Made In Britain | Tez Ilyas | TEDxManchester

Can you be two things at once? Some would argue for instance, that you can't be both British and Muslim. That these two identities are antithetical. Comedian Tez Ilyas explores if this is true.
Find Tez on @tezilyas Tez Ilyas hit the ground running finding himself in no less than eight competition finals including the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award and Leicester Mercury New Comedian of the Year in his first year as a stand-up.
In 2015 Ilyas achieved phenomenal success with his debut stand up hour TEZ Talks. A sell-out run at the Soho Theatre and his own Radio 4 series based on the show followed, with a second series coming this year.
In 2016, his highly anticipated follow up show Made in Britain went on to sell out every single performance (including extra shows) at the Edinburgh Fringe and gained spectacular critical acclaim, with a smash hit nationwide tour in 2017.
His third show Teztify once again delivered a spectacularly powerful, provocative and brilliantly funny hour of topical stand up, delivering to packed out audiences night after night. Tez has appeared on The Last Leg (C4), Mock the Week (BBC Two), Live From the BBC (BBC Two), Man Like Mobeen (BBC Three), Kevin Hart’s Live from Montreal (LOL Network), Virtually Famous (E4), The Now Show (BBC Radio 4) and made a brand new quiz show pilot for Vice.
He has also written and starred in his own scripted comedy shorts for BBC Three, BBC iPlayer and Sky Arts. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@doofuscreations8173]

An underrated comedian. Saw him Edinburgh last year and he had an excellent show.

[@jasonholder6323]

how is this not everywhere? we need him on things like bbcqt. very eloquent and knows his stuff

[@simonlewis4781]

He is very good

[@pawpals01]

hear hear

[@AliKazi]

Wow ❤️ he’s soo right. I am British Muslim, love and respect is my motto and the UK is my home. ❤️

[@jasonrenicks7670]

I'm double offensive I'm a white Muslim in Britain lol

[@IslamIsPeaceful786]

@@jasonrenicks7670 what would you do if someone said "Go back home you Muslim?".. apparently all Muslims are Arabs 😂

[@jasonrenicks7670]

@@IslamIsPeaceful786 I'd say get me a ticket as long as i can pick the country lol

[@shebz2509]

@@jasonrenicks7670 lool

[@nastradamus1780]

the Sunnah, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I disown every Muslim who settles among the mushrikeen.” Narrated by Abu Dawood, 2645; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.

[@kuksybee]

This has to be one of the best videos I've seen today. I actually peed myself when Tez said, "O..... M..... A...." This should have been called TezTalks 😂😄

[@TigerPrawn_]

He has a Radio 4 show called exactly that :D

[@kuksybee]

cx45830 Really??? How dare I miss out? 😁😂 thanks for telling me. I thought I was up to date on everyone from The Fringe. His delivery is right on target. Awesome.

[@abbyfairbrother6057]

I have more in common with Tez, than I ever will with Boris Johnson.... Facts.

[@shirleybooth2824]

Absolutely Brilliant Tez, I agree 100% that people need to be educated correctly about the religion of Islam and Muslim people. You truly have a Great way of getting it across I couldn't stop laughing. Marshallah

[@25pence]

No we don't we ain't America, most British don't follow a god we see the truth, or most Christians just follow the happiness comfort of not being alone instead of the religion. the prophet of Muslims mohammed married a kid or so it is written, the Christian God committed geneside on the whole world in a huge flood because of some crimes. Who in their right mind needs to follow these. And the reason Britain tries to make it hard for anybody who believes in other god to preach because the land was built on Christianity, the national anthem is 'God save our queen' I respect any person who respects the land and so do alot of people now, there is full Muslim community's that never hit the news because they are good community's. But you guys only pick up on the bad 20 thousand people not the 40million good people that are happy with diversity

[@MohammedAli-1]

Respect to you Shirley

[@trahobaskarabas8042]

This takes a higher step in evolution of a human.

[@ziahamm1603]

First time seeing his stand up after seeing him in Man Like Mobeen. Pleasantly surprised by how articulate and well spoken he comes across and I like that his comedy is intertwined with some serious undertones backed up with reason too. Kudos to the guy

[@dionoraferrantino8172]

I love this guy! I 1st saw him on Russ Howard's show; then started searching for his stuff. GREAT delivery!

[@kalalanda7383]

Tez, what a touching performance. Absolutely correct. Sending out the truth through humour is genius! Bless your dear mum for making you the intelligent, strong, british , muslim man you are today. Stay blessed and keep going. Peace and love.

[@KushnSads]

Tez Ilyas...thanks for being a bloody legend!

[@sanjaythakkar3376]

Brilliant. So well spoken. Touching and funny in equal measure

[@y0u5uf]

So Damn good.. Love it!! This is how I've felt for ages.. I was growing up in England way before you guys.. And when Racism was nothing to do with religion, but the colour of your skin.. Irony is it doesn't matter what religion you are.. The Hindu's Sikh's and anyone brown get lobbed in together..

[@iqbalmohammed50]

This was absolutely amazing, Tez. Well done.

[@davidblackburn]

I have watched this many times and it is one of the best talks ever.

[@xikhan3237]

You smashed it, Tez! The conclusion was spot on.

[@franmiller1381]

Love this guy, sweet message delivered in a humorous way.😀

[@goldencordholistichealingr4492]

Incredible powerful speech, filled with wisdom, humor, and also love. We have terrible problems with closed mindedness and downright hate in America and I pray we get past it. It makes me sick, it’s not what we were founded on. (And I’m white and Christian.)

[@pawpals01]

me too, although im from the other side of the atlantic

[@summanmuhammadiqbal07]

Most important , intellectual well delivered performance I have ever listen.

[@salimpatel4620]

Inteliigent guy some really thoughtful observations

[@bumhole275]

I can’t take him seriously after watching man like mobeen

[@hayyankhalil5062]

Ahahah

[@peacealways6625]

😂😂😂😂

[@TezIlyasComedy]

Dead.

[@highlandGlas]

hash but true

[@zainabwahid1459]

Yes!!

[@nahreallybro464]

Love this ❤️ spreading a honest messege in these days of hate. Islam is not a bad religion

[@adamu6049]

im so proud of Tez!

[@naj214]

Bloody brilliant thank you tez .

[@Sab.86]

This is AMAZING!! Restored my faith in brits! ❤️

[@newmie01]

Brilliant talk and fantastic comedian. Keep it up Tez!!

[@jamescullis7768]

Tez is amazing, everything he says is so true.

[@jonathantaylor7979]

Very educational and thought provoking

[@vazak11]

Powerful and witty I was moved!

[@sannam3611]

Absolutely brilliant! Well done Tez!

[@louisemeakin3648]

A must watch!

[@kaypage7718]

This is so wonderful and incite full and I hope it makes the bigots & racists think before they say and do vile despicable things!! Absolutely spot Tez! 👏👏

[@m.r.jarrell3725]

Tez is Britain's Dave Chappelle! And a hero!

[@shauns621]

Loved this.. Intelligent and funny guy TOP MAN Tez 👌🏻👍🏻

[@muneebsiddiqui9345]

Moral of the story.. educate yourself and stop jumping on the bandwagon.

[@s80key]

Very cleaver and very funny guy keep it up tez

[@debrahayes7631]

Thanks, Tezza!

[@sondai]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Absolutely, brilliant!

[@pamelamckoy7618]

mate you are brilliant and eloquent, well said.

[@urnazirahmad]

Brilliant...

[@sammalik1390]

Bloody brilliantly put Tez.

[@karimkhan3106]

brilliant TEZ

[@lifestylewithrani6517]

great way to make such a solid point ….well done Tez

[@Blackcivicsi1]

This was beautiful. Im glad i came across it accodently

[@ZSidat]

genius : ) well said . There's more good people than bad, however somehow the bad always happen to have the louder voices !

[@ronatopaz2793]

Only heard of Tez for the first time last week. Best Asian comedian I’ve ever seen. Lmao. But my goodness, he’s also similar to Mark Thomas.... what a pity Parliament is not filled with people like them.

[@thomasbolt2930]

spot on TEZ well said

[@lucymundo]

Schrödinger's muslim!!! 😂😂🙌🏼👍🏼

[@mrmalik8415]

That was amazing bro 🤲🏽❤️

[@Bigelsiet]

Tez is a legend 🤘

[@agirlandherchihuahua]

Absolutely brilliant!!!

[@neelamnajib4623]

Very powerful speech 💯👌🏼

[@Chauhan-n6i]

Serious and funny at the same time. 💗💪❤

[@fatimam5484]

This was brilliant loved it! ❤️

[@ImranAli-tm3rq]

Well done Tez...hats off..

[@frozenthrone6458]

"Tehzeeb" is Urdu for "Manners"

[@luxremains1956]

Hes underated I love him

[@anissajabbar1452]

Applause from me at 16:35 👌🏼 Nailed it.

[@artificialintelligence9685]

Top man

[@LifeInProgress12]

Fantastic!

[@YA-hm5zy]

When he describes being in service station and other such places, I could really relate. I love being British and British values mean the world to me. But I happen to be Asian and therefore have never fully felt like I belong and mainly because I feel like when I am in the football stadium or the shopping centre, I feel in a very subtle way that I'm different and it's difficult to explain unless you have been in a brown persons shoes. I don't have a massive beard and I wear jeans and all the rest. But I always feel uneasy about going to places where I might be one of the only brown faces. Having said that, British white people are generally amazing.

[@Baboonfromdatoon]

'I love being British' 'I happen to be Asian' Britain is in Europe, not Asia...

[@asmaaeziz1341]

Benjamin Crump How do you call people who are British citizens and from Asian background? Is there any name for them in your language?

[@sarha375]

David Charles Francis Topham de Vere Beauclerk ummm no British is nationality, English is ethnicity.... hence why in passports it says “national’ no matter what you look like.

[@piratesmileprod6533]

what you're feeling is quite normal. peoples natural instincts allow them to understand they're not apart of the "tribe" so to speak. I'm an English guy who lived in japan for 10+ years, i learned to speak the language fluently and engaged in the customs and culture of the Japanese people. I always felt like an outsider no matter what; they even had their own subtle ways of letting me know that too. i learned to live with the fact it's human nature to have an in group preference.

[@fezib5343]

This was brilliant...

[@slimanemrichardson5735]

Funny and poignant Tez as always. Thank you.

[@velliee1741]

Awesome

[@az958]

Very thoughtful speech. Nice one bro

[@richardgillham8878]

Brilliant

[@juswuzz8929]

go tez....💛

[@fillphat]

great talk tez...one love bruv

[@leighwright6667]

My friend Majeed hoped to have Hindi as his home language until his daughter started school. He learned a lesson from her and now speaks English at home. She wants to be like her school pals, not like us. Us oldies are too interested in the negatives......our younger generation have moved on and left us couch potatoes burning up watching TV.

[@specialk8505]

Loved every word. proud to be a British Muslim

[@donjiaye6263]

Brilliant Guy, Well Said bro.

[@nosheenmajeed471]

Enjoyable talk

[@dannyfleck9014]

Respect brother

[@gemcommunityorg]

how come's the jewish community don't get accused of not integrating?? in London uk, the jew's have their own schools/dress code/their children are never seen playing with kids from other cultures, I have never, in my entire life had a conversation with a person dressed in jewish attire???

[@sintaamami5112]

It will open the world's people mind about Muslim..

[@25pence]

It really won't, would a man speaking about Christianity change people's mind about the religion in Syria? Pritty sure people like that get killed over their all the time. Just be happy with diversity we don't wanna bring religion into it that's when wars start. Why can't we all just do good for the people in the community and on the land and mind everyone else's business?

[@hassxnii1539]

@@25pence chill out she's a kid you don't need to waffle

[@zaineshah4348]

@@hassxnii1539 if she's a - kid - what she doing on internet ?

[@tahimuhammad6675]

This was brilliant and cleverly done!!🙄

[@sheevamatimbas4300]

This guy is seriously good

[@yorkmead123]

Brilliant 👍

[@Shamurai575]

Best talk ever

[@TigerPrawn_]

Choose Love

[@ShabanaK2011]

Nicely done! 👏

[@monz910]

👌👌👌👌👏👏👏 wel done Bros

[@amandadonaghey7540]

Vivre la difference!!! ❤️

[@AliRazaTajamal]

Cheers mate

[@qasierazad508]

i love uk its my home iam a proud british muslim i ent going noooooo where !

[@biscofflover3518]

❤️❤️❤️

[@shabazhussain7424]

Go on then cuzzy

[@khanG-gq9hc]

Awesome stuff! 💯👌🏽

[@jazzbollywood]

Smashed it

[@brucenaidoo1783]

Simply love 8

[@marca9628]

Wow

[@AK-xj2di]

Islamophobic is big, people I grew up with people who grew up eating our food are Islamophobic lol Yes my grandad fought for England, like the millions Muslims who sacrificed their lives, but no one talks about them, almost all charities bank are running in Uk & USA is from the Arab Muslim world, yes we have businesses where we pay 80_90 thousand a year, paying for the free self entitled good for nothing, who is going round terrorising people with racial abuse, how did UK become Rich where did all the money came from? Read the history ignorants, learn to respect individuals & their faith, stop all the hate & live in peace, end of the day we are all from planet earth.

[@thomasbeauchamp3781]

Eid mubarak!

[@pinarozge6895]

Ahahah, his last joke was the best: taking over a country and forcing your language and customs on them would be the most British thing to do! Damn right!

[@samyshas7500]

Well done

[@monarao5359]

Very very interesting.. Hats off

[@stardust5397]

I’m in my early 60s & forty odd years ago I assumed the Asian and white populations of Blackburn would become far more integrated. I’ve worked with Asians & taught young Asians & Whites in Blackburn & it saddens me that two young communities at College have become ever more separate whilst areas of Blackburn have become almost exclusively Asian. It’s not what I wanted to see but as you say it ‘takes two to tango ‘ & the Asian community has made very little effort to move outside of their own communities ; whilst at the same time ‘ white flight’ takes place as locals perceive they are becoming the minority in a given area. I will not begin to deny that overt racism has taken place against Muslims & is deplorable. Likewise after splitting with my Son his partner & my 6 year old Granddaughter moved into a small new social housing development of small 1/2 bedroom townhouses in a predominantly Muslim area. She’s in her late 20s but has a ‘baby face ‘ that could pass for teens . Whilst walking to and fro school and the shops with my granddaughter she is regularly abused by groups of young Asian men as they are unhappy that several single parent families have been homes in+this new development and they point her out as a ‘school age single mum with loose morales’ into although the words are far more graphic and foul than that. I find it even more disturbing that on occasion this abuse is heard by their elders who often mix outside their front doors on early summer evenings & it goes without challenge even though a young child is involved. So, maybe it’s payback time for the abuse Asians have received in the past & proving that sections of each community are capable of behaving just as hatefully as the other . I’ve urged her to move but her attitude is it’s a lovely little house with garden, near school and shops so why should I let morons like that bother me!

[@bimshiregarvie1992]

I can't Eight was shot in Man Like Mobeen season 3

[@gabriellewarburton7961]

am a very much british person and proud of it. I think the main the reason for people thinking they arent integrating enough comes from, they dont speak english in a public space. This seems to be an issue with a lot of people and when you dont know or understand whats been said then its

[@abdulwasay99]

Isn't that the case when most British people go on their holidays to countries around the world? They're not speaking their language, Britain isn't the main country in the world

[@aali1134]

Really enjoyed it!

[@ogatatsumi8594]

Alhamdulillah