 dominic john joly, known as dom joly (; born 15 november 1967) is an english television comedian and journalist, best known as the star of trigger happy tv, a hidden camera show that was sold to over seventy countries worldwide. ==early life== joly was born in beirut, lebanon "dom joly interview" to british parents and speaks french in addition to english. in beirut, he attended school with osama bin laden, although with over 10 years difference in their ages, they did not interact.http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/dom-joly-went-to-school-with-bin-508987 joly was educated in the uk at two independent schools: the dragon school in oxford and haileybury college in hertfordshire, followed by the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london."not as joly as he seems" ==career== ===television=== after being recruited to work as a producer on itn's house to house, a political discussion programme on channel 4, joly went on to work for the mark thomas comedy product because of his political knowledge. he then created his own show for the paramount comedy channel called war of the flea. discovering that working in comedy was both easier and more fun than his previous employment, joly began to develop trigger happy tv which had a similar structure to war of the flea. ====trigger happy tv====  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 the comedy lab, channel 4 commissioned joly to make a tv series. trigger happy tv was born; a hidden camera show that went on to be 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 
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