The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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I look at my nephew, who is five years old and in a perpetual state of bliss; I imagine that’s what I was like when I was five. That’s not to say I am unhappy now; I was on top of the world walking through a park to work this morning.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2019 source ↗
Both of the days my children were born. It was like I’d stepped through a mirror and everything turned Technicolor.
Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.
Whenever I finish good work.
Getting my full Equity card as a professional performer.
The Importance Of Being Idle by Oasis. I’m in the video, which is basically my own funeral, so it’d be nice and macabre.
To anyone I’ve unintentionally hurt or upset.
That things didn’t get better.
Anyone who is risking their life to cross a body of water with their family to escape war.
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