Stewart Lee at Leicester Square Theatre, WC1 - November 2011 The Times - By Dominic Maxwell - November 26th, 2011

Over the past few years, Stewart Lee has come up with several of the best live comedy shows I’ve ever seen. Yet here, at the start of his biggest tour, he appears to be running on empty. But don’t take my word for it: nobody analyses Lee more acutely than Lee, whether taking apart his…

Lunch with the FT: Stewart Lee - November 2011 FT.com - By Leo Robson - November 25th, 2011

The comedian Stewart Lee arrives at Pizza Express on Upper Street in north London looking more like a wary gnome than the confident figure he cuts in his stand-up shows. The restaurant holds fond memories for Lee. He used to eat here with other comedians in the early 1990s after performing at the nearby Market…

Stewart Lee, Leicester Square Theatre - November 2011 The Guardian - By Brian Logan - November 24th, 2011

Seinfeld was a sitcom about nothing. Stewart Lee now presents a standup show about nothing – or so he wants us to think. He’s a middle-aged dad, you see, and “nothing happens to me now”. So what can he write about? The answer is the process itself. This is Lee at his most self-referential and…

Leicester Square Theatre - November 2011 The Arts Desk - By Jasper Rees - November 24th, 2011

Stewart Lee is in Eeyorish mood. The BBC have not yet got round to recommissioning his acclaimed television show. They have been more bountiful, he grumbles, with Russell Howard, and you can hear the older man’s withering scorn for the younger, blonder cherub contractually obliged never to step away from the cameras. On the plus…

Review: Stewart Lee – Carpet Remnant World - November 2011 Spoonfed - By Emma McAlpine - November 24th, 2011

All Stewart Lee has done this year is drive to gigs in provincial towns and look after his son. He’s got nothing to talk about. He has no sob story to tug on people’s heartstrings with and can’t make a show out of crazy adventures like Dave Gorman. “You’re defined by what you do”, he…

Stewart Lee, Soho – review - November 2011 The Evening Standard - By Bruce Dessau - November 24th, 2011

The older Stewart Lee gets the more militant he becomes. Carpet Remnant World finds stand-up’s Tony Benn raging at the state of the nation with satirical style. It also finds him raging at the state of comedy. There are swipes at Frankie Boyle, Russell Kane, Jimmy Carr, Ricky Gervais and more. Deceased writers do not…