Paul Tylak
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Television
Like many Irish comedians of his generation, Paul Tylak got his first TV break on Nighthawks, a late night RTERTE
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arts, media, chat show in 1989, 1990 and 1991.
Stew is an Irish comedy sketch series, shown on RTE
RTE
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in 2004 and 2005. Tylak and Paul Woodfull
Paul Woodfull
Paul Woodfull is an Irish writer, actor, comedian and musician. He has written two television series, a CD and the comedy musical play I, Keano. He is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin...
wrote and performed in it. It won Best Entertainment Series at the Irish Film and Television Awards in 2005 and at the Celtic Film & Television Festival in 2006.
Tylak and Woodfull
Paul Woodfull
Paul Woodfull is an Irish writer, actor, comedian and musician. He has written two television series, a CD and the comedy musical play I, Keano. He is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin...
also contributed to This Is Ireland, a comedy sketch series about Ireland made for the BBC in 2004.
Radio
Tylak wrote and co-starred in two radio shows, Hi, We're the Nualas on RTERTE
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, and The O'Show on BBC
BBC
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Television
In 2004-2005, Tylak played various characters in Stew, the RTERTE
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comedy sketch series which he wrote with Paul Woodfull
Paul Woodfull
Paul Woodfull is an Irish writer, actor, comedian and musician. He has written two television series, a CD and the comedy musical play I, Keano. He is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin...
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In 2001, he appeared in the RTE
RTE
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soap opera Fair City
Fair City
Fair City is an award-winning Irish television soap opera on RTÉ One. Produced by Radio Telefís Éireann, it was first broadcast on Monday, September 18, 1989...
, playing Ashti, a Kurdish refugee. As Tylak's father is Sri Lankan and his mother is Irish, he saw the role as an opportunity to challenge racial prejudices in Ireland.
In 1997, he appeared with Joe Rooney
Joe Rooney
Joe Rooney is an Irish actor and comedian. His best known acting role at home and abroad is that of Father Damo in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. He features in one episode, series two's "The Old Grey Whistle Theft"...
in Messers [sic] Tylak and Rooney, a twelve-episode TV3
TV3 Ireland
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comedy travel series.
Stage
Tylak is a stand-up comedian, and appears with the Dublin Comedy Improv Group. In 2003 he appeared in the play Hurl, written by Charlie O'Neill.Ballybraddan
In 2009 Tylak joined the cast of BallybraddanBallybraddan
Ballybraddan is an Irish animated television series first broadcast on RTÉ TWO, in April 2009. The series is produced in Ireland by 'Monster Animation' in association with RTÉ, and The Irish Film Board.-About the show:...
an animated television programme on RTE
RTE
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which is about hurling
Hurling
Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
it was brought in the year of 125 years of the GAA
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
. Tylak voices The Bantor who is the manager of the team he is called Bantor because on his tracksuit it says Bainisteoir Gaelic
Goidelic languages
The Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages are one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, the other consisting of the Brythonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland through the Isle of Man to the north of Scotland...
for manager and some of the letters have faded. He also voices Hawk the grandad of SOC and Aidan