244 - Tez Ilyas
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Very funny, amazingly watchable, and offering genuine insight into his personal and social politics, Tez Ilyas is a Northern, working-class, muslim comic capable of going all the way. Exceptionally frank about his disappointment on being overlooked for award nomination, he goes on to identify the historic lack of diversity on the judging panel of one of the most highly regarded prizes in British comedy...
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| 0:00.0 | Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy? |
| 0:04.6 | Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it, |
| 0:09.7 | including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of |
| 0:14.6 | November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart goalsmith.com. |
| 0:18.0 | This is a podcast, comedian podg This is the Comedians, Comedian Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | So this is Tez Ilias. |
| 0:40.0 | As you will hear, I've been waiting to get Tez on the show for some time and it's really exciting now |
| 0:46.2 | I've probably mentioned this before when I get to the stage of this I realize this show's been going for six years. I thought it was five but it's not |
| 0:53.7 | it's six and and now I get to see people do very early work and then see them get |
| 0:59.7 | better and better and Tez is now someone who is just so exciting to watch. He carries himself |
| 1:06.6 | and we'll talk about this. He carries himself on stage like he knows he's going to |
| 1:10.4 | be massive which is why it's all the more laudable when he opens up about his |
| 1:14.6 | flaws and his own unconscious biases as honestly as he is about to. |
| 1:20.0 | Strap in, this is going to be a really fascinating conversation and I want to tell you as well |
| 1:24.6 | and I'll remind you of this in the middle bit on May the 7th he is doing a DVD taping at the iconic |
| 1:29.8 | South Bank Center on the Thames. This is the show I saw at |
| 1:33.4 | Oho Theater a few weeks or months ago and so I mean I just loved it. You can |
| 1:37.1 | hear in the interview how much I enjoyed this show you can get your tickets from Tez Ilias dot com and you can find him at |
| 1:46.3 | Tez Ileas on Twitter so get yourself along to that DVD taping at |
| 1:50.0 | South Bank Center on May the 7th, but now this is the brilliant Tez. |
| 1:58.6 | Where should we start? |
| 2:00.3 | I, every time I hear your name, the first vision of you I see is you at the wardrobe in |
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