Lily Tomlin: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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

Recorded Lily Tomlin said elsewhere, not written here

My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Chris Froome British cyclist

David Kinjah, my old coach and mentor in Kenya.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2014 source ↗

Rob Delaney American comedian and actor

Margaret Atwood: she’s an empathic human being who writes books that help me be a better person.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2015 source ↗

Mike Skinner English rapper

Bill Drummond, Thomas Bangalter and Jay-Z.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Judith Kerr British writer and illustrator

No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗

Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2022 source ↗

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