Star of iconic noughties Channel 4 show reveals plans to turn it into a movie
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DOM Joly hopes to turn Trigger Happy into a movie after taking the iconic TV show on tour.
The popular show was last on TV in 2016, after an original three-series run from 2000 to 2002, when it became a cult classic.
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Dom Joly wants to make his hit TV show into a movie
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The show became a cult hit
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Hidden cameras followed him as he portrayed a number of hilarious characters – from a traffic warden to a giant snail and, of course, his iconic man on a giant mobile phone.
Now he's heading to The Pavilion in Glasgow on October 9 as part of a 25th anniversary tour, where he'll show clips, give behind-the-scenes secrets and play pranks on the crowd.
He said: 'It's just crazy to me. It feels like yesterday but weirdly my daughter was born in the year Trigger Happy was made, so she's like a physical embodiment of it.'
And on the subject of a movie, Dom added: 'The concept is scenes with like 2,000 people in it. So if you liked Trigger Happy TV, come and be in the movie.
'It's quite a complicated thing and it scares people off. But who knows? Maybe we could make it happen.'
We previously told how Dom wanted to bring his hit conspiracy tour to Scotland.
The funnyman set out on a journey to explore the world's most bizarre conspiracy theories.
He found out more about UFO hunters and flat earthers and even the bizarre theory that Finland isn't real.
Dom said: 'I'm very happy to talk to people. But it's kind of one of the problems with conspiracy theories.
'If someone comes along they're always focused on a single issue. So they're obsessed with chemtrails and they have literally spent 15 years just studying this thing.
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'You can't possibly argue and when you get the real single-issue conspiracy theorists, they're like religious zealots. I can say 'I don't agree with you, but I can't argue with you' and that's not very good for either side.
'There's also a geographical element to it. People in Scotland still talk to each other. Whereas a lot of conspiracists in America live almost entirely remote existences online so no one tells you you're talking s***e.'
Talking about the Finland theory, he said: 'The conspiracy started off as a joke on Reddit and everyone knew it was a joke.
"But 20 per cent of people took it seriously and the conspiracy is that in 1917 Russia and Japan invented a country called Finland and that it's actually just sea so that they could have the fishing rights.
'So they claim when I fly to Finland I'm landing in a remote part of either Sweden or Russia and that all four million inhabitants of Finland are crisis actors like a massive Truman Show."
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