The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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Right now. I think I was born in my early 30s and I am finally catching up to my age. It’s fine to be a bit like Frasier now, but it’s probably not ideal when you are 12.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2019 source ↗
Before I realised my parents, sister and I were all mortal.
Winning the Ashes in 2009.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
When my daughters were delivered safely.
Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.
Most of the people that saw me do comedy between the years 2007 and 2012.
As the man who never died.
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
Anything from the concept of human mortality to a faux pas I made at a party in 2005.
Describing the plot of Roma.
Gavin Rossdale, Edwina Currie, Peter Gabriel, Shappi Khorsandi, Chris Packham, Nile Rodgers
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