Name Adam Kay Role Writer | ||
Albums Have Yourself a Sweary Little Christmas, Fitness to Practice, Unfit to Practise Similar People Amateur Transplants, Suman Biswas, Katy Brand, Paul Kaye, Matt Berry | ||
Adam Richard Kay (born 12 June 1980) is a British comedy writer, best-selling author and award-winning performer. Television writing credits include Crims, Mrs. Brown's Boys and Mitchell and Webb and as a performer he is best known as frontman of musical comedy act Amateur Transplants.
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Medicine
Kay trained as a doctor, where he started performing in medical school shows in 1998. Whilst at medical school, he founded the musical comedy group Amateur Transplants and wrote for BBC Radio 4. Kay worked for a number of years as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, writing textbooks on the subject, before leaving medicine for a career in writing. He continues to write humorous medical features for magazines such as Cosmopolitan.
Writing
Kay is writer and co-creator of 2015 BBC Three sitcom series Crims - along with Grandma's House writer Dan Swimer. Other television work as a writer and script editor includes Mrs. Brown's Boys, Mongrels, Watson & Oliver, Up the Women, Very British Problems, Flat TV, Our Ex Wife, Mitchell and Webb and Child Genius. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, Kay's diaries from his former career as a doctor were published by Picador in September 2017 and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller.
Performing
Kay has sold out six years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and also had sell-out nationwide UK tours. He performs regularly at music festivals including Latitude, and academic events such as Cheltenham Literature Festival. Private events Kay has performed include Prince Harry's 30th birthday party. Kay won Best Musical Variety Act at the 2014 London Cabaret Awards. He performs songs on the topical BBC Radio 4 series The Now Show.
Personal life
Kay is openly gay, and was voted in Pink News' top 50 most influential LGBT Twitter users. He lives in Chiswick, London, with his boyfriend James Farrell, the television producer.