Tom Mayhew Is Benefit Scum

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Comedian Tom Mayhew takes you on an autobiographical journey through the benefits system.

Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew takes a wry sideways look at the prejudices people have towards benefits claimants and turns those assumptions on their heads.

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In this episode Tom looks at how our beliefs shape the way we view the working class.

Comedian Tom Mayhew takes you on an autobiographical journey through the benefits system. This episode Tom looks at how our beliefs affect the way we see each other

Working Class comedian Tom Mayhew takes you on an autobiographical journey through the benefits system in a stand-up series that takes a wry, sideways look at the prejudices that people have towards benefits claimants and turns those assumptions on their head. In this episode Tom looks at belief and how those beliefs affect the way we see eachother.
 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.
 
Produced by Benjamin Sutton
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