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Dave Keystone is a Canadian television host, humorist, writer, and producer, recently nominated for the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Host of a Web Program for his work on Small Talk on CBC Kids. He is best known as host of Corus Entertainment's Cook'd on YTV, and co-creator and host of the viral web-series Kids On, a 16-part program where he seeks dating advice from kids, and the host and co-creator of the ‘CBC Kids’ spin-off series, Small Talk, where he seeks life advice from kids. Small Talk was recently renewed for a 3rd season to be released in 2018.

Dave produced and hosts the recently released program, Who We Are, an interview series designed to inspire social consciousness through candid conversations. Exploring intimate details of the personal identities of our most extraordinary, the series gives us rare access and insight into the truth of the human condition.

Dave is also a well-established Snapchatter, most recently hired by Icelandic airline WOW-AIR to travel the world and snap his experiences. He was the first person ever to be invited to takeover College Humor’s snap account, and has done takeovers for other influential brands, including: The Shorty Awards, Hostelworld, Busabout, Ghostcodes, Visit Berlin, The Shopping Channel, and more. For his work on Snapchat he was nominated for the 2016 Ghosty Award for Snapchat Storyteller of the Year, and the 2017 Shorty Award for Snapchatter of the Year.

Dave produced and hosts the viral web-series, Sex On The Street TV, an interview series that tackles otherwise thought of as taboo sex subjects without taking sex too seriously. In its first week of release it exceeded half a million views and was featured on the front page of FunnyOrDie.com.

At 19, Alliance Atlantis cast Dave as a principal lead on Canada’s yearlong reality show, U8TV: The Lofters, where he hosted and co-produced hundreds of hours of original television and digital programming. The Lofters aired on The Life Network.

In film, Dave co-produced the iTunes chart-topping documentary, The Sheik, profiling the life of ex-professional wrestler, The Iron Sheik. The Sheik was featured at the 2014 Hot Docs Film Festival and voted in to the festival's Audience Top 20 Picks.