Revealed, vile songs of This Is Going To Hurt author Adam Kay
THE former NHS doctor behind the hit BBC series This Is Going To Hurt previously performed a song in which a Down’s syndrome baby is called a ‘mong’ and another tune that claimed women in the north of England were ‘lazy, ugly whores’.
Best-selling author Adam Kay has been desperately trying to remove from the internet any trace of the vile songs Your Baby and Northern Birds, recorded as part of a comedy duo called Amateur Transplants.
The former junior doctor rose to fame after publishing his 2017 memoir, also called This Is Going To Hurt. It sold more than 2.5 million copies and was translated into 37 languages. It has been made into a seven-part series starring James Bond actor Ben Whishaw as Kay.
But The Mail on Sunday can reveal that while he worked for the NHS, Kay wrote parody songs with his colleague Dr Suman Biswas that were performed at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The duo released an album called Fitness to Practice in 2004 including the song Your Baby, which features the lyrics: ‘Your baby has trisomy/ You shouldn’t have kids at 53/ He’ll have severe mental retardation/ How would you feel about a termination?’
The next verse says: ‘A bit of a mong your baby/ Your baby has trisom, it’s what he will die from/ Your baby’s got trisomy.’
Trisomy is the common cause of Down’s syndrome. Carol Boys, chief executive of the Down’s Syndrome Association, said: ‘It is disappointing that a medical professional felt the need to write and perform a song about delivering a diagnosis of Down’s syndrome in such terms. I can’t imagine what a person with Down’s syndrome would think about this.’
Jackie O’Sullivan, from disability charity Mencap, said: ‘Words like this are absolutely unacceptable in every way.’
Northern Birds has the lyrics: ‘Northern birds are lazy ugly whores who smell of burgers/ So don’t have too much to drink/ Or you might f*** one/ And end up getting Aids.’
Live performances of Your Baby and Northern Birds have been removed from YouTube and other sites at Kay’s request.
Kay, 41, apologised last night for songs that ‘were in awful taste and crossed a line’.