Attention Scum! was a 2001 television comedy series directed by Stewart Lee. It starred Simon Munnery as his League Against Tedium character and contained acerbic stand-up routines atop of a transit van and sketches including mainstays such as "24 Hour News" (performed by Johnny Vegas), operatic intermissions by Kombat opera and a two characters engaged in a duel over their hats.
Originally shown in February on BBC 2 at 11:45pm on Sundays, the pr...
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Attention Scum! was a 2001 television comedy series directed by Stewart Lee. It starred Simon Munnery as his League Against Tedium character and contained acerbic stand-up routines atop of a transit van and sketches including mainstays such as "24 Hour News" (performed by Johnny Vegas), operatic intermissions by Kombat opera and a two characters engaged in a duel over their hats.
Originally shown in February on BBC 2 at 11:45pm on Sundays, the programme was not repeated on the BBC and only played on the now-defunct network UK Play. In 2001, it was nominated for a Golden Rose of Montreux although the BBC had already declined to fund a second series.
There has not been an official DVD release.
The origin of the series lies in a 1994 a 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...
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