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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

Dom Joly

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

“I went straight out of a civil war and ended up hanging out with most of the current Tory cabinet… a very strange place to be”. Comedian and writer Dom Joly on his Lebanese heritage, geo-political comedy, and his dark sense of humour. Joly also discusses AI, being pigeon-holed, his infamous prank show Trigger Happy TV, and his new book The Conspiracy Tourist which saw him travel the globe to investigate and understand some of the world’s most dangerous and hilarious conspiracy theories in a ‘post-truth’ political space.

Transcript

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0:07.0

Hello and welcome to another midnight meets. Thank you very much for giving it a lesson. This one

0:13.8

is with, well, I suppose you would say the English comedian Dom Jolly of course exploded

0:20.1

not just in the UK but across the world with Trigger Happy TV, which I think starred in the UK, but across the world with trigger happy TV

0:23.7

Which I think started in the millennium didn't it 2000 was when it was first on air and

0:28.3

He did stays with him to this day

0:30.4

But interestingly enough if you look at his whole, you've got to say a rider

0:34.3

first. I would say he's written so many good books now, so many amazing travel lots,

0:40.0

from his hiking club to his dark tourist book and his latest one,

0:45.3

the conspiracy tourist forms a large part of a conversation.

0:49.5

It is very freewheeling indeed, yeah we touch and trigger happy and stuff like that,

0:54.0

but it's a very freewheeling conversation with that Dom Jolly. So that's her new Midnight

0:58.3

Meet. Hope you enjoy.

1:07.0

Dom Jolly, welcome to Midnight Meet. Thank you very much. I usually allow whatever the reason is for the interview, you know, a book or a film or a new record or

1:14.0

whatever to just organically seep into a midnight meet.

1:17.5

I wish it was a new record.

1:19.5

Well, yeah, it's not my fault you're a terrible musician. I can't take the blame for that.

1:24.1

I'm actually quite a good singer, but just my band was rubbish. I got thrown out of it.

1:28.0

Yeah, maybe there's a way for you to do, say, the masked singer or one of those type of shows and then

1:35.0

everyone goes oh my god and then you could get that your ultimate dream.

1:39.2

Do you know what I hate to say it but actually there is a kind of I have seen the most

1:44.4

singer and thought you know what I could probably do that quite well. My dream

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