The humour is eccentric, and the situations surreal, in a bizarre marriage of traditional sitcom humour and dry millennial irony which has seen it become one of the funniest shows on television. Demetriou plays Stath, a Greek-Cypriot letting agent who works for his father’s estate agency, Michael & Eagle (“my dad had a friend named Michael and he had a dog… and the dog was called ‘Eagle’”), which sits on a busy main road on the outskirts of London.
Stath Lets Flats is Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated, breakout comedy of last summer, written by and starring Fleabag actor Jamie Demetriou. “His one night stand starts to drink chocolate milk from a carton next to her bed, and he asks her if it’s refreshing!” In trying to describe it, I realised it was a type of funny that I’d never actually come across before, and a type of funny that couldn’t be traditionally described. “He’s playing football, but in dress shoes, and calls someone a ‘witch’,” I said to a deadpan audience of one. I told him the premise, and he was interested, but when I went to describe the show in more detail, going into scenes and quoting lines, I found myself stuck on why I found these things so funny. As a Greek man whose interests include “Greece” and little else, I knew a sitcom about a Greek letting agency would be up his alley. When I saw my dad in Greece last summer, I was ready to recommend a new show for him to watch.
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