Russell Howard: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded Russell Howard said elsewhere, not written here

I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2020 source ↗

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Jodie Whittaker English actress

Getting my tongue pierced aged 15, when I had train-track braces on both my top and bottom teeth. Huge error.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

Mo Gilligan British comedian

I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗

Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian

Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗

Ricky Wilson Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs

I might have carried on doing The Voice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2020 source ↗