Trigger Happy TV

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Trigger Happy TV (trigger happy; dt: trigger happy, alternatively also Happy Trapper TV ) is a British entertainment program with a hidden camera on television, which can be described in the broadest sense as anarcho-comedy. The inventor, producer and leading actor is Dom Joly .

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A main theme of the show was a joke, in which Dom Joly took calls on a giant cell phone and shouted at it, usually in a rather quiet setting like an art gallery or library. Other examples of the bizarre British humor that characterizes the entire program: an alleged reporter who smashes the guitar over the head of a street musician during an interview (with an uninitiated) or an exterminator who is called into an apartment to kill a man To expel mouse costume.

Various animal costumes (rabbit, squirrel, snail, worm, etc.) are an essential element of the bizarre jokes. The second essential element is the element of surprise (e.g. a man with lots of piercings and tattered clothing with war slogans written on it addresses passers-by on the street to talk about classical music or intellectual culture).

German voice actor for Dom Joly was Peer Augustinski .

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In England , the country of origin , the series was broadcast on Channel 4 from January 2000 to July 2003 .

Two seasons of ProSieben were broadcast on German television from February 2001 to December 2003 . Trigger Happy TV was broadcast on NICK Comedy from October 2005 to June 2006 and on Comedy Central Germany from August to October 2008 .

International offshoots

Based on Trigger Happy TV are:

the Austrian formats:

and the Swiss format:

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trigger Happy TV (ProSieben broadcast) on fernsehserien.de
  2. ↑ Trigger Happy TV (NICK comedy broadcast) on fernsehserien.de
  3. ↑ Trigger Happy TV (Comedy Central broadcast) on fernsehserien.de