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.
Football, America and me – now that's a special relationship
Dom Joly: Every four years I suspend hostilities and watch all of the World Cup.
Recently by Dom Joly
Dom Joly: Hell is other people being oh so calm. Omm....
Sunday, 27 June 2010
Everyone has a personal vision of hell. I used to think that it was something along the lines of being stuck in a lift with (insert your bête noire here) for an indeterminate period of time while experimental jazz was played on a loop through crackly speakers.
Dom Joly: Zut alors! Domenech for le chop as Sarkozy readies the guillotine
Monday, 21 June 2010
Weird World of Sport: "You are joking of course. There is no way that the magnificent French nation can be defeated by a bunch of sombrero-wearing siesta merchants?"
Dom Joly: Fatherhood is... going to a Leona Lewis concert
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Sometimes it's really hard to be a parent. I'm very keen that my kids have decent taste in music, so I try my best to expose them to a wide variety of what I consider to be good stuff.
Dom Joly: World Cup calls but Dubya's on a mission to stay out of Africa
Monday, 14 June 2010
Weird World of Sport: "I knew a guy went to Cape Town and he got his ass chewed off by a baboon. Africa is a real dangerous place – it's where lions come from..."
Dom Joly: New York, New York, so trendy it hurts
Sunday, 13 June 2010
I love meetings – free coffee, lots of talk about potential projects without actually having to do anything there and then. When the meeting in question is in New York and you have been flown there for that sole purpose, it doesn't get much better.
I prayed my flight would land. I hadn't paid for oxygen
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Dom Joly: Just back from a flying visit to France for half-term. It was with Ryanair so it wasn't until we actually took off that I was sure that we would actually be on a plane – we'd had to pay so many extras, for luggage, boarding, taxes – that I suddenly panicked that nothing had ever specifically mentioned a flight. Maybe I hadn't paid for that particular option?
Dom Joly: Fat pay cheques and sweet nothings when David phones Posh
Monday, 31 May 2010
"Babes, it's me, David." "David... David the stylist?' "No babes... David... Fluffles...."
Dom Joly: You have to dig deep to fall this far
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Just back from the annual ordeal that is school sports day. I'm being unfair in some ways: my kids' school is beautiful – lovely grounds, happy children. The problem, as ever, is me, because I suffer from overly competitive parent syndrome.
Dom Joly: Make your own luck – corner the market in mascots for 2012
Monday, 24 May 2010
Basically, we just get that company to make a couple of weird costumes and then we can flip itround and say that they are whatever you want them to be
Dom Joly: I took my wife to the Ivors... but so did Simon Le Bon
Sunday, 23 May 2010
I realised that my wife had been stuck in the country for too long when I saw her face glued to the taxi window.
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Columnist Comments
• Johann Hari: How Goldman gambled on starvation
What does it say about our system that we can so casually inflict so much pain?
• Mary Dejevsky: So what's Clegg done wrong?
The reason this coalition has the right-of-centre complexion it does is that this is how the country voted
• Terence Blacker: A prince's polite inquiries
There have been the usual mutterings from naysayers following the publication of Prince Charles's accounts
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2Leading article: A surprisingly liberal world view
3Mary Dejevsky: So what's Clegg done wrong?
4AC Grayling: Will this step towards a longer life create yet another divide in our society?
5Brian Viner: Why Murray is a Brit when he wins and a Scot when he loses
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7Professor Tom Kirkwood: There are limits to our powers of prediction
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