Don Rickles: What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Don Rickles said elsewhere, not written here

Trying too hard to be funny.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Racism and bigotry.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2016 source ↗

When people are rude to their waiter.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗

Lolita Chakrabarti British actress and writer

Lack of empathy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 May 2022 source ↗

An arbitrary contrarian.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗

Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Having no patience.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2003 source ↗

My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

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