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Trigger Happy TV - Best Of Series 1 [DVD] [2000]

DVD ~ Dom Joly

4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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Actors: Dom Joly, Brett Allen, Sam Cadman, Lindsey Ellis, Evan Scott Golden
Directors: Jason Sands
Writers: Travis Draft
Producers: Sam Cadman, Jason Sands, Bradley Anderson, Brooks McBeth, Dave Rygalski
Format: Full Screen, PAL
Language English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 15
Studio: Cinema Club
DVD Release Date: 6 Sep 2004
Run Time: 103 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004ZBXQ
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 30,700 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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First shown by Channel 4 at the beginning of 2000, Trigger Happy TV is one of those hidden-camera shows that plays pranks on the unsuspecting public. The brainchild of writer-performer Dom Jolly and his co-director Sam Cadman, it's a beguiling selection of endearingly daft scenes triggered by the admirably straight-faced Jolly (an inappropriate name if ever there was one). His characters include, among many others, a traffic warden who ticks off street cleaners for parking their carts on double-yellow lines; a business man who produces a three-foot-long mobile phone and bellows loudly into the handset; and an incompetent secret-service agent who sidles up to people on park benches, slipping them cryptic messages.

Unlike the elaborate ruses of other hidden-camera shows, the best gags here are decidedly low-tech and simple: Jolly's attempt to interact with a stuffed dog he's taken for a "walk" in the park, much to bemusement of passing joggers, is fairly typical of the programme's mix of deadpan humour and surreal visuals--less Beadle's About, more absurdist street theatre. And instead of relying on a laugh track to set the mood, the show has a surprisingly eclectic, even at times strangely mellow and introspective, soundtrack from such acts as The Happy Mondays, Elastica and the Stereophonics. While some of the recurring gags were beginning to flag by the end of the series, the beauty of this compilation is that it features only the strongest material. However, we won't get a chance to see the prank Jolly played on Bill Wyman, who objected when it was first screened on television. Wyman might not get Jolly's impish brand of humour. But this fresh and entertaining compilation gives the rest of us a chance to sample it for ourselves. --Edward Lawrenson

Special Features

4:3 Full Frame
DVD 5
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Stereo English
Dolby Digital Stereo

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5.0 out of 5 stars All that I miss, 10 Feb 2003

By	Akane (Japan) - See all my reviews

Trigger Happy TV was the funniest and the most wonderful TV programme during my stay in London. I couldn't imagine my life there without Dom Jolly's pranks and the innocent British played pranks on. Its stories gave me impressions of the people who were so kind that they couldn't help falling into the jokes.
Honestly, I have no idea why it hasn't been imported to my country yet. I can't deny that TV channels here haven't yet noticed that there are truly funny masterpieces in Britain.

Buying VHSs of Best of Series 1 and 2 was the only to fail because of a technical reason. But, fortunately, I could buy and watch those DVDs made in Britain. When it was successful, I was so excited.
To all Japanese readers: Suggoku omoshiroiyo!! Osusume!! VHS ha damedakedo, DVD nara mireruyo.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Genius, 24 Jan 2003

By	Vinnie (Midlands, England) - See all my reviews

This dvd is perfect in every way. Not too long so as to promote boredom, sufficient variety to tickle everyone's funny bone, fine extras.

Joly and his co-writer(s) have a wonderful appreciation of aural and visual humour and combine the two to delightful effect in side-splitting scene after scene, usually at Joe Public's expense. The soundtrack hits the spot time and again, complimenting the on screen antics to full effect. However, this is not all 'in ya face' jokery for there is undoubted subtlety too to be found in a number of sketches - the brilliant "don't go" of the lonely sailor as he is left by the 'worried' OAPs to his harbour and thoughts.

Extras include 'archive' material and 'Comedy Lab' sketches. See what Joly and comrades got up to at Paramount tv prior to joining C4. At the expense of famous politicians, it can't be bad!

A comic genius at work and a must have dvd for anyone's best of British comedy collection.

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5.0 out of 5 stars BRILLIANT!!!!!!!, 16 Nov 2000

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This DVD is pure comedy gold, 90 mins of the very best of series 1 stuffed with 15 mins of new unseen footage and clips from the comedy lab. Trigger Happy TV will have you in stitches and this DVD is certainly worth every penny!! CIAO!!!!!!

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars 'Best of' is 2nd Best....bring out "The Complete Series" on DVD
Not "Complete Series" but only a "Best Of" unfortunately.

Just as the US version of the Trigger Happy TV show doesn't work (due to the lack of the UK public, who are... Read more

Published 18 months ago by BatGuyverDrahc

5.0 out of 5 stars Is everyone blind?
How can so many people have enjoyed this yet missed out completely on the fact that it is an up-to-date incartnation of Candid Camera - certainly Dom Joly knows this. Read more

Published on 16 Dec 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Original, ingenius, hysterical, side-splitting and satirical
Quite frankly, WOW! This has got to be the funniest programme on TV since the original, I repeat, original Ali G show. Read more

Published on 29 Nov 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Even the theme tune radiates comedy
Trigger Happy is quite simply the finest comedy invention since the invention of sarcasm (circa. 1923). Read more

Published on 23 Nov 2000 by Harry Carr

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Comedy Around
Trigger Happy TV is a very funny show. It is similar to the Fast Show but the sketches are played out on real (and unsuspecting) victims. Read more

Published on 22 Oct 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars The funniest thing since sliced Bread
This has got to be the best dvd ever it's pure comedy in dvd case! I was crying with laughter, my sides was killing me even my nan couldn't take her eyes off the screen! Read more

Published on 22 Oct 2000

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