This Is Dom Joly
- Genre
- comedy television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A spoof chat show where Dom Joly hosts interviews and live music. It also includes video diary sketches and a segment where guests describe an activity in a nutshell.
sillyabsurdplayfulirreverentlightheartedmockumentary-stylezanyenergetic
What happens
This is Dom Joly is a spoof chat show presented by Dom Joly, originally shown on BBC Three in 2003. It featured interviews, live bands (complete with animals dancing around the band), "video diary" sketches, and the chance for a guest to describe an activity "in a nutshell". It followed the global success of Trigger Happy TV for Channel 4 with Joly's move to the BBC. It did not meet the success of his previous project, though reviewers had some praise. In a review from The Standard, Lydia Slater writes, "One of the funniest sketches on This Is Dom Joly is a mockumentary, in which Joly introduces us to his monstrous relations: a bored Bosnian wife, a psychotic servant and a gaga, kleptomaniac father.'" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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