Julian Clary
English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter
Running out of Molecule cologne.
What is your greatest fear?
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
Originally asked
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2022 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →That we will be remembered as a people who locked our fellow citizens in cages and who believe that some people are rich and some people are poor because “it’s their nature” and that racism and poverty are inevitable parts of the order of things; that M.L.K. and Bobby Kennedy died in vain; and that no one any longer believes what M.L.K. said in his Nobel Prize address in Oslo: “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.”
Sally Mann
Photographer
The loss of a child.
Mike Skinner
English rapper
That I might have to do a normal job.
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View profile →My dog wanting to go out for a wee.
Lack of self-doubt.
Sharper knives.
I have become progressively happier as I’ve got older. It’s to do with not striving as much.
I’d like a manoeuvre called after me, in the way Heimlich has.
The day I had to stop playing football five years ago. I realised I couldn’t hack it any more.
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