The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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Being offered a lift by James Acaster.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
I’m getting closer all the time.
My failed driving test a few months ago. I got three majors and by the end of it the examiner couldn’t wait to get out of the car.
When I was three and had meningitis.
I was close to death, and I didn't rush into my spirit. I spent the time in the hospital just looking at the pipes on the ceiling. ... I failed because this was a trauma, a trauma, and I'm not reacting to it spiritually.
To people who I’ve made a really quick joke about on stage and hurt.
What I studied at college – A-level economics.
Quiet, sharp, clumsy.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
Not being able to laugh at themselves.
Three degrees: I paid my kids’ uni fees.
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