British Comedy Guide
Adam Kay
Adam Kay

Adam Kay

  • 44 years old
  • British
  • Writer, musical comedian and actor

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Fringe: 5 shows to buy tickets for while you still can

These are five shows you should grab your tickets for whilst you can. All tickets for the shows can be purchased on the Fringe website.

Edinburgh Evening News, 12th June 2019

Adam Kay review

Painfully funny tales of life on the ward.

Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 6th March 2019

Hilarious real stories of gynaecologist-turned-comedian

It is not unheard of to switch from medicine to comedy - Harry Hill, ­Graham Chapman and Lee Nelson star Simon Brodkin all did it. But Adam Kay could be the most successful doctor yet to go from treating people to making them laugh.

Sean Hamilton, The Sun, 1st February 2019

London's most influential people 2018 - Comedy

Including Katherine Ryan, Rachel Parris and Will Sharpe.

Evening Standard, 10th October 2018

Adam Kay: How to survive your first week as a doctor

Yesterday was Black Wednesday, the alarmingly monikered morning when 6,000 brand new doctors step out on to the wards for the first time.

The Times, 2nd August 2018

Adam Kay's junior doctor book to become BBC comedy drama

BBC Two has ordered This Is Going To Hurt, an eight-part comedy drama based on the award-winning memoirs of former junior doctor Adam Kay.

British Comedy Guide, 6th July 2018

Adam Kay interview

From tragedy to comedy for former junior doctor turned best-selling author and performer.

Yvette Huddleston, The Yorkshire Post, 19th June 2018

Adam Kay, Robert Webb, Russell Brand up for book awards

Adam Kay's account of his time as a hospital doctor has been nominated in the Best Non-Fiction: Narrative category in the British Book Awards shortlist.

Elsewhere How To Be A Boy by Robert Webb is nominated in the audiobook category. And Russell Brand's Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions is shortlisted in the Non-Fiction: Lifestyle category.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th March 2018

Chortle Awards 2018 nominees

The nominees for the Chortle Awards 2018 have been announced. Mat Ewins, Hannah Gadsby, John Kearns and Joseph Morpurgo are up for Best Show.

British Comedy Guide, 7th February 2018

Adam Kay shortlisted for Best First Biography Prize

Adam Kay has been shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017 for his junior doctor diaries, This Is Going to Hurt (Picador), alongside authors Thomas Dilworth, Edmund Gordon, Gareth Russell, Helen Smith and James Stourton.

Katherine Cowdrey, The Bookseller, 12th January 2018

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