Austin Knight

When booking an after-dinner speaker or comedian for your event, it is always important to select someone who has a proven track record entertaining at the highest levels.

With Austin Knight you have a performer who has established himself as one of the most in demand entertainers on the circuit. His unrivalled professional standard of entertainment will transform any function into an occasion to remember.

Towards the late eighties, Austin developed a stand-up act featuring topical news items of the day, a wry glance at life's quirks and idiosyncrasies from an 'off-the-wall' viewpoint. He currently writes a humorous weekly newspaper column 'Life With Austin' which comments on the weeks events and is syndicated in newspapers published in the northwest of England. He has also written copious amounts of comedy scripts, both for TV & Radio, His writing career commenced by compiling gags for Tommy Cooper, and sketches for Les Dawson, when variety was still popular. Austin has appeared as an actor/presenter in various TV productions which include Coronation St, Sandbaggers, Takeover TV, Taggart, Fallen Hero, Cribb the Detective, and The new Comedians, the list goes on and on. In 2006 he played 'The Funniest Man on Earth' in the feature film 'ZEMANOVALOAD' and performed in 'The Carlsberg Comedy Festival' in Koh Samui, Thailand in 2009.

Austin was onboard comedian on the Carnival Breeze in 2012. In 2013, Austin joined the Punchliner Comedy Club from April until October onboard the Carnival Legend cruising the Baltics and the Carnival Sunshine cruising the Mediterranean.

In 2014 Austin was appearing in the Lyric Theatre on board Royal Caribbean 'Independence of the Seas' and 'Adventure of the Seas'. In September he worked on the biggest cruise liner in the world, 'Oasis of the Seas' in the 'Comedy Live!' club.

In January 2015, Austin entertained passengers on Fred Olsen Cruise Lines' 'Balmoral' on it's Grand Far East Voyage. From April onwards, Austin will be on board Caribbean Princess until October.

Recent gigs also included the 'Dubai 7's Rugby Dinner' in Dubai & Qatar. Austin also specialises in Golf Presentation Days.

Today, Austin concentrates full time as an after-dinner speaker and is able to work work on all comedy levels, depending on what the audience requires. Click Here to see pix of very recent events, testimonials from corporate clients, full biog and audio and much more!!

With many years experience in the business, you cannot go wrong in booking Austin Knightfor your event and have confidence that the evening will be enhanced by his hilarious and outrageous view of life itself. If we cannot laugh at life and our own shortcomings, then what indeed can we laugh at?