American performers Elaine Hausman, William Sadler and Wayne Knight acted alongside British comic actors Cleo Rocos, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Daniel Peacock and Barry Cryer.
[citation needed] In the second season (episodes 8-13), Emma Thompson and Gail Matthius replaced Brooke-Taylor and Hausman.
[3][4] In keeping with Cinemax's reputation at the time, much of the material was sex-related, with overt references to Benny Hill, and Cleo Rocos' work with Kenny Everett.
In spite of the quality of its writers and performers, the show made little impact, with critics dismissing it as Americanised.
[5] The writers of Assaulted Nuts were Ray Cameron, Barry Cryer, Andrew Marshall, David Renwick, Terry Ravenscroft, Peter Vincent.
[8] In Australia, some sketches were shown as part of "Graham Kennedy's World of Comedy" (seven hourlong specials in 1986, with repeats in 1991 and 1992).
I did a lot of sketches by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall (Who wrote 'One Foot In The Grave' and '2.4 Children'), but they always seemed to be edited out.
"[10] In one sketch, William Sadler played Death, a role he would reprise in the Bill & Ted series of films.
And I started doing this accent that I’d heard from an actor who I’d worked with onstage named Jan Tříska.
We did a play together called New Jerusalem at the Public Theater, and I just thought, “Yeah, that’s what Death should sound like: vaguely European and kinda silly.”[11]