Jamie Demetriou

“What kills comedy is an absence of hard comedy commissions, traditional let's-make-every-line-funny comedy commissions.”

“Stath' series three was released as a boxset. That's something that I was scared of doing in the past because it felt like it didn't fit the narrative of the TV watching experience I had as a kid.”

“You know, the comedy industry in the U.K. is quite a small place, and lines such as 'sketch is dead' get thrown around a lot. And I think it's been said enough that people have started to believe it.”

“When I started enjoying the idea of maybe trying to do comedy one day, I really got that routed in my mind that, if I were lucky enough, which I doubted I would be, that that was the way to go.”

“Critique is good as long as you're hearing it from a person who you know you're in sync with.”

“My friend has moved to Majorca for a year and he has a spare mattress!' Announcements like this from my radiant mum were the seed from which most of my childhood holidays grew.”

“On a date there are opportunities to say so many wicked and interesting things - 'Some of the singers on X Factor have been so young over the years!' or 'You OK?' or 'Squad goal' - which will reassure your date that you know how to talk in a stylish, current way.”

“Social media is a 24/7 high school reunion. You live with the opportunity of keeping up with everyone more than you did at school.”

“I love scripts.”

“We were watching TV one day and a George Michael music video came on and dad tutted and said 'Oh, he was always singing when he was washing dishes too.' In his mind, he was still the boy who washed dishes for him, rather than someone who went on to be an incredibly famous singer.”

“On my first ever date I went to the Odeon Barnet to go and see 'The Others' with Nicole Kidman.”

“I could develop a brand called B, for men with big bums - I'd go on 'Dragons' Den' and give them my side profile.”

“Growing up in England I've lost a bit of my Greek-Cypriot essence, but it's there in my obsessive use of lemon and olive oil, and in my desire to be a father from an early age.”

“Each series tracks Stath's attempt at growth and his failure at it.”

“Observational comedy is a bit of dirty phrase to most comedy fanatics, but I think it depends on what the observations are, and the ones that Louis CK makes in 'Louie' are almost dreamlike.”

“I gave myself an anxiety stomach ulcer at 12. The rollercoaster of doing word searches, playing and having a backpack too big for me did me in.”

“My dad is in series one of 'Stath Lets Flats,' very briefly. He doesn't have a line. Well, he had a line, but he couldn't nail it.”

“With winning the Baftas - with the writing one in particular - it was like, 'What? Writing? I'm not a writer. I work in Waitrose for three hours every Saturday with my shirt untucked. I get told off for trying the dragon fruit by the bin because I don't know what it is.'”

“My memory of high school is people telling me that I'd miss it when it's gone.”

“That's the beauty of student comedy: you can get all your grotesque, rubbish little ideas on stage. By the time you've left uni, you've got that out of your system and learned a bit.”