
- Genre
- Stand-Up
- Broadcast
- 2021
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 4 (1 series)
- Star
- Tom Mayhew
- Writer
- Tom Mayhew
- Producer
- Benjamin Sutton
Tom Mayhew Is Benefit Scum is an autobiographical stand-up series where comedian Tom Mayhew shares stories about his life growing up working class and his time on benefits. The show takes a wry, sideways look at the prejudices that people have towards benefits claimants and turns those assumptions on their head.
Tom Mayhew is a critically acclaimed comedian, whose material about being working-class - mixing the personal and the political, with the punchline-rate of a one-liner comic - sets him apart from any other act on the circuit. Tom Mayhew Is Benefit Scum is an audio adaptation of Mayhew's acclaimed Edinburgh show I, Tom Mayhew, which transferred to a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre.
- Production company
- Also known as
- I, Tom Mayhew (Working title)
- Laugh track
- Virtual audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 3rd March 2021 on BBC Radio 4 at 11pm
- Length of episodes
- 15 minutes

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