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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗
Potato-picking in my home town, Ballarat.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗
When Rufus first came out, it was all white guys and myself, but then the band changed and Tony Maiden, Bobby Watson and Andre Fischer came in. This guy booked us for a gig in Illinois, based on our original album cover, and when we got there he said that there were too many black people in the band. He actually put some white guys on the stage with us.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2024 source ↗
Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 April 2021 source ↗
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗
My granddaughter is only one, but she gives the best hugs. That’s when I’m happiest at the moment.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗
I hit a bit of lumpy tarmac driving my motorbike over the Pyrenees in the early 1980s. There was no safety barrier and I found myself riding along the edge of a precipice on half the width of the tyres for 100 yards.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗
I practise stoicism. Not the stiff-upper-lip, modern stuff, but the ancient Greek philosophy. You have to accept what you can’t change. I try to face forwards all the time. When that doesn’t work, I think about buying a machine gun.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗
I only ever wanted to be an actor or a rock star. I was suspended from school in the sixth form and allowed back only when I promised to join the army. But I lied.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗
Not doing Top Of The Pops when The Young Ones’ single went to number one.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗
Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Whenever Rik and I got stuck writing a script, we would put this on and the world would immediately seem to be a more stupidly brilliant place again.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗
Adam Kay, Adeel Akhtar, Adjoa Andoh, Adrian Dunbar, Aidan Gillen, Alex Jones
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