‘His wit won deafening cheers and feet stomping’ The Guardian
‘Delightful lead performance from Ed Byrne’ The Scotsman
‘Dazzling’ The Sunday Times
As an observational stand up Ed Byrne is unrivalled. He has performed hit UK tours, solo runs at Dublin’s Gaiety and Ambassador Theatres and has made his London West End debut in a 2 week run at The New Ambassadors Theatre. He has also developed huge success on the international circuit where he has performed to capacity audiences in Montreal (Just For Laughs festivals), Canada (Just For Laughs tours), Ireland, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Belgium and New Zealand.
In the USA Ed has performed at US Comedy Arts Festival (Aspen), plus top comedy clubs in New York and LA and has made 5 appearances on Late Night With Conan O’Brien (NBC).
To date his films include, RAT (Universal Films (UK)) produced by Alison Owen (Ruby Films) where he plays a supporting role of Rudolph, a cameo in I Could Never Be Your Woman (Universal), a co-lead role in Are You Ready For Love (Carnaby Films) and the lead role in Zemanovaload (writer/Dir: Jason Rothwell, distributor: Red Bus). In this dramatic role Ed portrays his character, a screenwriter with obsessive tendencies with great sympathy.
For television Ed was in a Father Ted Christmas Special as a ‘grungy teenager’, the ITV/LWT Christmas Day Panto, Aladdin where he played Aladdin opposite Patsy Kensit. He was co-lead as Davina McColl’s flatmate ‘Alex’ in the ITV sitcom, Sam’s Game. Following this he played the lead role of Barry Cassidy for RTE’s The Cassidy’s (6 part sitcom). He has also featured in BBC’s Doctors as Mickey Moran a wheeling, dealing ducker and diver.
Ed has made numerous other appearances including presenting various shows such as his own 6 part series Ed Byrne’s Just For Laughs (4 series) for RTE, various voice over’s and presenting to camera using Blue Screen, numerous panel, stand up and chat shows. Recently Ed has made some sparkling appearances on Mock The Week (numerous), 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Graham Norton’s Bigger Picture and Have I Got News For You.
Ed’s theatre work has included the lead role in Brian McAvera’s (Picasso’s Women) ‘Kings Of The Road’ which played Edinburgh Festival for the full 3 week run in 2004 before transferring to Dublin’s Ambassador’s Theatre for 3 weeks after a short run at Greenwich Festival and Winchester Theatre Royal.
On top of all of this Ed performs stand up at a huge amount of corporate events (hosting awards show or after dinner stand up) and has been heard over the past 8 years as the voice of the Carphone Warehouse on their radio and TV commercials and TV sponsorship idents.
In July 2006 Ed was given the enormous honour of HOSTING the 2006 Just For Laughs Festival (Montreal) Irish Gala at the St Denis Theatre. Following this Ed performed his latest show, Standing Up and Falling Down at the Edinburgh Festival where he was the biggest selling comedy show he then followed this up with a promotional tour for his stand up DVD , Pedantic and Whimsical (Warner Vision).
February 2007 saw Ed perform a hugely successful residency with Standing Up and Falling Down at Riverside Studios, London followed by April and May performing this show at the Melbourne and New Zealand comedy festivals to capacity audiences. So far in 2008 Ed has performed in Bermuda for Just For Laughs, Rome, France, Switzerland and Ireland. In August he returns to the Edinburgh Festival with a brand new show for the full 3 week run at Assembly Halls, followed by a UK and Ireland tour including a 5 week residency at Riverside Studios London 8 Sept-12 Oct. Ed has just filmed a half hour stand up special for Paramount Comedy Channel which will be transmitted later in the year. Ed is currently developing a radio show with Celador for BBC Radio 2.
‘He’ll make you smile, he’ll make you laugh, he’ll make you want to fall in love with him’ The Stage
ED BYRNE – PRESS QUOTES
‘Comic gold…Lovable.. You just stand up and cheer with everybody else’ INDEPENDENT
‘Catch him before he’s swallowed up by global fame’ THE GUARDIAN
‘Tickets for his shows are like gold dust…Truly a master of the art of comedy’ THE LIST
‘Charming his way to the top’ EXPRESS
‘You’ll laugh so much that laughing will become more normal than breathing!’
THE STAGE
‘Jokes come so fast that hecklers don’t have a chance to get a word in edgeways’ THE TIMES
‘Hottest tip this year is Ed Byrne…Fluent, assured and wicked’ THE SUNDAY TIMES
‘It is rare for comedy to merit the word ‘masterful’ but in this case it’s no overstatement’ THE SCOTMAN
‘His set had the audience in stitches for most of the evening – they roared their approval at the end – but he is technically excellent as well, the sure sign of a comic on the cusp of a major league career. 1998 is proving a good year for comedy on the Fringe and it does not come better than this’ THE STAGE
‘Utterly charming’ THE LIST
‘Astoundingly polished material’ The SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
He’ll make you smile, he’ll make you laugh, he’ll make you want to fall in love with him’ THE STAGE
‘This charming man may well be threatening to give stand-up a good name’ THE LIST
‘Byrne looks destined to be a comic who will inspire as many swoons as guffaws’ THE SCOTSMAN
‘He describes himself as a stick insect rather than sex symbol but the high proportion of women hanging onto his every witticism suggests otherwise. He may be thin and weedy but his material certainly is not’ DAILY EXPRESS
‘In complete rapport with his capacity audience’ SCOTSMAN
‘A stunningly original piece of work…. a real comedy star’ IRISH TIMES
‘The audience went into raptures and insisted on an encore’ TIME OUT
‘His wit won deafening cheers and feet stomping’ THE GUARDIAN
‘Dazzling’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘He is given a tumultuous welcome. By the end of the night heady anticipation has turned into something close to rapture’ TIME OUT, Maclolm Hay
Television and Radio, 1996-2005
The Sean Moncrieff Show (RTE)
Live At Jongleurs (IMWP/UK Gold, series 1, 2 , 3 and 4)
The Comedy Store, (Open Mike Productions/CH5, series 1, 2 and 3)
The Comedy Store St Patrick’s Night Special (Open Mike Productions/CH5)
Funny Business (Channel X/ITV)
Stand Up Show, (BBC,series 2, 3 and 4)
The Comedy Network (Avalon TV/CH5)
The Live 6 Show (Action Time/B Sky B)
Good Stuff (Carlton x 3)
Space Cadets (Wark Clements/CH4)
Last TV (RTE)
Call My Bluff (BBC)
‘Hot’ Music Awards Special (presenter/MTV)
Don’t Feed The Gondolas (RTE)
Father Ted Christmas Special (Hat Trick/1996, rpt ’97, rpt ’98, CH4, ‘grungy teenager’)
The Entertainment Biz (FFP/BBC)
Comedy Spotlight (Comcast, USA)
The Jack Docherty Show (Absolutely Productions x 4/CH5)
Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment (United Film and TV/CH5, x 2)
Hot (presenter/MTV)
Vinyl Tap (Freeform Films/presenter/music/CH4)
Edinburgh Nights (BBC Scotland/BBC)
The Green Green Grass Of Home (Subject of documentary/Power Pictures/RTE)
The Take (presenter/BBC Choice)
Net.Comedy (Action Time/On Digital)
Stop The World (BBC Choice)
Loafers (BBC North/BBC Choice)
The Comedy Game (Celador/ITV2)
Des O’Connor Tonight (x 2 ITV)
Edinburgh Nights Comedy Special (BBC)
Jesus Green (sitcom pilot/Absolutely Productions)
Sunday Nights At The Palladium (ITV)
Royal Variety Performance (ITV)
British Comedy Awards (ITV)
Late Night With Conan O’Brien (NBC, USA x 6, 1998, 99 and 2000)
Head On Comedy (BBC1)
Sam’s Game (Pilot, Tandem TV/ITV)
Aladdin (LWT/ITV – lead role)
Blankey Blank (ITV, x 2)
Sam’s Game (ITV, 6 pt series, Chrysalis Television, co-lead)
Mikey Robins’ Special (Channel 10, Australia, interview)
Dales Celebrity Other Half (BBC1)
The Cassidys (Graph Films/RTE – lead role)
Late Late Show (RTE, interview)
Dublin Nights (Planet Wild, Channel Four, interview)
Joy Of Text (BBC1, stand up)
They Think It’s All Over (BBC)
BBC Northern Ireland Children In Need (Presenter 12pm-1AM, BBC NI)
Weakest Link Comedians Special (BBC, contestant)
Meteor Irish Music Awards (RTE, Host 2005, 2003)
I Love 1990s (BBC, contributor)
I Love Father Christmas (BBC, contributor)
Test The Nation (BBC 1, contestant, celebrity team)
The Panel (RTE, 3 series)
Best Unseen TV Ads (SKY)
Ed Byrne’s Just For Laughs (RTE 4 series)
TV Firsts (UKTV)
I Love The Muppets (BBC, contributor)
Live Floor Show (BBC Scotland, stand up)
Kelly Show (UTV, interview)
It’s Only TV But…. (BBC, pannelist)
Big Brother’s Little Brother (CH4/E4, guest)
Stand Up Britain (Granada/ITV, Host)
Ed Byrne’s Just For Laughs (RTE, Host, 4 series)
Pure 24 (BBC, guest)
Doctors (BBC, featured actor, 1 ep)
TV Firsts (UK TV host)
Street Cred Sudoku (UKG2, team leader)
8 Out Of 10 Cats (Zeppotron/BBC)
Life In Music (VH1 guest)
War Of The Worlds (MTV, guest)
The World Stands Up (stand up, 2 series, Paramount/ Comedy Central/BBC USA)
Blame Game (BBC N Ireland, panelist)
Sky One Sunday (promo idents, Sky 1)
Liffey Laughs (RTE stand up)
The Rant (solo performance, Title Role Productions, ITV)
Comedy Casino (3 Keys TV, Belgium)
My Hometown International (CBC, Canada, Winnipeg Comedy Festival Gala stand up)
Comedy Greats (Visial Voodoo CH4)
Irish Gala Just For Laughs (CBC)
Mock The Week (BBC2006 and2007 various)
Heaven and Earth Show (BBC)
Graham Norton’s Bigger Picture (BBC)
T4 (CH4)
Transmission (CH4)
Have I Got News For You (BBC)
Buzzcocks (BBC)
Feature Film:
Comic Act (‘stand-up comedian’/Spider Pictures)
RAT (‘Rudolph’ Universal Films UK/Ruby Films, Producer: Alison Owen)
Zemanovaload (Lead role, Zema Productions, Producer Jayson Rothwell. Distributor: Red Bus)
I Could Never Be Your Woman (I Could Never Ltd, cameo)
Are You Ready For Love (Carnaby Films, co lead)
Radio Includes:
ED BYRNE Show (London Live, Host)
National Student Radio Awards (BBC Radio, Host)
The Pig’s Back (BBC Radio 2, Comedy Play/actor)
Griff Rhys Jones Sketch Show (BBC Radio/actor)
4 At The Store (stand up)
Clive Anderson’s Chat Room (BBC R4)
Wise Buddah (host various quiz shows, Napster)
Theatre
Kings Of The Road, lead Role (Writer Brian McAvera, Dir: Chris Parr), Edinburgh Festival, Ambassadors Dublin, Winchester Theatre Royal, Greenwich Theatre 2003)
The Act (Writer: Ed Byrne, Brendan Burns) Edinburgh Festival 1997
As an observa
tional stand up Ed Byrne is unrivalled. He has played in major comedy venues across the UK and Ireland, including the Vaudeville, Riverside, and New Ambassadors theatres in London, and the Gaiety, Olympia, Ambassador, and Vicar St. theatres in Dublin. His UK tours are always hugely popular and well received by the critics.
“His wit won deafening cheers and feet stomping” The Guardian
“Delightful lead performance from Ed Byrne” The Scotsman
“Dazzling” The Sunday Times
He has also found huge success on the international circuit where he has performed to capacity audiences at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, on Just for Laughs tours across Canada, at the Festival in Montreal, and at festival and tour gigs in Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Belgium and New Zealand.
Ed has also performed at the US Comedy Arts Festival (Aspen) and at top comedy clubs in New York and LA; he has made five appearances on NBC’s Late Night With Conan O’Brien.
Film appearances include the role of Rudolph in RAT (Universal Films (UK), a cameo in I Could Never Be Your Woman (Universal), a co-lead role in Are You Ready For Love (Carnaby Films) and the lead role in Zemanovaload (distributor: Red Bus).
Ed often appears as a guest on television panel shows including the BBC’s Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You, and he has been a presenter on such shows as RTE’s Ed Byrne’s Just for Laughs, which ran for four series. He has also made memorable appearances on shows such as the BBC’s Graham Norton’s Bigger Picture and Never mind the Buzzcocks. Ed is also developing a radio show for the BBC.
Ed’s television acting roles include
“grungy teenager” in the Father Ted Christmas Special
Aladdin in the ITV/LWT Christmas Day Panto, Aladdin, opposite Patsy Kensit
Alex in the ITV/LWT sitcom Sam’s Game, with Davina McCall
Barry Cassidy in the RTE sitcom The Cassidys
Mickey Moran in BBC’s Doctors
He has also done voiceover work in prominent television ad campaigns.
Theatre roles have includ
ed the lead in Kings of the Road, by Brian McAvera, which played at the Edinburgh Festival for three weeks in 2004, the Ambassador Theatre in Dublin for a three-week run, and a short run at the Greenwich Festival and the Theatre Royal in Winchester.
In July 2006 Ed was given the enormous honour of hosting the 2006 Just For Laughs Festival Irish Gala at the St Denis Theatre in Montreal. His 2006 Edinburgh show–Standing Up and Falling Down– was the biggest-selling comedy show at the Fringe Festival that year. He followed this with a promotional tour for his stand-up DVD, Pedantic and Whimsical (Warner Vision).
February 2007 saw Ed perform a hugely successful residency with Standing Up and Falling Down at Riverside Studios, London. In April and May he took the show to comedy festivals in Australia and New Zealand where he played to capacity audiences.
In 2008 Ed performed in Bermuda, Montreal, Rome, France, Switzerland, and Ireland, before wowing audiences and critics alike with a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe with his latest show Different Class. He went on to a five-week residency at the Riverside Studios in London, a highly successful run at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre, and is currently touring the UK.
Ed’s new DVD, Different Class, is now available from all good DVD retailers.
‘He’ll make you smile, he’ll make you laugh, he’ll make you want to fall in love with him’ The Stage
Television and Radio
The Sean Moncrieff Show (RTE)
Live At Jongleurs (IMWP/UK Gold, series 1, 2 , 3 and 4)
The Comedy Store (Open Mike Productions/CH5, series 1, 2 and 3)
The Comedy Store St Patrick’s Night Special (Open Mike Productions/CH5)
Funny Business (Channel X/ITV)
Stand Up Show (BBC,series 2, 3 and 4)
The Comedy Network (Avalon TV/CH5)
The Live 6 Show (Action Time/B Sky B)
Good Stuff (Carlton)
Space Cadets (Wark Clements/CH4)
Last TV (RTE)
Call My Bluff (BBC)
‘Hot’ Music Awards Special (presenter/MTV)
Don’t Feed The Gondolas (RTE)
Father Ted Christmas Special (Hat Trick/CH4, ‘grungy teenager’)
The Entertainment Biz (FFP/BBC)
Comedy Spotlight (Comcast, USA)
The Jack Docherty Show (Absolutely Productions/CH5)
Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment (United Film and TV/CH5)
Hot (presenter/MTV)
Vinyl Tap (Freeform Films/presenter/music/CH4)
Edinburgh Nights (BBC Scotland/BBC)
The Green Green Grass Of Home (Subject of documentary/Power Pictures/RTE)
The Take (presenter/BBC Choice)
Net.Comedy (Action Time/On Digital)
Stop The World (BBC Choice)
Loafers (BBC North/BBC Choice)
The Comedy Game (Celador/ITV2)
Des O’Connor Tonight (ITV)
Edinburgh Nights Comedy Special (BBC)
Jesus Green (sitcom pilot/Absolutely Productions)
Sunday Nights At The Palladium (ITV)
Royal Variety Performance (ITV)
British Comedy Awards (ITV)
Late Night With Conan O’Brien (NBC, USA; five appearances)
Head On Comedy (BBC1)
Aladdin (LWT/ITV – lead role)
Blankey Blank (ITV)
Sam’s Game (ITV, 6 pt series, Chrysalis Television, co-lead)
Mikey Robins’ Special (Channel 10, Australia, interview)
Dale’s Celebrity Other Half (BBC1)
The Cassidys (Graph Films/RTE – lead role)
Late Late Show (RTE, interview)
Dublin Nights (Planet Wild, Channel Four, interview)
Joy Of Text (BBC1, stand up)
They Think It’s All Over (BBC)
BBC Northern Ireland Children In Need (Presenter 12pm-1AM, BBC NI)
Weakest Link Comedians Special (BBC, contestant)
Meteor Irish Music Awards (RTE, Host 2005, 2003)
I Love the 1990s (BBC, contributor)
I Love Father Christmas (BBC, contributor)
Test The Nation (BBC 1, contestant, celebrity team)
The Panel (RTE; 3 series)
Best Unseen TV Ads (SKY)
Ed Byrne’s Just For Laughs (RTE; 4 series)
TV Firsts (UKTV)
I Love The Muppets (BBC, contributor)
Live Floor Show (BBC Scotland, stand up)
Kelly Show (UTV, interview)
It’s Only TV But…. (BBC, pannelist)
Big Brother’s Little Brother (CH4/E4, guest)
Stand Up Britain (Granada/ITV, Host)
Ed Byrne’s Just For Laughs (RTE, Host, 4 series)
Pure 24 (BBC, guest)
Doctors (BBC, featured actor, 1 ep)
TV Firsts (UK TV host)
Street Cred Sudoku (UKG2, team leader)
8 Out Of 10 Cats (Zeppotron/BBC)
Life In Music (VH1 guest)
War Of The Worlds (MTV, guest)
The World Stands Up (stand up, 2 series, Paramount/ Comedy Central/BBC USA)
The Blame Game (BBC N Ireland, panelist)
Sky One Sunday (promo idents, Sky 1)
Liffey Laughs (RTE stand up)
The Rant (solo performance, Title Role Productions, ITV)
Comedy Casino (3 Keys TV, Belgium)
My Hometown International (CBC, Canada, Winnipeg Comedy Festival Gala stand up)
Comedy Greats (Visual Voodoo CH4)
Irish Gala Just For Laughs (CBC)
Mock The Week (BBC)
Heaven and Earth Show (BBC)
Graham Norton’s Bigger Picture (BBC)
T4 (CH4)
Transmission (CH4)
Have I Got News For You (BBC)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC)
Feature Film
Comic Act (‘stand-up comedian’/Spider Pictures)
RAT (‘Rudolph’ Universal Films UK/Ruby Films, Producer: Alison Owen)
Zemanovaload (Lead role, Zema Productions, Producer Jayson Rothwell. Distributor: Red Bus)
I Could Never Be Your Woman (I Could Never Ltd, cameo)
Are You Ready For Love (Carnaby Films, co lead)
Radio
ED BYRNE Show (London Live, Host)
National Student Radio Awards (BBC Radio, Host)
The Pig’s Back (BBC Radio 2, Comedy Play/actor)
Griff Rhys Jones Sketch Show (BBC Radio/actor)
4 At The Store (stand up)
Clive Anderson’s Chat Room (BBC R4)
Wise Buddah (host various quiz shows, Napster)
Theatre
Kings Of The Road, lead Role (Writer Brian McAvera, Dir: Chris Parr), Edinburgh Festival, Ambassadors Dublin, Winchester Theatre Royal, Greenwich Theatre 2003)
The Act (Writer: Ed Byrne, Brendan Burns) Edinburgh Festival 1997
