Danny Wallace's imagination mash-up

Each week on Get Creative a famous face shares with us their hidden talent. This week it's the turn of writer and presenter Danny Wallace.

During his time as a BBC producer, writer Danny Wallace was part of the team behind the British Comedy Award-winning Dead Ringers and the critically-acclaimed cult hit The Mighty Boosh.

His big break came in 1999 when he challenged his then flatmate and fellow comedian Dave Gorman to find 54 other people called Dave Gorman. An award-winning comedy stage show, a TV series and a book followed.

He 'accidentally started a cult' and released Join Me, the book explaining how in 2003. And his book, Yes Man, where he spent six months 'saying Yes where one would have said No', to make his life more interesting and positive, was adapted into the Jim Carrey film.

But when he's not busy writing books, presenting radio shows, presenting and producing TV, he also loves to make up stories with his son. We asked him to tell us more.

How do you get creative outside of work?

I make up stories with my little boy. I might start a sentence, or give him the first one, and let him do the second. Then we alternate and come up with something using both our imaginations. It usually ends up incredibly odd.

How does it make you feel?

It’s a great way to share creativity, and respond to someone else’s imagination – particularly when they’re a slightly different age to you. Stories unite us and have done since day dot. It’s great to come up with something together that you would never have come up with on your own.

Why would you encourage other people to get creative?

Why wouldn’t I? It’s fun. And the brain is a muscle that needs exercising like any other. And the smallest ideas can lead to the biggest.