In 2005, Joly starred in a one-off documentary as part of a series on Sky One.

The original British edition of the show, produced by Absolutely Productions, starred Dom Joly and ran for two series on the British television channel Channel 4 from 2000 to 2003.

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.

Though Joly did cameo sporadically on the show, he was very unhappy with the programme and called it " Trigger Happy by numbers-take joke, put it in slo-mo, add fluffy animals and random indie soundtrack-it was made by uncaring idiots ".

The programme included a lot more than just attempting to discover foreign drinking habits, for instance, in Russia Joly received a haircut from a nude woman and both he and Wilkins performed their own version of a morris dance before a bemused dance academy.

" Though Joly did cameo sporadically on the show ( he appeared to a greater or lesser extent in 4 episodes ), he was very unhappy with the programme and called it " Trigger Happy by numbers ".

In the 2010 Channel 4 programme Dom Joly and the Black Island, Joly and Tintinologist Michael Farr identify Castlebay and Kisimul as the locations of Kiltoch and the Ben More Castle in the Tintin adventure The Black Island, although the scenes of him attempting to reach it by boat and subsequently exploring it on foot were filmed at Lochranza Castle on the Isle of Arran.

* 1870: Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme, par lui-même, Paris, Lacroix, Verboeckhoven

* Joly, Maurice: Son passé, son programme.

* Mikhail Kalashnikov with Elena Joly: The Gun that Changed the World

" Joly Herman of Commonsense media describes the show as a " cute, highly stylized series thrills the senses with its strange characters, funny situations, and lots of lowbrow humor " she goes on to say however, that the show does go from innocent to violent in no time and that there is not much protecting young viewers against the violent undertones.

Along with his friend Henry Horatio Dixon, Joly also put forward the cohesion-tension theory which is now thought to be the main mechanism for the upward movement of water in plants.

Joly also invented a photometer for measuring light intensity, a meldometer for measuring the melting points of minerals, a differential steam calorimeter for measuring specific heats and a constant-volume gas thermometer, all of which bear his name, together with one of the first color photographic processes, the Joly Colour process.

A short list of past and present Portuguese musicians with important contributions must necessarily include the names of composers Pedro de Escobar, Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, Filipe de Magalhães, Carlos Seixas, Diogo Dias Melgás, João Domingos Bomtempo, Marcos Portugal, José Vianna da Motta, Luís de Freitas Branco, Joly Braga Santos, Fernando Lopes-Graça, António Fragoso and Emmanuel Nunes ; organists such as António Carreira or Manuel Rodrigues Coelho ; singers such as Luísa Todi, Elisabete Matos or José Carlos Xavier ; pianists such as Maria João Pires or Sequeira Costa ; cellists such as Guilhermina Suggia ;

In 1977, Joly Braga Santos was distinguished with the Order of Santiago de Espada by President of the Republic of Portugal.

Joly is also an author with several books to his name, and an award-winning travel writer for both the Sunday Times and the Mail On Sunday.

This aired prior to screenings of Trigger Happy TV in the USA and earned critical acclaim, with one reviewer, Bob Croft of the Los Angeles Times, calling Joly " the funniest man in Britain ".

A new series of Trigger Happy TV was made for an American audience in 2003 with an altered format in that it featured a band of different " comedians " who performed skits without Joly.

His next project for Sky One was a critically acclaimed spoof travel series supposedly investigating attitudes to alcohol around the world, entitled Dom Joly's Happy Hour, in which Joly teamed up with his friend, Canadian digital artist Peter Wilkins.

In June 2008, Joly became the co-star of the Cobra Pubcast, a podcast from British beer company Cobra Beer that he hosted with humorist Danny Wallace.

Joly would only accept friend requests if he has any type of connection with them.

* Bluffer's Guide to Gadgets with Dom Joly on Comet. co. uk

" This region is filled with spacious country parks areas and leisure facilities, including Val Joly, an outdoor sport and nature park, being one of the most popular parks in the region.

Combined with the neighbouring Townships of Strong and Joly, the population of the area in 2001 was 2642.

Joly also often dressed as a Cub Scout, a foreign person with bad English, or a park attendant.

* Joly is seen in a laundrette with boxer shorts and an undershirt on, and wearing a hockey mask on his face, à la Jason Voorhees.

* Outside an incongruous location ( such as a pornography shop or public toilet ), a random customer is seen to enter and quickly Joly sets up outside in flamboyant suit and wig, holding a microphone, flanked by glamorous women holding champagne, a couple of men with brass horn instruments, photographers, and all beneath a large banner, faced by a television crew.

* Joly is in the process of conducting a streetside interview with a British celebrity, but becomes increasingly distracted before abruptly departing.

This aired prior to screenings of Trigger Happy TV in the USA and earned critical acclaim, with one reviewer Bob Croft, LA Times calling Joly " the funniest man in Britain ".

The three individual releases have also been released together, along with " Being Dom Joly " as a box-set entitled " Trigger Happy TV Complete ", again on both VHS and DVD, along with unseen footage of " Being ..."

Joly Braga Santos lectured on composition at the National Conservatoire of Lisbon, where he introduced the chair of Musical Analysis.

At the end of 2006 readers of the paper were asked to vote on where Joly would go every week.

In the 1997 UK general election Joly formed the Teddy Bear Alliance (" Mr Blair, where do you stand on fleas?

The advert was famously spoofed by Dom Joly in the British sketch series Trigger Happy TV where Dom would knock on doors presenting the ' zap mega ' challenge.

Decker also appeared in the British comedy series Trigger Happy TV in which she appeared in a " bull in a china shop " sketch ( the joke being that she had previously had a hit with the song, " China in Your Hand "), and in another sketch where she accompanied Dom Joly as he pretended to be a door-to-door salesman.

For instance, French green politician Eva Joly claimed that during Bongo's long reign, despite an oil-led GDP per capita growth to one of the highest levels in Africa, Gabon built only 5 km of freeway a year and still had one of the world's highest infant mortality rates by the time of his death in 2009.

This was the invention of Irish scientist John Joly, although he, like so many other inventors, eventually discovered that his basic concept had been anticipated in Louis Ducos du Hauron's long-since-expired 1868 patent.

The Joly Screen process had some problems.

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.

The three DVDs for the shows were best-sellers, as were the soundtrack albums that Joly had personally selected and mixed himself.

However, his first show for the BBC, This is Dom Joly, a spoof chatshow in which Joly played an appallingly egotistical media character who had the same name as him, thereby confusing a lot of the audience as to what was real and what wasn't, did not achieve the same success as Trigger Happy TV, leading to the hidden camera format being revamped on BBC1 as World Shut Your Mouth.

In June 2009, it was reported that Joly had completed a script for " a Trigger Happy movie " set in the United States.

Joly de Lotbinière had become premier two months earlier when the previous Conservative premier Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville had resigned or was deposed by Lieutenant-Governor Luc Letellier de Saint-Just.

De Joly and Champion returned from the Assembly, stating that the sixty or eighty members present were not sufficient in number to debate and that their proposition had not been heard.

Since he had always corresponded with Joly in French, he did not realize that Joly did not speak any English until after he had hired him.

Berlitz returned to the class six weeks later to find that his students, who had spoken little to no French before Joly began teaching, were conversing semi-fluently in French.

In 1903, before political parties were a part of British Columbia politics, Lieutenant Governor Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière was the last lieutenant governor in Canada to dismiss from office an incumbent premier, Edward Gawler Prior ; Prior had been found to have given an important construction contract to his own hardware business, though he was later appointed as lieutenant governor himself.

Paddy had been found by a ballet dancer named Julien Joly.

In fact, the two had much experience of building and designing aircraft, Delemontez being a trained aeronautical engineer, and Joly having built an aircraft before the war.