One of the UK’s favourite TV household names once more extends his nationwide tour of British Comedy Guide’s Best Comedy Show 2023, and his most personal show to date, into 2025!
From the quote attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Come and join one of our leading laugh specialists as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs.
With his TV career now in its third decade, Ed has regularly appeared on the likes of QI, Mock The Week, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled, The Pilgrimage, Dara and Ed’s Road to Mandalay, Dara & Ed’s Big Adventure, The Graham Norton Show and Have I Got News For You, as well as hosting Live At The Apollo and Comic Relief Bake Off. He was recently seen as a contestant on BBC One’s Celebrity Best Home Cook (where he made it to show 5 out of 8 – not bad!) and he has also won (yes, won!) celebrity versions of both The Chase and Pointless!
Known for his passion for the outdoors (hill walking and mountaineering are major hobbies), Ed can be seen turning his presenting skills to factual broadcasting in BBC Two’s Volcano Live, World’s Most Dangerous Roads (where he spent two weeks driving through Siberia) and Into The Wild with Gordon Buchanan.
With legions of fans both in the UK and abroad, Ed remains the observational stand-up to see.
https://edbyrne.com / TWITTER: @MrEdByrne
For up-to-date tour listings, please visit https://edbyrne.com/live-dates/
Press on Tragedy Plus Time (Edinburgh 2023)
✭✭✭✭✭ “Hilarious, extremely dark, profoundly touching and resolutely unsentimental. Ed Byrne has plumbed the very depths of his soul and found something verging on greatness” ROLLING STONE UK
✭✭✭✭✭ “A fantastically funny and moving monologue where there is no doubt that we are seeing the authentic Ed… Byrne has hit new heights” LONDON EVENING STANDARD
✭✭✭✭✭ “A delicate, sensitive high-wire act of a show, yet Byrne never once stumbles” MAIL ON SUNDAY
✭✭✭✭✭ “Touching and inspiring, yes, but funny above all else” CHORTLE
✭✭✭✭✭ “Byrne has written another witty, clever and well-constructed show’ THE ARTS DESK
✭✭✭✭✭ “A fierce tribute… tremendously funny, thoughtful and fond” FEST MAG
✭✭✭✭✭ “Ed Byrne breaks the five-star rating system to the point where multiples of stars could be added to this review and it will still not be close enough to what he deserves for this show” BROADWAYBABY
✭✭✭✭✭”Masterful… a must-see performance that is both hilarious and deeply moving” ENTERTAINMENT NOW
✭✭✭✭✭ “Poignant, touching, spiky and laugh-out-loud funny… beautifully written and flawlessly performed” EDINBURGH REVIEWS
✭✭✭✭✭ “Moments switch from dark humour to tear jerking observations… he manages to make dying and death very funny” DAILY BUSINESS GROUP
✭✭✭✭✭ “Side-splitting… Byrne is comedy gold” THEATRE & ARTS REVIEWS
✭✭✭✭✭ “An unexpected rollercoaster of emotions, with joyous high points. An absolute master of observational comedy…. Very funny indeed!” NORTH WEST END UK
✭✭✭✭✭ “A full range of human emotions, from rage to dark humour to poignancy, and back again, is felt during this magnificent comedy hour” LONDON THEATRE 1
✭✭✭✭1/2 “Ed Byrne + microphone = comedy… a comedy stalwart… Byrne is disarmingly hilarious… some of the darkest, unflinchingly honest comedy around… Byrne’s show is profound, and lingers on in the mind” METRO
✭✭✭✭1/2 “A masterful bit of cathartic storytelling and joke-telling” THE COMIC’S COMIC
✭✭✭✭ “Grief, regret and lots of laughter in an affecting set” THE GUARDIAN
✭✭✭✭ “This is just glorious… full of gnarly little joy pockets” THE TIMES
✭✭✭✭ “It’s hard not to warm to the Byrne clan, who seem to have funny bones and big hearts… as potent a reminder of the cliché about life being short as you could wish” THE TELEGRAPH
✭✭✭✭ “Very funny… It’s a privilege to be here” THE SCOTSMAN
✭✭✭✭ “Dead funny… the Irish comic is in great form” DAILY MAIL
✭✭✭✭ “Ed Byrne is a master of delivering comic punchlines…extremely funny” ED FEST MAG
✭✭✭✭”Quite unlike anything I’ve ever seen at the Fringe before… genuinely reflective and deeply emotional… I could not recommend this show enough” THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
✭✭✭✭ “Heartfelt, hilarious stand-up from a master at work” WHY NOW
‘Absolutely hilarious… the funniest thing I’ve seen at the festival so far… go and buy a ticket to Ed Byrne’ THEATRE TRAVELS
Ed will be performing at the Lowry Theatre on the 18th of October with tickets available from the box office.
