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 looks forward to going on a drag hunt. 'Nobody seemed keen to tell me what happened to the transvestite when they caught him, but it didn't look good.'

Dom Joly: Dragging the countryside for strong scent of a transvestite

Weird World of Sport: The transvestite runs as fast as his nine-inch heels can carry him up river and down dale

Recently by Dom Joly

Dom Joly: Away in a manger, the bear boiled his head...

Sunday, 14 December 2008

It's nativity play time again. My son Jackson has been given the coveted role of third innkeeper.

Dom Joly: Personality? Bring on the rats, dullards and disappointments

Monday, 8 December 2008

Weird World of Sport: It was exciting and I screamed until hoarse, then nearly fell asleep as she talked about it

Dom Joly: We both hate riff-raff. Yet Highgrove kicked me out

Sunday, 7 December 2008

I don't think I could ever run a restaurant. It's not that I haven't thought of it. I even know exactly what it would look like – a mish-mash of old wooden furniture, roaring log fires, cosy red walls and a tip-top wine cellar.

Dom Joly: How a bog-standard lilo might turn me into a world champion

Monday, 1 December 2008

With so many 'sports' out there, I think it might be possible for me to fulfil my dream

Dom Joly: I'm sick of mingling with the rich and famous

Sunday, 30 November 2008

Finally, the breakthrough. After six years slogging away on the Cotswolds social scene desperately trying to avoid Ruby Wax and Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, I get the call. I'm going to meet the kingpin, the head of the social salon: Jeremy Clarkson.

Dom Joly: I've cracked the code for picking winners

Monday, 24 November 2008

Weird World of Sport: Maybe the donning of the correct togs was more important than I originally thought

Dom Joly: Never ask permission. The answer's always: 'No'

Sunday, 23 November 2008

Credit crunch? What credit crunch? Certainly that's the way it felt in the advertising world last week.

Dom Joly: Bashed by Boycott and tackled by Tufnell

Monday, 17 November 2008

Weird World of Sport: 'I am strangely proud that I warranted my own Wimbledonsecurity briefing'

Dom Joly: 'If Grandpa had died in the war, would I still exist?'

Sunday, 16 November 2008

Up to London we go to see my dad march in the Remembrance Sunday parade. First we endure a stressful half an hour at home trying to persuade our kids to wear something vaguely smart. My son particularly resists this attempt to Little Lord Fauntleroy him. It takes me right back to being a kid myself – valiantly resisting efforts to make me wear a tie for the Easter church service. I've had a loathing of ties all my life and I'm pretty sure that this trait is genetic as my son is definitely heading that way.