Madcap dad goes viral with hilarious Tik Tok videos

A bus driver's hilarious Tik Tok videos to cheer people up in lockdown have gone viral. Dad-of-two Adam Wales, 41, has released more than 80 clips after taking up a challenge from his son in April. The quirky Stagecoach employee from Lincoln, Lincs., has racked up hundreds of views by miming sketches from British eighties comedy acts and performing daft dances. In one of his favourite videos Adam does the washing-up to the Countdown theme tune with his 17-year-old son Josh who taps his dad on the head at the end. The social media sensation said: "It's nice to know I'm making hundreds of people smile. "The reason I did it is we are in lockdown and there is so much depressing stuff on Facebook.

I just wanted to lighten people's moods up really. "People were complaining about not being able to go out and so on.

I got fed up with it. "I'm big on social media for cheering people up.

That's why I'm doing it and putting them on for people to watch and enjoy."I think I was quite surprised how popular the videos are.

I haven't had a single negative comment about any of them, so it is doing exactly what I set out to achieve. Adam's cheeky 12-year-old son Joe scoffed at the thought of his dad on the video-sharing app. Adam added: "He was showing me these Tik Tok videos on his phone and I asked how it works.

He said you put out these videos and people view them. "I asked how many do you think I'd get.

He said: 'Sort of two or three, Dad.'

I said: 'I'm going to show you.'"Then I downloaded it and shared videos with some of my mates.

It just went from there really and it has spiralled. "I really like British comedies like Dad's Army and Laurel and Hardy, which I grew up with in the eighties.

They are my inspiration. "I've always been a big fan of the Two Ronnies and Only Fools and Horses, and I also like contemporary stuff like Catherine Tate. "All the videos are clean, there's no swearing.

I'm a big believer in the fact that you don't have to swear to be funny. "My wife Pru doesn't do Tik Tok at all, but I did get her to star in one video for a bit of a laugh. "I'm singing along to the Titanic song at a keyboard wearing a wig which is being blown in the wind by a fan. "As the camera zooms out you can see my wife sitting on the stairs looking unimpressed and holding a hairdryer. "That sums up her relationship to the videos and what she thinks of it all.

My sons are far more keen. "I like the one where I'm doing the washing-up with Josh and he taps me on the head.

That wasn't planned and I like that about them - they are all impromptu. "My other favourite is where I'm walking down an alley and I'm getting dressed.

I did that by filming in reverse so when I threw my cap off it looks like I'm putting it on. "I like the short and fun ones which are simple to do.

There are no big effects because I've only been going a couple of weeks and I'm still learning what the app can do. "There might come a time when I don't do so many, but I still want to keep doing them. "Since I started there's a fan base and an expectation on me to produce, but I'm happy to carry on because I'm doing videos I find funny myself."

A bus driver's hilarious Tik Tok videos to cheer people up in lockdown have gone viral.

Dad-of-two Adam Wales, 41, has released more than 80 clips after taking up a challenge from his son in April.

The quirky Stagecoach employee from Lincoln, Lincs., has racked up hundreds of views by miming sketches from British eighties comedy acts and performing daft dances.

In one of his favourite videos Adam does the washing-up to the Countdown theme tune with his 17-year-old son Josh who taps his dad on the head at the end.

The social media sensation said: "It's nice to know I'm making hundreds of people smile.

"The reason I did it is we are in lockdown and there is so much depressing stuff on Facebook.

I just wanted to lighten people's moods up really.

"People were complaining about not being able to go out and so on.

I got fed up with it.

"I'm big on social media for cheering people up.

That's why I'm doing it and putting them on for people to watch and enjoy."I think I was quite surprised how popular the videos are.

I haven't had a single negative comment about any of them, so it is doing exactly what I set out to achieve.

Adam's cheeky 12-year-old son Joe scoffed at the thought of his dad on the video-sharing app.

Adam added: "He was showing me these Tik Tok videos on his phone and I asked how it works.

He said you put out these videos and people view them.

"I asked how many do you think I'd get.

He said: 'Sort of two or three, Dad.'

I said: 'I'm going to show you.'"Then I downloaded it and shared videos with some of my mates.

It just went from there really and it has spiralled.

"I really like British comedies like Dad's Army and Laurel and Hardy, which I grew up with in the eighties.

They are my inspiration.

"I've always been a big fan of the Two Ronnies and Only Fools and Horses, and I also like contemporary stuff like Catherine Tate.

"All the videos are clean, there's no swearing.

I'm a big believer in the fact that you don't have to swear to be funny.

"My wife Pru doesn't do Tik Tok at all, but I did get her to star in one video for a bit of a laugh.

"I'm singing along to the Titanic song at a keyboard wearing a wig which is being blown in the wind by a fan.

"As the camera zooms out you can see my wife sitting on the stairs looking unimpressed and holding a hairdryer.

"That sums up her relationship to the videos and what she thinks of it all.

My sons are far more keen.

"I like the one where I'm doing the washing-up with Josh and he taps me on the head.

That wasn't planned and I like that about them - they are all impromptu.

"My other favourite is where I'm walking down an alley and I'm getting dressed.

I did that by filming in reverse so when I threw my cap off it looks like I'm putting it on.

"I like the short and fun ones which are simple to do.

There are no big effects because I've only been going a couple of weeks and I'm still learning what the app can do.

"There might come a time when I don't do so many, but I still want to keep doing them.

"Since I started there's a fan base and an expectation on me to produce, but I'm happy to carry on because I'm doing videos I find funny myself."