Amateur Transplants

The website of Amateur Transplants frontman Adam Kay - singer of smutty songs (such as London Underground, and other less popular ones).

  • "Extremely funny. Never less than utterly clever" Telegraph
  • "This made me very, very happy" Stephen Fry

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In the twelve years since Adam began performing, Amateur Transplants have developed a fan base the size of which most comedians would happily sell their kidneys for. With sell-out tours and Edinburgh Festival seasons, his cutting-edge, darkly humorous re-imaginings of modern day pop and rock classics have gained him a cult following across the UK. The iconic London Underground Song has been in the iTunes comedy top ten continuously since 2008 and has become a YouTube phenomenon with over 7 million hits.

"This made me very, very happy" Stephen Fry

Adam started performing in 1998 at medical school, quickly becoming well-known amongst the medical community.

Abandoning medical in-jokes for songs with wider appeal, Adam first appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005, achieving a sell-out run. He has since sold out Edinburgh runs in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, as well as nationwide UK tours.

"Wonderfully funny.. A comedy classic" Scotsman

Locum Amateur Transplant Suman Biswas appeared with Adam for a few years, but is now back to healing the sick and lame. Adam has four albums: 'Fitness to Practice', 'Unfit to Practice', 'Have Yourself a Sweary Little Christmas' and 'In Theatre'. He has been offsetting some of the bad karma caused by all the swearing by donating a proportion of album sales to Macmillan Cancer Support and is proud to have donated in excess of £30,000. The recordings have consistently held Top Ten positions in both the iTunes Comedy singles and albums charts since 2008, and Amateur Transplants YouTube videos have in excess of 20 million total views. The 2010 Christmas Album, Have Yourself A Sweary Little Christmas went straight into the iTunes Comedy charts, knocking Tim Minchin off top place.

Adam has comedy writing credits including for BBC2, BBC3 and BBC Radio 4, has spoken at the Cambridge Union and the Times Cheltenham Literary Festival, and he currently has a sitcom in development.

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Return to blogging

After two years of solid monogamy I'm going to cheat on Twitter, and get back to proper blogging. You know, sometimes those 140 characters just aren't enough. So, here goes. Umm. Well, anyway.

31st December, 2011

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Quotes

  • "Superbly politically incorrect. Gloriously funny" Scotsman
  • "Extremely funny. Never less than utterly clever" Telegraph
  • "This made me very, very happy" Stephen Fry
  • "I can't say c*** any more. Amateur Transplants have devalued the currency of swearing" Tim Minchin
  • "Kay sings his tunes with wine-drenched, blasé, mad piano skills, and is better than almost any other comedy-musician I've ever seen." Three Weeks
  • "Genius" Radio 1
  • "Artistically bankrupt" Chortle

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2012 Tour Artwork 2012 Tour Press Release 2012 Publicity Shot 1 (by Idil Sukan) 2012 Publicity Shot 2 (by Idil Sukan) 2011 Publicity Shot (by Hugo Burnand) 2010 Publicity Shot
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