Stewart Lee: Carpet Remnant World – review - December 2011 Socialist Worker - By Patrick Ward - December 6th, 2011

Stewart Lee has become one of the few alternative comics from the early 1990s to keep his clout. Today the likes of Jimmy Carr can make jokes about rape and Ricky Gervais can take cheap shots at people with disabilities. So the fact that Lee has stuck to his guns is refreshing. His recent BBC…

Carpet Remnant World, Leicester Square Theatre, review ★★★★ - November 2011 The Telegraph - By Dominic Cavendish - November 28th, 2011

So, Stewart Lee is to be the guest editor of Radio 4’s Today programme on New Year’s Eve. This announcement will doubtless put an angry spring in the step of those who enjoy running around declaring that the BBC is in the deathly grip of the liberal left. Lee, reviled for his part in bringing…

Stewart Lee: Carpet Remnant World ★★★★★ - November 2011 The Metro - By Sharon Lougher - November 28th, 2011

FOR the first time in his life, Stewart Lee has run out of things to say. This former provoker of rightwing Christians and frequent presider over ‘corduroy Nurembergs’ now spends his humdrum days either driving between gigs, on a relentless touring schedule spurred by his TV rebirth, or reluctantly watching vintage Scooby Doo episodes as…

Carpet Remnant World - November 2011 The Independent - By Julian Hall - November 28th, 2011

For a man who likes to pull the rug from underneath his audience slowly but surely, and at least twice in a routine, Carpet Remnant World seems like an apt title. Lee warns us there’s no weaving theme, however, and he protests too much that all he has done this year is “drive on motorways”…

Stewart Lee, Leicester Square Theatre, London - November 2011 The Independent - By Matthew Bell - November 27th, 2011

If someone invited you to a two- hour stand-up routine by an ultra post-modern comedian, so sophisticated that he satirises himself, his audience and all the big names on the circuit, you might pass and ask to see a panto instead. But Stewart Lee’s humour is the opposite of pretentious. Sure, his new show, Carpet…

Stewart Lee: Carpet Remnant World – review - November 2011 The Observer - By Stephanie Merritt - November 27th, 2011

Stewart Lee is probably the cleverest comedian working in Britain, and his past few shows have moved increasingly into what might be called anti-comedy, both in the sense of taking a well-aimed swipe at TV’s narrow, unambitious definition of stand-up, and in that he delights in pushing the form until it strains at the seams.…