Dom Joly is a multi-award winning television comedian His first televi sion series, Trigger Happy TV, was a prime-time Friday night hit for Channel 4 in 2000-2004 and went on to be sold in over seventy countries world-wide and win several awards including the Silver Rose of Montreux. Since then Dom has made TV shows for the BBC, FIVE, Sky One and Comedy Central USA, including the acclaimed travel series Dom Joly’s Happy Hour.

A prolific columnist, he writes for both the Independent and the In dependent on Sunday newspapers as well as being an award-winning travel writer for the Sunday Times and the Mail On Sunday.

Dom is an author - his third book - The Dark Tourist - in which he travelled to North Korea, Iran, Chernobyl, Lebanon and Cambodia,was published to much acclaim by Simon and Schuster in September 2010.

His next book “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps” in which he travels the world in search of monsters like the Yeti and Bigfoot is scheduled for publication in 2012.

Dom is currently developing several comedy projects; one is a comedy pilot in development with Carnival and the BBC as well as a secret sitcom project also for Carnival. He has also written a comedy feature film script he has written with his Trigger Happy partner Sam Cadman- called War of the Flea, it is a hidden camera film set in the States, and this is in development with Brilliant Films.

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