Winner Best Show 2014 Edinburgh Comedy Awards 

Winner Best Newcomer Award 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Awards 

Nominee Most Outstanding Show 2014 & 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival

The Varnishing Days is the heart-stopping, glasses-dropping, hard-rocking, wig-shaking, levothyroxine-taking, knee-knocking, boot-licking, justifying, teeth rattling, digressing new show from multI-award-winning UK comedian John Kearns.

Ten years since he debuted at the Edinburgh Festival 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) back to back in the awards 40-year history. An internationally acclaimed live performer, he has delivered his "richly, idiosyncratic comedy" (The Guardian) across the world, notably picking up two Melbourne International Comedy Festival Most Outstanding Show Award nominations along the way and twice-voted one of the Evening Standard’s 1000 Most Influential Londoners.

As seen on Taskmaster UK (Channel 4), Top Coppers (BBC Three), Cats does Countdown (Channel 4), Drunk History (Comedy Central) and co-hosting Guessable (Comedy Central) with Sara Pascoe.

‘Your new king of comedy.’ ★★★★★ EveningStandard (UK)

‘The finest set of his career… what a show.’ ★★★★★ The Guardian (UK)

‘Most will surely be won over… with the delightful, poetic flourish that defines all his work… perfectly structured with overlapping themes and surprising callbacks… It’s all rather wonderful.’ ★★★★★ Chortle (UK)

‘A flawless fusion of gut-busting laughter and razor-sharp observations... comedic gold.’ ★★★★★ Broadway Baby (UK)

‘This is yet another superb hour from a gifted writer and performer, suffused with beauty, tenderness and frequent, exceptional hilarity.’ ★★★★★ The List (UK)

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