Tez Ilyas
- 41 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, producer and stand-up comedian
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Channel 4 continues to do good work in diversifying topical TV satire: now, northern, working-class Muslim Tez Ilyas has a three-week run of sketches, chat and interviews that his sharp standup suggests will be on the money. Fellow comedians Sophie Willan, Adam Rowe, Sindhu Vee and Man Like Mobeen's Guz Khan co-star.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 25th July 2019Why you need to watch... The Tez O'Clock Show
This 'late-night satirical comedy show' is absolute winner because you'll never have seen anything quite the same before. It is bursting with ideas and feels thrillingly overdue. It is the perfect answer to anyone who sees multiculturalism or representation as some sort of problem rather than the heart-swelling eye-opening heady joy that it is. Tez Ilyas has arrived and it's really fucking exciting.
Nooruddean Choudry, JOE, 25th July 2019I talk to Tez Ilyas
"There's a concerted effort now in television to ensure that what we see on TV is more representative of the society we live in."
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 23rd July 2019Review: Tez Ilyas at Latitude
Maybe he's practising impartiality to keep Ofcom at bay before his Channel 4 satirical show begins this week - but during his Latitude set Tez Ilyas outlines some good reasons to leave the EU. It's certainly unexpected as you'd peg this liberal British-Pakistani Muslim - and this festival crowd - as Remainer through-and-through.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd July 2019Channel 4 confirms Tez O'Clock series
Channel 4 has announced a three-episode run of The Tez O'Clock Show, a topical satire format hosted by Tez Ilyas.
British Comedy Guide, 11th July 2019Man Like Mobeen gets third series
Guz Khan and Andy Milligan's BBC Three sitcom Man Like Mobeen has been commissioned for a third series.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd March 2019TV review: Man Like Mobeen
Man Like Mobeen series two is the comedy Britain needs right now.
Richard Franks, Counteract, 11th February 2019The comics that sum up 2019
There's an unorthodox new generation of performers on the horizon.
Hannah J Davies and Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 19th January 2019Jason Manford named UK's Hardest Working Comedian 2018
Jason Manford has come top of Ents24's Hardest Working Comedians 2018 list. Other stand-ups on the list include Tom Allen, Sarah Millican and Chris Ramsey.
British Comedy Guide, 5th December 2018Comedy Central announces stand-up specials
Iain Stirling, Desiree Burch, Luisa Omielan, Fin Taylor, Darren Harriott, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean, Tez Ilyas, Stephen Bailey and Sofie Hagen are to record stand-up specials for Comedy Central.
British Comedy Guide, 26th September 2018