Stephen Merchant: When were you happiest?

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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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

Recorded Stephen Merchant said elsewhere, not written here

Watching Bruce Springsteen at Glastonbury. During Because The Night I actually shouted, "This is the greatest moment of my life!"

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Richard Feynman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965

It's made me a very happy man ever since.

Recorded Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1976 source ↗

Shaun Ryder English singer

When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗

Ray Mears British woodsman and TV presenter

Right now. I live in the present.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2016 source ↗

Nicola Walker British actress

As I get older, I get happier.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2017 source ↗

Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2013 source ↗

Failing to get anything in the New Year honours, not even a poxy CBE.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2013 source ↗

More air miles.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2013 source ↗

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