Inspired by a true story, this gloriously funny play investigates the nature of comedy, the operation of censorship, and the complex misunderstandings implicit in the Anglo-American relationship.
In December 1975, Monty Python’s Flying Circus was broadcast coast to coast in the US. It was the Pythons’ first time on a major network… but somebody cut out all the naughty bits!
Undismayed, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam flew to New York to persuade the network to reinstate the cuts – and, somewhat by accident, found themselves at the centre of a landmark court case concerning freedom of expression and the protection of artistic integrity…
Steve Thompson’s play No Naughty Bits was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2011.
‘Comic bliss’
— Independent
‘Steve Thompson’s play, as one would hope from a Dr Who writer, is bigger inside than out, cleverer than it seems… One kind of comedy wrapped inside another, a bright fizz of sherbert with a sharp lemon coating’
— The Times
‘Thompson understands how comedy works… hilarious’
— Whatsonstage.com
