Magnificent seven: Stath with his fellow
Michael & Eagle Lettings employees (Channel
4)In season two, Stath has a few hipsters turn up to view flats, none of which improv genius Demetriou
has laid eyes on before filming. “Stath can’t understand why hipsters like the things that they like,” says
Demetriou, such as why they think “old cupboards are nicer than new cupboards”, and so on.
Demetriou’s social awareness is acute, and it’s what enables him to write such brilliant characters, from
Apprentice-wannabe Carol to alpha Love Island type Julian. But with social awareness often comes a degree
of anxiety.
“I think my anxiety is part of what makes me try to create something that I love,” he says. “And if I didn’t
have it I’d be so relaxed that I’d end up releasing something that I didn’t care as much about. The problem is
I’m just constantly worried about whether I’ve made something that I find funny, and right now I have no
idea if I have for this series... It’s so funny being interviewed at this stage, because we’re still in the edit.
But right now, it’s like I’m being interviewed about drowning when I’m still under water... I’m like, ‘I still
can’t breathe.’”
Perhaps partly to quell his anxiety, whatever Demetriou does next, he wants it to be completely different
from Stath Lets Flats, which he’s been working on almost consistently for 10 years.
“A big part of my schtick in my live comedy is doing earnest R&B ballads,” says Demetriou, “and I used to
be in a band when I was a teenager, so I’m trying to merge those two things. It’s the furthest thing I could
be doing from Stath right now, a comedy R&B album. So that might be popping up in the next 100 years.”
Series two of ‘Stath Lets Flats’ begins tonight at 10pm on Channel 4