Mid-way through a sell-out and critically-acclaimed tour, winner of Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show and Best Newcomer and Taskmaster breakout star, John Kearns adds more dates to his latest stand-up show Tilting at Windmills to meet overwhelming demand for tickets. The legendary stand-up will now perform 80+ shows across the UK and Ireland, including his biggest performance to date and London’s iconic Palladium Theatre on Saturday 13th March 2027, following multiple sold-out shows on this tour already at the 1000 capacity venue Soho Theatre Walthamstow and Wilton’s Music Hall.
Tickets for the new tour dates go on sale at 10am on Friday 9th October with an exclusive fan pre-sale on Thursday 8th October for John’s mailing list subscribers. Full dates and tickets at johnkearnscomedy.co.uk
Tilting at Windmills is a fragmented, digressing portrayal of a 38-year-old man’s life, alluding to books he hasn’t read, touching on the modern condition. Plus VAT! More allusive and bleak as ever, it is unreal the comedian you become. And for who? Decent craic with the right crowd. A show for those who have read about but not committed to the Guinness Nitrosurge.
Twelve years on since he first debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe, John is still the only comedian to have ever won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show (Shtick) and Best Newcomer (Sight Gags for Perverts) in the awards forty-five-year history. An internationally acclaimed live act, he has delivered his “richly, idiosyncratic comedy” (The Guardian) across the world, notably picking up three Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award nominations along the way. Last year, John teamed up with fellow Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner Adam Riches to become one of music’s most bangable duos in Ball & Boe, imagining themselves as the nation’s favourite power balladeers, crooning and clowning their way through a set both affectionate tribute and gleeful parody.
John’s last and solo fifth stand-up hour, The Varnishing Days, was his biggest and most critically-acclaimed tour show to date. It was directed by Olivier Award-winning director Jon Brittain, won Best Show at the Chortle Awards 2024 and secured his third Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award nomination.
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