Stars: Dom Joly

Director: Dom Joly

Summary: Dom Joly returns for a third series of TRIGGER HAPPY TV in which the public unwittingly become extras in his madcap stunts and sketches all filmed by hidden camera.

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Trigger Happy TV 3is another compilation from the cult late night Channel 4 comedy that turbo-charged the old Candid Cameraformat with a cool rock soundtrack for the MTV generation. While the show itself could become repetitive, the 42 minutes of highlights distilled into the main feature here are frequently hilarious. See public prankster Dom Joly wrestle a giant badger in the woods, enjoy the office populated entirely by people dressed as bears and collapse with laugher at the most surreal estate agent scenario in the world. From a terribly insecure policeman to the street guide who doesn't know the location of anything, Joly's nerve at pulling off some of these gags is breathtaking. The supporting feature is a half-hour spoof biography of Joly made to introduce Trigger Happy TVto American audiences. Deadpan in the extreme, it sends up the fly-on-the-wall genre and celebrity interview with uncomfortably accurate wit. That's not the end, because the presentation makes the line between programme and extras largely irrelevant, so read on to see what else is...

On the DVD:Trigger Happy TV 3can simply be played straight through so that everything on the disc makes a 90-minute pseudo feature, or individual sections can be selected as extras. There are 14 mostly worthwhile unseen clips, three "Bad Rabbit Jokes" (and they are bad), the three "Worst Ideas Ever" (they are), "Brushes with the Law" (which was bound to happen with such stunts as White Van Man's road rage), and four hugely entertaining previously unseen Celebrity Interviews with Hanif Kureishi, Bret Easton Ellis, Uri Geller and Alan Titchmarsh. The commentary track by Joly and Sam Cadman rambles with entertaining irrelevance from a deaf George Martin producing their recording at Studio 2, Abbey Road, to rather more believable recollections of being arrested in Belgium. --Gary S Dalkin

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	14 Unseen Clips, 3 Bad Rabbit Jokes, The 3 Worst Ideas Ever, Brushes With The Law, 4 Unseen Celebrity Interviews, Audio Commentary
Year:	2002
Release Date:	September 6, 2004
Runtime:	81 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C C D 30097
Label:	Channel 4
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Series, Three, Happy, Trigger, Best, Tv
Genre:	Comedy