Press clippings Page 11
We must part with our celebration of female- fronted comedy, thanks to The Morgana Show, a witless sketch vehicle for newcomer Morgana Robinson. Why has she got her own show? Is it because her agent is the powerful John Noel, who numbers Russell Brand among his clients? I wonder.
Like the similarly charmless Katy Brand, Robinson's toothless parodies of the likes of Boris Johnson and Cheryl Cole are an apolitical affirmation of the celebrity status quo, not an attack on it. They lack the backbone required for anything other than staggeringly uninspired whimsy.
And when Dom Joly escapes from the jungle, someone should alert him to The Morgana Show's suspiciously familiar bellowing mobile phone businessman. Shameless stuff.
Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman, 1st December 2010Dom Joly signs deal for two more books
Simon & Schuster has bought a further two books from writer and comedian Dom Joly as he enters the jungle in "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here".
Graeme Neill, The Bookseller, 19th November 2010Jenny Eclair and Dom Joly enter Celebrity Jungle
Comedians Jenny Eclair and Dom Joly will go into the Australian jungle today for reality show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
The Sun, 17th November 2010Trigger Happy TV star headed for I'm A Celeb...
Dom Joly is reportedly on his way to the Australian jungle as part of this year's I'm a Celebrity... line up.
Comedy Central, 8th November 2010Dom Joly: I got a bayonet in my bum
"I'm trying to get a Trigger Happy film made. Films take an extraordinary amount of time to get made."
Metro, 2nd September 2010BBC Radio 2's Comedy Season launches with the return of the irreverent comedy panel show hosted by Claudia Winkleman. Comics and commentators are thrust into the silicon-filled world of glossy magazines and showbiz columns, for a unique take on the week's most "important" celebrity news. As with the people they are laughing at, there are no teams - it's everyone for themselves. Guests on the opening show are Rufus Hound, Jo Caulfield and Dom Joly.
Jane Anderson, Radio Times, 17th July 2010David Walliams narrates a history of disability on TV. It's a slightly directionless tour around the archives from the Spastics Society appeal of the 1960s via Joey Deacon's appearance on Blue Peter to Roy's hysterical abuse of a disabled toilet in The IT Crowd. There are even segments on Heather Mills and Big Brother, although the one about Mills mercifully shows no actual footage of her. Interviewees trying not to say the wrong thing include Mat Fraser, Stephen Merchant, Dom Joly, Ash Atalla and Francesca Martinez.
Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 25th June 2010Dom Joly: 'Dressing as Tintin nearly got me beaten up'
Trigger Happy TV's Dom Joly explains why he's made a special tribute to the famous boy reporter.
Dom Joly, The Telegraph, 17th March 2010Following in the footsteps of Screenwipe, Charlie Brooker's new show - you guessed it - aims its remote at the world of videogames. Whether you're a gamer hater or lover, Gameswipe - part of the Electric Revolution season on BBC4 - shows how games can be just as dumb or brilliant as TV and movies. And Charlie certainly knows what he's talking about, having spent his early career causing mayhem at PC Zone. Graham Linehan, Dara O'Briain and Dom Joly are on hand to join in the pixellated fun.
The Guardian, 29th September 2009