Cameron "Cam" Knight is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n comedian and television

Television

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 personality, born 1976 in Cummins, South Australia

Cummins, South Australia

Cummins is a town on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, 67 km north of Port Lincoln and 68 m above sea level. At the 2006 census, the town had a population of 705....

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Career

He studied at the South Australian Centre for the Performing Arts before making his break into television as a member of the Big Bite

Big Bite

Big Bite was an Australian sketch comedy television series, which ran on the Seven Network from 8 May, 2003 to 4 March, 2004 in a prime time timeslot on Thursdays...

 sketch comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 show. Since then he has become a regular performer on Foxtel

Foxtel

Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....

's The Comedy Channel

The Comedy Channel

The Comedy Channel is an Australian subscription television channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television.-History:...

 with shows such as Hit & Run and Stand Up!.

In 2006, he became the host of the Australian made stand up TV show, Stand Up Australia

Stand Up Australia

Stand Up Australia was an Australian comedy TV program locally produced by The Comedy Channel from 2006 to 2008.It was hosted by Cameron Knight, and featured four Australian or international comedians on each one hour show...

, shown 5 nights a week on The Comedy Channel. He has coined the phrase "touch it" as his sign-off message for the show.

Also in 2006, Knight starred in a short film

Film

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 directed by Lee Rogers (husband of Kate Ceberano

Kate Ceberano

Kate Ceberano is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film...

), called What's The Matter? It had been accepted into the 2006 Los Angeles Short Film Festival and had its world premiere there.

In 2007, Knight was the host of the Australia heat of Last Comic Standing season 5 which aired on Fox8

FOX8

Fox8 is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms...

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Knight is currently a member of Sydney based singing group, MANCHOIR

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