Carpet Remnant World. Assembly Rooms ★★★★ - August 2012 Hairline Magazine - By Ian Armstrong - August 11th, 2012

“By the time a comic is playing a room this big he’s creatively redundant,” sighs Stewart Lee. After years of playing The Stand, two successful series of BBC2’s ‘Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle’ have provoked a new venue for his 25th Fringe show – the bright lights of the newly opened Assembly Rooms. The first half…

Carpet Remnant World. Assembly Rooms - August 2012 Three Weeks - August 10th, 2012

Classic Stewart Lee; alternative comedy with a kick up the arse. In this ironic combat against observational comedy, he accuses pockets of the audience of not understanding his humour and having come to admire the redecoration of the Music Hall. “Don’t bring your friends, it’s patronising,’ he says to his fans – much to their…

Carpet Remnant World. Assembly Rooms ★★★★ - August 2012 Herald Scotland - August 9th, 2012

Stewart Lee’s Carpet Remnant World has been on the road for months and I am sure it is far from as free-form as it appears. Lee also makes much use of information that can be gleaned online, from the horrifically explicit and sick reactions of some Americans to the death of Osama Bin Laden to…

Carpet Remnant World, Edinburgh ★★★★★ - August 2012 SG Fringe - By Martin Walker - August 6th, 2012

Fresh from a hugely successful residency at the Leicester Square Theatre and on the back of the BBC commissioning a third and fourth series of his Comedy Vehicle show, Stewart Lee continues to ride this problematic wave of popularity. Finding himself evicted from his usual Edinburgh Fringe base at the Stand Comedy Club, for the…

Carpet Remnant World. Assembly Rooms ★★★★ - August 2012 Exeunt Magazine - By Colin Bramwell - August 6th, 2012

Stewart Lee isn’t exactly fishing for a new audience with his latest show, Carpet Remnant World. He still spends much time berating those sections of the room who don’t laugh at every single nuance of his comedy, accusing them of having been dragged along by friends. Which is hard to believe. Most people will have…

Increasingly Threadbare ★★★ - August 2012 Broadway Baby - By Cerys Mather - August 6th, 2012

Stewart Lee’s 2012 show had already had quite an airing before it came to The Assembly Rooms for the Fringe. This is stand-up slathered in a whole dollop of marmite and marks Lee’s move further down the road of post-modern anti-comedy. This show is for fans of Stewart Lee and for fans of stand-up; do…