[1] Paul Tylak was born to an Irish mother and Sri Lankan father, and grew up between Ireland and England.
[3] Like many Irish comedians of his generation, Paul Tylak got his first TV break on the RTÉ show Nighthawks in the late 1980s.
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.
[7] In 2004–2005, Tylak played various characters in Stew, the RTÉ comedy sketch series which he wrote with Paul Woodfull.
(2007-08), Lovely Carrot, a security blanket in Chloe's Closet (2007-2013); GIL on Planet Cosmo (2013); and Pek on Zig and Zag (2016).