"What Kind of Fool Am I?" is a popular song written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley and published in 1962. It was introduced by Anthony Newley in the musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off. The song comes at the end of Act Two to close the show. Bricusse and Newley received the 1961 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. At the 1963 Grammy Awards, it won the award for Song of the Year and was the first by Britons to do so. The song was a hit for Sammy Davis Jr. in the year of its publication, peaking at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and at No. 6 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart. Anthony Newley also recorded the song, and there are several versions of his performance available on YouTube.