April 7, 2025 • 6 mins
Former Doctor turned author and comedian Adam Kay called Clairsy & Lisa this morning as his live show This Is Going To Hurt comes to Perth in May. He talked to the guys about his book being turned into a TV show and whether he got to choose who played him. They also talked about what audiences can expect from the live show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Adam Kaye's touring a former doctor turned all three is
bringing is This is going to Hurt live show to
the Regal Theater May the third and fourth. Tickets are
available through a ticket tech And he's with us now,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, good morning morning.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
How are you when you've been a doctor, do you
then forever be able to you know, be called doctor?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Okay, because I certainly would be dining out on it.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Ever, I mean I think I think the only time
I use it is if I'm like trying to get
an upgrade on a plane.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Table at a restaurant in between saving lives, I'd like
to come in for a meal.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, that would that would work. Now the show is
coming to town. First of all, we must ask, at
last count, how many babies have been named at him
after you?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Ha ha, less than the population average. If you put
people off naming children, Adams, I.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Don't think your first well without offering up the name
as a you know, as a good choice.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, I think it's a great choice, boy or girl.
I think it definitely works.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Anyway, we are now tell us about the live show.
How does how does that work?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And I guess it's a mix of stories from in
the hospital and at the hospital.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Exactly. That's so basically it's like the audio books, but
it's shorter and it's more expensive. So I get up
on stage and I tell some horrifying, slash finny, slash
disgusting stories for my time working and people come along. Yeah,
(01:46):
I had a lovely time. Last summer was last time
I was over touring, and that all sold out, so
I've I've come back again. It's what I have to
describe a monumental personal inconvenience because it is so far
from loved.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We are a few way with a big city in
the world. Yeah, the apologies about that. You've put a
lot of your stuff together using your diaries. Were your
diary kids, you know, when you're a child, were using diaries?
Was it so later in life so you could recall stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Later in life? I think I don't. I never had
any plans for these diaries to become books, to become
a show and anything like that. But I think what
happened when I was working in medicine is it became
my form of I don't know, therapy, maybe looking for
the light amongst the dark. You know, when I had
one of these rough days, I would, you know, jop
down the funny, silly things that happened in order to
(02:37):
you know, to get myself through it. And but as
a kid, I was quite creative, quite musical, but it
was always like predetermined for me I was going to
be a doctor, So it never occurred to me there
liked be a creative career.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Were you ever in any doubt that the stories that
you do relay in the books were going to be
hugely enter.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Changed because some of them are horrendous but entertaining.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I've they've always gone They've always gone down well at parties,
I thought, so it was just just an extension of
of that. I could either I could either make people
laugh so I was a welcome guest, or get find
an easy way to leave a party wasn't enjoying. Yeah,
(03:28):
so I always knew they'd get a bit of a reaction.
I had no idea they'd get the sort of reactions
they did when when the book came out.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, we've just seen wonderful acted Ben wish it will
be so good in Black Doves recently. Yeah, did you
ever saying him cast cast as you and the TV show,
this is going.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
To hurt I did. I did have to say yeah,
which is really weird because it's like one of these standards,
you know, like doing a party questions, you know, who
would play you with a singer, and suddenly we're having
these actual meetings sitting down and saying, oh, but I
knew it had to be Ben. So he's great. Yeah.
(04:07):
So often with actors, as I'm sure you know, you
have to choose between good or nice, and with Ben
Wisher to get good and nice, and he's so good. Yeah,
because he can do the drama as well as the comedy.
And I think any depiction of the hospital setting can't
just be straight drama, can't just be straight coined. There's
(04:28):
always a bit of those and that's that's what he
does so amazingly.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The book This Is Going to Hurt, of course, is
full of these amazing stories, but it is at the
heart of it is the situation that you were in
as a junior doctor in the NHS.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Your treatment was pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, you worked horrendous hours, You couldn't take a
day off because there'd be no one to cave, you
couldn't go on holiday, and it was all for very
little thanks and money.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Have things improved.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Singly and well, I mean it's uh, you know, I
don't think I painted particularly like rosy picture of life
as a junior NHS doctor, but it seems that those
are actually the good old days. Some things are a
little bit better, but but some some are, some are
(05:24):
some are no better. And and the thing I found
extraordinary is that not only is it sort of unchanged
in time, is this sort of unchanged in location, you know,
the case in points. And I'm doing this, I'm doing this,
this tour of Australia at the moment. But as soon
as the book came out, I was getting messages from
doctors working in not just English speaking countries, but in
(05:47):
like in Venezuela or Belarus or Chad or whatever. This
could have been set in my ward. So all these
all these problems seem to be like entirely universal.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I never says, is to amaze me that these people
don't look at the big picture of if you keep
doing this, you'll end up with no one, you know,
to look after people worked.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well, well yeah, but the thing that's happening at the
moment is all the doctors from from the UK coming
over to Australia and you're getting over.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Here and you're coming with them, So this.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Is going to come, This is going to hurt. Life
is on the Regal Theater. You'll love the Regal Theater,
May three and four. Tickets are available through ticket Tech.
I loved the book, Adam, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Look forward to seeing you in May.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Over the next three weeks, will do our best to
move Perth a bit closer, to get a better fly.
Make that work the best.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Bye.
Adam Kaye's touring a former doctor turned all three is
bringing is This is going to Hurt live show to
the Regal Theater May the third and fourth. Tickets are
available through a ticket tech And he's with us now,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, good morning morning.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
How are you when you've been a doctor, do you
then forever be able to you know, be called doctor?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Okay, because I certainly would be dining out on it.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Ever, I mean I think I think the only time
I use it is if I'm like trying to get
an upgrade on a plane.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Table at a restaurant in between saving lives, I'd like
to come in for a meal.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, that would that would work. Now the show is
coming to town. First of all, we must ask, at
last count, how many babies have been named at him
after you?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Ha ha, less than the population average. If you put
people off naming children, Adams, I.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Don't think your first well without offering up the name
as a you know, as a good choice.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, I think it's a great choice, boy or girl.
I think it definitely works.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Anyway, we are now tell us about the live show.
How does how does that work?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And I guess it's a mix of stories from in
the hospital and at the hospital.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Exactly. That's so basically it's like the audio books, but
it's shorter and it's more expensive. So I get up
on stage and I tell some horrifying, slash finny, slash
disgusting stories for my time working and people come along. Yeah,
(01:46):
I had a lovely time. Last summer was last time
I was over touring, and that all sold out, so
I've I've come back again. It's what I have to
describe a monumental personal inconvenience because it is so far
from loved.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We are a few way with a big city in
the world. Yeah, the apologies about that. You've put a
lot of your stuff together using your diaries. Were your
diary kids, you know, when you're a child, were using diaries?
Was it so later in life so you could recall stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Later in life? I think I don't. I never had
any plans for these diaries to become books, to become
a show and anything like that. But I think what
happened when I was working in medicine is it became
my form of I don't know, therapy, maybe looking for
the light amongst the dark. You know, when I had
one of these rough days, I would, you know, jop
down the funny, silly things that happened in order to
(02:37):
you know, to get myself through it. And but as
a kid, I was quite creative, quite musical, but it
was always like predetermined for me I was going to
be a doctor, So it never occurred to me there
liked be a creative career.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Were you ever in any doubt that the stories that
you do relay in the books were going to be
hugely enter.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Changed because some of them are horrendous but entertaining.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I've they've always gone They've always gone down well at parties,
I thought, so it was just just an extension of
of that. I could either I could either make people
laugh so I was a welcome guest, or get find
an easy way to leave a party wasn't enjoying. Yeah,
(03:28):
so I always knew they'd get a bit of a reaction.
I had no idea they'd get the sort of reactions
they did when when the book came out.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, we've just seen wonderful acted Ben wish it will
be so good in Black Doves recently. Yeah, did you
ever saying him cast cast as you and the TV show,
this is going.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
To hurt I did. I did have to say yeah,
which is really weird because it's like one of these standards,
you know, like doing a party questions, you know, who
would play you with a singer, and suddenly we're having
these actual meetings sitting down and saying, oh, but I
knew it had to be Ben. So he's great. Yeah.
(04:07):
So often with actors, as I'm sure you know, you
have to choose between good or nice, and with Ben
Wisher to get good and nice, and he's so good. Yeah,
because he can do the drama as well as the comedy.
And I think any depiction of the hospital setting can't
just be straight drama, can't just be straight coined. There's
(04:28):
always a bit of those and that's that's what he
does so amazingly.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The book This Is Going to Hurt, of course, is
full of these amazing stories, but it is at the
heart of it is the situation that you were in
as a junior doctor in the NHS.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Your treatment was pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, you worked horrendous hours, You couldn't take a
day off because there'd be no one to cave, you
couldn't go on holiday, and it was all for very
little thanks and money.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Have things improved.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Singly and well, I mean it's uh, you know, I
don't think I painted particularly like rosy picture of life
as a junior NHS doctor, but it seems that those
are actually the good old days. Some things are a
little bit better, but but some some are, some are
(05:24):
some are no better. And and the thing I found
extraordinary is that not only is it sort of unchanged
in time, is this sort of unchanged in location, you know,
the case in points. And I'm doing this, I'm doing this,
this tour of Australia at the moment. But as soon
as the book came out, I was getting messages from
doctors working in not just English speaking countries, but in
(05:47):
like in Venezuela or Belarus or Chad or whatever. This
could have been set in my ward. So all these
all these problems seem to be like entirely universal.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I never says, is to amaze me that these people
don't look at the big picture of if you keep
doing this, you'll end up with no one, you know,
to look after people worked.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well, well yeah, but the thing that's happening at the
moment is all the doctors from from the UK coming
over to Australia and you're getting over.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Here and you're coming with them, So this.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Is going to come, This is going to hurt. Life
is on the Regal Theater. You'll love the Regal Theater,
May three and four. Tickets are available through ticket Tech.
I loved the book, Adam, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Look forward to seeing you in May.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Over the next three weeks, will do our best to
move Perth a bit closer, to get a better fly.
Make that work the best.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Bye.
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