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Dom Joly is a multi-award winning television comedian, journalist and travel-writer. Today we sit down with the Trigger Happy TV creator to discuss his rise and fall from comedy, business and his tips for others looking to walk in his footsteps.

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Dom Joly was born on the 15th of November in 1967 in Beirut, Lebanon. He also speaks French, Arabic and Czech in addition to English. He attended Brummana High School in Lebanon, and in the UK, two independent schools: The Dragon School in Oxford and Haileybury College in Hertfordshire, followed by the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. In 2003, a new series of Trigger Happy TV was made for an American audience with an altered format that featured a band of different comedians who performed skits without Joly. Though Joly did cameo sporadically on the show, he was very unhappy with the programme. Following the success of Trigger Happy TV on Channel 4, Joly was secured by the BBC. 

In 2009, Joly fronted a show titled Made in Britain, shown on the Blighty channel in the UK. In 2010, Joly published a travel book called The Dark Tourist: Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations, investigating dark tourism. In the book Joly travels to places that witnessed great tragedy and death, including Chernobyl. In the 1997 UK general election, Joly stood in Kensington and Chelsea against Alan Clark. Hiring out hundreds of teddy bear costumes, he staged mock protests at Westminster and came fifth out of nine candidates, receiving 218 votes (0.6%). In 2019, he became a member of the Liberal Democrats. 

Joly is married to a Canadian graphic designer. Having lived in Notting Hill before their children were born, Joly and his wife bought a property in the Cotswolds. They sold his flat to Salman Rushdie.

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