Trigger Happy TV is a hidden camera/practical joke reality television series. The original British edition of the show, produced by Absolutely Productions, starred Dom Joly and ran for two series on the British television channel Channel 4 from 2000 to 2003. Although Channel 4 is owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, he made a name for himself as the sole star of the show, which he produced and directed with cameraman Sam Cadman.
Producer: Alex Jackson-Long, Dom Joly, Sam Cadman
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3 episodes
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. Compilation of the best bits from series 1.
Runtime: 81 minHidden 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. Compilation of the best bits from series 2.
Runtime: 81 minHidden 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. Compilation of the best bits from series 3.
Runtime: 81 minNo overview available.
7 episodes
No one is safe when Dom Joly releases his twisted creations on an unsuspecting Britiain. Ian Botham has an unusual encounter with an emotional interviewer, and the dogs of war take to the streets.
Runtime: 23 minThe Parkie questions some bewildered old age pensioners about a bit of unpleasantness by the lake, Alice Cooper has an interview with a dutiful son, and the portrait painter tries his hand at a different art-form.
Runtime: 23 minAmong other gems: the spy risks blowing his cover, the kitchen showroom falls down in the catering department, and the aggressive ice-cream vendor loses it completely.
Runtime: 23 minIt's Ken Livingstone's turn to ask some questions when his interviewer turns violent. Elsewhere, the Parkie sorts out some pensioners whom he suspects of creating merry hell with fire-extinguisers, and two enormous gentlemen cause a public inconvenience...
Runtime: 23 minA passer-by gets a blind tasting with a difference, Tamara Beckwith is the subject of a drunken interview, and the Parkie takes on some old-skool old folk.
Runtime: 23 minDom Joly unleashes his twisted humour on an unsuspecting public. Quick-fire comedy and a hip soundtrack make this the ultimate in TV junk food.
Runtime: 21 minMore wacky stunts, gags and gaffaws from that master of slap-stick humour, Dom Joly, in this compilation of the best moments from the first series of the award-winning show.
Runtime: 50 minNo overview available.
7 episodes
Dom Joly plays an assortment of characters as he unleashes his twisted humour on the unsuspecting public. Lord Bath and Zandra Rhodes get the Trigger Happy treatment.
Runtime: 23 minPeter Stringfellow and Frederick Forsyth get the Trigger Happy treatment.
Runtime: 23 minKen Hom and Bob Holness get the Trigger Happy treatment.
Runtime: 22 minIan McCaskill and Dickie Bird get the Trigger Happy treatment.
Runtime: 21 minTony Robinson and John McCririck get the Trigger Happy treatment.
Runtime: 22 minToyah Willcox and Leo Sayer get the Trigger Happy treatment.
Runtime: 21 minMore wacky stunts, gags and gaffaws from that master of slap-stick humour, Dom Joly, in this compilation of the best moments from the second series of the award-winning show.
Runtime: 49 minNo overview available.
2 episodes
In the first part of this Christmas special, Dom Joly goes festive. He heads off to the busy streets which are filled with Christmas shoppers to surprise the unsuspecting public with some yuletide stunts.
Runtime: 30 minIn the second part of this Christmas special Dom Joly takes to the streets once more, with the whole new set of characters and a festive theme Trigger Happy hoping to surprise the unsuspecting public with some yuletide pranks.
Runtime: 30 min