Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running theatrical revue, debuting off-Broadway in 1969, created by British critic Kenneth Tynan. Tynan had hoped that Harold Pinter would direct to give the production avant-garde legitimacy but Pinter declined. Most of the sketches (written by Samuel Beckett (Breath), John Lennon, Sam Shepard and Jules Feiffer, among others) featured the cast naked (including Bill Macy). Peter Schickele (aka PDQ Bach) was one of the revue's three composers. A pay-per-view video production played on closed-circuit TV in select cities in 1971, and a motion picture version was also released — in both cases many cities and municipalities banned its showing. A 1976 Broadway revival lasted 13 years, briefly becoming the longest-running play in Broadway history. A revue is a type of theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches that satirize contemporary figures, news, or literature. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Kenneth Peacock Tynan (April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980), was an influential (and occasionally controversial) British theatre critic and author. ... Harold Pinter Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born October 10, 1930) is a British playwright and theatre director. ... Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ... Breath is also a short stage work by Samuel Beckett. ... John Winston Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist for the British rock band The Beatles. ... Actor Sam Shepard mulls over a scene in the motion picture Stealth, while filming on June 15, 2004, aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. ... Jules Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is a syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author. ... Nude woman Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. ... Bill Macy (born May 18, 1922 in Revere, Massachusetts) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Walter Findlay, Bea Arthurs long-suffering husband on the television sitcom Maude. ... Peter Schickele (born July 17, 1935) is a composer and musical parodist. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Pay-per-view is the name given to a system by which television viewers can call and order events to be seen on TV and pay for the private telecast of that event to their homes later. ... The two-year-old Jamie Bulger being led away by his killers, recorded on shopping centre CCTV. Closed-circuit television (CCTV), as a collection of surveillance cameras doing video surveillance, is the use of television cameras for surveillance. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...

The title is from Clovis Trouille's pun on "O quel cul t'as", French for "What an ass you have". Born Camille Clovis Trouille, 24 October France. ... A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. ... African female (upper left), Chinese female (lower left), European male (upper right), Indian male (lower right). ...

In 2005, drum-and-guitar breaks from a 1970 instrumental cover version of Oh! Calcutta!'s title song by funk group The Meters were sampled by producer Rich Harrison, to provide the main loops of the hit song 1 Thing by Amerie. The Meters were a band that performed and recorded from the late 1960s until 1977. ... Rich Harrison is a Grammy winning record producer and song writer from Washington, D.C. A classically trained pianist and trumpet player, from an early age Harrison demonstrated an exceptional ability to play anything he heard on the radio. ... Amerie on the cover of her 2005 album Touch Amerie Rogers (born January 12, 1980 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts), known professionally as Amerie, is an American female R&B singer and songwriter. ...