Bill Maher: What do you fear most?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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Bill Maher

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2010 source ↗

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Tom Burke

To be stuck in the past.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗

Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer

Turning into my father.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

Bruce Dickinson English heavy metal singer

Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2024 source ↗

Mike Skinner English rapper

That I might have to do a normal job.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

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Being in love while organizing my closet.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2010 source ↗

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Right now, here with you. Let’s not ruin it by talking.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2010 source ↗

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