Adam Kay
Adam Kay

Adam Kay

  • 43 years old
  • British
  • Writer, musical comedian and actor
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Adam Kay is a British comedian, comedy writer, and former doctor. He is best known as the author of the bestselling book This Is Going To Hurt, about his experiences as a junior doctor, to be adapted into an 8-part BBC Two comedy-drama, This Is Going To Hurt. He has also written scripts for Mrs. Brown's Boys, Mongrels, Watson & Oliver, The Now Show, and Very British Problems, and co-created BBC Three sitcom Crims.

Year Production Role
2024 ALSO Festival Self
2024 Hay Festival Self
2023 Underbelly's Big Brain-Tumour Benefit Self
2023 Adam Kay: Undoctored - This is Going to Hurt... More Self
2023 Henley Festival Self
2023 KITE Festival Self
2023 Med School Development Writer
2023 How I Ruined Medicine Self
2022 This Is Going To Hurt Creator
2022 Question Team - Series 2
  1. E6 - Episode Six
Self
2022 Adam Kay: This Is Going To Hurt... More Self
2022 The National Comedy Awards - 2022 Self
2022 This Is Going To Hurt
  1. E4 - Episode Four
Cyclist
2022 This Is Going To Hurt
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
  7. E7 - Episode Seven
Executive Producer
2022 This Is Going To Hurt
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
  7. E7 - Episode Seven
Writer
2020 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 4
  1. Special - Highlights Special
Guest
2019 Adam Kay: Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas Self
2019 The Jonathan Ross Show - Series 15
  1. E12 - Andy Murray, Luke Evans, Adam Kay, Desiree Burch, Stormzy
Guest
2019 Live @ The RSC Self
2019 Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Self
2019 Marlowe Comedy Weekender Self
2019 Adam Kay: This Is Going To Hurt (Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor) LIVE Self
2018 Joe Lycett's Obsessions - Series 1
  1. E3 - Episode Three
Guest
2018 Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Self
2018 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown - Series 15 (Channel 4: Series 16)
  1. E7 - Episode Seven
Self
2018 The Now Show - Series 52
  1. E4 - Episode Four
Guest
2017 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 1
  1. Special - Russell Howard Christmas Special
Self
2017 Bounty Hunters - Series 1
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E4 - Episode Four
Writer (Additional Material)
2017 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 1
  1. E2 - Episode Two
Guest
2017 The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Performed by Adam Kay) Self
2017 Adam Kay - Fingering A Minor on the Piano Self
2016 Mrs. Brown's Boys - Christmas 2016
  1. Special - Mammy's Forest
  2. Special - Chez Mammy
Script Editor
2016 The Now Show - Series 49
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E4 - Episode Four
Writer
2016 The Now Show - Series 49
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E4 - Episode Four
Self
2016 Our Ex-Wife Writer (Additional Material)
2016 The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Performed by Adam Kay) Self
2016 Adam Kay - Fingering A Minor on the Piano Self
2016 Very British Problems - Series 2
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  1. E1 - School
  2. E2 - Friends
  3. E3 - Holidays
Writer (Additional Material)
2016 Flat TV - Series 1
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  1. E1 - The Package
  2. E2 - Sauce
  3. E3 - Locked Out
  4. E4 - The Nemesis
Writer (Additional Material)
2015 Very British Problems - Very British Problems At Christmas Writer (Additional Material)
2015 The Now Show - The Vote Now Show 2015
  1. E4 - Episode Four
Writer
2015 The Now Show - The Vote Now Show 2015
  1. E4 - Episode Four
Self
2015 The Now Show - Series 45
  1. E6 - Episode Six
Writer
2015 The Now Show - Series 45
  1. E6 - Episode Six
Self
2015 Crims
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  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
Writer
2013 The Cariad Show Composer
2013 Musical Comedy Awards Showcase Self
2013 Amateur Transplants: Adam Kay Is Going For A Number One Self
2013 Adam Kay: How to Be a Bogus Doctor Self
2013 Up The Women - Series 1
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
Writer (Additional Material)
2012 Musical Comedy Awards Showcase Self
2012 Amateur Transplants: Adam Kay's Bum Notes Self
2011 Musical Comedy Awards Showcase Self
2011 Amateur Transplants: Adam Kay's Smutty Songs Self
2010 Amateur Transplants: In Theatre Self

Non-comedy TV and film credits may be found here:
Adam Kay on IMDb

Born
Thursday 12th June 1980 (43 years-old)
Nationality
British

Adam Kay is a British comedian, author, and former doctor, whose father was also a doctor before him.

Kay began his career as a junior doctor, specialising as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, but left medicine for a career in comedy and writing. He wrote and co-created the BBC Three sitcom Crims, alongside Dan Swimer, and his other writing credits include Mitchell & Webb, Very British Problems, and Mrs Browns Boys, Mongrels, Watson & Oliver, Up The Women, and Flat TV.

Adam's first book, This Is Going To Hurt, is a collection of diary entries from his time as a junior doctor in the NHS. Published as a committed backlash to politicians who called doctors 'greedy' or ungrateful, Kay defends former colleagues across the nation who undergo gruelling and excessively lengthy shifts in the workplace, come rain or shine. It was the best-selling non-fiction title of 2018, has been translated into 36 languages across the globe, and with a total of 1.5 million copies sold, it is the best-selling e-book of all time. His second book, Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, was published in October 2019.

In 2019 Adam also adapted This Is Going To Hurt into a major BBC Two comedy-drama. He has sold out for six years running at the Edinburgh Fringe, and his engaging appearances on comedy sketch and panel shows such as 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Russell Howard Hour, in which he examines politics with an ease of wit and charm, have endeared him to the nation.

Kay also founded the musical group The Amateur Transplants, whose parodic song 'London Underground', set to the music of 'Going Underground' by The Jam, was a relatively early viral sensation in the UK in 2005.

Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023
Best TV Drama (Winner)
BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2023
Writer: Drama (Winner)
Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (Lollies) 2022
Books for 9-13-year-olds (Nominee)
British Book Awards 2021
Book of the Year: Children's Illustrated & Non-Fiction (Nominee)
New York Festivals Radio Awards 2021
Best Audio Book - Children's (Nominee)
Chortle Awards 2018
Book Award (Nominee)
Musical Comedy Awards 2010
Main Prize (Nominee)

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