- Inaudible
[heavy breathing]
I remember opening my eyes under water at one point,
and it was luminous yellow.
And that was like one of the later jumps.
And I was like, this thing is full of wee.
Definitely I've been swimming around making jokes in wee.
That was definitely a low point.
[techno music]
[upbeat music]
[wings flapping]
[TV crashes]
The idea for the, the whole thing was going to be,
you know, I think on the page it said something like
Stath runs around the house chasing the pigeon
and in the process of doing so he manages
to leave everything kind of untouched
apart from three, he smashes three TVs.
It got to the morning of the shoot
and um, someone took me aside and said:
"FYI, for the big pigeon stunt this afternoon,
uh, the uh,
guy is very precious about his pigeon.
Um, so ideally
we'd really just get one shot of it flying through shot
and then you run after it.
And I think that's what we're going to be able to get."
He arrived with the pigeon and everyone was like:
"All right man, look forward to meeting it" or whatever.
So we did the shot that they had in mind where we,
[chuckling]
where I ran through.
And I heard the pigeon guy say under his breath,
he goes: "Eh".
I don't think he likes being referred to as the pigeon guy.
There was like a red bucket that it would fly into.
That was its cue.
It knew that it had to fly into a red bucket.
I think a noise or something startled it.
and it flew off course
and went and landed on a picture frame.
Someone went to shout "cut" as in like,
like the pigeons gone mad, let's cut.
And I was like, please, please,
please can we just keep rolling just, just,
just to see what happens?
And basically everything that ended up in the episode
is what came out of take.
The fear in everyone's eyes
when it got to the end of the take.
Like when, when I was like, okay, I think I'm done.
I think I've done all my chasing.
I remember everyone in the crew going like that
and looking at the pigeon, going to be like
"Is he going to sue us or kill us?".
And he was like, like out of the film, he was like,
[clapping]
"Why weren't you doing that the whole time?
That was funny.
The other was stuff was boring."
He's ah, going to be my best man.
Ah, if I get married.
That's not what this is about.
Okay.
- What are you doing?
- Dammit.
[birds wings flapping]
Get it out!
- Is it on me?
Is that on me then?
- No, it's on my bed.
- It's on me
- Get the pigeon off me!
- It's not on you.
[screaming]
I'm going to get it with this, come back here, sir,
um, young lad.
I honestly feel like I've never felt more alive than that.
I feel like I should just have a pigeon around sometimes
to do this with.
I feel like it was the happiest I ever was in my life.
- Hey Rick.
No.
- Are you serious?
- I'm very serious.
It actually kind of affects my door,
You pushing your way into my house.
- No, about the thing about us
jumping in the canal, 50 pounds.
is...
Is that serious.
- Obviously not, no.
- I think early, early on in the process, I learned that,
you know,
you have to save ideas
on the off chance you get other series.
This is one I've had on the back burner for ages.
Born out of me and the director of series three,
and very good friend of mine, Andrew Gaynord.
and we went for a walk together,
a beautiful walk along the coastline.
And we were walking along a pier
and there was this sort of old Greek guy sat there.
He'd been drinking.
And, as we passed him, he said, um
"I'll give you a $50 jump in the water".
And we were like
like in the middle of like a real
heart to heart with each other.
We were like,
[chuckling]
obviously not.
And why would you give up $50 to see that?
Why do you want us to jump in the water?
Like, what even is that?
But as we walked away, we just laughed for about,
just one of those deep, deep laughs.
Just of like, how pointless an endeavor that would be.
And, also, just like,
I think the thing that was getting us was just like,
how silent an event it would be
and how like underwhelming it would be
to just see this person disappear in the water
and then just have them come in and like,
Yeah, wet now.
That was really good.
Here's your money, see you later.
And I think what, the main thing we really wanted
to execute with this, which I hope we did,
is just a feeling of like, pointlessness.
Do I have to do it?
- No
- Nah, nah.
- Obviously not.
[water splashing]
- Oh God, he didn't take his jacket off.
[water splashing]
[laughing]
- I mean, what can you say?
[laughing]
I probably had to do it about seven times.
I remember opening my eyes under water at one point
and it was luminous yellow
and that was like one of the later jumps.
And I was like, this thing is full of wee.
Definitely.
Definitely I've been swimming around making jokes in wee.
So there's loads of stuff that got cut out
of me like splashing around
pretending I was like being chased by a fish,
but that's not good comedy really, is it?
[laughing]
The worst feeling in the world was um,
getting out.
and uh,
I was sodden, but they, we had to reset it.
We did all the second jumps, like, quite a few times,
cause I was still wet,
but we had to do the first one again,
but we only had one more shot at it,
and we wanted to get the wide angle,
which we actually ended up using.
I think it was that shot.
I was wearing a wetsuit under my suit
and I had to get in the shower
and get all the mud and wee off of me,
and then put the wetsuit back on,
and then put a suit over that.
I think that was,
that was definitely a low point.
I won't do that again!
I don't want to perform in potty land.
No, no, no, don't go.
Don't go.
I'm... let me think about it.
- Obviously don't do it again.
[water splashing]
- Okay, so.
Oh, yes.
This is arguably the maddest scene
in the history of the show.
[upbeat music]
- Welcome for internet television.
Speak Greek Speak.
it's interviews, politics, celebration,
opah and gossip.
Our guest today is Scandal
from the inaudible Lettings agency.
- After series
one,
I was doing press for the show.
We wanted to,
we wanted to promote it on some Greek networks
so we did a bit of a promotion on a,
on a Greek YouTube channel,
which was so much fun.
It was, it was amazing.
And it just felt like the,
like the true promotion for the show.
It's like it was from the world of the show.
It's kind of, it was like, it just all kind of merged.
But, when I arrived,
I was wearing a blue denim shirt
because I, I'd seen the show
and I knew they had green screen.
I was like, well avoid green.
But, they had a blue screen,
[chuckling]
which I sort of, I hadn't quite twigged.
Well, I mean, you know, I'm it, my head was like,
that's what it is in this,
it was like a, it was like a balloon on a, on a,
on a sort of string of buttons.
I just hadn't,
'cause I've never seen a green screen be blue before.
I just went with it.
And then like we filmed for like two minutes
and the camera man was like
"Ah, no".
We can't, like,
as if there was a chance
we might have been able to carry on like that.
Anyway, um...
They were like,
"So, can you go out and buy yourself some clothes?".
[laughing]
So I went out and I bought myself a,
I bought myself a T-shirt.
I think the interview exists somewhere,
but in it I'm just like,
I'm, I still have, like, a laugh in my cheeks
for the whole interview as to, what went down.
And just the thought of if, that I had gone out.
- Crude News
A girl make videos of all of the inaudible Letting agents
being naughty.
The one of our guests, Michael Eagle,
got 80,000 views on YouTube!
Now
inaudible.
- That kind of mad, desperate attempt
people have to show their support for something
without actually doing anything to help.
It's like the kind of, like,
like, Stath jumping in a canal is like,
that's not helping your tenants.
[laughing]
It just felt like,
it just feels like it's so often the case that it's like,
the action of help is so disconnected from,
from the actual cause itself.
And I just sort of,
I love kind of taking like,
arguably quite a serious bit of subject matter
and skewing it through
the kind of world of the show and, and these characters.
- I just want to say yeah, right.
I know some people are thinking
Letting agents are naughty, or whatever,
cause we've been naughty, or whatever,
But
I just want to say a comment,
which is
what's the point?
Do you know what I mean?
What's the point of filming me,
making me look like an idiot?
Maybe we feel stupid,
in front of my dad, ashamed of me.
What's the point?
I love what's the point?
Is it an expression
I've been trying to squeeze it in the show for ages.
They're like, at school it was like,
everyone's catch phrase was,
you did anything, it was
"What's the point?".
I remember someone kicked my football
when I was playing football.
I mean, one of the three times I played football
in my childhood,
and I went, as you do,
"What's the point?".
And he said:
"The point is I kicked the ball"
And my mind was blown forever.
There is a response to what's the point.
But, in time I've discovered that
that doesn't make sense either.
Okay.
Now onto something a little bit sentimental.
- I want to do a song for them
from America.
- It's worth noting, um
Christos has like, a pop career in um,
in Greece.
He has an amazing singing voice.
And, I would YouTube him.
And it's like, really like, cool stuff.
It's really like,
you know, his music videos and stuff
are really like interesting and...
oh God, I love that guy.
[pleasant music]
♪ - That's how much I need you ♪
♪ [pleasant music] ♪
♪ And I can't stand you. ♪
♪ Must everything you do ♪
♪ make me want to smile. ♪
♪ And then I like if for awhile ♪
♪ But you won't let me ♪
♪ You upset me, boy ♪
♪ And then you kiss my lips ♪
♪ All of a sudden I forget ♪
- Jimmy Roussounis, who plays Steven there,
who's obviously so brilliant,
him, sitting next to him,
always reminds me of like,
kind of a frog, or something.
There's something quite like, Muppet-esk about it.
Oh, I was, I was so hopeful
we'd be able to get the rights to ah,
Hate How Much I Love You, Boy
because it just felt perfect for the world of the show
to not try and do like, a really kind of edgy song,
and
like embrace what kind of music
that these characters would probably like.
I kind of like, you know,
like poppy R and B and stuff like that.
But having Christos sing it, I mean,
I just couldn't have asked for anything more.
The way he delivered it, it's just amazing.
And like Aaron Baron Cohen, ah
Sasha Baron Cohen's brother, ah,
did music for all the series
and he's just a genius and he did the arrangement
to make it and bouzouki-ish and Greek.
And it's so subtle and lovely.
I was very, very moved.
I think Rihanna was, or Ne-Yo,
I don't know who wrote the lyrics to it,
but I think they,
[mouth smacking]
I think they had a feeling
there'd be a sitcom about a Greek Letting agency
this would lend itself to in a few years time.
Um, just an inkling.
Re-Re.
♪ - Must everything you do make me want to smile ♪
♪ And then I like it for awhile ♪
♪ But you won't let me ♪
♪ You upset me, boy ♪
♪ And then you kiss my lips ♪
♪ All of a sudden I forget. ♪
♪ Can't remember what you ♪
- I pushed the idea that we don't choreograph anything.
We just know the order in which people come along.
I kind of feel like
as a gang we're not natural dancers
[laughing] although there may be a couple.
And I was like,
if there's any kind of inkling
that you can spot in someone's eye
that they might be trying to remember a step or something
it might just
blow the lid off of it a little bit.
So, I really wanted to keep it as like,
stupid and, and like, funny
like comedy dancing as possible
because it's so, like, it's drowning in, kind of, sincerity.
So, I wanted to kind of level it out
with a feeling of naturalistic
of the moment, in the moment, dancing inaudible.
- ♪ Love you beyond the reason why ♪
♪ And it just ain't right ♪
♪ And I hate how much I love... ♪
- I mean, props to Ellie white
for throwing those shapes without any like,
decision-making beforehand.
I went to Uni with Ellie white.
We all started doing ah, our comedy together
in a sketch group.
We'd take shows up to the fringe.
I still find it so mad to see um,
that we're like, doing it on camera now.
So strange.
Lovely stuff.
♪ - Love you boy ♪
♪ I can't stand much I need you ♪
♪ And I hate how much I love you, boy ♪
♪ But I just can't let you go ♪
- Katia, will you..
- No, inaudible get up, no.
- What are you doing?
- No.
- Thank you for watching.
I have been and still am Jamie Demetriou,
and this has been the action replay
of Stath Lets Flats.