Mel Brooks: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

The question

What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

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

Mel Brooks

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 14 December 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

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James Taylor

Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 May 2015 source ↗

Ai Weiwei

To survive from an impossible condition.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 April 2018 source ↗

George Takei

I don’t know about perfect, but a creamy scoop of green-tea ice cream comes fairly close.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 October 2015 source ↗

Dustin Hoffman

When the coffee kicks in early in the morning and I’m on the couch with my dogs, reading the paper.

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