Judd Apatow: Which trait in yourself do you like least?

The question

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.

Judd Apatow

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

My bottomless pit of need. Soft erections. It was hard to keep it to just two.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

Whenever I walk past an ice-cream shop, I just can’t not buy an ice-cream.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗

I am a bit of a procrastinator.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗

Robert Glenister English actor

Lack of confidence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

Any type of indecision.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗

That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2009 source ↗

Watching my wife and children eat.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2009 source ↗

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Neil Young. Not in that order.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2009 source ↗

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