The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To people who I’ve made a really quick joke about on stage and hurt.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
Helen Edmundson, because I wasn’t able to be a better friend at school.
To my brother. When he was a small boy, I made him urinate on an electric fence to see if liquid could really transmit electricity.
A little girl called Pat. We were nine-year-olds together and all the class made her life a misery. I knew she wanted to be my friend and I would only be friends with her if nobody else was around. I feel dreadful about that.
Luke. It’s hard growing up with a heroin addict, and I treated him in his vulnerability in a way I would never have treated anyone I worked with.
Ambulances – I live near a hospital.
Quiet, sharp, clumsy.
Not being able to laugh at themselves.
Being offered a lift by James Acaster.
Having conversations with young people who you remember being born.
A Pot Noodle on a cold day.
Bill Bailey, Sharon Corr, Marina Diamandis, Rose McGowan, Andrea Riseborough, Julia Ormond
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