Tina Fey: Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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

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Cathy Rigby. She was really good in that stage version of Peter Pan. No joke.

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

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Steve Jones Welsh television presenter

In 2010 there are slim pickings.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 July 2010 source ↗

James Taylor

Noam Chomsky, Barack Obama.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2015 source ↗

Isaac Mizrahi

Ricky Gervais. I’m saying that so he might read this and cast me in something.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2022 source ↗

Emilia Fox English actress and presenter

Dawn French, because I am sitting next to her and she says if I don’t say her, she will hurt me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 October 2018 source ↗

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A willingness to come uptown.

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Anywhere, during the 2 to 24 hours after a successful joke.

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Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

People who are proud of their ignorance.

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Child, loss or damage thereof.

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Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

Procrastination.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2011 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

A glass of wine at sunset on Fire Island. / No homework.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2011 source ↗

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