Interview: Tez Ilyas

The standup's topical comedy show claims to be 'truly-anti-establishment'. So what's with all the pro-Brexit gags?

The Tez O'Clock Show review

Wading into the Brexit debate without getting bogged down in the personalities or over-familiar comic conceits, The Tez O'Clock Show also didn't simply presume the positions of its audience as The Mash Report is prone to do.

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.

I 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."