John Kearns

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John Kearns (born on 10 April 1987) is an English comedian.

Having grown up in Tooting, London, Kearns attended the University of East Anglia where, in 2006, he performed at Tom Moran's Laugh Out Loud comedy nights with fellow young student comedians Pat Cahill, Jon Brittain, and Joz Norris.

Alongside Cahill, Kearns performed in the Edinburgh Fringe show Dinner Party and at the 2012 Fringe as part of the Pleasance Reserve, going on to take the lead role of Peter in the Weirdos Comedy Club reproduction of Hook in December 2012.

Between 2010 and 2013, he also worked as a tour guide at the Houses of Parliament.

He was awarded the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2014, following on from winning the Best Newcomer Award in 2013 (the first and only comedian to have done this in the history of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards).

In 2014 he was nominated for three Chortle Awards, and he was also nominated for the Melbourne Barry Award in 2014 and 2015.

John starred in BBC Three's Top Coppers alongside Steen Raskopoulos, and is the assistant host of the Comedy Central panel show Guessable.

[Source: Wikipedia, 24/06/2022.]