Judd Apatow: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

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

Recorded Judd Apatow said elsewhere, not written here

My bottomless pit of need. Soft erections. It was hard to keep it to just two.

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

Others on this question

Flirting with danger.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

Not finishing things.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗

David Hockney Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer

That I give way too quickly.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2013 source ↗

Being overly critical.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2023 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 ↗

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

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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