Bio
Steve Byrne is an American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his starring role as Steve Sullivan in the television sitcom Sullivan & Son, since 2012.
Hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Byrne was born to a Korean mother and an Irish father. His unique background gave him the comedic material for his first television show, Sullivan & Son.
After winning TBS's cutthroat competition, The Myspace Standup or Sitdown Comedy Challenge, Byrne was hurtled into a nonstop television and film career.
As his popularity began to expand, Byrne was featured in his own half-hour Comedy Central Presents, which was voted as one of the best specials of all time in the Comedy Central Standup Showdown.
His brand of standup has been seen on The Tonight Show, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show and 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 a number of television shows including The Middle, The Chappelle Show, The International Sexy Ladies Show, The Howard Stern Show, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and TBS's The Very Funny Show.
He was also a series regular on NBC's The Real Wedding Crashers and his special, The Byrne Identity, premiered in 2010 on Comedy Central to rave reviews.
Byrne has performed to 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 honour of opening for such esteemed musical acts such as Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Modest Mouse, Puddle of Mudd, Spoon, the Rev. Horton Heat and many more.
As a big supporter of the US troops, Byrne also headlined several USO tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, Japan and Guam.
On the big screen, Byrne has appeared in the 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.