Jamie Demetriou
- British
- Actor, writer, editor, executive producer, comedian and composer
Press clippings Page 7
Review: Remote Comedy From The Paddock, E4/YouTube
Maybe it's the nature of this kind of show that it won't please everyone but whereas Comedians: Home Alone feels like it has hit the ground running judging by the first outing Remote Comedy has some catching up to do.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th May 2020Jamie Demetriou's lockdown TV
The creator and star of Stath Lets Flats on the magic of David Earl's YouTube creation, Steve Cumberland, and his pathos-tinged adventures.
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 7th May 2020Comedies shortlisted for Broadcast Awards 2020
Derry Girls, Fleabag, Inside No. 9, Mum, Stath Lets Flats, This Time With Alan Partridge, Taskmaster, Horrible Histories and There She Goes are nominated in the Broadcast Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 21st November 201910 things we learned from Fleabag: The Scriptures
The newly published screenplays for Phoebe Waller-Bridge's hit BBC series reveal new information about the making of Fleabag.
Louis Chilton, i Newspaper, 8th November 2019The final episode of this superb series has all the vital awkward moments when Stath invites his love interest to join him for a flat viewing before the Haringey Letting awards. Stath is shocked when his dad makes a decision about the business, but Sophie steals the show with her awards night performance.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 23rd September 2019Jamie Demetriou: impact his father had on his comedy
The star of Stath Lets Flats talked to us about the influence his father has on his comedy.
Wayne Farry, JOE, 20th September 2019Stath Lets Flats, review
Jamie Demetriou's comedy is superlatively weird and deliriously funny.
Sarah Carson, i Newspaper, 16th September 2019Why Stath Lets Flats is the funniest show on television
Coupling classic sitcom humour with the absurdist spirit of shitposting, Stath Lets Flats is the UK's best new comedy.
Sarah Manavis, The New Statesman, 4th September 2019Sitcoms are loved, rather than enjoyed, when they have heart as well as laughs. Jamie Demetriou's cartoonish tour of a north London lettings agency always has some yearning beneath the clowning, which comes out tonight as Al (Al Roberts) and Sophie (Natasia Demetriou) almost, agonisingly, move in together.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 26th August 2019The Bafta-nominated letting agent comedy Stath Lets Flats returned, as unapologetically daft as ever. It's co-created by siblings Jamie and Natasia Demetriou, who play another pair of siblings, idiotic Stath and dopey Sophie (it took me a while to recognise Natasia as Nadja, the minxish vampire from What We Do in the Shadows).
Stath Lets Flats sticks to a retro sitcom format, with plenty of gags and physical comedy from the desperate, delusional Stath. He yearns to impress his father (Christos Stergioglou) enough to take over the family business, but thus far has been foiled by the brash new manager (Dustin Demri-Burns), and Stath's bitchy, ambitious former fling Carole (Katy Wix).
There's a side-plot involving a flirtation between Sophie and her bashful colleague, Al (Alastair Roberts), which could yet turn into the greatest filing cabinet-flanked romance since Tim and Dawn in The Office. For now, most of the comedy revolves around Stath's innate stupidity - on finding out that Carole was "preggo", he gasped: "Are you the mother?" Well, I laughed.
Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 25th August 2019