Jamie Demetriou

“My dad used to give me a tenner to come and work at his greasy spoon cafe when I was 11.”

“Stath has wanted to be a dad since he was born, but has never once looked into what fatherhood entails.”

“It's literally important for a show like 'Stath' to get awards, because it validates a recommission.”

“I've been broody since I was only one-year-old. My biological clock started ticking almost straight away.”

“If you know your character inside out then that's when improv starts to sound good. But improv to me can be as much as throwing a different word into a sentence.”

“I'm often confronted with people being like, 'Ahhh, drama is killing comedy.' It's not, it's a different genre.”

“I love comedy.”

“I just find estate agents very funny.”

“There's a big culture I think that kicked off with reality TV and the Brit-pop '90s in the U.K. of people being like, 'I speak my mind!' Like, 'I say, anything that pops into my head. I just say it because I'm real!' And I'm very much of the opinion that you mustn't. You mustn't behave like that.”

“When it comes to a show like 'Stath,' I'm not writing it with any intention other than my natural instinct as a writer to try to make it as funny as possible all the time.”

“I feel like 90% of the gags in the Muppets are to do with their mouths being not quite closed. Just permanent gormlessness.”

“I think the highest state of being for me is a feeling of relief.”

“I'm really excited to allow my career to go in the direction that feel rights at any given time.”

“You have to focus on doing the best job you can do.”

“I don't want to get out of my anxiety, because everyone I see who is making stuff that I like is an absolute mess, and I don't think there's any coincidence.”

“I was only single for a very short period of time in my teens before I got into quite a long term relationship. The closest thing I can think of to dating in my teens was going to Panic! at the Roxy in Soho on a Tuesday night, and just hoping someone would notice that I was wearing a cravat and want to kiss me because of it.”

“My mum's responsible for my capacity to love. My dad's responsible for the way I dress salad.”

“I once had to leave a restaurant to get some air because a family friend sent his compliments to the chef about a piece of rock cake that tasted like gravel.”

“Growing up in England I've leant more on my English side, but Stath is what would have happened if I leant more on my Greek side.”

“My Greekness was bound to come out of one orifice or another because I am Greek.”