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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

For anyone who feels like their life is one disaster after another: good news–you’re not alone. Jameela Jamil (The Good Place, She-Hulk) gathers her funny friends and they share their most mortifying and embarrassing stories. Crucially, there are no morals and no silver linings. They are simply here to revel in each others’ misfortune. Wrong Turns: where dignity goes to die.Please share your own Wrong Turns with us for possible inclusion in the show, just email a voice memo to

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Andrea Jin and Mike Lawrence

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/10/01

No one likes winners

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00:46:33

Simon Pegg and Richard Herring [ReTurn]

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2026/09/24

Jameela's back in London to hang out with comedy legends Simon Pegg (Star Trek, Shaun of the Dead, Only What We Carry) and Richard Herring (Taskmaster, Can I Have My Ball Back?, RHLSTP with Richard Herring).Public nudity tales abound, we get into the risks of accidentally seeing nudes when someone else shows you something on their phone, and what's your personal policy on peeing in the sea?Jameela's Substack is A Low Desire To Please, you can also find her on Instagram, TikTok and

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38:18

Zach Zucker and David Magidoff

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2026/09/17

Comedians Zach Zucker (Stamptown, Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour, Sweethearts) and David Magidoff (Dexter: Resurrection, The Morning Show, Fanaddicts) join Jameela to trade origin stories that should have ended their careers before they started - a WME rep watching a hometown show implode in real time, and a wedding toast that reopens the Civil War. Somewhere in between: cat allergies, lingering breakups, and the loneliest ring fingers in the business.Jameela's Substack is A Low Desire To Please,

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45:15

Hanna Dickinson and Zach Zimmerman

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/09/10

Comedians Hanna Dickinson (Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring, special on EPIX) and Zach Zimmerman ("Surprise Me" special, writing for The New Yorker) join Jameela to trade the stories you bury, not brag about: a near kidnapping story to put you off Ozempic, a hoagie that should've stayed in the trash, and a fog emoji break up strategy. Plus a listener story that was so close to a hook-up story with a hot Uber driver, right up until it wasn't.Jameela's Substack is A Low Desire To Please, you can also

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36:16

Jake Johnson, Gareth Reynolds and Eric Edelstein...

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/09/03

Another chance to hear comedians Jake Johnson (New Girl, The Dink, We're Here to Help), Gareth Reynolds (Arrested Development, You're the Worst, We're Here to Help) and Eric Edelstein (The Boroughs, The Lowdown, Twin Peaks: The Return) join Jameela, as Jake shares a hair don't, Gareth breaks from proper lavatory etiquette, and Eric continues his brave battle against the fascists.Jameela's Substack is A Low Desire To Please, you can also find her on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.Our consulting

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46:12

Laci Mosley and Langston Kerman

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/08/27

Comedians Laci Mosley (iCarly, A Black Lady Sketch Show, Scam Goddess) and Langston Kerman (Abbott Elementary, Bad Poetry, My Momma Told Me) join Jameela to trade tales of woe.Laci takes us through a whirlwind overseas hookup that spirals from a champagne cellar bathroom encounter into an accidental pregnancy joke that goes way too far, capped off by a flight home you have to hear to believe. Langston confesses to accosting the wrong Black woman at one of Hollywood's most exclusive backyard parties,

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41:58

Jared Freid and Becky Robinson

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/08/20

Comedians Jared Freid (Table for One Tour, Walking Red Flag, U Up?) and Becky Robinson (Wild 'N Out, The Beasts in Me Tour, Entitled) join Jameela for a conversation that somehow lands on a fireman worthy command performance, a dorm room G-string that never should have survived freshman year, and a hookup so dry it produced actual chalk. Jared's big wrong turn traces back to a 12-year-old's landline phone call interrupted by his mom, and Jameela's friend's home office habit gives the family dog a

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43:40

Katherine Ryan and Alan Carr [ReTurn]

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/08/13

Comedians Katherine Ryan (First Born Daughter special, Tinsel Town film, The Audacity: Why Being Too Much Is Exactly Enough book) and Alan Carr (Have I Said Too Much? tour, Alan Carr's Picture Slam BBC One, Interior Design Masters Netflix) join Jameela for a night of televised flops, dance floor disasters, and dignity going straight down the drain.Alan relives the sweat-drenched chaos of Grease Live (voted worst show on British telly two years running) and the New York toilet incident that left him

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38:19

Bob The Drag Queen and Mae Martin [ReTurn]

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/08/06

It's summer, it's hot, we all need a week off from time to time, so that's what we're doing this week on the podcast. But we wouldn't want to leave you high and dry, so here's a ReTurn episode of our Premiere with amazing guests Mae Martin and Bob the Drag Queen. It's one of our most popular episodes, so we hope you'll listen, enjoy, and share it with a friend.Comedians Bob the Drag Queen (Hulu special "This Is Wild," The Traitors, NYT best seller "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: A Novel"), Mae

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Emily Wilson and Erica Hernandez

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/07/30

Comedians Emily Wilson (host of Tuesdays at the Red Room, host of Call Your Parents, and currently touring her special Fixed: How I Got Rejected by Reality TV) and Erica Hernandez (Search Party, 9-1-1, and Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat) join Jameela to trade their most humiliating near misses, from a snow day bus wipeout to a paranoid grilled cheese standoff.Emily revisits the reality show disaster that turned into her one woman show, and Erica confesses to a college fueled conspiracy theory

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39:32

Laurie Kilmartin and Sydney Kane

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2026/07/23

Comedians Laurie Kilmartin (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan, Cis Woke Grief Sl*t) and Sydney Kane (Wife Material, Millennial Jenny, Barney & Friends) join Jameela to see who can out mortify the other.Laurie confesses to screaming obscenities at the wrong side of a protest, then rewinds to the school yearbook comments that got her shunned for all of eighth grade. Sydney details the make-up shopping spree that ended with four cops, an eight hour holding cell, and her entire college group chat finding out

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50:49

Chloe Radcliffe and Tone Bell

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2026/07/16

Comedians Chloe Radcliffe (The Tonight Show, Command Z, Is This Thing On?) and Tone Bell (Survival of the Thickest, Coyote Versus Acme, Fam) join Jameela for an hour of bodies malfunctioning at the worst possible moments, in front of the worst possible audiences.Tone explains the fertility surgery that left him with an unfortunate mullet situation south of the border. Chloe dishes on the film et she left almost as toxic as the non-alcoholic beverage she was there to advertise. And a house party

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53:51

Tig Notaro and Caitlin Reilly

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/07/09

Comedians Tig Notaro (One Mississippi, The Morning Show, Come See Me in the Good Light) and Caitlin Reilly (Hacks, Loot, I Love LA) join Jameela for a wide open, no such thing as TMI conversation.Tig's big wrong turn drags her back to a decades old showdown for Sundance Film Festival supremacy against a friend turned rival. Caitlin's starts on an all girls Catholic high school stage (fellow alum: Meghan Markle) and ends at a pool party where a white towel gave away way more than she meant to

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35:59

Dylan Adler and Sabrina Wu

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/07/02

Comedians Dylan Adler (Roomies, Netflix Is A Joke Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and Sabrina Wu (Joyride, Murderbot, Abbott Elementary) join Jameela for a full audit of who is and isn't a top, the case for Jameela's first fart in front of her boyfriend to be a dramatic rendition of "Hey Jude," and the precise anatomical boundaries of a cat's gooch.Dylan relives the party that was supposed to make him cool and the recovery backflip that followed, Sabrina reluctantly tells how they resorted to a

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51:55

Lamorne Morris, Chris Fleming and Liza Treyger

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/06/25

Comedians Lamorne Morris (New Girl, Spider-Man: Noir, Garfield), Chris Fleming (Gayle on YouTube, Live at the Palace on HBO, I'm the Mayor of Bimmi Gardens on Adult Swim), and Liza Treyger (Night Owl, Survival of the Thickest both on Netflix,That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast) join Jameela for an episode where the wrong turns involve a CPR dummy, a gun on a table in Compton, and a nude boba emergency.Lamorne's micro-humiliation is a classic of adolescent sexual mythology, complete with JD Vance-style

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55:08

Conor Janda and Oscar Montoya

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/06/18

Comedian Conor Janda (Kevin Hart's Funny AF, Boys Club Comedy, his new hour Side Notes) and actor and comedian Oscar Montoya (Minx on Starz, Encanto, Drag Her podcast) join Jameela for an episode containing two separate threesomes, a case of mistaken Asian identity, and a definitive ruling on which city's population looks the most artificially generated.Oscar's Big Wrong Turn traces back to a college reunion with two old friends that turns into an unforgettable and very satisfying ambush, followed

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47:18

Rosebud Baker and Judy Gold

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/06/11

Comedian, actor, and Emmy Award-winning writers Rosebud Baker (The Motherload, Saturday Night Live, Inside Amy Schumer) and Judy Gold (Not Suitable for Work, Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness) join Jameela for an episode that somehow ends up on the freeway.Two women with a combined four Emmy Awards and an extensive history of catastrophic decision-making sit down to compare notes on humiliation, and it goes exactly as well as you'd expect.Judy describes the night she accidentally outed a

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25:01

Garcelle Beauvais and Ron Funches

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/06/04

Actress, author, producer, and model Garcelle Beauvais (Coming to America, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) and comedian, writer, and actor Ron Funches (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Black-ish, Season 4 of The Traitors) join Jameela to discuss the many ways a recycling bin, a mushroom gummy, and a fashion show introduction can lead to public humiliations.Garcelle once cost herself a major modeling contract by asking a question you should never, ever ask a woman. Ron arrives with

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51:37

Rachel Feinstein and Ben Gleib

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/05/28

Comedian and actor Rachel Feinstein (Inside Amy Schumer, Crashing, Trainwreck, Big Guy on Netflix) and comedian, actor, and writer Ben Gleib (Chelsea Lately, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Good Night with Ben Gleib on YouTube) join Jameela to share their most catastrophic life moments, and things go off the rails almost immediately.Ben reveals what happens when Chelsea Handler gets bored on a private jet and peer-pressures you into propositioning the flight crew, while Rachel recounts the Christmas she

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54:41

Rory Scovel and James Adomian

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil ·

2026/05/21

Comedian Rory Scovel (Physical, Babylon, Rooster) and actor, comedian, and impressionist James Adomian (Netflix, Comedy Bang Bang, Rick and Morty) join Jameela for an episode that goes completely off the rails, including an Alex Jones/Seth Rogen mashup that Jameela calls one of her favorite moments in the history of the podcast.James's Big Wrong Turn is one of the greatest heckle stories ever told on this podcast: opening for Joan Rivers at a 3,000-seat casino in South Florida, facing a mutiny of

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