I’m a very fearless person.
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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.
A world without music.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2023 source ↗
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Jason Manford
English comedian and singer
Wasting my life.
COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
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When I was recording a track called May, about my mum.
I never dwell on them.
Giving people enjoyment.
Bullying, whether face to face or online.
It would be nice just to be remembered.
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