Ed Byrne
‘His wit won deafening cheers and feet stomping’
THE GUARDIAN
“Delightful lead performance from Ed Byrne”
Scotsman (Edinburgh festival 2003)
‘Dazzling’
SUNDAY TIMES
As an observational stand up Ed Byrne is considered unrivalled. He has performed 3 hit UK tours, performed 2 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, 1999, 2002, 2003, Canada (Just For Laughs tours), Dublin, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand. At both the Melbourne and New Zealand Comedy Festivals Ed is their largest selling performer. Ed’s draw is such that in New Zealand only 1 other international comedian can top his sales, being Billy Connolly! In the USA Ed has performed at US Comedy Arts Festival (Aspen), plus top comedy clubs in New York and LA and has made a phenomenal 5 appearances on Late Night With Conan O’Brien (NBC).
Ed is now actively and seriously developing his acting career.
Ed has filmed a feature film, RAT (Universal Films (UK)) produced by Alison Owen (Ruby Films) where he plays the role of Rudolph.
Radio includes a comedy play, The Pig’s Back (BBC Radio 4) and the Griff Rhys Jones sketch show (radio pilot).
For television Ed has his first part in a Father Ted Christmas Special as a ‘grungy teenager’.
He then acted in the ITV/LWT Christmas Day Panto, Aladdin. Ed played Aladdin opposite Patsy Kensit as the Princess.
Recently he was seen 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).
This year Ed has made his acting debut at the Edinburgh Festival where he took on the lead role in Brian McAvera’s (Picasso’s Women) ‘Kings Of The Road’ which transfers to Dublin’s Ambassador’s Theatre for 3 weeks in October after a short run at Greenwich Theatre 30 Sept-4 Oct)
Ed has made numerous other appearances including Celebrity Weakest Link, BBC Northern Ireland Children In Need, Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank, They Think It’s All Over, Des O’Connor Tonight, Royal Variety Performance, Live At The Palladium and for RTE has recorded 2 series of ‘Ed Byrne’s Just For Laughs’ recorded at Just For Laughs Montreal.
On top of all of this Ed performs stand up at an enormous amount of corporate events and can be heard more or less continually as the voice of The Carphone Warehouse on both their radio and TV commercials.
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
“A comedian with everything going for him, Ed Byrne has all the attributes to upgrade to the big time…See him”
THE INDEPENDENT
“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
