Joly's anarchic surreal sketches first started appearing as interstitials during advert breaks on the British [[Paramount Comedy Channel]].
In 1999 following a successful fifteen minute pilot on [[Comedy Lab]], [[Channel 4]] commissioned Joly to make a TV series. ''Trigger Happy TV'' was born; aan versionanarchic ofhidden ''Candidcamera Camera''show butthat withwent moreon modernto musicbe sold to over seventy countries worldwide. Joly made two series and two Christmas specials before announcing that he wanted to do other things. Joly was nominated for three [[British Comedy Awards]] for the show, won the [[Silver Rose of Montreux]], the [[BBC2 award for Best Comedy]] and the [[Loaded/Goodfella' Comedy newcomer of the Year.]]
The three DVDs for the shows were all best-sellers as were the soundtrack albums that Joly had personally selected and mixed himself.
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A [[Parody|spoof]] documentary about Joly followed, called ''[[Being Dom Joly]]'' which was produced and written by Joly himself. This aired prior to screenings of Trigger Happy TV in the USA and earned critical acclaim, with one reviewer Bob Croft, [[LA Times]] calling Joly "the funniest man in Britain."
Thisa new series of ''Trigger Happy TV'' was made for a US audience in 2003, and changed the format of British ''Trigger Happy TV'' in that it 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 and called it "''Trigger Happy'' by numbers - take joke, put it in slo-mo, add fluffy animals and random indie soundtrack - it was made by uncaring idiots." He had a producer credit on the show but disassociated himself with the project.
