Jimmy Kimmel: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jimmy Kimmel said elsewhere, not written here

I'm a happy guy in general, but the feeling of freedom and fun I got driving around with my friends in my first car is hard to top.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2020 source ↗

Others on this question

Playing the Cowardly Lion in our fourth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz. Thank you, Mr. Riccobono.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2025 source ↗

Billie Piper English actress and former singer

My son's second birthday. It was a typical autumn day – bright sky, cold fingers. He was dressed as a skeleton and we ate chilli in the garden.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2011 source ↗

Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Hayley Mills English actress

Now. This is the best time of my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2010 source ↗

Danger to my children. And tidal waves.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2020 source ↗

Floating in a river full of fat trout.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 November 2020 source ↗

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