Danny Wallace





Danny Wallace

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November 16, 1976 in Dundee, The United Kingdom

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Daniel Frederick Wallace is a British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television. His notable works include the books Join Me, Yes Man, and the TV series How to Start Your Own Country. As an author, Wallace's bestselling books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

He began writing reviews for video game magazines at the age of 13 for school work experience: a reviewer had become ill and so Wallace was given the opportunity to review a game. At 18 he started writing comedy, mainly through the magazine Comedy Review. He specialised in radio production at the University of Westminster.

At 22, he became a BBC producer. He was part of the production team behind British Comedy Award-winning Dead Ringe...more


Average rating: 3.95 · 6,349 ratings · 730 reviews · 11 distinct works
Yes Man
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 2,473 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
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Join Me!
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,285 ratings5 editions
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Friends Like These. Danny W...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 773 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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Awkward Situations for Men
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Random Acts of Kindness
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2004
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Danny Wallace and the Centr...
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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More Awkward Situations for...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Charlotte Street
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings3 editions
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How to Be a Modern Man
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011
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“I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.”
Danny Wallace

“The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.”
Danny Wallace

“At first I assumed he was a Mexican, but slowly began to realise that a real Mexican probably wouldn't be wearing a sombrero in a London nightclub. And he'd probably have a real moustache, not a stick-on one. A Mexican with a stick-on moustache would be like a Super-Mexican, because he'd have two moustaches, and that'd be cool, because a Super-Mexican could probably use his poncho as a cape, and then I realised I was saying all this to the man's face.”
Danny Wallace, Yes Man

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