In the past year, comedian Steve Byrne snagged the TBS/MySpace Stand Up or Sit Down Comedy Competition title, starred in NBC’s reality show The Real Wedding Crashers, and still found time to work on his stand-up act. Lately, he’s been honing his military jokes for all the troops in his audience. “I was in the Navy for three weeks,” he says. “I worked at Old Navy for three weeks.”

This article appears in Jul 25-31, 2007.