Trigger Happy TV

Trigger Happy TV to return

Dom Joly is planning to return to Channel Four to make more instalments of his breakthrough show Trigger Happy TV. Speaking to promote his new autobiography Joly shied away from describing the landmark hit series as a prank show and said that he hoped that the new episodes would be more "filmic".

Dom Joly confesses he stole giant phone prop from shop

Dom Joly has confessed he stole the giant phone on Trigger Happy TV which helped make him famous.

Dom Joly: 'Trigger Happy went global, my cut was 4%'

Did Trigger Happy TV make you rich? "Yes, very rich. We had huge DVD sales, which made a lot of money, but I wish I had set up a production company."

Dom Joly falls for outsized parking ticket prank

TV prankster Dom Joly was beaten at his own game - when he fell for a fake outsized parking ticket on his Range Rover.

Video - Dom Joly: I keep Trigger Happy TV phone in loo

Comedian Dom Joly, best known for playing an obnoxious businessman on a giant mobile phone in 90s show Trigger Happy TV, has admitted he now uses the infamous prop as a toilet roll holder.

Now a travel writer, author and sometime spoofster, Joly also told BBC Breakfast what it was like to appear on jungle reality show I'm A Celebrity...Get me Out of Here! last year.

The broadcaster was speaking ahead of a 64-date stand-up UK tour, Welcome From Wherever I Am, which begins on 1 May at Richmond Theatre.

The format may at first glance appear to have been done before. Shows which involve us laughing at some punter pranking Joe Public are not unheard of. But Dom Joly, the star of Trigger Happy TV, manages to exploit this "genre", with an exquisite sense of humour.