Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?

Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,

including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com.

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this episode with John Kearns,

fantastic comedian perfectly marries together elements of stand-up and elements of clowning.

His show this year in Edinburgh, Double Take and Fade Away is an absolute masterpiece and I will gush at him about it during this show, but it really was one of the two or three things I saw this year which just scrubbed my mind clean. I mean I just thought it was

exceptional. It's on tour. You can I'll give you all his tour dates in the middle

section but it's on tour from mid-February and he's going all over the United Kingdom

so don't miss John Kearns he remains the only person ever to have won best

newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and in the following year won best show he

really is worth checking out and I hope you

enjoy this conversation with him as much as I enjoyed finally recording it

thanks to angel comedy angel comedy dot co-kuk for their use of their recording space at the Bill Murray pub.

This is John Kearns. What you do on stage is like I've read a bunch of reviews of it recently

which I don't you know when I'm kind of preparing for a guest I'll read loads of

reviews as much as anything just to remind me of what happened in which show

and stuff like that,

is the kind of job my memory.

And I had to look up both the words quotidian

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