BAFTA-winning comedian Adam Kay brings his 10th-anniversary tour of 'This Is Going To Hurt', mixing stories from his junior doctor diaries with songs and a Q&A.
Adam Kay brings his This Is Going To Hurt 10th Anniversary Tour to Exeter Corn Exchange on Wednesday 19 May 2027. It's a new live tour marking a decade since the publication of his global bestseller, This Is Going To Hurt, the diaries he kept while working as a junior doctor.
If you've read the book, you know the territory: the most hilarious and heartbreaking entries from those diaries, the ones that made the book a hit, are the core of the show. But it doesn't just stop there. Kay adds never-before-told stories that didn't make it into the pages, and the night finishes with a Q&A. It's a mix of the material that's already well-known and a few things you'll be hearing for the first time.
Over the years, the show has been seen live by 350,000 people worldwide. Charlie Brooker called it 'hilarious and heartbreaking', and The Guardian described it as 'electrifying', with both praising the way it balances NHS frontline horror stories with silly songs and wordplay. That's a good summary of what to expect: the heavy stuff from the wards sitting right alongside the lighter, more absurd side of the job. The Exeter date is part of an all-new tour specifically for the book's tenth anniversary, so it's a fresh run of the show rather than a one-off.
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Doors open at 7.15pm, and the show starts at 8pm. Tickets are £30, which includes a £1 booking fee. There's an age guidance of 16+ for this one, so keep that in mind if you're planning to bring anyone younger.
