Dom Joly

A colourful collision of Mark Thomas and Dom Joly, this political hidden-camera prankathon is fact-packed, judiciously targeted, scarily well performed and, often, splutteringly funny.

The stars, Jolyon Rubinstein and Heydon Prowse, set out to satirise tax avoidance, state violence, banker bailouts and other 21st-century injustices - their main weapon being sheer cojones. I was laughing and stuffing my fist in my mouth at the same time as they fired stupid questions at policemen mid-riot, tried to climb over MI6's front gate and, in the best sketch, proved that Tony Blair's central London mansion isn't as heavily guarded as it's cracked up to be.

There are shades of Chris Morris, Mark Thomas and Dom Joly in this new series, a politically skewed news and sketch-based satire. The programme-makers have already hit the headlines in a stunt when the Chancellor George Osborne was handed a GCSE book to help with his maths skills at a speech to bankers. Now seeking out corruption, greed and hypocrisy, Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein aim to humiliate and expose everyone from bankers and celebrities to Olympic organisers and tax-avoiding diplomats. Funny up to a point, even if you get the impression it's been done more artfully before.

Dom Joly on his new ITV show Fool Britannia

ITV have hired a Trigger Happy shooter to replace Bafta-winning Harry Hill's TV Burp.

After 10 years, this is the last run of this splendidly silly review of the week's TV. Against all odds, it's become one of ITV's most popular shows. Before TV Burp, Hill had a series on Channel 4, but was thought too odd for the mainstream, perhaps because of his routines involving puppet badgers named after minor celebrities (for example, "Tasmin Archer Badger").

At first, ITV1 dumped TV Burp into late-night slots. Not till the third series was repeated on Sunday teatimes did ITV1 realise it had a hit. From series four, TV Burp has been a fixture of Saturday teatimes. Audiences of eight million tuned in to see soap dialogue mocked, reality shows spoofed, and sequences so bizarre no other ITV show would attempt them. One week, Hill persuaded a dozen of TV's biggest stars to stare down the lens and say, in a puzzled tone, "Ear cataracts?" (It made sense at the time. Actually it didn't, but it was still funny.) Lately, though, Hill has wearied of watching 10 hours' TV a day, which is why he's quitting. In autumn, TV Burp will be replaced with a hidden camera show by Trigger Happy TV's Dom Joly. But who's funnier: Joly or Hill? "There's only one way to find out!"

Acerbic tongues have been licking up the lemon juice in preparation for the return of Claudia Winkleman's deliciously scurrilous take on celebrity life. Joining her to tell us things that are not necessarily true about events that probably did happen are Dom Joly, Nick Hancock and Jo Caulfield. A crack legal team are on standby.

Dom Joly on hunting monsters

So I start monster hunting and suddenly everybody is in on the craze. I'm writing a new book called Scary Monsters and Super Creeps (thanks, David Bowie) in which I attempt to find the "big six" of Cryptozoology. No sooner do I start upon my quest and monsters start popping up everywhere.

Dom Joly: My family values

The comedian talks about his family.

Dom Joly: Troll Wars

One of the downsides of being a "celebrity" Tweeter is the preponderance of people who seem to hang about in dingy bedrooms in their dirty underwear "trolling."

Interview: Dom Joly, comedian and actor

A Q&A session with Dom Joly.