The question
When were you happiest?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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Our wedding weekend in Ireland.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 April 2026 source ↗
My wedding day last year. It was supposed to be 4 April and, in the end, it was 12 September.
Any of the many times I have sat on my lawn with my wife, watching the boys play on a summer evening.
Whenever I'm with my mum and brother. We have family dinners every Sunday – it's become quite the tradition.
Finding out I was pregnant when I’d been told it would be difficult to have children.
I called Elizabeth McGovern Elizabeth Montgomery throughout a show. But, bless her, she didn’t say anything.
Back in the day, when comedy was crueller, my monologues were full of terrible jokes about people, and you can’t apologise because then you’re asking people to forgive you. Your punishment is to walk around knowing you said these horrible things.
I was stabbed in my 20s. It was a late-night mugging and, while taking my wallet, they stabbed me in my chest.
Impatience married with being very quick to judge.
I couldn’t care less.
Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
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