1. Steve Byrne was born on July 21,1974 and is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
20 Facts About Steve Byrne
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Steve Byrne graduated from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
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Steve Byrne's mother is Korean and his father is of Irish descent.
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Steve Byrne was exposed to stand up comedy while working at the comedy club Caroline's in New York City.
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In 2003, Steve Byrne filmed the documentary film 13 or Bust, where he did 13 shows in one night at every comedy club in Manhattan, breaking the record for most sets in one night by a comedian.
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Steve Byrne has participated in USO tours of Afghanistan in June 2008, Japan and Guam in July 2009 and Afghanistan again in 2010.
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Steve Byrne has had small parts in several films: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, starring Jeremy Piven and produced by Will Ferrell; Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon; and Couples Retreat, starring Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau.
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Steve Byrne filmed his third hour special Feb 8th in New York City in 2014, called Champion, for Netflix.
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Steve Byrne toured with the other comedians and co-stars of the show Owen Benjamin, Ahmed Ahmed and Roy Wood Jr.
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Steve Byrne moved into California in 2016 to move closer to his family were he is still today.
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Steve Byrne spent the early part of 2018 directing a documentary about Las Vegas headliner, magician and comedian The Amazing Johnathan, entitled Always Amazin'.
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Steve Byrne directed the film, which was released October 16,2020.
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Steve Byrne was featured on the NBC series The Real Wedding Crashers and a featured comedian on The Tonight Show appearing ten times.
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Steve Byrne has made appearances on Chappelle's Show, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, @midnight, The History Channel's "History of the Joke," Mad TV's 300th episode and Super Bowl promos on CBS with Prince and again with Bill Cowher.
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Steve Byrne has appeared on the Showtime comedy series Live Nude Comedy and shot a pilot for the G4 Network based on a Japanese Game Show called Drunken Businessman.
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Steve Byrne was the winner of the MySpace Standup Or Sitdown competition on TBS.
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Steve Byrne has been a featured comic in The Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Las Vegas the TBS Very Funny Festivals in Chicago and Toronto and The CanWest Comedy Fest in Vancouver.
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Steve Byrne 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.
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Steve Byrne has opened for musical acts Kanye West, Mariah Carey on her Charmbracelet Tour, Modest Mouse, Puddle of Mudd, Spoon, Rev Horton Heat, and Kings of Leon.