Adam Bloom

The Proper Mental Podcast

Welcome to episode 161 with Adam Bloom who is a multi-award-winning stand-up comedian and writer.

Adam has made national TV appearances in Britain and The U.S. and has also ghost-written for 50 comedians.

Adam has a diagnosis of Bipolar and in this episode, we chat about his experiences with hypomania which is the less extreme part of bipolar and very different to hyper mania.

We chat about getting into comedy and the art of writing funny stuff, we chat about the mental impact of becoming successful at a young age and we chat about stress, anger, medication and all sorts of other fascinating things.

Adam is often described as the comedian’s comedian and here we also talk about why that’s important to him and how he measures success.

His book, Finding Your Comic Genius: An in-depth guide to the art of stand up is out now and is a wonderful guide to the mechanics of writing comedy and we chat about that in this episode too!

I reached out to Adam after hearing him mention hypomania on another podcast. It’s not something that has come up on Proper Mental before and it was wonderful to hear about Adam’s experience. He was absolutely lovely to chat to!

Hi book is available on Amazon here: Finding Your Comic Genius: An in-depth guide to the art of stand-up comedy: Amazon.co.uk: Bloom, Adam: 9798859382385: Books

You can connect with Adam on Instagram @adambloomcomedy or Twitter @adambloomie2.

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