{"id":32,"date":"2014-12-18T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:13:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed is a renowned comedian\/presenter and actor. With his TV career now in its third decade, Ed has regularly appeared on the likes of<em> QI, Mock The Week, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled,<\/em> <em>The Pilgrimage<\/em>,<em> Dara and Ed\u2019s Road to Mandalay<\/em>, <em>Dara &amp; Ed\u2019s Big Adventure<\/em>, <em>The Graham Norton Show<\/em> and <em>Have I Got News For You<\/em>, as well as hosting<em> Live At The Apollo<\/em> and<em> Comic Relief Bake Off<\/em>. He was recently seen as a contestant on BBC One\u2019s <em>Celebrity Best Home Cook<\/em> (where he made it to show 5 out of 8 \u2013 not bad!) and he has also won (yes, won!) celebrity versions of both <em>The Chase<\/em> and <em>Pointless<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s<em> Volcano Live,<\/em> <em>World\u2019s Most Dangerous Roads<\/em>(where he spent two weeks driving through Siberia) and <em>Into The Wild with Gordon Buchanan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ed has extended his nationwide tour of British Comedy Guide\u2019s <em>Best Comedy Show 2023<\/em>, and his most personal show to date, until April 2025, almost two years after he began performing it. From the quote attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as <em>Tragedy Plus Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With legions of fans both in the UK and abroad, Ed remains <em>the<\/em> observational stand-up to see.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbjmanagement.co.uk\/artists\/ed-byrne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit Ed&#8217;s page at PBJ Management here<\/a>.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed is a renowned comedian\/presenter and actor. 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\u2019s Road to Mandalay, Dara &amp; Ed\u2019s Big Adventure, The Graham Norton Show and Have I Got News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34129,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}