Jerry Lewis: When were you happiest?

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.

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

Recorded Jerry Lewis said elsewhere, not written here

In 1926 and in the maternity room.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

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Jimmy Kimmel

I'm a happy guy in general, but the feeling of freedom and fun I got driving around with my friends in my first car is hard to top.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2020 source ↗

Christy Turlington Burns American model

Before kids, when I was 13 or so, on the back of my horse, running at full speed in an open pasture. Post kids, happiness happens often, but in more subtle ways. I now prefer the word “content”.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗

George Saunders Short-story writer and novelist

Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2023 source ↗

Louis Smith English artistic gymnast