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’m quite stubborn.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 November 2025 source ↗
Self-loathing that rises to the level of deploring.
I talk too much.
The only drink I really, really like is champagne.
Fear of flying.
People who aren’t polite.
Seeing my kids getting older scares me.
A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
I’m afraid of the dark.
Very complicated.
On stage with my band.
Jason Sudeikis, Rory Stewart, Romesh Ranganathan, Laverne Cox, Steve Buscemi, Walton Goggins
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