My main duty was just trying not to fall asleep while I took people's orders.

Was that your main duty, or were you expected to slap other products? When I talk about it, I can feel it on my hand.

My memory of just smacking a big vacuum pack of bacon – it feels like that is one of the most evocative sensory experiences I've ever had. And then I'd spend the day trying not to fall asleep on top of the big vacuum pack of bacon. But he'd insist that I woke up at like three o'clock in the morning, just to sort of dramatise the whole situation: like, 'Oh, but I have to get up at three o'clock in the morning every day!' So he'd tell me to get up at three o'clock for no apparent reason, and then he'd just sleep til five while I waited on the couch, trying to stay awake. Jamie Demetriou: My dad used to give me a tenner to come and work at his greasy spoon cafe when I was 11. VICE: What is the worst job you've ever had? Photo: Patricia Board (Channel 4 Television)

We chatted to Demetriou for Share Location about growing up in London and his formative, cravat-wearing years. Next year he’ll be in the Apple TV+ murder-mystery The Afterparty too. Since Stath Lets Flats arrived in 2019, he’s popped up alongside his comedy hero Steve Coogan in This Time with Alan Partridge, and moved into films: Paddington 2, Cruella and the upcoming The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. Julian spent all of Michael & Eagle’s money before he went, so, for the moment, they’ve had to move operations to Stath’s dad’s front room.ĭemetriou grew up around Friern Barnet in north London with his sister and fellow comedian Tash, before heading to Bristol for uni. This time around Stath’s about to become a dad, and his own dad’s lettings agency is trying to pick itself up after the untimely death of its extremely Foxtons interim leader Julian. Yeah, it sort of resulted in a sort of endless bout of insomnia, which kind of made the whole process raaaaather agonising.”īut, to be clear: it’s actually really good. How did he get through it? “Sort of didn't. I hit a big old patch of writer's block.” “It's been a very, very, very, very, very dense 12 or 13 or 14 months.

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