Jim Broadbent: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

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

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 Jim Broadbent said elsewhere, not written here

It happens all the time, but childhood holidays on the North Norfolk coast were a kind of bliss.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Fay Ripley English actress, television presenter, cookbook author

When my kids had little teeth and curly hair, and hadn’t discovered the idea of wanting to leave home.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗

Jason Byrne Irish comedian

When I worked in an electrical warehouse in Dublin. I got £60 a week wiring plugs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2012 source ↗

Kim Gordon American musician and artist

In kindergarten, riding my bike and making objects out of clay.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2020 source ↗

Shappi Khorsandi Iranian-born British comedian

Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗

Their humor and that they are smarter than I, but not by too much.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 January 2018 source ↗

The Obamas are impressive.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2018 source ↗

Weeping with laughter.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 January 2018 source ↗

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