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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗
I can’t say no. I am a people-pleaser, and it means that I burn myself out because I take on too much.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗
I had to ask people about this, because I couldn’t think of anything, and the consensus seems to be: a general lack of self-awareness.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2017 source ↗
Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2018 source ↗
Overeating when stressed.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
My wife. I am a lavish present-giver. I love worshipping my wife with beautiful bits and pieces – it is one of my greatest pleasures.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗
This is going to horribly upset my wife, my children and my grandchildren, but it was when I did The Greatest Snowman last year for Channel 4. Being let loose on an Austrian mountainside to build snow sculptures was my happy point, and who knew I’d find an icy G-spot at nearly 58.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗
Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗
The missus. She is the glamour mamma mia at the top of our feudal pyramid. We all live together, so she’s a full-time grandmother and rules the roost. How she steered us through lockdown was extraordinary.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗
I was nearly hit by an enormous gold-fibreglass cherub in a shopping centre. It fell five storeys and smashed into a thousand pieces about 4ft away from me.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗
Adam Kay, Adam Lambert, Adele Parks, Adrian Dunbar, Al Franken, Alex Hassell
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