Steve Byrne
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| Born | July 21, 1974 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian |
Steve Byrne (born July 21, 1974) is a stand-up comedian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1]
Byrne has a new one hour special premiering on March 29 on Comedy Central titled Steve Byrne's Happy Hour. Byrne was 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 300 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 and The CanWest Comedy Fest in Vancouver.
He has featured for Colin Quinn on a USO tour in Iraq as well as for Drew Carey in Afghanistan and is embarking on his own USO tour of Afghanistan in June of 2008. 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 last year 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 just filmed small parts in the upcoming films, "The Goods: The Don Ready Story" starring Jeremy Piven and produced by Will Ferrell and "Four Christmases" starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon.
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