"Actor: Dom Joly"

• Dom Joly's Happy Hour | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £7.88   |  Saving you £12.11 (153.68%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What do you get when you send Trigger Happy TV's Dom Joly around the world to investigate cultural attitudes towards alcohol? The answer is one of the most original funny and in places downright weird travel series ever made. Joly accompanied by his best friend Pete drinks moonshine with hillybillies in America blacks out on homemade Vodka in Russia tries Peyote in Mexico bathes in beer in Germany bates hippies in Goa and just manages not to get killed in the Australian Outback. This is a travel series like no other. Take one anarchic comedian and his curiously posh friend. Add a copious amount of alcohol a dash of surrealism and a hint of maeness. Shake and stir the whole thing up until everyone's all over the place. Then watch immediately with plenty to drink yourself.

• Trigger Happy Complete Box Set | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £16.95   |  Saving you £13.04 (76.93%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Hidden camera comedy show where members of the public and celebrities are set up by Dom Joly in various disguises from giant squirrels to mad foreigners. It is all combined with a brilliant pop music soundtrack that makes Trigger Happy TV one of the funniest and original TV comedy shows around. This release features series 1 2 and 3.

• Trigger Happy TV - Best Of Series 1 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  First shown by Channel 4 at the beginning of 2000, Trigger Happy TV is one of those hidden-camera shows that plays pranks on the unsuspecting public. The brainchild of writer-performer Dom Jolly and his co-director Sam Cadman, it's a beguiling selection of endearingly daft scenes triggered by the admirably straight-faced Jolly (an inappropriate name if ever there was one). His characters include, among many others, a traffic warden who ticks off street cleaners for parking their carts on double-yellow lines; a business man who produces a three-foot-long mobile phone and bellows loudly into the handset; and an incompetent secret-service agent who sidles up to people on park benches, slipping them cryptic messages. Unlike the elaborate ruses of other hidden-camera shows, the best gags here are decidedly low-tech and simple: Jolly's attempt to interact with a stuffed dog he's taken for a "walk" in the park, much to bemusement of passing joggers, is fairly typical of the programme's mix of deadpan humour and surreal visuals--less Beadle's About, more absurdist street theatre. And instead of relying on a laugh track to set the mood, the show has a surprisingly eclectic, even at times strangely mellow and introspective, soundtrack from such acts as The Happy Mondays, Elastica and the Stereophonics. While some of the recurring gags were beginning to flag by the end of the series, the beauty of this compilation is that it features only the strongest material. However, we won't get a chance to see the prank Jolly played on Bill Wyman, who objected when it was first screened on television. Wyman might not get Jolly's impish brand of humour. But this fresh and entertaining compilation gives the rest of us a chance to sample it for ourselves. --Edward Lawrenson

• Trigger Happy TV - Series 2 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Prankster Dom Joly adds a marvellously surreal edge to the hidden camera show in this, his second collection of highlights from Trigger Happy TV, all of which are once again set to a great soundtrack of downbeat anthems. Joly not only waylays unsuspecting members of the public and minor celebrities, he subjects them to any number of odd or downright bizarre scenarios. Among many other gems here we have the millionth customer at the sex shop, the MI6 recruiting officer whose potential recruitee is frighteningly willing to become an assassin, the infuriating traffic warden ("You can't park here"), the workmen who eat and sleep in the middle of the street, the cultured punk, the obvious burglar, the park warden who eats all the birds, and the ice cream man who is incapable of serving anything. Best of all, perhaps, are the creature features: the snail literally crawling across the zebra crossing, the vain gorilla-gram, not to mention sundry sadistic squirrels, dangerous dogs and randy rabbits. Oh yes, and there's still that guy with the huge mobile phone, though it must be increasingly hard for Joly to find anyone who doesn't know this character by now. Trigger Happy TV gamely exploits the British public's unwillingness to confront strangers, but it also hearteningly demonstrates their innate politeness when placed in awkward situations. In how many other countries could he approach people in the street to insult and bemuse them without running a serious risk of assault? On the DVD: The disc has an excellent, irreverent commentary from Joly and producer Sam Cadman, who talk about the difficulties of filming, chat to people on their mobile phones and munch snacks from the Abbey Road studio canteen. There's also the excruciating stand-up routine Joly did pseudonymously at The Comedy Store, which if nothing else proves he's got no shame at all. --Mark Walker

• Trigger Happy TV - Series 3 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £4.60   |  Saving you £5.39 (117.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Trigger Happy TV 3 is another compilation from the cult late night Channel 4 comedy that turbo-charged the old Candid Camera format with a cool rock soundtrack for the MTV generation. While the show itself could become repetitive, the 42 minutes of highlights distilled into the main feature here are frequently hilarious. See public prankster Dom Joly wrestle a giant badger in the woods, enjoy the office populated entirely by people dressed as bears and collapse with laugher at the most surreal estate agent scenario in the world. From a terribly insecure policeman to the street guide who doesn't know the location of anything, Joly's nerve at pulling off some of these gags is breathtaking. The supporting feature is a half-hour spoof biography of Joly made to introduce Trigger Happy TV to American audiences. Deadpan in the extreme, it sends up the fly-on-the-wall genre and celebrity interview with uncomfortably accurate wit. That's not the end, because the presentation makes the line between programme and extras largely irrelevant, so read on to see what else is... On the DVD: Trigger Happy TV 3 can simply be played straight through so that everything on the disc makes a 90-minute pseudo feature, or individual sections can be selected as extras. There are 14 mostly worthwhile unseen clips, three "Bad Rabbit Jokes" (and they are bad), the three "Worst Ideas Ever" (they are), "Brushes with the Law" (which was bound to happen with such stunts as White Van Man's road rage), and four hugely entertaining previously unseen Celebrity Interviews with Hanif Kureishi, Bret Easton Ellis, Uri Geller and Alan Titchmarsh. The commentary track by Joly and Sam Cadman rambles with entertaining irrelevance from a deaf George Martin producing their recording at Studio 2, Abbey Road, to rather more believable recollections of being arrested in Belgium. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Cars That Made Us: The Complete Series | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £14.82   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Exploring a diverse heritage spanning more than a century while celebrating the sheer joy of motoring, this tremendously popular series sees an array of celebrities sharing their memories of classic British cars and revealing their driving passions. Dom Joly, Quentin Wilson, Jodie Kidd, Jools Holland, John Prescott, Jon Culshaw, Phil Tufnell and Benjamin Zephaniah are among the many guests enthusing and swooning over a range of cars from affordable bestsellers such as the Mini, the Hillman Imp and the Ford Cortina to unattainable objects of desire such as the Austin Healey 3000 and the Lotus Esprit. From the iconic Triumph Spitfire to timeless classics such as the E-Type Jaguar and the futuristic Aston Martin Lagonda, this series features some of the jewels in the crown of the British automobile industry... along with a handful of unlamented entries to the motoring Hall of Shame!

• Dom Joly - World Shut Your Mouth | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With 'World Shut Your Mouth' Dom Joly takes the format that made him famous with 'Trigger Happy TV' and goes global! In his hilarious new series Dom embarks on an adventure that takes him to the Taj Mahal The Great Wall Of China The Pyramids The Grand Canyon Newfoundland...no one is safe. Featuring a whole host of brand new characters from British Bob The Stunt Man to Guido The Columbian Gigolo and Alan The Worlds' Liveliest 77 year old Dom sows anarchy and madness wherever h

• Trigger Happy TV - Series 3 | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dom Joly is back with more surreal pranks than ever in Trigger Happy TV 3 - this year's must-have compilation featuring the recent Christmas Specials a spoof documentary - 'Being Dom Joly' - and masses of unseen footage. With his bizarre sense of humour Dom Joly injects the bizarre into every ordinary situation. Brand new characters on this new compilation include a meditation expert with an explosive temper Fu-Manchu the Rickshaw driver the Grim Reaper smoker stalker and Mary with her Three Wise Men fighting in a store window. As ever each scene is set to a perfectly chosen soundtrack.

• Trigger Happy: Series 1 | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hidden camera comedy show where members of the public and celebrities are set up by Dom Joly in various disguises from giant squirrels to mad foreigners. It is all combined with a brilliant pop music soundtrack that makes Trigger Happy TV one of the funniest and original TV comedy shows around.

• Trigger Happy TV - Series 2 | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hidden camera comedy show where members of the public and celebrities are set up by Dom Joly in various disguises from giant squirrels to mad foreigners. It is all combined with a brilliant pop music soundtrack that makes Trigger Happy TV one of the funniest and original TV comedy shows around.

• Trigger Happy TV The Collection | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Prankster Dom Joly adds a marvellously surreal edge to the hidden camera show in Trigger Happy TV, all of whose episodes are set to a great soundtrack of downbeat anthems. Joly not only waylays unsuspecting members of the public and minor celebrities, he subjects them to any number of odd or downright bizarre scenarios. Among many other gems here we have the millionth customer at the sex shop, the MI6 recruiting officer whose potential recruitee is frighteningly willing to become an assassin, the infuriating traffic warden ("You can't park here"), the workmen who eat and sleep in the middle of the street, the cultured punk, the obvious burglar, the park warden who eats all the birds, and the ice cream man who is incapable of serving anything. Best of all, perhaps, are the creature features: the snail literally crawling across the zebra crossing, the vain gorilla-gram, not to mention sundry sadistic squirrels, dangerous dogs and randy rabbits. Oh yes, and there's still that guy with the huge mobile phone, though it must have been increasingly hard for Joly to find anyone who didn't know that character already. Trigger Happy TV gamely exploits the British public's unwillingness to confront strangers, but it also hearteningly demonstrates their innate politeness when placed in awkward situations. In how many other countries could he approach people in the street to insult and bemuse them without running a serious risk of assault? --Mark Walker

• Dom Joly's Golfing Greats, Gaffes And Goofs | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dom Joly humorously looks at the triumphs shortfalls and bloopers of professional golf.