John Kearns
Award-winning comedian takes on UK tour from February 2026

[an] unlike-anyone-else poet of the beautiful banal
Brian Logan, The Guardian
Award-winning comedian takes on UK tour from February 2026
Award-winning comedian takes on UK tour from February 2026
Two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and one-of-a-kind performer John Kearns is donning the curly wig and false teeth once again for his new show, touring the UK from February 2026! Embarking on a meandering dissection of his life at age 38, Tilting At Windmills is John Kearns at his purest, funniest, and most unapologetically odd. You'd better strap in.
John Kearns is increasingly baffled as to why people still want to come and see his unique brand of stand-up. He shouldn't be - his critically acclaimed work has nabbed him the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award on two occasions, and his chaotic run on Taskmaster opened up his brilliance to a whole new audience. His new show finds him in introspective mode, making a hilariously bleak (and singularly tangential) examination of the state of his life.
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