Adam Kay (writer), the Glossary
Adam Richard Kay (born 12 June 1980) is a British TV writer, author, comedian and former doctor.[1]
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65 relations: Amateur Transplants, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, BBC, BBC Breakfast, BBC One, BBC Radio 4, BBC Three, BBC Three (streaming service), Blackwell's, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards, Brighton, British Book Awards, Caesarean section, Caitlin Moran, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Child Genius (British TV series), Crims, Dulwich College, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Esquire (UK Edition), Evening Standard, Financial Times, Garrick Theatre, Going Underground, Grandma's House, Hammersmith Apollo, Henry Paker, Imperial College London, Intensive care unit, James Farrell (television producer), Latitude Festival, Lorraine Kelly, Louis Theroux, Mitchell and Webb, Mongrels (TV series), Mrs. Brown's Boys, National Book Award, National Health Service, Oxfordshire, Paul McCartney, Peston on Sunday, Picador (imprint), PinkNews, Placenta praevia, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Script editor, Sky One, Surrogacy, The Guardian, ... Expand index (15 more) »
- Comedians from Brighton and Hove
- Writers from Brighton
Amateur Transplants
Amateur Transplants were a parody music band fronted by London-based, British comedian Adam Kay and Suman Biswas (born 1978).
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Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
A Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; MBBS, also abbreviated as BM BS, MB ChB, MB BCh, or MB BChir) is a medical degree granted by medical schools or universities in countries that adhere to the United Kingdom's higher education tradition.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC Breakfast
BBC Breakfast is a British television breakfast news programme, produced by BBC News and broadcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel every morning from 6:00am.
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BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
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BBC Three
BBC Three is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
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BBC Three (streaming service)
BBC Three was a British over-the-top internet television service operated by the BBC.
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Blackwell's
Blackwell UK, also known as Blackwell's and Blackwell Group, is a British academic book retailer and library supply service owned by Waterstones.
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Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards
The Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards are annual literary awards presented by the Booksellers Association in the UK and Ireland since 2016.
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Brighton
Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.
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British Book Awards
The British Book Awards or Nibbies are literary awards for the best UK writers and their works, administered by The Bookseller.
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Caesarean section
Caesarean section, also known as C-section, cesarean, or caesarean delivery, is the surgical procedure by which one or more babies are delivered through an incision in the mother's abdomen.
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Caitlin Moran
Catherine Elizabeth Moran (born 5 April 1975) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author at The Times, where she writes two columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch".
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Cheltenham Literature Festival
The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, a large-scale international festival of literature held every year in October in the English spa town of Cheltenham, and part of Cheltenham Festivals: also responsible for the Jazz, Music, and Science Festivals that run every year.
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Child Genius (British TV series)
Child Genius is a British reality competition series produced by Wall to Wall Media, broadcast on Channel 4.
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Crims
Crims is a British television sitcom created by Dan Swimer and Adam Kay.
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Dulwich College
Dulwich College is a 2–18 private, day and boarding school for boys in Dulwich, London, England.
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2018 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 different shows across 322 venues.
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Edinburgh International Conference Centre
The Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) is the principal convention and conference centre in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Esquire (UK Edition)
Esquire Magazine (UK edition) is a monthly men's magazine originally owned by the National Magazine Company (since 2011, following a merger, renamed Hearst Magazines UK), a subsidiary of the US-based Hearst Corporation.
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Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Garrick Theatre
The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, named after the stage actor David Garrick.
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Going Underground
"Going Underground" is a single by English rock band the Jam, written by lead guitarist Paul Weller and released in March 1980.
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Grandma's House
Grandma's House is a sitcom television series broadcast on BBC Two.
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Hammersmith Apollo
The Hammersmith Apollo, currently called the Eventim Apollo for sponsorship reasons, and formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon, is a live entertainment performance venue, originally built as a cinema called the Gaumont Palace.
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Henry Paker
Henry Paker is a British comedian, writer and illustrator.
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Imperial College London
Imperial College London (Imperial) is a public research university in London, England.
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Intensive care unit
An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine.
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James Farrell (television producer)
James Farrell is a British television executive, currently working as Managing Director of production company Terrible Productions.
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Latitude Festival
Latitude Festival is an annual music and arts festival set within the grounds of Henham Park, near Southwold, Suffolk, England.
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Lorraine Kelly
Lorraine Smith (née Kelly; born 30 November 1959) is a Scottish television presenter.
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Louis Theroux
Louis Sebastian Theroux (born 20 May 1970) is a British-American documentarian, journalist, broadcaster, and author.
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Mitchell and Webb
Mitchell and Webb are a British comedy double act composed of David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Adam Kay (writer) and Mitchell and Webb are English male comedians.
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Mongrels (TV series)
Mongrels is a British puppet-based musical situation comedy series first broadcast on BBC Three between 22 June and 10 August 2010, with a making-of documentary entitled "Mongrels Uncovered" broadcast on 11 August 2010.
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Mrs. Brown's Boys
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National Book Award
The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.
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National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.
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Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.
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Peston on Sunday
Peston on Sunday is a political discussion programme on British television network ITV, which was broadcast live on Sunday mornings from 10 am and rebroadcast after the ITV Weekend News on Sunday evening.
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Picador (imprint)
Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States.
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PinkNews
PinkNews is a UK-based online newspaper marketed to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning community (LGBTQ+) in the UK and worldwide.
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Placenta praevia
Placenta praevia is when the placenta attaches inside the uterus but in a position near or over the cervical opening.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.
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Script editor
A script editor is a member of the production team of scripted television and radio programmes, usually dramas and comedies.
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Sky One
Sky One was a British pay television channel operated and owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast).
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Surrogacy
Surrogacy is an arrangement, often supported by a legal agreement, whereby a woman agrees to childbirth on behalf of another person(s) who will become the child's parent(s) after birth.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Jam
The Jam were an English rock band formed in 1972 in Woking, Surrey.
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The Now Show
The Now Show is a British radio comedy programme on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the weekly news from 1998 to 2024.
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The Russell Howard Hour
The Russell Howard Hour is a British topical comedy news television series that premiered on Sky One on 21 September 2017.
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The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.
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The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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This Is Going to Hurt
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor is a nonfiction book by the British comedy writer Adam Kay, published in 2017 by Picador.
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This Is Going to Hurt (TV series)
This Is Going to Hurt is a British medical comedy-drama television miniseries, created by Adam Kay and based on his memoir of the same name.
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Up the Women
Up the Women is a BBC television sitcom created, written by and starring Jessica Hynes.
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Very British Problems
Very British Problems is social media brand created by journalist, Rob Temple, in 2012.
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Watson & Oliver
Watson & Oliver is a British sketch show starring Lorna Watson and Ingrid Oliver, known for their performances together at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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Who Is America?
Who Is America? is an American political satire mockumentary-style television series created by Sacha Baron Cohen that premiered on July 15, 2018, on Showtime.
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Zoe Ball
Zoe Louise Ball (born 23 November 1970) is a British broadcaster and presenter.
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2023 British Academy Television Craft Awards
The 24th Annual British Academy Television Craft Awards took place on 23 April 2023 at The Brewery in London, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize technical achievements in British television of 2022.
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8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown is a British comedy panel show on Channel 4.
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See also
Comedians from Brighton and Hove
- Adam Kay (writer)
- Chesney Allen
- Jen Brister
- Jessica Hynes
- Joe Wilkinson
- Laura Lexx
- Laurence Rickard
- Max Miller (comedian)
- Seann Walsh
- Simon Fanshawe
- Stephen Grant (comedian)
- Tony Hawks
Writers from Brighton
- Ada Ellen Bayly
- Adam Kay (writer)
- Alexandra Brown
- Alice Dudeney
- Arabella Buckley
- Barbara Willard
- Charlotte Elliott
- Chris Paling
- Constance Garnett
- Dan Atkinson
- David Garnett
- Donald Hankey
- Edward Sellon
- Edward Tilt
- Edward Tyas Cook
- Eliza Wyatt
- Evelyn, Princess Blücher
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh
- Fiona McIntosh
- Florence Marryat
- Frances Kazan
- George Coppard
- John Roman Baker
- Laurence Rickard
- Laurie Penny
- Maria Jastrzębska
- Martin Walls
- Mary Jean Stone
- Matt Haig
- Michael Viney
- Opal Louis Nations
- Patrice Lawrence
- Paul Stenning
- Peter James (writer)
- Phil Gardner
- Philip Reeve
- Robbie McCallum
- Roland Pertwee
- Sean Bonney
- Simon Lelic
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kay_(writer)
, The Jam, The Now Show, The Russell Howard Hour, The Scotsman, The Sunday Times, The Times, This Is Going to Hurt, This Is Going to Hurt (TV series), Up the Women, Very British Problems, Watson & Oliver, Who Is America?, Zoe Ball, 2023 British Academy Television Craft Awards, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.