When were you happiest?

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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.

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Recorded Ben Stiller said elsewhere, not written here
Probably as a small child in a pool in my mother’s arms.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2025 source ↗

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Chris Rock
August 16, 1985. My dad took me and my brothers Andre and Tony to see the Fresh Fest at the Nassau Coliseum, on Long Island. We saw Whodini, the Fat Boys, and Grandmaster Flash. Greatest day of my life. The births of my children were big days, too, but billions of people have children—only 15,000 people saw that show.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2016 source ↗
Meg Rosoff American novelist
Swimming in the North Sea at midnight, surrounded by phosphorescence.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

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