`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'.
