Is the Trigger Happy movie back on the cards?

Dom Joly says it's a possibility

A Trigger Happy film could be on the cards, creator Dom Joly has indicated.

Appearing on Steph’s Packed Lunch today, the comedian was asked about whether he might bring back the hidden camera show, which originally aired on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2003.’

‘If you’d asked me that question a week ago I’d have gone, "No I’m too old for it, I’m a travel writer," he said.’

‘But, very weirdly, I have just started re-collaborating with Sam [Cadman] who I made Trigger Happy with and we haven’t done anything since Trigger Happy stopped. And it’s possible, just a tiny possibility, that we might have a movie. Like a sort of weird movie…

‘It’s something we always wanted to do and every time we were asked to do one, we’d go in and we’d meet people with high polo necks and they’d sort of stroke their beards and they’d go, "What is the film?"

‘I’d start telling them and they’d go, "And what’s the narrative arc?" And I’m like, "There isn’t a narrative arc, I just want a big funny movie". And it looks like, finally, we might be able to do that."

Dom also told host Steph McGovern that he didn’t like to be thought of as a ‘prankster’.

He said: ‘I hate that word pranking for many reasons. Mainly rhyming but I hate the word pranking, I prefer "hidden camera art". I’m hidden camera arting.’

Joly previously revived Trigger Happy for a Channel 4 special on Christmas Eve, followed by a series of E4 shorts.

He has been speaking about a possible movie for more than a decade, telling Chortle in 2011 that he was planning ‘the Ben Hur of hidden camera’ with huge set pieces, featuring hundreds of extras.