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.

Los Angeles glitterati David Beckham and Justin Timberlake talk above the adulation at a LA Lakers match earlier this year

Dom Joly: Mind-numbing basketball leaves me cold

I prayed that I'd be selected. I'd kiss one of the lawyers and we'd get out of here

Recently by Dom Joly

Dom Joly: The kindness of a stranger shows all's not lost in LA

Sunday, 12 October 2008

I landed in Los Angeles very unrested. The whole point of business/upper class is that you can be comfortable, pampered and arrive at your destination fresh and ready for action.

Dom Joly: The Jag's just too common for Polo

Monday, 6 October 2008

Weird World of Sport: Jordan doesn't know what she's missing

Dom Joly: Birthday party hell is other children's parents

Sunday, 5 October 2008

Birthdays are never easy. Mine no longer tend to herald exciting parties and the greedy shredding of wrapping paper. Mine are now just mileposts that point the way towards the inexorable arrival of old age.

Dom Joly: Jazz: love the lifestyle, can't stand the music

Sunday, 28 September 2008

I think I've always hated jazz music. The whole bepbopdadooscoobydoo scat thing just gets my goat. I'm sure aficionados will say I'm wrong and I'd never pretend to understand it properly. It's just, to me, it's always seemed to be random, tuneless nonsense. The jazz lifestyle, on the other hand, is something I've always been rather attracted to – louche "cats" in shades and polo necks smoking "jazz" cigarettes and most likely reading "jazz" mags in between radical smoky basement sessions surrounded by groovy femmes fatales.

Dom Joly: I'm crazy about Palin, and she's everything I hate

Sunday, 21 September 2008

It's getting quite embarrassing. I'll be flicking through the "dirty" channels, hoping for a glimpse of what I desire when... Stacey bursts in and I have to fast-flick back to 'Takeshi's Castle' on Challenge.

Dom Joly: The train can take my strain, but only if it's first class

Sunday, 14 September 2008

Trains are hard for me. They are the Ground Zero for anyone who wants to make a "HELLO, I'm on the train" joke about me while shouting and waving their mobiles around in an "isn't this hilarious?" kind of way.

Dom Joly: One bottle of Voss and you want to take holy orders

Sunday, 7 September 2008

I'm in Greece: Sithonia, to be precise. It's the middle prong of three peninsulas that make up a curious trident shape that juts out into the North Aegean. I would say fork shape, but I'm in Greece where everything has to be steeped in ancient mythology – so trident it is.