Dom Joly

Dom Joly

Dominic John Romulus "Dom" Joly ( /ˈdʒɒli/; born 15 November 1970) is a British television comedian and journalist. He came to note as the star of Trigger Happy TV, a hidden camera show that was sold to over seventy countries worldwide. Since then, Joly has continued to make edgy off-beat television like World Shut Your Mouth for BBC1 and Dom Joly's Happy Hour, a spoof travel show for Sky One.

Joly is also an author with several books to his name, and an award-winning travel writer for both the Sunday Times and the Mail On Sunday. He writes several regular columns for various UK nationals and periodicals including a weekly sports column for The Independent and an eclectic weekly column for the Independent on Sunday.

Joly published the The Dark Tourist'' in 2010, about dark tourism. He also completed filming a documentary on Tintin for Channel 4 (Back2Back Productions) which aired on 19 March 2010.

Joly was a contestant on the tenth series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!; he finished in fourth place.

Joly published his second travel book- "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps" in 2012. In the book, he travels the world in search of mythical monsters such as Bigfoot and The Yeti.

Joly also made a high-profile return to Primetime TV with his new eight part hidden camera show- "Fool Britannia" which aired on Saturday nights on ITV1 from September 1st 2012 and ending on October 20th 2012. Joly has hinted at a second series in the pipeline.