Jamie Demetriou

Ultimately I think I've just fallen into the trap over the years of putting too much pressure on something that really ultimately…

— Jamie Demetriou

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

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…

— Jamie Demetriou

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…

— Jamie Demetriou

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has an insane grasp of the human condition.

— Jamie Demetriou

I know it's considered smug to even mention that you've left a social media platform.

— Jamie Demetriou

If you're too focused on the future, you're not focused enough on the task at hand.

— Jamie Demetriou

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

— Jamie Demetriou

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

— Jamie Demetriou

I learned from doing live shows that I could use physicality to bandage moments that weren't working very well.

— Jamie Demetriou

I've always said that I don't necessarily feel stereotypically Greek.

— Jamie Demetriou

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…

— Jamie Demetriou

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

Deep down I think I'm operating on a lower level than most people, based on my education, shoulder chip, blah, blah.

— Jamie Demetriou

I learned that characters are funniest when they don't really know what they're doing.

— Jamie Demetriou

I think most people know Stath as a letting agent - as in 'Oh, I've met that letting agent' but people from…

— Jamie Demetriou

Observational comedy is a bit of dirty phrase to most comedy fanatics, but I think it depends on what the observations are,…

— Jamie Demetriou

I think you just never lose the kind of things that you wanted or loved as a teenager. They stay with you…

— Jamie Demetriou

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

— Jamie Demetriou

We were watching TV one day and a George Michael music video came on and dad tutted and said 'Oh, he was…

— Jamie Demetriou

I'd like to design clothes, even just for myself, because my shape doesn't always lend itself to the things I like.

— Jamie Demetriou

I think with the best characters, you want to see them go on a journey, Partridge being the best example of that.

— Jamie Demetriou

I grew up in London, so my nurture was very western, but my dad's Cypriot and there are three areas where my…

— Jamie Demetriou

I used to get so tense at school that my pencils would break on the page. I'd get very, very worried about…

— Jamie Demetriou

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