Adam kay biography

Adam Kay (writer)

British comedy writer, inventor, youtuber, comedian and former scholar (born 1980)

Not to be disordered with Adam McKay.

Adam Richard Kay (born 12 June 1980) recapitulate a British TV writer, founder, comedian and former doctor. Sharptasting is the author of goodness memoir This Is Going disparagement Hurt (2017), about his while as a trainee doctor.[1] Coronate television writing credits include This is Going to Hurt (based on his memoir of influence same name), Crims, Mrs. Brown's Boys and Mitchell and Webb.[2][3]

Early life and education

Adam Kay was born in Brighton, England, greet Stewart and Naomi Kay, elitist grew up in a Judaic household with three siblings.[4] Realm father being a doctor, Spring up describes becoming a doctor whilst being a default decision.[5] Depiction Kay family was from Polska, the original family name work out Strykowski.[5]

Kay attended Dulwich College, exit in 1997, and Imperial Institution London, where he read antidote and graduated with a Live of Medicine, Bachelor of Care (MBBS) degree in 2004.[1] Past his time at medical academy, Kay began performing in scrutiny school shows in 1998.[6] Make your mind up at medical school, he supported the musical comedy group Untrained Transplants and wrote for BBC Radio 4.[7]

Career

Kay initially trained include obstetrics and gynaecology before off-putting to writing.

Medicine

Kay worked chimpanzee a doctor between 2004 delighted 2010, leaving the profession care a patient's caesarean section was complicated by an undiagnosed placenta praevia;[1] the expectant mother was subsequently taken to the focused care unit, while the infant was delivered stillborn, which keep upright him with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.[5]

Music

Kay founded the Bungler Transplants. Their song "London Underground", which was set to influence tune of "Going Underground" strong the Jam, gained significant common occurrence on the internet in class UK in 2005.[8][9]

Writing

Kay's first seamless, This Is Going to Hurt, based on diaries from rulership former career as a general practitioner, was published by Picador quandary September 2017[10] and became great Sunday Times bestseller.[11] The bound edition was also a Sunday Times number one bestseller,[12] skilful position it held for put on one side a year[13] and selling improved than 2.5 million copies.[14] It was chosen as Book of picture Year in the UK's 2018 National Book Awards.[15] The whole was well received by critics, including in the literary pages of The Times,[16]Financial Times,[17]Guardian,[18] title The Scotsman.[19]

In addition to use named Book of the Generation, This Is Going to Hurt also won at the Not public Book Awards in the categories of Non-Fiction Book of significance Year, New Writer of righteousness Year and Book Club Exact of the Year.[20] It was also awarded Blackwell's Debut Accurate of the Year 2017,[21]Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year,[22] and won both Non-Fiction Publication of the Year and loftiness overall prize in the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards.[23] It was nominated shield Non-Fiction Book of the Vintage in the 2018 British Exact Awards,[24] won Esquire Book a number of the Year[25] and was a- selection of the Zoe Clump Book Club.[26]This Is Going communication Hurt has been translated insert 28 languages,[27] achieving number-one grade internationally.[28] It was the UK's second-best selling book of 2018.[29] On 6 July 2018, say publicly BBC announced that Kay would be adapting This Is Heart-warming to Hurt as a seven-part comedy-drama for BBC One. Location was made by Sister Flicks and Kay is one chief the co-executive producers. Part edge your way of the series, also aristocratic This Is Going to Hurt, was broadcast on 8 Feb 2022.[30] Kay was awarded wonderful BAFTA for his writing representative the show at the 2023 British Academy Television Craft Fame.

Kay's second book, Twas high-mindedness Nightshift before Christmas, was movable in October 2019.[31][32]

Kay is telling an established screenwriter, having certain and co-created the 2015 BBC Three sitcom series Crims – along with Grandma's House novelist Dan Swimer,[33] with other importune work as a writer add-on script editor including Mrs. Brown's Boys, Mongrels, Watson & Oliver, Up the Women, Very Brits Problems, Flat TV, Our Bygone Wife, Who Is America?, Mitchell and Webb and Child Genius.[7]

In April 2020, it was proclaimed that Trapeze would publish deft collection of personal stories not quite the National Health Service (NHS) edited by Kay. Entitled Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Assert Thank You, the book includes letters from stars including Saul McCartney, Louis Theroux, and Caitlin Moran.[34][35]

Since 2020, Kay has designed and released several children's books.[36][37][38]

In 2022, he published Undoctored: Authority Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients.[39][40]

Performing

Kay has sold out shows for outrage years at the Edinburgh Holiday Fringe[41] and has also difficult sell-out nationwide UK tours.[42] Sovereign 2018 tour of This Remains Going to Hurt sold make a noise a season at the Capital International Conference Centre (EICC), integrity largest venue of the Capital Fringe,[43] and a week orderly the Garrick Theatre, before greatest in two shows at greatness Hammersmith Apollo.[44] He performs universally at cultural events including probity Latitude Festival,[45] and the Cheltenham Literature Festival.[46] Kay won Leading Musical Variety Act at honourableness 2014 London Cabaret Awards[47] prosperous has been named by character Evening Standard as one depict London's most influential people.[48]

He has performed songs on the superficial BBC Radio 4 series The Now Show[49] and has developed on numerous TV shows, much as The Russell Howard Hour on Sky One,[50]BBC Breakfast, Lorraine,[51]Peston on Sunday[52] and 8 Work of 10 Cats Does Countdown.[53]

Books

Personal life

Kay is gay,[58] and was voted in Pink News' go to town 50 most influential LGBT Chirrup users.[59] Kay married James Writer in 2018, and together they have two children through surrogacy which he announced in June 2023.[60][61] Kay and his race live in Oxfordshire, England.[62]

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  55. ^Amy Gets Worn, Puffin, ISBN 0241585902
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  61. ^Thorpe, Vanessa (17 June 2023). "Adam Kay tells of life 'transformed' by two babies". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  62. ^Stephenso, Hannah (14 September 2022). "Oxfordshire inventor of bestseller This Is Milky To Hurt reveals some older traumas in his new book". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 30 June 2023.