Adam Cayton-Holland is a national touring comic who has appeared on "Conan," "@midnight," "The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail," "Happy Endings," "Deadbeat," "Flophouse," "Hidden America with Jonah Ray," and was named one of Esquire’s “25 Comics to Watch” and Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch.” Adam co-created, writes and stars in truTV’s "Those Who Can’t," along with his fellow members of the comedy troupe, The Grawlix. His albums I Don’t Know If I Happy and Backyards are available on iTunes, and his writing has appeared in Village Voice, Spin, The A.V. Club and The Atlantic. Adam has been described as “genial” and “with pretty decent teeth.” He is the author of TRAGEDY PLUS TIME. 

Books by Adam Cayton-Holland

Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir

by Adam Cayton-Holland - Memoir, Nonfiction

Adam Cayton-Holland went from a painfully sensitive kid growing up in Denver, Colorado, to a writer and performer with a burgeoning career in comedy. His father, a civil rights lawyer, and his mother, an investigative journalist, taught Adam and his two sisters to feel the pain of the world deeply and to combat it through any means necessary. Adam chose to meet life’s tough breaks and cruel realities with stand-up comedy; his older sister chose law; their youngest sister, Lydia, struggled with mental illness and ultimately took her own life. This devastating tragedy strikes the Cayton-Holland household at the same moment Adam’s career is finally getting off the ground.