On Monday 1st Oct 2007, Warner Vision UK releases Dom Jolys Happy Hour. From the star of critically acclaimed hidden camera show Trigger Happy TV comes a hilarious spoof travel documentary investigating the weird and wonderful attitudes to alcohol consumption within different cultures across the globe.Accompanied by his best friend Pete Wilkins, the award-winning British television comedian and journalist Dom Joly travels to the Southern States of the USA, Russia, Australia, Europe and India to learn about their drinking culture, sample the local produce, and to make every minute into a happy hour!The pair explore Miami drinking styles, meet up with some hillbillies in the Appalachians to taste moonshine and visit a gay cowboy bar in Atlanta before taking on the Christian right in Alabama's dry counties. Then its onto Russia to try 80% proof homemade vodka known as Samogon. Dom Joly explains "You have an hour where you feel you can take on the world, and then you black out! But because its almost pure alcohol, no hangover - sadly because I cant remember it, I dont know if its worth doing."In Mexico they sample fermented cactus plant and a local wrestling contest. In Australia they visit the most remote bar in the northern territories, a place where the locals drink seven times the national average and crocodile catching is just a game.
They drive through Europe to Prague to relive some of their miss spent youth and the final leg of their journey sees them travel to India to see if laughter yoga really is the best hangover cure.
Along the way they meet some hilarious characters and offer an insight into each countries attitude to alcohol.
Full of laugh out loud drunken moments and some sobering ones too, this is a must own DVD for fans of Dom Joly and British comedy alike! Dom Jolys Happy Hour is available to own on DVD from Monday 1st October 2007 and features a host of extras, including Pete getting arrested in Mexico, Hippy baiting in Goa, Paintballing in Russia and a Swearing competition with a German