Monday night’s episode, for example, saw Stath refer to one character, Harriet, as “Harry”: an exact name misspeak that became a popular joke from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It manages to couple the stuff that made My Big Fat Greek Wedding this century’s most successful comedy film with the televisual equivalent of shitposts: absurdist jokes shared online that are deliberately silly and nonsensical. The balance of old and new comedy is a tricky balance watching Stath Lets Flats is like watching a classic comedy where every other line is a Dril tweet. 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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