Adam Kay is a writer and comedian

Adam's first book, This is Going to Hurt, about his former career as a junior doctor, was published in 2017 by Picador and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller, topping the charts for over three months. It has been translated into 15 languages. The paperback release in 2018 was also an instant number one bestseller.

Winner of Blackwell's Debut Book of the Year 2017, Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year, iBooks Book of the Year, Books Are My Bag Readers' Award and Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Prize. More details about "This is Going to Hurt" here.

Credits include Mitchell & Webb, Very British Problems, Mrs Brown's Boys, Crims (co-creator), Mongrels, Up The Women, Flat TV, Our Ex Wife, Bounty Hunters, Blind Date, Child Genius.

Also panel show / live writing for high-profile comedians, writing for TV advertisements in UK and US, and rewriting hit Broadway musicals for transfer to West End. Numerous columns and features for The Sunday Times, The Mirror, The Guardian, The Observer and various magazines.

Adam first achieved success as frontman of Amateur Transplants, with 20 million hits (including the iconic London Underground Song), and as a solo performer has had multiple sell-out Edinburgh Fringe and West End seasons as well as international tours.

He is a previous winner of the London Cabaret Award and a sought-after after-dinner entertainer, from small private parties to large conferences (via Prince Harry's 30th birthday).

Adam is a regular voice on Radio 4's "The Now Show", and makes frequent television appearances, from "The Russell Howard Hour" to BBC Breakfast, Lorraine and Peston on Sunday.