Who is dom joly

If you're talking about defence mechanisms and brutal battles for survival, that wasn't Beirut. Between them, the two settings left lasting scars. He developed a dark, deadpan sense of humour — a common coping mechanism in trouble spots — and spent his teenage years as a goth. My glass is always just half-empty. For all its difficulties, Lebanon moulded Joly and he grew up idolising foreign correspondents and ravenously consuming The Adventures Of Tintin.

Suddenly, he was 'comedian Dom Joly', known across the nation for his surreal humour. Success really did come overnight. After the first episode aired, Joly was on a train when he heard a familiar ringtone, and someone down the carriage stood up and started bellowing theatrically into their handset. Cue gales of laughter, and by the journey's end it had happened twice more. No-one realised he was there, but Joly realised that he had, in fact, made it.

I think I'm a smart guy doing a stupid genre. Trigger Happy was not a travel show, but Joly tried very hard to make it one. For one sketch he visited a Swiss ski resort, erected a sign reading, 'Warning: Yeti', and then, inevitably, dressed up as one. I told him it was a long story Trigger Happy ended after two seasons "I knocked it on the head too early — never make a decision just as you finish something" , and Joly could finally indulge his globetrotting full-time.

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Is that your only joke? I just liked the idea of what Dom needed to get done. Production was bliss. I assumed everyone was left alone in the same way we were. It was probably because we were cheap. The giant snail going over the zebra crossing is probably my favourite bit. We had this magnificent costume made. Dom looked fantastic.