Austin Knight began his career whilst still attending school. Towards the late eighties, when impressionists became unfashionable, he developed a stand-up act featuring topical news items of the day, a wry glance at life’s quirks and idiosyncrasies from a skewwhiff viewpoint. He currently writes a humorous weekly newspaper column ‘Life With Austin’ which comments on the week’s events and is syndicated in newspapers covering Tameside, Glossop, Derbyshire, Ashton – Under -Lyne, East Manchester, Hyde, North Cheshire, Mossley, Saddleworth, Stalybridge and Stockport. He has also written many comedy scripts, both for TV & Radio, done studio warm-up (or down as the case may be!) His writing career commenced by compiling sketches for Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, and many more. Austin has appeared as an actor/presenter in various TV productions which include Coronation St, Krypton Factor, Sandbaggers, Takeover TV, Taggart, Fallen Hero, Crib the Detective, and THE NEW COMEDIANS the list goes on and on. In 2005 he played ‘The Funniest Man on Earth’ in the feature film ‘ZEMANOVALOAD’. His has performed at The Carlsberg Comedy Festival in Koh Samui, Thailand, The Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium, pre-match entertainment at Manchester United FC, a four week provincial theatre tour with ‘The New Comedians’, many sporting dinners, players testimonials and high profile corporate events for major companies and professional associations nationwide. Today, Austin concentrates full time as an after-dinner speaker and is able to work either super clean or more adult, depending on what the audience requires. Recent dinners this year have featured PAUL MERSON, LEE SHARPE, SIR GEOFF HURST, MATTHEW Le TISSIER, MARTIN BAYFIELD, SCOTT QUINNELL, ALEC STEWART, GRAHAM GOOCH and JOHN PARROTT to name just a few. With many years’ experience in the business, you can have confidence that the evening will be enhanced by his hilarious and outrageous view of life itself.