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Attention Scum was a 2001 television comedy series created by Simon Munnery and Stewart Lee. It starred Munnery as his "League Against Tedium" character and contained acerbic stand-up routines atop a transit van and sketches including mainstays such as "24 Hour News" (performed by Johnny Vegas), operatic intermissions by Kombat Opera, and two characters engaged in a duel over their hats.

Broadcast

Originally shown on BBC 2 at 11:50pm on Sundays from February to April 2001, the programme was not repeated on the BBC and only played on the now-defunct channel UK Play. In March 2001, it was nominated for a Golden Rose of Montreux although the BBC had already declined to fund a second series.

As of July 2017, there has not been an official DVD release.

History

The origin of the series lies in a 1994 cabaret act, Cluub Zarathustra, co-founded by Munnery and Lee, and performed at the Edinburgh Festival. Cluub Zarathustra was nominated for a Perrier Award in 1999. A never transmitted (or commissioned) TV pilot of Cluub Zarathustra for Channel 4 was filmed in 1996.

References

1. Stewart Lee (12 March 2001). "They're all scum". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2012.

External links

• Attention Scum at BBC Online Comedy Guide
• Attention Scum at IMDb
• Guardian review and interview

• BBC television comedy
• 2000s British comedy television series
• 2001 British television series debuts
• 2001 British television series endings
• British surreal comedy television series