A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou
- TV sketch show
- Netflix
- 2023
- 1 episode
Netflix sketch special in which Jamie Demetriou takes the audience on a journey from birth to death. Also features Nathan Geal, Ellie White, Raphael Sowole, Aqib Khan, Ben Ashenden and more.
Press clippings
Chortle Awards 2024 nominees announced
Julia Masli, Ian Smith, Ahir Shah, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Paddy Young and Sam Campbell are amongst the comedians nominated in the 2024 Chortle Awards.
British Comedy Guide, 8th February 2024Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 shortlist
The 60 TV and radio programmes shortlisted across the 10 categories in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 have been revealed. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 8th January 2024Jamie Demetriou wins Rose d'Or Award
A Whole Life With Jamie Demetriou has won the international Rose d'Or Award for Comedy Entertainment.
British Comedy Guide, 28th November 2023British shows leads comedy entertainment category in Rose d'Or Awards
A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou, Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat, Hold The Front Page, Prince Andrew: The Musical and Taskmaster are nominated for best comedy entertainment show in the international Rose d'Or Awards.
British Comedy Guide, 6th November 2023Edinburgh TV Awards winners revealed
Rosie Jones, Derry Girls, Jamie Demetriou and Graham Norton have been named as winners in the 2023 Edinburgh TV Festival's awards.
British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2023After the success of his lauded Channel 4 sitcom Stath Lets Flats, Jamie Demetriou is riding high on his signature mix of intrinsic oddness, vulnerability and physical clowning. He deploys all this and more in his new one-off Netflix comedy special, A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou.
A kind of rejigged Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life with the absurdist tone of Tim Robinson's I Think You Should Leave, AWL starts with Demetriou as a foetus, being advised about future life stages. Though frankly this concept soon collapses like an existential souffle, and the show becomes a series of loosely linked sketches, songs and general weirdness.
At times it doesn't work (sketches drag on far too long). Still, there's a strong supporting cast (Katy Wix, Sian Clifford) and moments of inspiration, from the toadying absurdity of royal wedding commentary to a Kiss Villa spoof of reality TV ("My best feature? I'd probably say my gums"). Things need to be tighter, but there are some decent laughs. Demetriou has a wayward, experimental comic energy still very much in the making.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 5th March 2023A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou review
Ribald sketch comedy with flashes of sublime genius.
Chris Bennion, The Telegraph, 28th February 2023A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou review
This Netflix comedy special from the Stath Lets Flats star has nuggets of comedy gold, but the humour feels watered down.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 28th February 2023A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou review
This Netflix comedy special is a gift for viewers bereft by the loss of Stath Lets Flats. Comedy doesn't get more punishingly funny or magnificent than this.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 28th February 2023A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou review
There are a few dips as there are in all sketch shows, but the hit rate is incredibly high.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th February 2023