THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON)
October 15, 2005, Saturday
PICK OF THE PAPERBACKS
By Rebecca Sparkes
Look at Me, Look at Me! by Dom Joly (Bloomsbury, pounds 8.99)
Dom Joly is the man behind – or rather screamingly at the front of –
Trigger Happy TV, aseries that elevated the silly prank to an art
form. Overnight, he became instantly recognisable by the giant mobile
phone, a latter-day Orville to Joly’s Keith Harris. Now, in homage to
the celebrity confessional, he has produced the bashfully titled Look
at Me, Look at Me!
Born in war-torn Beirut, the young Dom should have enjoyed all the
fortunes of the “Joly Fyne Homoepathic Remedys” (sic) dynasty. Oddly
enough, the baby Dom was surrendered to the care of a grunting
Armenian nanny and Arthur, an opinionated Rhodesian Ridgeback.
Luckily, the English public school system equipped the effete young
Joly for an early career first in espionage and then, more
successfully, hanging out in Notting Hill, wearing too much make-up.
This is a ridiculous, and extremely funny book. Arthur would be
proud.