Ed Byrne
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- This article refers to the Irish comedian Ed Byrne, for details on the British actor, see Eddie Byrne. For the member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, see Ed Byrne (politician).
Ed Byrne (born April 10, 1972 in Swords, Dublin) is a stand up comedian from Ireland and is probably best known as being the voice of the Carphone Warehouse adverts. He had presented television shows Uncut! Best Unseen Ads and Just For Laughs, and is a regular guest on The Panel, Channel 4 comedy quiz 8 Out of 10 Cats and BBC2's Mock The Week. In 2006 he toured the UK, recording a DVD in Leeds, entitled Pedantic and Whimsical. He has also appeared in Father Ted. On February 3, 2007 Byrne appeared on a comedians special editon of The Weakest Link. Byrne has performed six sell-out Edinburgh Festival runs (including 2004) and three sell-out UK tours. He has also developed huge success on the international circuit where he has performed to capacity audiences in Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Mr.Byrne was found guilty in 2001 but got away with communty service. Ed has since garnered a raft of major broadcast credits, including five US appearanes on Late Night With Conan O'Brien (NBC).
Ed is currently featured in a series of comedy shorts on the MSN Video Channel[1] in which he discusses some of his pet hates, including 'occasional smokers' and his girlfriend's snoring.
In 2007, he featured on episode 4 of series 20 on comedy panel quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, to which he was the subject of reasonable mockery due to the very little amount of work he has done in his career.
