

Like, I didn’t hear or see anything.”ĭemetriou is best known for writing and starring in Stath Lets Flats, the Bafta-winning Channel 4 sitcom, in which he plays the titular character, a dim-witted, almost likable lettings agent.

“Apparently it’s blind and deaf for the entire race. “You know when a horse bolts?” he says, when we meet one mid-morning in an east London café. And though audience members at the screening laughed cheerily in the right moments, Demetriou couldn’t bring himself to watch.

(The grave, in this case, is a hospital wheelie bin.) Earlier that day, Demetriou had arrived late for lunch – a nervous wreck, he’d been delayed by several visits to the toilet. He was at a cast-and-crew screening of his new Netflix special, A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou, in which he takes viewers on an off-centre-sketch musical journey through life’s stages, from womb to grave. The comedian Jamie Demetriou was slumped in a chair, trying not to look.
