When were you happiest?

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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 Jerry Lewis said elsewhere, not written here
In 1926 and in the maternity room.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗

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Andrea Martin
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Olivia Williams British actress
People are often traumatised by the sleeplessness in the first years of their children’s lives, but I was insanely happy to be married and have two children. The only dark cloud was how much we were loathed for having babies who slept through the night.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 April 2022 source ↗
Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian
Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗
Mary Tyler Moore
I think when we were doing The Mary Tyler Moore Show. That was the first time that I was able to, on a regular basis, be funny.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2012 source ↗

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