Daniel Frederick Wallace (born 16 November 1976; also referred to as The Leader and King Danny I of Lovely) is a British writer and TV presenter, living in London, best known for starting both the random acts of kindness movement, Join Me, and the micronation Lovely. November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Join Me tells the story of how Danny Wallace started the Join Me movement. ... The micronation of Sealand A micronation – sometimes also referred to as a cybernation, fantasy country, model country, and new country project – is any entity that resembles independent nations or states but is unrecognized by them, and for the most part exist only on paper, on the Internet, or in the... Flag of Lovely Lovely is the name of a micronation set up and lead by producer and comic writer Danny Wallace. ...

Wallace was born in Dundee, Scotland, but grew up in Loughborough, England, and later Bath, England. He began writing at 13, writing reviews for videogames magazines like Sega Power and Super Play. At 18 he then began writing about entertainment and comedy, mainly through the magazine Comedy Review. He specialised in radio production at the University of Westminster. As a journalist, Wallace has worked for; The Guardian, The Independent, and dozens of others. Image File history File links Book cover for Join Me by Danny Wallace File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Book cover for Join Me by Danny Wallace File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... For other uses, see Dundee (disambiguation). ... Motto: (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots2 Government  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - UK Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I 843  Area    - Total 78,772 km... Statistics Population: 57,600 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SK536195 Administration Borough: Charnwood Shire county: Leicestershire Region: East Midlands Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Leicestershire Services Police force: Leicestershire Constabulary Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: East Midlands Post office and telephone Post town: LOUGHBOROUGH Postal... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Statistics Population: 84,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: ST745645 Administration District: Bath and North East Somerset Region: South West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Somerset Historic county: Somerset Services Police force: Avon and Somerset Fire and rescue: Avon Ambulance: South Western Post office... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Sega Power, launched as S: The Sega Magazine, was a Future publication that was aimed at the Sega range of consoles, including the Master System, Megadrive, Game Gear and later on the Mega CD, 32X, Saturn. ... Super PLAY (often abbreviated SP) is a Swedish video game magazine. ... Comedy Review was a British comedy magazine published by Future Publishing which ran for five issues in 1998. ... The University of Westminster is a university in London, England, formed in 1992 as a result of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992, which allowed the London Polytechnic (Polytechnic of Central London or PCL ) to rename itself as a university. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony OReillys Independent News & Media. ...

At 22, he was the youngest producer at the BBC. He was part of the British Comedy Award-winning Dead Ringers, and produced many other shows, including the critically-acclaimed cult hit The Mighty Boosh, and Ross Noble Goes Global. The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year. ... Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two. ... The Mighty Boosh is a British cult comedy which has taken on several incarnations as a series of stage shows, a BBC radio series and a BBC Three TV series. ... Ross Noble performing his show Noodlemeister in Edinburgh, 2004. ...

A relative newcomer to television presenting, he has in the past few years had his own BBC2 series, and hosted some of the BBC's flagship prime-time shows — including Horizon for BBC2 and Test the Nation for BBC1, as well as hosting Sky's Conspiracies... series. BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and... Horizon is a long-running BBC popular science and history documentary programme, notable for coining the term supervolcano. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest United Kingdom, and indeed, the world. ...

He is married to Greta McMahon, as referenced in the book Yes Man.

Books

Are You Dave Gorman?

In 1999, it was Wallace who challenged Dave Gorman (his then flatmate) to find 54 other people called Dave Gorman ("one for every card in the deck, including the Jokers") and then accompanied Dave on his quest. A quest that would lead him to Scotland, Israel and America and very nearly result in the loss of his girlfriend and his sanity. Wallace produced and co-wrote the subsequent TV series The Dave Gorman Collection based on their adventures, broadcast in 2000. While he performed only once or twice on the show, he was mentioned frequently in most episodes, and was visible in the front row of the audience. He later co-produced and co-wrote the Important Astrology Experiment, also with Gorman, for BBC Two. Dave and Danny co-wrote the award-nominated book, Are You Dave Gorman?, which was published in 2001. Danny worked as a comedy writer and producer at the BBC at the time, and still produces from time to time. David James Gorman (born March 2, 1971) is a documentary comedian and humourist. ... Some typical Anglo-American playing cards from the Bicycle brand Set of 52 playing cards A playing card is a typically hand-sized piece of heavy paper or thin plastic. ... An example of a joker playing card. ... Are You Dave Gorman? is the title of a show by the British documentary comedian Dave Gorman and the book of the same name, co-written by Gorman and Danny Wallace. ...

Join Me

In 2003, Danny wrote the book Join Me, about how he started the "cult" of that name. The movement is now generally referred to as the Karma Army, although members are still typically "joinees". He became a minor celebrity in Belgium whilst on his quest for joinees. While on a book tour through America, Wallace was dubbed a 'Generation X legend' by the Wisconsin State Journal. Join Me tells the story of how Danny Wallace started the Join Me movement. ... This article is becoming very long. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Join Me. ...

The popular quote "it's not a cult, it's a collective" stems from the fact that Wallace did not want to encourage a sinister image, when asking people to send him a passport photo to "join" him. He has occasionally begrudgingly agreed, in interviews, that Join Me is in fact a cult, hence the book's cover blurb: "The true story of a man who started a cult by accident." Qwerty Films are currently developing a film version with writer Frank Cottrell Boyce. Frank Cottrell Boyce is a British screenwriter, best known for his work with film director Michael Winterbottom. ...

On a recent appearance on BBC One's Graham Norton's Bigger Picture, Wallace confirmed he now has around 16,000 joinees, who each do a good deed on a Friday for a stranger. He stated that around six new passport photos arrive in the post every day, from all over the world. Joinees continue to meet up around the world. A recent "Join MEet" (sic) in London saw 250 joinees swarm the streets, undertaking random acts of kindness for thousands of tourists. On the same day, they completed a mission Wallace had set them: to raise £5000 to build a classroom for children in Kenya. Other missions have included sending a cow to a village in India, and saving a farm in Thailand. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

As a follow-up Wallace wrote a small book called Random Acts of Kindness: 365 Ways To Make the World A Better Place, with the help of submissions from Joinees. It includes many humorous Random Acts of Kindness (RAoK) ideas, such as "Contradict Demeaning Graffiti", and "Hide a surprise under someone's pillow. (Horses' heads are discouraged.)" A random act of kindness or RAoK is a selfless act performed by kind people to either help or cheer up a random stranger, for no reason other than to make people happier. ...

Yes Man

Wallace's second solo book, Yes Man was published in July 2005. In it, he describes how he spent a half year "saying Yes where once would have said No", to make his life more interesting and positive. In this book he shows the tribulations and mischief that he got up to while he said yes, to any question or proposal, for numerous months. The book according to some can be seen as a self-help book as well as humour. Though the term self-help can refer to any case whereby an individual or a group betters themselves economically, intellectually or emotionally, the connotations of the phrase have come to apply particularly to psychological or psychotherapeutic nostrums, often purveyed through the popular genre of the self-help book. ...

A film version is currently in development with Warner Bros. and will star Jack Black ^[1]. Warner Bros. ... Jack Black (born Thomas J. Black, Jr. ...

Wag, of the band Infadels, is a friend of Wallace (having assisted him in promoting the Karma Army) and features heavily in Yes Man. It is unknown whether Wag will appear in the film version, or who will play him. This does not cite its references or sources. ...

Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe

Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe was published in 2006 and is linked with World Book Day which in 2006 was on Thursday 2nd March. It tells the story of Wallace's trip to Idaho, to visit a manhole cover in a small town, whose residents have proclaimed it the centre of the universe. The cover identifies it as a "Quick Read", and both the price and length of the book have been purposefully curbed in order to encourage people to read who might not ordinarily do so. Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe is a short story by British author and TV personality Danny Wallace. ... World Book and Copyright Day is a yearly event organised by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. ...

Friends Like These

Wallace's next book, Friends Like These, is expected to be published on 5 July 2007, and tells the story of how he spent a summer trying to track down his old school friends ^[2]. July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

Television

How to Start Your Own Country

In 2005, Wallace started his own micronation called "Lovely" in his flat in Bow, London. A TV series documenting the conception of the country was filmed for the TV series How to Start Your Own Country, which aired on BBC Two in the summer of 2005. New episodes of Citizen TV, a half hour phone-in show that was available after the main show via BBCi, can now be viewed online at Citizens Required.com. A DVD will be released in June 2007. The micronation of Sealand A micronation – sometimes also referred to as a cybernation, fantasy country, model country, and new country project – is any entity that resembles independent nations or states but is unrecognized by them, and for the most part exist only on paper, on the Internet, or in the... The Kingdom of Lovely is a partly Internet-based micronation which claims the flat of its creator and ruler – the comic writer Danny Wallace – as its territory. ... Bow is an area of east London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... How To Start Your Own Country was a six-part British television series aired by the BBC at 10:00pm from August 3, 2005, until September 6, 2005. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Other TV

• Wallace began television presenting in 2004.

• Beginning late August 2005 he co-presented on BBC One's Saturday night show He's Having A Baby with Davina McCall, which ran at the same time as his BBC Two series, How To Start Your Own Country. The latter won two BAFTAs in early 2006.

• Wallace contributed ideas to and appeared in the hidden camera show World Shut Your Mouth.

• He has presented a few shows for Sky including the first series of Conspiracies..., Secrets of the CIA and Danny Wallace's Hoax Files.

• He also took part in Carol Vorderman's Big Brain Game, shown on Sky One, and once came second on an episode of The Weakest Link and came third out of the celebrity guests on an episode of Test the Nation in 2005.

• In 2006 he made a short foray into acting with a small non-speaking role in The IT Crowd, a Channel 4 sitcom.

• He presented a new entertainment quiz for the BBC called School's Out, in which celebrities are quizzed on topics they learned at school. It first aired on BBC One(except in Scotland) on 5 April 2006, and a second series will follow in 2007. The second series has been promoted to primetime Saturday night. Guests include Graham Norton, Jo Brand, Adrian Edmondson and Patrick Kielty.

• On 28 July 2006, Wallace (whose wife Greta, a TV producer, has worked on Big Brother) made a guest appearance on Big Brother's Little Brother pronoucing his dislike for Spiral and Michael.

• On 2 September 2006 Wallace became co-presenter of Test the Nation with Anne Robinson, replacing Phillip Schofield.

• He also presented an episode of Horizon that aired on the 10 October 2006, in which Danny tries to prove that chimps are people too. He was the first person in 43 years to be asked to front an edition of BBC2's flagship science programme.

• Wallace is presenting the new series of reality show Castaway on both BBC One. The series is live from Great Barrier Island in New Zealand for three months it started on March the 9th 2007 at 9 o'clock.

• Wallace also did a documentry, 2006, called "Chimps Are People Too". In which he campaigned for chimps to be counted in the human species.

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See also

• Category:Fictional cults
• Cults in literature and popular culture

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Trivia

• Danny is the one-time voice of Polish butter.
• Danny appears on the Ross Noble Unrealtime DVD, on Noble's mobile phone, mid-commentary.
• Ricky Gervais talks about meeting Danny on the commentary of his live DVD, Politics.
• It is a running joke in his work that he looks like one/both of The Proclaimers.
• Danny is the Royal Patron of the Bristol University Tea Society.
• He jokes about being irritated by people thinking he is the footballer Danny Wallace.
• It was revealed on Test the Nation that he has an IQ of 135, putting him in the top 2% of the country.
• Danny's wife Greta, who features in Yes Man as "Lizzie", is an ex-girlfriend of Danny's old flatmate, Dave Gorman.
• Danny is an official patron of the University of Westminster's student radio station, Smoke Radio
• Danny has been banned from driving in Portugal after an accident involving a cow and three Mini Coopers.

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References

1. ^ Danny Wallace personal website, "Jack Black - He Say Yes!", June 04, 2005
2. ^ Amazon.com, Friends Like These will be published on 5 July 2007

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External links

• Danny Wallace homepage – further details about BBC projects and books.
• Citizens required – a request for citizens for the new country.
• Join Me – the website of his collective, Join Me.
• Join Me Wiki – Wiki site maintained by joinees.