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Comedian Dom Joly first made his name with Trigger
Happy TV, in which lucky members of the public were filmed reacting to
a wide variety of outrageous and often surreal stunts.
Dom is originally from Lebanon, but he lives in Notting Hill. Previous day-jobs
have included being a producer for ITN and a diplomat for the European Commission
in Prague. This, as far as we can tell, is true.
Dom's autobiography Look at Me, Look at Me! is described as a 'celebrity
auto-lie-ography' – only about half of it is true. Our hero, 'a man with
the ego of Napoleon but the talent of Darren Day', tells how he murdered his
Armenian nanny before his second birthday, how as a student he inadvertently
gave Kurt Cobain the inspiration for 'Smells like Teen Spirit', and how, as
a producer for ITN, he mistook John Major for a lizard and was raped by a TV
weatherman.
Frightening Eskimos
Dom talked to VEE-TV about his recent World Shut Your Mouth, which
has just been released on DVD.
'The whole idea for World Shut Your Mouth came from one idea that I
put on my ideas board at home. It just said, "Frighten an Eskimo."
I really liked the idea, but I wasn't sure how I'd do it. But when we came up
with the idea of going round the world and doing stunts, we went to Newfoundland,
and I found an Eskimo or an Inuit sitting in the middle of an ice lake, fishing.
And I crept up behind him with some cymbals and I made him jump. And then ran
off. Luckily he wasn't a deaf Eskimo, otherwise it would have been a complete
waste of time. But he really jumped. I like that – he has 50 words for
"snow" but not a word for "idiot".'
Dom isn't planning another series of World Shut Your Mouth, but he
is planning a film. 'I have to say it very carefully: it's called Cunning
Stunts,' he explains. 'I've taken six of the characters and we're going
to do a hidden-camera film, going more into their characters and doing "a
day in the life". It's still at an early stage but I'm quite excited by
it.'
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