A biography for Natasia Demetriouhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not green-fingered, I'm grey-fingered. I suck the life out of plants.”
“Like in 'Eastenders' they can write coronavirus into the scripts, so people can actually be socially distancing. But if you're in a sketch show where you're on top of each other, doing stupid things, you can't really make it work.”
“TV presenting is not so easy.”
“My Greek relatives I think probably are vampires.”
“Who doesn't want to come and put fangs on, and a funny mad costume, and pretend to be like a really over-the-top bloodsucking monster for a couple of days? It's like dress-up.”
“Treat your eyeballs to people who are truly joyful, escapist or interesting for you.”
“I feel passionately that we need more space on TV for sketch shows for character actors to experiment.”
“Whenever we do wire work, we do look like babies just being, like, dangled.”
“I lived for a little while in a place where the kitchen was a cupboard on the landing.”
“I find it a lot with Australian and New Zealand comics, and people from that part of the world, we share quite a similar sense of humour I think.”
“I've got friends who are nurses and teachers. They're making a difference. I'm like, 'Sorry I'm so stressed - I'm working on a character and my wig hasn't arrived.'”
“Comedy characters that take themselves very seriously, but are actually fools, is so funny.”
“I think mockumentaries are such well-trodden grounds for comedies. It has been done a lot, but it is because of that informal nature, it's such a fertile ground to be funny.”
“I'm so lucky! I got to be a vampire! It's incredible.”
“It's just a lovely way to do comedy, where you have the freedom to try stuff, but then you also have a really strong, solid script to go back to if you're brain dead and tired.”
“I grew up watching 'Big Train,' these collectives of comedians who knew each other, and as a comedy fan you knew who was going out, who were best friends.”
“I love watching TV, I probably spend too much time on my phone, but it's probably not very good for your mental health is it? It indulges some of your worst personality traits, like staring at other people's lives on Instagram for hours on end.”
“Anyone who takes themselves very seriously, or is in any way pompous, or thinks of themselves quite highly, as soon as you pull out one little thread, you find one little chink... that's when it's the funniest.”
“My dad makes me hiss with laughter.”
“Well, I'm obsessed with shoes - small shoes, weirdly shaped shoes, hotdogs in shoes, things sliding in and out of shoes.”