Don Gere – Werewolves On Wheels - November 2011 November 27th, 2011

In 1988, Savage Pencil’s superb compilation Angel Dust alerted collector nerds to hidden caches of Biker Movie Soundtrack albums, and battered copies of Satan’s Sadists, The Wild Angels, and Hell’s Angels on Wheels, bristling with gasoline surf guitars and hack psychedelic travelogue tunes, were swiftly snaffled. The 1971 lycanthropy-biker flick Werewolves On Wheels lack an…

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.…

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…

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…