Jerry Lewis: 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 Jerry Lewis said elsewhere, not written here

No sense of humor.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

John Mellencamp Singer and songwriter

My quick temper and the chaos that ensues in the hurricane that follows.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2015 source ↗

I get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

My ability to invariably say exactly the wrong thing in any given situation.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2014 source ↗

Melissa Etheridge Singer, songwriter and guitarist

Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

When the audience walks toward the stage.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗

No sense of humor.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗

In 1926 and in the maternity room.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗

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