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.
Dom Joly: How a bog-standard lilo might turn me into a world champion
With so many 'sports' out there, I think it might be possible for me to fulfil my dream
Recently by Dom Joly
Dom Joly: I'm sick of mingling with the rich and famous
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Finally, the breakthrough. After six years slogging away on the Cotswolds social scene desperately trying to avoid Ruby Wax and Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, I get the call. I'm going to meet the kingpin, the head of the social salon: Jeremy Clarkson.
Dom Joly: I've cracked the code for picking winners
Monday, 24 November 2008
Weird World of Sport: Maybe the donning of the correct togs was more important than I originally thought
Dom Joly: Never ask permission. The answer's always: 'No'
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Credit crunch? What credit crunch? Certainly that's the way it felt in the advertising world last week.
Dom Joly: Bashed by Boycott and tackled by Tufnell
Monday, 17 November 2008
Weird World of Sport: 'I am strangely proud that I warranted my own Wimbledonsecurity briefing'
Dom Joly: 'If Grandpa had died in the war, would I still exist?'
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Up to London we go to see my dad march in the Remembrance Sunday parade. First we endure a stressful half an hour at home trying to persuade our kids to wear something vaguely smart. My son particularly resists this attempt to Little Lord Fauntleroy him. It takes me right back to being a kid myself – valiantly resisting efforts to make me wear a tie for the Easter church service. I've had a loathing of ties all my life and I'm pretty sure that this trait is genetic as my son is definitely heading that way.
Dom Joly: Terrorists outgunned by the Cotswolds set
Monday, 10 November 2008
Weird World of Sport: Whenever you're on a train, you're probably sitting yards from anarsenal of shotguns
Dom Joly: Flash, bang, wallop... that's it for another year
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Thank God bonfire night is over for another year. I know I sound like a bit of a party pooper, but I really do feel that, as a rule, once you've seen one fireworks display you've seen them all.
Dom Joly: Jackets off for a serious spot of wiff-waff
Monday, 3 November 2008
Weird World of Sport: We play about twice a year on very sunny days when we want to pretend we're on holiday in France
Dom Joly: If the licence-payers can call the shots, what hope for me?
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Halloween... Hell-oween if you ask me. I used to completely ignore this American import, but then I went and married a Canadian/American. She takes it very, very seriously.
Dom Joly: Grounded in the land of the 'Big Ski Jump'
Monday, 27 October 2008
Weird World of Sport: I don't really count cross-country skiing as a sport. It's just away of getting about
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