Joan Rivers
Comedian
Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
What is your greatest fear?
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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.
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →When I was little, a couple of rapes took place in Glasgow. I remember my mum saying to walk in the middle of the pavement, and to this day I am very conscious of where I am.
I’ve a phobia of statues. It does go back to childhood. My parents brought me to look at a French church late at night. Since then I can’t deal with them.
Dying, because I am so happy now.
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Knowing everyone I love is always going to be healthy.
“Your lyrics are rubbish.” It was someone I was working with when I was in my early 20s. It turned out well because I then spent a long time studying and learning how to write good lyrics.
I would have partied a little bit harder in my 20s.
Living a fairytale.
My grandma, who died a few years ago, because I wasn’t able to see her on my last visit to Georgia.
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