Judd Apatow: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

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.

Recorded Judd Apatow said elsewhere, not written here

My bottomless pit of need. Soft erections. It was hard to keep it to just two.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

Maya Jama British television and radio presenter

I can be properly stubborn sometimes – but that’s me being a classic Leo.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2023 source ↗

Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗

Impatience. I’m not very good at waiting around or dealing with things that aren’t moving at a pace that I want them to.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2026 source ↗

That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2009 source ↗

Watching my wife and children eat.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2009 source ↗

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Neil Young. Not in that order.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2009 source ↗

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