[[John Cleese]] also had his sit-com character [[Basil Fawlty]] contemplating the futility of his own existence in "[[Fawlty Towers]]".In [[Douglas Adams]]' popular comedy book, movie, television, and radio series "[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]", the [[Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything]] is given the numeric solution "[[42 (number)|42]]", after seven and a half million years of calculation by a giant [[supercomputer]] called [[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Deep Thought|Deep Thought]].