Demetriou swiftly created companions: “I’d spend all night talking to myself in different character voices, then pick up a wig on the way to the show. That first character was Big D, a shoddy rapper who’s confused to find himself playing a comedy show. By the end, he’s got this big following,” White says. “At the beginning of the month, he had one character and three people in the audience. ![]() He invited performers including White to open, naming the show People Day (and Special Guests). In the summer of 2012, Demetriou had a choice: attend an interview for a BBC traineeship or fill an hour at the fringe with only 15 minutes of material: “I shut my eyes and decided to go to the fringe.” By the time you’ve left uni, you’ve got that out of your system and learned a bit.” “That’s the beauty of student comedy: you can get all your grotesque, rubbish little ideas on stage. “I learned that characters are funniest when they don’t really know what they’re doing.”Ĭrucially, it offered space to experiment. ![]() “I definitely did a version of Stath,” Demetriou says. ![]() Many involved characters failing at something – a trademark of Stath, who serially fails to let out any flats. Ellie White and Jamie Demetriou with the Bristol Revunions.
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