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The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book
137 pages, Paperback
First published October 23, 1986
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Douglas Adams
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Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.
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July 25, 2008
‘The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book’ was published to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia Christmas 1986 following on the work started by Band Aid and continued by Comic relief whom had taken The Young Ones version of ‘Living Doll’ to number one and staged a live revue.
Edited in part by Douglas Adams he also contributed the largest part to the book with ‘A Christmas Fairy Story’ with Terry Jones, ‘Young Zaphod Plays it Safe’ a Hitch Hiker short story, ‘The Private Life of Genghis Khan’ based on a sketch Douglas wrote with Graham Chapman for the pilot of his post-python pilot ‘Out of the Tree’s’ which now ends with Wowbagger from ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’ making a wholly unexpected appearance, and finally a supplement to his worst hour, ‘The Meaning of Liff’.
Other notable inclusions are Michael Palin’s ‘Biggles and the Groupies’, ‘Adrian Mole’s Christmas’ and ‘The Young Ones Nativity’.
Generally charities publish sub-standard material because no-one will question it as it’s for charity, here, however, on the main the material is first rate and the fact that a contribution is given to charity is a bonus.
Edited in part by Douglas Adams he also contributed the largest part to the book with ‘A Christmas Fairy Story’ with Terry Jones, ‘Young Zaphod Plays it Safe’ a Hitch Hiker short story, ‘The Private Life of Genghis Khan’ based on a sketch Douglas wrote with Graham Chapman for the pilot of his post-python pilot ‘Out of the Tree’s’ which now ends with Wowbagger from ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’ making a wholly unexpected appearance, and finally a supplement to his worst hour, ‘The Meaning of Liff’.
Other notable inclusions are Michael Palin’s ‘Biggles and the Groupies’, ‘Adrian Mole’s Christmas’ and ‘The Young Ones Nativity’.
Generally charities publish sub-standard material because no-one will question it as it’s for charity, here, however, on the main the material is first rate and the fact that a contribution is given to charity is a bonus.
November 27, 2015
Pretty much what I thought it would be. Some entries better than others. Loved the supplements to The Meaning of Liff, especially.
December 25, 2020
I love this book, especially, “The Night before Christmas - Neighbourhood Watch Version,” which I once read aloud to the class during a poetry recitation in an English lesson at college.
March 22, 2013
Douglas Adams contributed to and edited this book. Need I say more? 5 stars!
April 29, 2014
Bought for the Adams link, quite enjoyable and easy to dip in and out of. However, I did have to dip out occasionally as things were getting very weird.
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