About

Dom Joly is a comedy legend.

A British television comedian and journalist, Mr Joly currently writes a monthly column in the British newspaper, the Independent and regularly Tweets.

Dom Joly rose to fame in the late 1990s as the star of the Channel 4 show Trigger Happy TV. If you’ve never seen it, I am not sure what you are doing here. This hidden camera show ran for 2 series with no plans for a fourth series. Dom still keeps his famous mobile phone… as a toilet roll holder.

Following the success of Trigger Happy TV, Dom was hired by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to create a similar hidden camera TV show, called World Shut Your Mouth. Like Trigger Happy TV, this proved to be another hilarious piece of work from Mr Joly. However, it only lasted 1 series (7 episodes) following a critical article produced by the Daily Mail newspaper. Their lack of humour cost Joly his contract with the BBC, although he was never actually informed by the public service broadcaster, but rather his pass and phone was deactivated.

Later in his career, Dom Joly recorded the less-successful spoof travel show, Dom Joly’s Happy Hour for Sky One. The show focused on Joly and friend travelling to discover the attitude towards drinking around the world.

In 2008, Dom Joly recorded a series for Channel Five called The Complainers. In his own words, this series “intends to try and get a little revenge for the ordinary Brit on the morons, bureaucrats, health and safety officers, traffic wardens, timewasters that make all our lives a daily hell.”

The following year, Joly fronted a show titled Made in Britain shown on the cable channel Blighty in the UK, whereby he went on a road trip around the UK to discover what is still made there.

From 2011, Dom Joly is on his first stand up tour entitled Welcome to Wherever I Am