{"id":10948,"date":"2026-05-19T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/05\/19\/john-kearns-tilting-at-windmills-review-a-handful-of-dust-and-prawn-cocktail-crisps-in-riff-on-ts-eliot-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:33:09","slug":"john-kearns-tilting-at-windmills-review-a-handful-of-dust-and-prawn-cocktail-crisps-in-riff-on-ts-eliot-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/05\/19\/john-kearns-tilting-at-windmills-review-a-handful-of-dust-and-prawn-cocktail-crisps-in-riff-on-ts-eliot-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills review \u2013 a handful of dust (and prawn cocktail crisps) in riff on TS Eliot Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Crescent, York<br \/><\/strong>The comedian addresses a relationship breakup via The Waste Land, Aldi and a dimwit estate agent<\/p>\n<p>How has it come to this? That\u2019s what new show Tilting at Windmills finds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2023\/feb\/17\/standup-john-kearns-interview-the-varnishing-days\">John Kearns<\/a> asking, and \u2013 after a fashion \u2013 it\u2019s what TS Eliot asked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2018\/feb\/13\/ts-eliot-the-waste-land-mental-illness\">The Waste Land<\/a>, the modernist poem Kearns deploys here as an unlikely motif. After the breakup of a 12-year relationship with the mother of his son, we find the 39-year-old angrier than usual, and unmoored: flat-hunting pessimistically while living back home with mum and dad, roaming the streets of south London having fled a disappointing walking tour based on Eliot\u2019s verse.<\/p>\n<p>Sound clips of the poem, read by Alec Guinness, punctuate the show. They infuse it (as Van Gogh\u2019s Starry Night did with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2023\/may\/26\/john-kearns-review-standup-taskmaster\">its predecessor, The Varnishing Days<\/a>) equally with awe, at life\u2019s ineffable mysteries, and bathos \u2013 at the contrast between high literary culture and the humdrum realities of our host\u2019s life. Here he is shopping in Aldi with his mum; there he is naked and not very wet under a dripping shower. A remark about washing machines by a newspaper columnist induces a bout of class anxiety; an awkward teenage meeting is recalled with then-PM Tony Blair, who came to see Kearns\u2019 school play.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/may\/19\/john-kearns-tilting-at-windmills-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/may\/19\/john-kearns-tilting-at-windmills-review\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4c7b4a5fbe14a4dec9e539e2d6cbec31d7d799c4\/118_317_1687_1350\/master\/1687.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bc5ff547a1ecabc20eda68b42d223054\" title=\"John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills review \u2013 a handful of dust (and prawn cocktail crisps) in riff on TS Eliot\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crescent, YorkThe comedian addresses a relationship breakup via The Waste Land, Aldi and a dimwit estate agent How has it come to this? 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