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 has frequently returned. He was named best stand-up in the Time Out awards in 1998 and nominated for best club comic in the 2012 Chortle awards. Bloom has also appeared at Montreal's Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, and at the Melbourne Comedy Festival (where he was nominated for the 1999 Stella Artois award).

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.