


Fortunately, the series makes a damn good case for this argument. Enjoyment of Stath requires an acceptance of one central idea: that saying things wrong is the funniest thing in the world. At a time when schedules were dominated by dramedies, thrillers with jokes and one-person shows using laughter to make serious points about identity and mental health (as it largely still is), Jamie Demetriou’s series was a rare thing: an out-and-out comedy.

When Stath Lets Flats first aired on Channel 4 in 2018, it was an anomaly among the comedy landscape.
