Joan Rivers
Comedian
None. Unfortunately, we are in an age of antiheroes.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Question
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Stephen Hawking: what he does is incredible. My nan died of motor neurone disease, which he has.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 402 →No one I can think of offhand.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2004 source ↗
Mel Giedroyc
British actress and comedian
Probably my husband. In a world of bullshitters, he steers a tremendously honest course.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2015 source ↗
Judy Murray
Scottish tennis coach
Billie Jean King. She’s the reason tennis is such an equal sport in terms of opportunity for women.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 December 2020 source ↗
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View profile →I would have spent every single day with my sister before she left to live in New Zealand. At my wedding, it was the first time I had seen her in two and a half years.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
I’ve never had a job.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
I’m proud of my achievements at the Olympics. But I prepare in exactly the same way for every race.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
A Rolex, after London 2012.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
On my wedding day.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
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