Dom Joly has enjoyed an extraordinarily eventful fifteen years in show business. From his early days of anarchic political satire he scaled the dizzy heights of success with Trigger Happy TV, before blundering hilariously through his multimillion-pound deal at the BBC and his subsequent casting out into the showbiz hinterland. Along the way he met his musical heroes, from Robert Smith and Jimmy Page, to Blur and The Stone Roses, managing to embarrass himself at every turn. Somehow he found himself unwittingly part of the Chipping Norton set, entangled in a celebrity feud with Michael Winner and stalking his neighbor, Liz Hurley, in the name of reality TV. He travelled the world 'investigating' alcohol with his best friend, Pete, diced with death in a rocket in New Zealand, got unexpectedly hands-on with a bull in Mexico, spent a month in the Australian rainforest with Shaun Ryder, belly-flopped in front of the entire nation, and sold his flat to Salman Rushdie. It's been a veritable roller coaster of a ride through show business, and in this book Dom desperately attempts to make sense of it all. Part memoir, part user guide, part therapeutic out-pouring, Here Comes the Clown is a thoroughly entertaining romp through some of the most surreal adventures in television history.
Here Comes the Clown : Adventures in Show Business