The man who made 42 legendary spent his final months obsessing over endangered parrots. Trust me, it works.
Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity.
Writing
Adams improvises comedy gold from endangered parrot mating habits.
Production
Bare stage, one man, zero slides—pure performance mastery.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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