I'm guessing because of the correlation between comedians/humourists and intelligence/accurate observation. Plus generally just being open curious human beings

I'm guessing because of the correlation between comedians/humourists and intelligence/accurate observation. Plus generally just being open curious human beings. I don't think we should generally take carte-blanch the advice of anyone. There's even grounds for not listening to those who are rich/wealthy/successful businesses when trying to analyse their own condition. There's an ego element there which means they'll want to apportion success to themselves relative to luck/chance/birth/others, and they're hardly going to come out and say "you know what, it was all a fluke" or "I ripped off bob/society..go me!". Most of us humans are all too good at ascribing to large amounts of randomness some element in an attempt to explain outcomes post-fact. I'll listen to Mr Adams. He seems to nail a lot of other things on the head.