Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish comedian and actor
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
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That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Losing one of my children, as there is no greater loss.
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I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
It’s like arriving somewhere that you’ve always wanted to be.
“Next! We’re looking for somebody else.”
I remember really wanting to go into space. I liked the idea of flying.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
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