Trigger Happy TV is a British hidden camera television show, created, produced and starring Dom Joly. Recently, it has caught on in America, broadcast on the American television station Comedy Central, as well as free, standalone episodes available on Comcast Cable's ON Demand service. Despite the show's popularity over two continents, Joly says he will not make any more in Britain, as his face is now too well known.

The mainstay of the programme was Dom Joly answering a very large mobile phone (cell phone) and shouting at the top of his voice. Other scenes were of people dressed as animals breaking into a fight and the progress of various (costumed) pedestrians across a zebra crossing in London. Dom Joly also dressed as a boy scout leader or park attendant.

Unlike most hidden camera programmes, many of the scenes in Trigger Happy TV did not revolve around trapping normal people into embarassing situations. Instead, many scenes were of the actors doing things that made people stop and either laugh or simply wonder what was going on. Such scenes include the aforementioned large mobile phone, a chef chasing an actor in a large rat costume out of a restaurant, and two actors dressed as masked Mexican wrestlers getting into a spontaneous fight in a grocery store.

This programme has been described as being influenced by Dada.

External links

• Official Website
• Comedy Central - Trigger Happy TV