Steve Byrne

TV Highlights Jimmy Kimmel Live, Premium Blend, Last Call w/ Carson Daly, The Late, Late Show w/ Craig Kilborn, Comedy Central Presents

Why Is This Comic On the Site? Literally the hardest working man in comedy, Byrne possesses a simply insane work ethic. He recently set a precedent by doing 13 gigs in 7 different clubs throughout NYC - in one night...Very Energetic & physical, Steve draws comparisons to Dane Cook's style...Byrne takes a beating from all of the Comedy Cellar regulars but is loved by all...Half Asian & half Irish, Steve has toned down his ethnic material a great deal in the past few months...A great guy to know, Steve is caring & compassionate to his fans. Plus he sends very well written & polite emails like the half Asian that he is

Official Bio: Byrne is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and of half Irish and half Korean descent.[1]

Byrne had a one-hour special on Comedy Central in 2008 titled Steve Byrne's Happy Hour. Byrne was also featured on the NBC series The Real Wedding Crashers and a featured comic on The Tonight Show. He has made appearances on Chappelle's Show, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, The History Channel's "History of the Joke," Mad TV's 300th episode and a Super Bowl promo on CBS with Prince and Bill Cowher. His stand-up has been featured on The Late Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, BET's ComicView, ABC’s Good Morning America as well as Comedy Central's Premium Blend. He has been a featured comic in The Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Las Vegas the TBS Very Funny Festival in Chicago, the TBS Very Funny Festival in Toronto and The CanWest Comedy Fest in Vancouver. Recently, he has appeared on the new Showtime comedy series "Live Nude Comedy" and shot a pilot for the G4 Network based on a Japanese Game Show called "Drunken Businessman". Byrne is currently on the road preparing for his second hour special for Comedy Central taping in the fall of 2009 called "The Byrne Identity".

He has featured for Colin Quinn on a USO tour in Iraq as well as for Drew Carey in Afghanistan and embarked on his own USO tour of Afghanistan in June 2008 and Japan and Guam in July of 2009. He has been part of several national comedy tours including The Jameson Comedy Tour, Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Tour, and The Camel Cigarettes Sin City Tour, and his own national MySpace tour. He has opened for musical acts Kanye West, Mariah Carey on her Charmbracelet Tour, Modest Mouse, Puddle of Mudd, Spoon, Rev. Horton Heat and many more.

His Comedy Central Presents Half Hour Special premiered in 2006 and was voted the seventeenth most popular Comedy Central Presents by fans as part of the Standup Showdown on comedycentral.com. He also was the winner of the MySpace Standup Or Sitdown competition on TBS. He has small parts in the films, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard starring Jeremy Piven and produced by Will Ferrell and Four Christmases starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon and Couples Retreat with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau.