Eugene Levy
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The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
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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.
Intermittent laziness.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗
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My default will always be to go for the worst-case scenario and that is something that I am unlearning.
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Self-destruction.
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That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
The metabolism I had in my 20s.
With dozens upon dozens of beautiful women weeping over my casket.
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