner in the show.
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It also taps into something non-Brits must struggle to understand – when it comes to quintessential British humour, fart and toilet jokes are right up there at number one. Forget holding wannabe UK citizens to A-level standards of English and Kemi Badenoch’s British values tests – all you really need to do to fit in is to be able to bellow “better out, than in!” when someone farts or (a favourite in my family) mimic Lurch from The Addams Family and intone, “You raaaang?”
Viz magazine’s foul-mouthed and very funny Rogers Profanisaurus made a feature of finding new ways to respond to someone letting one go, from the nonsensical response of “More tea, Vicar?” to “A confident shout from the Australians!”, as well as the side-splittingly silly “A bit more choke and she would’ve started”. Plus, you simply can’t go wrong with the ubiquitous “That’s a cracker!”
Nothing – and I really do mean this, nothing – can compete with the simple scatological hilarity of a squeaky bum moment, the downright belly-crunching lols of someone’s Grandma parping loudly at Christmas lunch. And some people are absolutely unembarrassed by it – like Imrie, like my dad. He does a loud trouser trumpet and simply owns it, shouts “Pardon!” with pride.
Just take the many varied and creative strokes of descriptive genius we have for farts in this country: from “bottom burp” to “popping off”, “cutting the cheese” to “letting one rip”, “trumping” to “toot”.
Flatulence humour appears as early on as Chaucer. In The Miller’s Tale part of The Canterbury Tales, which dates back to the 14th century, a character called Nicholas sticks his bottom out of a window at night to humiliate his rival, Absolom, by farting in his face: “Sing, sweet bird, I kneen nat where thou art!”This Nicholas anon let fle a fart / As greet as it had been a thonder-dent / That with the strook he was almost yblent (blinded)“.
Farting even features in Othello, thanks to Shakespeare’s unsubtle references – spoken by the Clown to the First Musician, who compares their music with a trump: “Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?”
It’s in our blood and in our culture, as well as in our intestines. That’s what makes it so funny. Who among us hasn’t let one go at an inopportune moment? Celia Imrie certainly has. And we salute her for it. Parp.
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