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…

A show to have you rolling on the carpet - August 2012 Shields Gazette - By Paul Clifford - August 3rd, 2012

OFTEN described as the thinking man’s comedian or the comedian’s comedian – Stewart Lee is a performer with a strong, cult following, but has even more detractors. This was the third time I’ve seen him, and he has made me laugh uncontrollably every time. His latest show Carpet Remnant World pokes fun at his own…

Interview: Stewart Lee, comedian - August 2012 The Scotsman - By Jay Richardson - August 2nd, 2012

WHEN alternative comedy emerged in the 1980s, a new wave of stand-ups savaged their celebrity predecessors for their crass sexism and racism and naff commercialism. Stewart Lee recalls “taking the piss out of Max Bygraves or whoever … tax-dodging multimillionaires who did any piece of shit that came along, all their material written by other…