Omid Djalili: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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 Omid Djalili said elsewhere, not written here

Overeating when stressed.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

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Keir Starmer

Vic, my wife, has over the years reduced my impatience, but anybody who has been in a traffic jam with me will know that she hasn’t completed the task yet.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2023 source ↗

Julian Clary English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter

My cold indifference towards discarded friends.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 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 ↗

Jack Dee

I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗