Dom Joly
Dom Joly has been an eclectic columnist for The Independent on Sunday since 2004. Joly shot to fame in 2000 with his anarchic Channel 4 hidden-camera comedy programme Trigger Happy TV. He has since made television series for BBC and Sky One including, This Is Dom Joly and Dom Joly’s Happy Hour. His spoof autobiography, Look At Me, was published in 2004, and in 2007 he brought out Letters to my Golf Club, featuring his correspondences with golf clubs around the world.
Dom Joly: 'Señor Murray, why you wear women's clothing?'
"Oh for God's sake, Andy, give the bloody ball-hitting a rest for a day. You're getting obsessed..."
Recently by Dom Joly
Dom Joly: Police! There's a big Mexican by Big Ben
Sunday, 16 May 2010
I spent the post-election debacle, like everyone else, glued to the television. I was terrified that I might miss Adam Boulton beat a man to death and there was the constant risk of missing another Gordon Brown (remember him) resign.
Dom Joly: The Tiger tapes... how Elin took the world No 1 by the tail
Monday, 10 May 2010
"I told Elin that I would clean the Escalade's garage out and then I've got to Dyson the whole pool house"
Dom Joly: What a coincidence – my party had a power cut too
Sunday, 9 May 2010
I've always fancied watching an election unravel from the "inside". When I got the call asking me whether I'd like to be on the BBC boat party, moored underneath the London Eye, I jumped at the chance.
Dom Joly: I feel betrayed... My best friend has started to like football
Monday, 3 May 2010
Now, like some rabid missionary, he was trying to get me to come over to the synthetic-shirt brigade
A whiff of fantasy and the sweet smell of revenge
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Dom Joly: I don't understand why you can't flush the loos on train while you're in a station. Logic dictates that it's because "flushing" means opening a hole underneath the carriage and allowing your waste to drop on the tracks.
Dom Joly: The problem with surfing in LA is that the water's really cold
Monday, 26 April 2010
Weird World of Sport: There's a queuing system and woe betide you if you try to jump it... man
Dom Joly: Stuck in LA, I watch TV and brood about cat litter
Sunday, 25 April 2010
I've been stuck in LA all week – another victim of the volcano that nobody outside Iceland can pronounce.
Dom Joly: Jump to it for 2012 'easy' Olympics
Monday, 19 April 2010
Wrestling is for big men who don’t want to be bouncers. Isn't it simply a bar brawl in tights?
Dom Joly: Small is beautiful, except when it's a car in LA
Sunday, 18 April 2010
I'm in LA. I managed to take the last plane out of Europe before it was covered in metres of volcanic ash and everyone ran screaming into the sea. I've been watching Fox News, so I'm totally up on what's been happening.
The National? Pfff. Try this Siena thriller
Monday, 12 April 2010
Dom Joly: For British authorities it would be the biggest health and safety headache imaginable
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