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

* Joly, dressed in authentic costumes, would walk up to people sitting at a table or bench, often outside a restaurant, and offer ( usually in a mock-foreign accent and broken English ) to perform some form of entertainment, most commonly play a musical instrument, sing or perform a dance.

In this manner, Joly would communicate the secret ways in which liberalism might spawn a despot like Napoleon III.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joly has also talked about plans for a television show based on popular social networking site Facebook, visiting random people who have added him as a ' friend '.

Furthermore, it has been established that a substantial portion of it was taken, without citation, from a 1864 satire on Napoleon III by one Maurice Joly ( his French language work, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu )-so that it also constitutes plagiarism.

Since then, Joly has continued to make edgy off-beat television like World Shut Your Mouth for BBC1 and Dom Joly's Happy Hour, a spoof travel show for Sky One.

Dom Joly has appeared inThe Complainers for Channel Five in the UK.

Joly has stated that he is an atheist.

To quote the proceedings: " Then we must all regret the affliction that has come to our honoured president, Sir Henri Joly de Lotbinière and his family in the death of Lady Joly.

Joly enjoys enormous widespread popularity of the majority of the Icelandic and Norwegian public and has become an icon in the battle against possible fraud by the banking elite.

Despite the show's popularity over two continents, Joly says he will not make any more in Britain, as his face and voice are now too well known.

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.

* 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.

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.

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 ".

Joly recently starred in the ITV2 reality programme Deadline with Janet Street Porter where he had to become a paparazzo.

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.

* 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 ".

" 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 ".

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 ..."

In 1930 Oliver Sheppard was commissioned by Trinity College Dublin and the Royal Dublin Society to make them copies of a bust of Joly.

* Assuming the role of a park-keeper, Joly attempts to politely vilify elderly park goers, all-but accusing them of behaving like young hooligans.

* Joly, dressed as a traffic warden, accuses motorists stopped in traffic or at traffic lights of being illegally parked and proceeds to ticket them.

Joly and Kroon tried to join them but fell short and after they returned to the peloton the pace of the main group fell slightly, USP reduced their efforts, and the two leaders pulled further ahead.

Various sketches involved the show's presenter, Dom Joly, along with extras from the show, annoying cinema-goers by dressing up as severely obese people trying to squeeze past whilst spilling popcorn from massively oversized buckets, sitting in front of them with enormous fake wigs, and dressing up as Beefeaters taking up whole rows of seats.