Judd Apatow: What is your greatest fear?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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

Recorded Judd Apatow said elsewhere, not written here

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

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

Others on this question

There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?

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

Olivia de Havilland Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress

The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗

Losing my husband. We are properly codependent.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗

Angela Griffin British actress and television presenter

Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 August 2022 source ↗

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

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 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 ↗

Watching my wife and children eat.

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

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