A big part of my schtick in my live comedy is doing earnest R&B ballads. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I'm often confronted with people being like, 'Ahhh, drama is killing comedy.' It's not, it's a different genre. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
What kills comedy is an absence of hard comedy commissions, traditional let's-make-every-line-funny comedy commissions. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
You know, the comedy industry in the U.K. is quite a small place, and lines such as 'sketch is dead' get thrown… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of student comedy: you can get all your grotesque, rubbish little ideas on stage. By the time you've left… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
When it comes to a show like 'Stath,' I'm not writing it with any intention other than my natural instinct as a… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
When I started enjoying the idea of maybe trying to do comedy one day, I really got that routed in my mind… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to be financially reliant upon stand-up because it's so pure, and it's something that I can do without… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to people who don't know who they are, because I just think that's where comedy lives, in someone with an… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
Observational comedy is a bit of dirty phrase to most comedy fanatics, but I think it depends on what the observations are,… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
Ultimately I think I've just fallen into the trap over the years of putting too much pressure on something that really ultimately doesn't matter… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
I'm drawn to people who don't know who they are, because I just think that's where comedy lives, in someone with an incorrect perception… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
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,… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
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… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
I know it's considered smug to even mention that you've left a social media platform. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
If you're too focused on the future, you're not focused enough on the task at hand. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
Stath has wanted to be a dad since he was born, but has never once looked into what fatherhood entails. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
I'm really excited to allow my career to go in the direction that feel rights at any given time. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
I learned from doing live shows that I could use physicality to bandage moments that weren't working very well. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
Someone once shouted: 'We know you're acting and this isn't real' at a gig in Cambridge. I was 25, playing a 50-year-old lounge singer… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
I feel like 90% of the gags in the Muppets are to do with their mouths being not quite closed. Just permanent gormlessness. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
Deep down I think I'm operating on a lower level than most people, based on my education, shoulder chip, blah, blah. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
I learned that characters are funniest when they don't really know what they're doing. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share
