Bio
Dom Joly is a Lebanese-born British comedian, journalist and travel writer who rose to fame with his hidden camera television series Trigger Happy TV in 2000, followed by other shows like World Shut Your Mouth, Dom Joly's Happy Hour and Fool Britannia.
A prolific columnist, he has written for most of the broadsheets and tabloids and had weekly columns in the Independent and the Independent on Sunday for many years. He is also an award-winning travel writer for the Sunday Times and the Mail On Sunday.
For three years Dom wrote a spoof column under the pseudonym of Cooper Brown that ran in the Independent and then i.
Dom is an author, with several books under his belt including The Dark Tourist, a travelogue in which he visited the most unappealing tourist destinations in the world (North Korea, skiing in Iran, Chernobyl).
His travel book Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, documenting his international monster-hunting adventures, was developed into a comic travel series for TV.
He has directed viral ad campaigns for Barclays, Tango, Comet and Cadburys as well as music videos for Ian Brown and Wig Wam (Alex James from Blur and Betty Boo). Dom's award-nominated podcasts - Dom Joly's Celebrity Comedy Podcasts - were a big hit in 2011.
He was also a cast member of the reality competition series I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, in 2010.
Before Trigger Happy TV Dom was a producer for ITN in Westminster, a diplomat for the European Commission in Prague and worked for the International Herald Tribune in Paris.
Dom lives in the Cotswolds and London with his Canadian wife Stacey and his two kids.