Dom Joly
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Dom Joly: Down and out in Paris and Twitterdom
Sunday, 1 August 2010
I died last week. A comedian of whom I had never heard but with a fairly decent number of followers tweeted that I was dead. It was apparently as an aside to some half-baked joke about a mobile phone but, as I have learned, twitter is not the place for subtlety.
Dom Joly: Why the sound of leather on willow is muted in France
Monday, 26 July 2010
'So you call this stupid version of the game French cricket because we are inferior to you?'
Dom Joly: I'm not racist, but ... those Brits should just go home
Sunday, 25 July 2010
I'm worried that I might be racist. I've tried my best to get along with them, accept their cultural ways and live and let live, but I just can't. I cannot abide being on holiday near other Brits.
Dom Joly: How the World Cup ended with glasses of sangria all round
Monday, 19 July 2010
Weird World of Sport: At dinner, my waiter was Spanish. He could barely concentrate on taking my order
Dom Joly: Septics just love my Cockney rhyming slang
Sunday, 18 July 2010
I'm in New York again and have been filming all week. I haven't done any hidden camera stuff for ages and it takes a little getting used to.
Dom Joly: It's best to follow the action from the 'wrong' side of the world
Monday, 12 July 2010
Weird World of Sport: I simply "became" Spanish and forgot about English sporting disasters for a while
Dom Joly: Mr Angry makes a phone call
Sunday, 11 July 2010
I suffered total phone rage last week. My mum is signed up to some dastardly outfit called Tiscali/TalkTalk. They provide her with broadband. I set it up for her originally and so the account is in my name.
Dom Joly: The voice of tennis – a true great in the commentating racket
Monday, 5 July 2010
Weird World Of Sport: Thrilled as I am about Andy Murray doing so well at Wimbledon, I can't help feeling bad for Tim Henman.
Dom Joly: VIP stands for Vaguely Impecunious Punter
Sunday, 4 July 2010
As you read this I shall be at the poshest festival in Britain – Cornbury, near Charlbury in Oxfordshire. It's not far from me: apart from the local cider festival and the annual Steam Fair, it's our big local event.
Football, America and me – now that's a special relationship
Monday, 28 June 2010
Dom Joly: Every four years I suspend hostilities and watch all of the World Cup.
Dom Joly: Hell is other people being oh so calm. Omm....
Sunday, 27 June 2010
Everyone has a personal vision of hell. I used to think that it was something along the lines of being stuck in a lift with (insert your bête noire here) for an indeterminate period of time while experimental jazz was played on a loop through crackly speakers.
Dom Joly: Zut alors! Domenech for le chop as Sarkozy readies the guillotine
Monday, 21 June 2010
Weird World of Sport: "You are joking of course. There is no way that the magnificent French nation can be defeated by a bunch of sombrero-wearing siesta merchants?"
Dom Joly: Fatherhood is... going to a Leona Lewis concert
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Sometimes it's really hard to be a parent. I'm very keen that my kids have decent taste in music, so I try my best to expose them to a wide variety of what I consider to be good stuff.
Dom Joly: World Cup calls but Dubya's on a mission to stay out of Africa
Monday, 14 June 2010
Weird World of Sport: "I knew a guy went to Cape Town and he got his ass chewed off by a baboon. Africa is a real dangerous place – it's where lions come from..."
Dom Joly: New York, New York, so trendy it hurts
Sunday, 13 June 2010
I love meetings – free coffee, lots of talk about potential projects without actually having to do anything there and then. When the meeting in question is in New York and you have been flown there for that sole purpose, it doesn't get much better.
I prayed my flight would land. I hadn't paid for oxygen
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Dom Joly: Just back from a flying visit to France for half-term. It was with Ryanair so it wasn't until we actually took off that I was sure that we would actually be on a plane – we'd had to pay so many extras, for luggage, boarding, taxes – that I suddenly panicked that nothing had ever specifically mentioned a flight. Maybe I hadn't paid for that particular option?
Dom Joly: Fat pay cheques and sweet nothings when David phones Posh
Monday, 31 May 2010
"Babes, it's me, David." "David... David the stylist?' "No babes... David... Fluffles...."
Dom Joly: You have to dig deep to fall this far
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Just back from the annual ordeal that is school sports day. I'm being unfair in some ways: my kids' school is beautiful – lovely grounds, happy children. The problem, as ever, is me, because I suffer from overly competitive parent syndrome.
Dom Joly: Make your own luck – corner the market in mascots for 2012
Monday, 24 May 2010
Basically, we just get that company to make a couple of weird costumes and then we can flip itround and say that they are whatever you want them to be
Dom Joly: I took my wife to the Ivors... but so did Simon Le Bon
Sunday, 23 May 2010
I realised that my wife had been stuck in the country for too long when I saw her face glued to the taxi window.
Dom Joly: 'Señor Murray, why you wear women's clothing?'
Monday, 17 May 2010
"Oh for God's sake, Andy, give the bloody ball-hitting a rest for a day. You're getting obsessed..."
Dom Joly: Police! There's a big Mexican by Big Ben
Sunday, 16 May 2010
I spent the post-election debacle, like everyone else, glued to the television. I was terrified that I might miss Adam Boulton beat a man to death and there was the constant risk of missing another Gordon Brown (remember him) resign.
Dom Joly: The Tiger tapes... how Elin took the world No 1 by the tail
Monday, 10 May 2010
"I told Elin that I would clean the Escalade's garage out and then I've got to Dyson the whole pool house"
Dom Joly: What a coincidence – my party had a power cut too
Sunday, 9 May 2010
I've always fancied watching an election unravel from the "inside". When I got the call asking me whether I'd like to be on the BBC boat party, moored underneath the London Eye, I jumped at the chance.
Dom Joly: I feel betrayed... My best friend has started to like football
Monday, 3 May 2010
Now, like some rabid missionary, he was trying to get me to come over to the synthetic-shirt brigade
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