Dom Joly: how we made Trigger Happy TV
(The Guardian Culture News)

`The big mobile has been seen as a satirical take on phone culture, but it was just a good way of interrupting things that irritated me - like classical concerts and poncy restaurants´I never planned to be a comedian. Some would say I never was. I wanted to be a foreign correspondent, a diplomat, or a spy. After a degree in politics I worked for ITN doing interviews on College Green outside parliament. To spice them up, I got some mates to have a clown fight behind Paddy Ashdown, and to kick a football at David Mellor, which accidentally smacked him right in the face. ITN realised I´d set it up and I got fired. Continue reading...