Judd Apatow: 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 Judd Apatow said elsewhere, not written here

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Neil Young. Not in that order.

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

Others on this question

My wife, Grace.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Lil Nas X American rapper

I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2024 source ↗

Bryan Stevenson.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Tommy Hilfiger American fashion designer

Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute. The work he and the team are doing to reduce extreme poverty is phenomenal.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2011 source ↗

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

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

Watching my wife and children eat.

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

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