Rob Brydon: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

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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 Rob Brydon said elsewhere, not written here

As a boy in a tree.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2012 source ↗

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Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.

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Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2016 source ↗

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