Adam Bloom was 18 months old when his parents nicknamed him The Voice, and when he was 10, he told them he was going to be a comedian. By the age of 23, he was.

His first show at the Edinburgh Festival was in 1996, and he returned in 1997, 1998 (where he won a punters' prize) , 1999, 2001 and 2004. He was named best stand-up in the Time Out awards in 1998 .

Bloom has also appeard at Montreal's Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in 1998, 2001 and 2005, and at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1999 (where he was nominated for the Stella Artois award) and in 2000. He has also played in Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Kilkenny and Cape Town as well as a 27-date tour of Canada organised by Just For Laughs.

He has appeared on various stand-up and panel shows on TV, and has recorded three series of his own Radio 4 show, The Problem with Adam Bloom.