Kees Torn is a Dutch text writer, composer and comedy performer.
Torn started his cabaret performance in 1991, when he was studying at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
As "Kees en Ik" (Kees and I), he performed quite a successful show with fellow student Gerrie Hondius.
In 1994 he made his official solo-debut with the show.
Torn is known for his old fashioned style of comedy performance, which consists largely of songs and poems.
Torn prefers to write about whisky, cigars and love.
He won a Poelifenario for his show 'Dood en verderf '('Death and destruction').
Filmmaker André van der Hout made an intimate film portrait about Dutch musical comedian, poet, thinker and drinker Kees Torn, who stopped performing in 2012.
In his sixth comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn tells that his impresario no longer allows him to talk about his girlfriend, his love for cigars and whiskey. That's why he's only talking about politicians, television personalities and important things like the QWERTY keyboard layout.
Complete registration of the anniversary theater program, recorded in April 2003 in the Royal Theater Carré in Amsterdam. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Leids Cabaret Festival, a performance was created with the participation of more than twenty different comedians, including Wim Helsen, Kees Torn, Sanne Wallis de Vries, Erik van Muiswinkel, and many others.
In his fourth comedy show the Dutch comedian Kees Torn has resolved not to talk about his girlfriend anymore, as that got out of hand in his previous show. This performance is therefore about other matters: how progress does not always actually bring about progress.