I was like, ‘Holy shit.’” The Squatty Potty has been the subject of jokes on Saturday Night Live, and of adulation by the queen of drag queens, RuPaul. “I had, like, a full elimination,” Howard Stern, the celebrity shock jock, said after he first used one, in 2013. Celebrities such as Sally Field and Jimmy Kimmel have raved about them, and the basketball sensation Stephen Curry put one in every bathroom of his house. More than 5m Squatty Potties have been sold since they first crept on to the market in 2011.