Your 2025 Host Ed Byrne is the 2025 Builders' Merchants Awards Host

Ed Byrne is one of the UK's top live acts and one of the hardest working. As well as sell-out runs in Edinburgh and the West End, he has also firmly established himself on the international circuit. He regularly performs at Montreal's Just for Laughs and in front of capacity audiences everywhere from Paris to Vegas to Sydney.

Ed Byrne

Ed's confident, affable conversational delivery charms audiences. His relaxed style disguises sharp wit and a mastery of the barbed comment. Whether rallying against pop culture or politics, observing life as a married man and father, Ed wins the crowd with good-natured rants.

Career Highlights

Appeared on Mock the Week as its most frequent guest
Ed and his friend Dara O Briain travelled around South America in their Big Adventure for BBC Two
Multiple appearances on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You, and Would I Lie to You?
Ed has also been a regular on the US talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

In addition to all of this, Ed made his theatrical debut in Brian McAvera's Kings of the Road and has gone on to play a number of other roles in film and television - though to many he is still remembered as the voice of the Carphone Warehouse commercials.

Don't miss out on your opportunity to see Ed Byrne at the 2025 Builders' Merchants Awards by reserving your seats and tables today.