Steve Byrne shares some insight into his character on Sullivan & Son. Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA, Byrne was born to a Korean mother and an Irish father. His unique background has given him the comedic material for his first television show, TBS’s Sullivan & Son. On the comedy series, Steve returns home to Pittsburgh to run the family bar and reconnect with his family and friends after an unfulfilled with his life as a corporate lawyer in New York. Steve becomes Sullivan & Son’s resident “bartender-slash-lawyer,” which is sometimes frustrating, sometimes rewarding, but always fun to watch.

Also see Jodi Long as Ok Cha and Vivian Bang as Susan Sullivan meet the other cast members by barhopping with Sullivan & Sons

Steve Byrne as Steve Sullivan on Sullivan & Son

More about Steve Byrne
In just a few short years, Steve Byrne has risen through the ranks of the comedy world to become one of the industry’s most innovative and sought-after performers. He has evolved throughout the years into an extremely versatile entertainer who delivers on a day-to-day basis.

After winning TBS’s cutthroat competition, The Myspace Standup or Sitdown Comedy Challenge, Byrne was hurtled into a nonstop television and film career. As his popularity began to expand, Byrne was featured in his very own half-hour Comedy Central Presents, which was soon voted as one of the best specials of all time in the Comedy Central Standup Showdown. His unique brand of standup has been seen on NBC’s The Tonight Show, TBS’s Conan, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS’s The Late Late Show and BET’s Comic View. In 2008, Byrne’s first one-hour special, Steve Byrne’s Happy Hour, premiered on Comedy Central and further cemented his star status.

Packing an impressively wide range of appeal, Byrne’s comedy soon landed him on the The History of the Joke on the History Channel and the Discovery Channel’s The Science of Laughter. He has since appeared on some of TV’s hottest shows, including The Middle, The Chapelle Show, The International Sexy Ladies Show, The Howard Stern Show, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and TBS’s The Very Funny Show. He was also a series regular on NBC’s The Real Wedding Crashers. Byrne’s most recent hour special, The Byrne Identity, premiered in 2010 on Comedy Central to rave reviews. He is currently getting ready to tape his third hour special titled “Shoot the Locks Off”.

A true international comedian, Byrne has performed to sold-out crowds around the world. He has been a featured comic at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, Toronto and Chicago; HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival in Las Vegas; and the CanWest Comedy Fest in Vancouver. He has been part of several national comedy tours, including The Jameson Comedy Tour, Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Tour, The Kims of Comedy, The Camel Cigarettes Sin City Tour and his own national Myspace Comedy tour. Byrne even had the honor of opening for such esteemed musical acts such as Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Modest Mouse, Puddle of Mudd, Spoon, the Rev. Horton Heat and many more. As a big supporter of the US troops, Byrne also headlined several USO tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, Japan and Guam. He and his cast mates will tour the U.S. this summer on the Sullivan & Son Comedy Tour, beginning in Philadelphia on July 17, 2012.

On the big screen, Byrne has appeared in the hit comedies The Dilemma, Couples Retreat, Four Christmases and The Goods: The Don Ready Story. His 2006 documentary, 13 or Bust, chronicles the attempt to perform 13 comedy shows in Manhattan in one night. Byrne’s lack of ego and outstanding work ethic has helped him become one of today’s most respected comedians.

Vivian Bang shares some insight into her character Susan on Sullivan & Son. As Steve’s younger sister, she is consumed by her one-sided sibling rivalry with Steve who is the golden child. Susan can’t seem to do anything right in the eyes of her mother, but that doesn’t stop her from trying. Daddy’s little girl has a lot of competition when her brother arrives in town. Also see Jodi Long as Ok Cha and meet the other cast members by barhopping with Sullivan & Sons

Vivian Bang as Susan Sullivan on Sullivan & Son

More about Vivian Bang
Vivian Bang is best known for her supporting role as Soo-Mi in Yes Man, the hit Warner Brothers comedy starring Jim Carrey. Bang’s other film credits include Boy Toy, Little Black Book, Memoirs of a Geisha, Robot Stories, Henry Fool and the 2006 Oscar®-nominated short Our Time is Up. She was awarded Best Actress for the Asian American Film Lab short Elizabeth Ong Is Missing.

Bang’s TV credits include Better Off Ted, Numb3rs, House M.D., Kath & Kim, How I Met Your Mother, Monk, Sex & The City, The Corner and Becker. She plays Nina in web-series about comic book artists called Mythomania. Theater credits include the world premiere of Velina Hasu Houston’s Calling Aphrodite, the premiere of Please Stand By, Off-Broadway & Big Art Group’s Shelf-Life, Flicker and the Obie-nominated Benton Kozo. She is a transplant from New York and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

THE MINDY PROJECT is a new single-camera comedy from Emmy Award-nominated writer/producer and New York Times best-selling author Mindy Kaling (“The Office”) that follows a woman who, despite having a successful career, desperately needs to break bad habits in her personal life. After all, how many doctors make inappropriate toasts at their ex-boyfriend’s wedding, nearly drown at the bottom of a stranger’s pool and get arrested for disorderly conduct just moments before having to deliver a baby?

Funny, impatient and politically incorrect, MINDY LAHIRI (Kaling) can quote every romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan that exists. She loves the good ones and the bad ones, because the girl always gets the guy. Mindy is determined to be more punctual, spend less money, lose weight and read more books – all in pursuit of becoming a well-rounded perfect woman…who can meet and date the perfect guy.

Mindy is a skilled OB/GYN and shares a practice with a few other doctors, none of whom make life any easier for her. JEREMY REED (British writer/comedian Ed Weeks) is the walking definition of total bad news. He not only shares a practice with Mindy, but sometimes her bed as well – despite her best efforts to resist. He is funny, self-absorbed and super sexy. In contrast, DANNY CASTELLANO (Chris Messina, “Damages”) is a hothead and guys’ guy who has a habit of stealing Mindy’s patients. Danny criticizes her for everything, including her struggling love life and her lack of professionalism – even though it’s obvious to everyone except Mindy that he secretly admires her work. His blue-collar childhood gives him a big chip on his shoulder, but he is a dedicated physician, which Mindy can’t stand to admit because he’s always getting on her case.

Rounding out the office staff are the receptionists – BETSY PUTCH (Zoe Jarman, “Huge”), young, earnest and easily excitable, who thinks the world of Mindy and is always trying to impress her; and SHAUNA DICANIO (newcomer Dana DeLorenzo), a self-assured Jersey Girl who is indifferent to Mindy, always knows where the cool party is and carries a poorly concealed torch for Danny.

Mindy is in constant communication with her beloved best friend from college, GWEN GRANDY (Anna Camp, “The Good Wife”), who also happens to be the governor’s daughter. Gwen is a hilarious, sometimes too-blunt friend, and secretly a former carefree party girl (which only Mindy seems to remember). Although Gwen is now happily married to a financial analyst, with a six-year-old daughter, this lawyer-turned-Pilates mom remains squarely in Mindy’s corner.

As Mindy attempts to get her career off the ground and meet a guy who passes her red flag test (no drug habits, no skinny jeans and no secret families, among others), only time will tell if she gets her romantic comedy ending.

The Mindy Project Premieres Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 9:30/8:30c on FOX

The Mindy Project Trailer

Meet the cast of The Mindy Project

Mindy Kaling talks about the Mindy Project

Jodi Long shares some insight into her character: Steve Byrne‘s overbearing mother, Ok Cha Sullivan, from the upcoming TV sitcom Sullivan & Sons. (The character is based on Steve Byrne’s real mother.) Ok Cha takes tough love to the extreme. She always makes sure to tell everyone exactly what they are doing wrong and she’s often right. As a frugal immigrant, she did not want Steve to give up his job as a prestigious lawyer in New York, but in the end she is delighted to have him home. Meet more of the cast by Barhopping with Sullivan & Son.

Jodi Long as Ok Cha on Sullivan & Son

More about Jodi Long

Jodi Long is a veteran of stage, film and television whose regular series work includes co-starring with Valerie Bertinelli in Cafe American; playing Margaret Cho’s mother in All American Girl and playing Alicia Silverstone’s secretary in Miss Match. Long has had recurring parts on The Cosby Show, Michael Hayes, Eli Stone and Law and Order: LA. She is also known as Patty, “the power lesbian,” in an episode of Sex in The City.

Long’s film work includes Beginnings, with Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer; Paul Schrader’s Patty Hearst; Mike Newell’s Sour Sweet; Striking Distance; Rollover; and The Hot Chick.

In 2006, Long’s one-woman play, Surfing DNA, was produced at East West Players in Los Angeles and garnered her an Ovation nomination for Best Solo Performance. She went on to write and co-produce a documentary about her vaudevillian parents, Long Story Short, was directed by Christine Choy. The film played numerous film festivals, including the 2008 Hawaii International Film Festival, and it won the 2008 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival’s Audience Award for Best Documentary. In 2008, Long Story Short was voted one of the top ten documentaries by UCLA’s Asia Institute.

Long made her Broadway debut at age 7 in Nowhere To Go But Up, directed by Sidney Lumet, the first of five Broadway shows in which she would appear. As an adult, she has starred in Loose Ends, with Kevin Kline; The Bacchae, with Irene Papas; Stephen Sondheim’s Getting Away with Murder; and the recent revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song, a performance for which she won an Ovation Award at The Mark Taper in Los Angeles.

Numerous off-Broadway productions include Wendy Wasserstein’s Old Money (Lincoln Center), Red and The Wash (Manhattan Theater Club), David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child and Family Devotions (Public Theater); and The Tooth of Crime (LaMama). Long has also performed in the world tour of Phillip Glass and David Henry Hwang’s 90-minute solo piece 1000 Airplanes on The Roof.