The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t think anyone should deplore anything about themselves. You can always improve things, but by deploring you’re putting yourself on a losing streak.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗
Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
Procrastination.
I get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.
Asking my wife questions that don't need to be asked.
Growing up as a gay boy in a small town, you get used to people saying bad things pretty quickly.
Meanness and lying.
I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
Do you have 10 pages? Once, I was dancing in a costume that was like a corset. During a move, the corset ripped and exploded, and I had to carry on doing the number practically in my jockstrap.
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
Joyce Carol Oates, Father John Misty, Brandi Carlile, Paul McKenna, Adam Kay, Al Franken
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