Stand-up comedian Adam Bloom has never lacked talent or self-confidence. Born in 1971 in London, he claims to have known at 10 that he was going to be a comedian and had already told his parents just that.
"I just had the right frame of mind," he remembers.
Thirteen years later his prophecy had been self-fulfilled and another three years later, after much hard graft Adam Bloom was a regular name and face on the bills of almost every comedy club in Britain.
But it was at the Edinburgh Festival that he was to make his spiritual home with sell-out shows in 1996, 97, 98, 99, 2001, 2004 and 2007. His successes provided the subject matter for the ground-breaking BBC2 comedy series Edinburgh Nights and later Edinburgh Or Bust as well as providing the springboard to a sell-out tour of Britain.
Equally at home at overseas festivals, he has made three visits to the Just For Laughs in Montreal and in 2004, formed part of the Just For Laughs Comedy Tour of Canada, playing to 42,000 people in 17 cities. He has twice appeared at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, including in 1999 when he was nominated for the Stella Artois award.
No stranger to awards, Adam Bloom won the Time Out Award for Best Stand-up comedian and the Polygram Punter Comedy Award at Edinburgh, both in 1998.
A true veteran of his craft and much admired by critics and fellow comics alike, Adam is never afraid to voice his opinion on a variety of subjects including his own talent and why isn’t he a megastar, but refuses to rely on smut for laughs.
He says: "Some people go on stage and talk about sex which is fine if you like that sort of thing. I talk about life, because life is inherently funny, I just get ideas about stuff and work them into jokes. It doesn’t matter where you tell it, a funny joke will get laughs anywhere."
While most at home on the comedy stage, Adam Bloom has enjoyed booking flirtations with television; as well as being a regular face on the ubiquitous comedy quiz shows Mock The Week and Never Mind The Buzzcocks, he was team captain on the popular Five comedy quiz Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment.
He was one of the stars of Channel 4’s millennium night celebrations, in the role of a roving stand-up comedian from Sky’s Apocalypse Tube.
Adam Bloom has also hosted his own Comedy Lab show, Adam Bloom Beyond A Joke, also for Channel 4 and recorded three series of his own Radio 4 show, The Problem with Adam Bloom.
One of his own personal highlights came in an acting role as a maniac TV presenter called Berk in cult Channel 4 musical comedy The Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rock Star. Adam Bloom typically described his performance as "introducing me to acting talents I didn’t know I had."
WHAT THE COMICS SAID
“One of the cleverest and most inventive comics I have ever seen”- Jerry Sadowitz
“He makes me laugh out loud” – Sir Ian McKellen
“He has been one of my favourite comedians for about 10 years. He not only has brilliant lines but an intense and fragile honesty” – Ricky Gervais
WHAT THE CRITICS SAID
“No puns, no ersatz nostalgia, Just Adam-Bloomness” - The Independent
“He brought the house down with a barnstorming set, which made the audience laugh like familiar friends” - The Guardian
