#279: Cameron James - Chasing Fun

Cameron James is an award-winning stand-up comedian, musician and
storyteller across stages, screens, boomboxes and podcasts. 


As seen on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Gala, Spicks & Specks, Guy Mont-Spelling
Bee, Bump and more. He’s won countless rave
reviews for his completely unique “rockstar without a band”
comedy style; blending songs as catchy as they are funny,
painfully true stories and sharp improvisation. 


In 2024, Cam partnered up with Aussie music legend Ben Lee’s
indie record label to release his own comedy music, with his
single “Medium D*ck” racking up tens of thousands of Spotify
streams and over 9 million views on Instagram and YouTube. His
most recent one-hour solo shows, Electric Dreams and
Mixtape have sold out around the country, earning him the
Director’s Choice Award at Sydney Comedy Festival and a
nomination for the highly coveted Most Outstanding Show Award at
Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He’s won multiple awards
including the Raw Comedy National Runner Up in 2012, multiple
AWGIE Awards for Best Comedy Writing, and an APA Award for Best
Entertainment Podcast. Cam has appeared on TV screens in Bump,
Utopia, WTFAQ, Question Everything, At Home Alone Together, and
his own comedy special on ABC’s Comedy Next Gen in 2018.


As a sought-after comedy writer, Cam has served multiple seasons
on Gruen, Take 5, We Interrupt This Broadcast, At Home Alone
Together, Win The Week and Channel Seven’s Celebrity Roasts. As
head comedy writer on The Feed he’s won multiple AWG awards.
Whilst all of this is impressive, Cameron’s passion is creating
his own comedy projects, from his beloved cult sketch series with
Becky Lucas, The Becky & Cam Show, to the hit YouTube/Screen
Australia series Finding Yeezus and the podcasts Finding
Drago and Finding Desperado. The Finding series has
amassed an audience of over 1.5 million around the globe, and has
been described by The Australian as “tremendously bonkers” and by
The AV Club as “brilliantly silly”.


He is currently touring his new show “Broken
Records” across Australia. Cameron James has been in
just about every kind of band you can imagine from reggae to punk
to rock and more making Broken Records the perfect show for the
comic to bust his rock n roll and comedy chops on. Get ready to
dig into Cam’s record crate of his life, pinballing from
hilariously true stories to cutting cultural
commentary to full-blown pop songs.


Following a sell-out 2024 season, Melbourne International Comedy
Festival Most Outstanding Show nominee, Sydney Comedy
Festival Director’s Choice winner and Bad Boy of Musical
Comedy* (*self-proclaimed), Cameron James is back with his
biggest rock ‘n’ roll show yet. Cam will tour Broken
Records across Australia with songs and stories sure to
crack audiences up.


We chat about his love of Mike Myers, being stabbed and giving up
being in a band, full circle moment with music, embracing his
voice and authenticity, new shows coming up, collaborating
buddies and thriving together, working with Ben Lee, getting a
pilot made, rejection, trying new things plus plenty more!



Check Cam out on:


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamcameronjames

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamcameronjames

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/whoiscameronjames


Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4l1R6LtudMUtfjJLUL35Jn?si=yqs8FWvSR-qcH7bXVXAYzQ 


Comedy tickets:
https://www.livenation.com.au/cameron-james-tickets-adp1448822



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