Tehzeeb "Tez" Ilyas (; born 8 April 1983) is a British Pakistani stand-up comedian. He is best known for starring in BBC Three comedy Man Like Mobeen and presenting satirical comedy programme The Tez O'Clock Show on Channel 4. Early life Ilyas was born and brought up in Blackburn, Lancashire, England and is a British Pakistani. He started his career as a civil servant, after studying biochemistry at Lancaster University where he also completed a master's degree. He then got a graduate job in the civil service in London. Comedy career Ilyas fell into comedy after googling online writing courses and completing a week long open mic workshop, before becoming a comedian in 2010. In June 2015, Ilyas made a short film The Fast and the Fool as part of the British Muslim Comedy series, five short films by Muslim comedians commissioned by the BBC to be released on BBC iPlayer. Ilyas goes through the day in the life of a fasting Muslim, and shows how he copes with the stresses and strains of an ordinary day in the office during Ramadan. In July 2015, Ilyas performed at an Eid Special Comedy Night at The Comedy Store in London. In December of the same year, he performed at BBC Asian Network's special comedy night, celebrating 50 years of Asian programmes on the BBC with a special comedy night in Birmingham. Ilyas has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe four times. In 2011, he was in a three-hander with Gary Tro and Kate Lucas called Gags Songs and Bombs. In 2013, he was on the comedy reserve in the Pleasance Dome. In 2014, he performed for a week. Ilyas' debut show TEZ Talks resembles TED Talks, the popular conference lecture series Ilyas' show is inspired by his life as a British Muslim and deals with numerous misconceptions about Islam. His show is staged as an introductory seminar in becoming a convert to Islam with the audience playing the part of potential new recruits. This enables Ilyas to explain the intricacies of his belief system, while dealing with misconceptions arising from prejudice. He gives a series of mock-inspirational speeches on integrating into British society, and explains concepts like jihad and Ramadan with 'unpatronising good humour', explores "British values" and debunks Islamophobic abuse. In August 2015, Ilyas performed the show at the Pleasance Courtyard at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In February 2016, he