In just a few short years, Steve Byrne has risen through the ranks of the comedy world to become one
of the industry’s most innovative and sought-after performers. With his high-energy, physical style of
comedy, Byrne has evolved throughout the years into an extremely versatile entertainer that delivers
on a day-to-day basis. Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA, Steve Byrne was born to a Korean mother and an
Irish father, which continues to provide him with an inordinate wealth of comedic material. Byrne’s
most recent hour special, The Byrne Identity, premiered last year on Comedy Central to rave reviews.
After winning TBS’ cutthroat competition, the Myspace Standup or Sitdown Comedy Challenge, Byrne
was hurtled into a brilliant television and film career. As his popularity began to expand, Byrne was
featured in his very own half-hour Comedy Central Presents which was soon voted as one of the best
specials of all time in the Comedy Central Standup Showdown. His hilarious standup has been seen on
NBC’s The Tonight Show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS’s The Late Late Show and BET’s Comic View.
In 2008, Byrne’s first one-hour special, Steve Byrne’s Happy Hour, premiered on Comedy Central and
further cemented his star status. Packing an impressively wide range of appeal, Byrne’s comedy soon
landed him on the The History of the Joke on the History Channel and the Discovery Channel’s The
Science of Laughter. He has since appeared on some of TV’s hottest shows including ABC’s The Middle,
The Chapelle Show, G4’s The International Sexy Ladies Show, The Howard Stern Show, Tough Crowd
with Colin Quinn, The Very Funny Show and was a series regular on NBC’s The Real Wedding Crashers.
A true international comedian, Byrne has performed to sold-out crowds around the world. He has been
a featured comic at the Just for Laughs Festival (in Montreal, Toronto and Chicago), HBO’s US Comedy
Arts Festival in Las Vegas and the CanWest Comedy Fest in Vancouver. He has been part of several
national comedy tours including The Jameson Comedy Tour, Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Tour,
The Kims of Comedy, The Camel Cigarettes Sin City Tour, and his own national Myspace Comedy tour.
Byrne even had the honor of opening for esteemed musical acts such as Kanye West, Mariah Carey,
Modest Mouse, Puddle of Mudd, Spoon, Rev. Horton Heat and many more. As a big supporter of the US
troops, Steve also headlined several USO tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, Japan and Guam.
Byrne has appeared in the hit comedies The Dilemma, Couples Retreat, Four Christmases and The
Goods: The Don Ready Story. His 2006 documentary, 13 or Bust, chronicles the attempt to perform 13
comedy shows in Manhattan in one night.
