Robert Glenister
English actor
Premature demise.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2022 source ↗
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Seth Meyers
American comedian and TV host
Running out of ideas.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
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The day I had to stop playing football five years ago. I realised I couldn’t hack it any more.
Lack of self-doubt.
Sharper knives.
I’d like a manoeuvre called after me, in the way Heimlich has.
My dog wanting to go out for a wee.
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