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Dom Joly

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.

The former Wimbledon champion Michael Stich attempts to dictate this week's Weird World of Sport

Dom Joly: Lobsters, Serena and a glum Sir Cliff

Serena is built like a stout tree and stomps around the court screaming at herself

Recently by Dom Joly

Dom Joly: This cow row is causing a rift in my marriage

Sunday, 5 July 2009

Stacey picks up the kids and sprints for the gate, while I dissolve into fits of giggles

 A Scot is wrapped up in patriotic fervour watching play from Murray Mount on Saturday

Dom Joly: Anyone for Greco-Roman wrestling?

Monday, 29 June 2009

Weird World of Sport: I started to worry I'd see my name in the papers as a waste of the licence fee

Dom Joly: Entering China was like a heady burst of freedom

Sunday, 28 June 2009

It's a weird state of affairs when you find entering China to be some heady, exhilarating burst of freedom. Yet, last week, as I left North Korea and crossed into China by train, I felt just that. You become institutionalised remarkably quickly in a totalitarian state: what you find peculiar on the first day soon becomes the norm. I imagine it's just the way we are programmed to survive.

Dom Joly: Where was I for the lesson on how to be a man?

Sunday, 21 June 2009

I wish I could become obsessed with my lawn. I just like lying down on it

Dom Joly: Tee for two but no more Mr Nice Guy

Monday, 15 June 2009

Weird World of Sport: The first problem was the London Club is not actually in London

Dom Joly: The more gaffes on television, the better the show

Sunday, 14 June 2009

I was doing a Radio 2 panel show last week and we had a heckler. Well, to be fair it wasn't exactly heckling, more mumbling.

I am not a prejudiced man so I will use this indiscriminately on anyone who even begins to annoy the hell out of me

Dom Joly: Time to shoot from the hip – or at it

Monday, 8 June 2009

Weird World of Sport: Maybe this is the solution to things that I find objectionable? An AK47

Dom Joly: I'm going to spend more time with my family, hem hem

Sunday, 7 June 2009

It is with sadness that I have to announce to you, my loyal readers, that I shall not be standing again as an MP at the next election. I know this will come as a shock to a lot of you. Some of you might not even know that I have been an MP for the past 15 years.

A woman plays boules, a pastime especially popular with French senior citizens, but an Englishman such as Jonny Wilkinson might not be welcome

Dom Joly: Beware ladies bearing boules, Wilko

Monday, 1 June 2009

Weird World of Sport: The bout ended with two elderly mesdames rolling around in the dust

Dom Joly: Unhappy expat? Should have gone to Iceland

Sunday, 31 May 2009

I'm in the South of France for a week. One of the ways to get under the skin of wherever you are is to read the local newspapers. I bought myself a Nice-Matin but also found a curious little magazine called the Riviera Reporter.

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