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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2012 source ↗
I’m rabidly indiscreet. If you tell me an embarrassing story, it will probably end up in one of my scripts or standup routines.
I wish I could be more patient. I always want things to get done or happen now.
Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
I’m embarrassed when I get people’s names wrong.
Well, I’m proud of all of them. I think the one that’s most personal to me is the lil’ Coat of Many Colors, because it talks about my mom, my parents, and kind of gives you an insight. It also covers bullying, acceptance and all that.
Singing onstage—and everyone walking around me saying, “Look how happy she looks.”
A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.
Flipping my wig.
Any person trying to uplift mankind.
Dishonesty and being late for appointments.
Eugene Levy, Paapa Essiedu, Robert De Niro, Craig Charles, Carrie Fisher, Johnny Flynn
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