Dom Joly
Dom Joly was born in Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon on November 15th, 1967 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 56, Dom Joly biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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After university Joly was a diplomat, based in Prague.
The original series ran for two series on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2003.
In 2003, a new series of Trigger Happy TV was made for an American audience with an altered format that featured a band of different comedians who performed skits without Joly although he cameoed. Joly was not happy with the US version.
Following the success of Trigger Happy TV on Channel 4, Joly was secured by the BBC for a rumoured £5 million.
This is Dom Joly was a spoof chat show presented by Dom Joly, originally shown on BBC Three in 2003.
World Shut Your Mouth was a hidden camera television series starring Joly. It ran on Friday nights in 2005 on BBC One.
In this series which aired in 2006, Joly and his partner Peter Wilikins travelled the world and tried the unique alcoholic beverages of each country. It ran on BBC One.
In 2009, Joly fronted a show titled Made in Britain, shown on the Blighty channel in the UK.
In 2012-13, Joly made two series of Fool Britannia, a hidden camera show that aired on Saturday evenings on ITV1.
In 2016 Joly was marooned on a desert island for two weeks for Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
In 2020 Joly walked the Sultans Trail from Belgrade to Istanbul for the BBC One series Pilgrimage.
Joly was a columnist for The Independent on Sunday from 2003 until the paper closed in 2016.
He was thought to be the writer of a spoof column in The Independent and then i called "Cooper Brown: He's out there", and later confirmed in his autobiography that this was the case. The column is published as the work of an American character named Cooper Brown and revolves around his putative adventures as "a garrulous American showbiz type".
In 2010, Joly published a travel book called The Dark Tourist: Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations, investigating dark tourism. In the book Joly travels to places that witnessed great tragedy and death, including Chernobyl, which he visited on 4 May 2009; his childhood home of Lebanon; North Korea; various spots in the United States including locations of famous assassinations; the Killing Fields of Cambodia; and Iran for a skiing holiday. The book was published on 2 September 2010 in the UK.
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.
In 2019 Joly published the travel book The Hezbollah Hiking Club, in which he documented his walk across Lebanon with two friends.
Joly was a special correspondent for the Independent at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. While in Beijing, he also appeared daily on the Drive programme on Five Live.
In the 1997 UK general election, Joly stood in Kensington and Chelsea against Alan Clark. Hiring out hundreds of teddy bear costumes, he staged mock protests at Westminster and came fifth out of nine candidates, receiving 218 votes (0.6%).
On 29 June 2018, Joly released the first episode of his comedy podcast, Earworm. In 2020 the second series of the podcast was released by Audible.