Jason Byrne
- 53 years old
- Irish
- Actor and stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 10
Jason Byrne: You Name The Show review
There was a clear definition between material and crowd-work but it ended up that the majority of the show was unique to us, which was by no means a bad thing.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 16th November 2014Jason Byrne talks about the failure of Father Figure
"I think there were just too many bosses, and I was given too many bad directions."
Si Hawkins, British Comedy Guide, 17th October 2014Jason Byrne offers cash prize for best show title
Each year Jason is asked for the name of his touring show and each year Jason has to think up a title. This year he is handing the power back to the people and is asking his audience to name the show for him. Hence the provisional title of You Name The Show. The best name will win £500. There will be a leader board on stage each night and by the end of the tour the show will have a name.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd October 2014Jason Byrne: BBC 'buried' my family sitcom
Jason Byrne said the BBC 'buried' his sitcom Father Figure before he had time to iron out the kinks.
Laura Larkin, The Independent (Ireland), 13th June 2014Jason Byrne interview
"It's literally an impossible task for a comic. The producer told me that I had five minutes, and I said to him, 'It takes me 20 minutes to say hello in my normal shows'. But the whole thing was great fun."
Jennifer Rodger, The Mirror, 31st May 2014Review: comedy, Jason Byrne, Vicar Street, Dublin
There isn't anything didactic or any tut-tutting in Byrne's set. He doesn't engage in sneering at a new generation, but playfully chides them for more or less getting what they want, which involves ice-cream and Smarties rather than leftover offal and scraps from the butcher.
Eamon Sweeney, The Independent (Ireland), 13th January 2014There's a long and troubled tradition of stand-up comics turning their hand to sitcom and Jason Byrne's Father Figure - with its poo jokes, 'bumbling husband' clichés and dodgy slapstick - was undoubtedly the worst example of the form since Frank Skinner's Shane.
Morgan Jeffery, Digital Spy, 29th December 2013Jason Byrne takes his Special Eye on UK tour
The nationwide tour follows Byrne's less-than-successful sitcom foray, Father Figure.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 6th November 2013A sitcom where the "sit" involves a man who - shock, horror - stays at home to look after his children while his wife goes to work. Imagine that! Unsurprisingly, the "com" here is severely lacking, unless you count skits about making cupcakes, vacuuming up Lego and drinking gin. This week Tom (Jason Byrne) enters the House Husband Of The Year competition, which gives his mum Mary (Pauline McLynn) the chance to administer a violent lesson on how to perfect his "mammy face", using a rubber glove as her weapon. Lame.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 2nd October 2013Jason Byrne's Father Figure at least began with a good visual joke involving exploding baked beans. Unfortunately it then ran out of them.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 22nd September 2013