Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Comedians, writers, and co-hosts of the legendary podcast Guys We F****d , Krystyna Hutchinson and Corinne Fisher join Jameela this week for an episode that gets intimate, unhinged, and deeply relatable in equal measure. Corinne shares what happened when she tried to set the mood on a COVID-era Zoom date with Post-it note talking points, deli container margaritas, and a candle that set her hair on...

Comedian, writer, and producer Ian Lara (Tonight Show veteran, HBO special Romantic Comedy , new free special Material Boy on YouTube) and writer, producer, and director Michael Blieden ( The Daily Show , Broad City , forthcoming Mitch Hedberg documentary) join Jameela with stories that will make you feel significantly better about your own life choices. Ian once decided the best path to fame was...

Comedian and actor Kat Bird ( Tigerbelly , Sideboob podcast , Netflix Is a Joke Festival May 8th ) and comedian and actor Ava Bunn ( Scrubs on Hulu, JFL’s 2025 New Faces, Late Bloomers at Netflix Is a Joke Festival May 8th ) join Jameela this week with stories that will make you feel significantly better about your own love life. Kat shares what happened when she re-entered the dating world after...

Writer, comedian, and actor Olivia Lee ( Balls of Steel, T4 , The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ) and writer, actor, podcaster, and comedian Cariad Lloyd ( Griefcast , Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club podcasts, Austentatious , and new book Where Did She Go? ) for an episode that asks, where even are the neurotypicals? Cariad shares about her days doing character comedy, specifically her alter eg...

Comedian and actor Daphnique Springs ( Single Female YouTube special, Unapologetically Daphne podcast) and comedian and actor Matt Braunger (Black-ish, Agent Carter, comedy special Doug ) join Jameela for an episode that begins with a theory about serial killers and ends in total, beautiful chaos. Matt's Big Wrong Turn takes us to a wedding he absolutely should not have attended -- the wedding of...

Actor Alan Tudyk (Arrested Development, Rogue One, Resident Alien) and comedian and actor Jade Catta-Preta (Modern Family, Life in Pieces, The Soup on E!) join Jameela for an episode that somehow ends up exactly where you'd expect, and nowhere you could have predicted. Alan's micro humiliation arrives courtesy of a chance encounter with a Disney executive, a case of mistaken identity, and the part...

Comedian and actor Taran Killam ( Saturday Night Live , High Potential, 12 Years a Slave ) and actor Jenn Lyon ( Claws , The English Teacher, Dead Boy Detectives ) join Jameela and immediately reveal themselves to be two of the purest, yet most deeply unhinged people she has ever encountered. Taran opens with a micro humiliation for the ages: the time he forgot every lyric to the same Hamilton son...

Jameela is joined by comedian, writer, actors Guy Branum ( Hacks, The Mindy Project, Chelsea Lately ) and X Mayo ( Loot, The Daily Show ). Together they swap stories that probably should have stayed buried forever - the kind of wrong turns that begin with confidence and end in public humiliation. From disastrous celebrity encounters to sexual encounters so bleak you may decide to abstain completel...

Comedians Arden Myrin (The Righteous Gemstones, Shameless, and host of Will You Accept This Rose? ) and Blair Socci (Comedy Central, CBS, Bob’s Burgers, and host of Spaced Out with Blair Socci ) join Jameela for an episode that immediately reveals itself to be a twin flame friendship. From the very first minute, dignity packs its bags. Blair shares a laundromat incident involving a forgotten vibra...

Comedian Steve Agee ( The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ) and comedian Erica Rhodes ( Bring Back the Funny , Modern Family , Last Comic Standing ) joined Jameela Jamil for one of those sessions that spiraled gloriously out of control. The conversation ran long because Steve told an extra story that was so catastrophically funny, so unnecessary, and so vividly described...

Comedians Erica Rhodes ( Veep , Modern Family , The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ) and Steve Agee ( Guardians of the Galaxy , Peacemaker , Abbott Elementary ) join Jameela for an episode that begins with dietary advice and ends… in a urologist’s office. Erica recounts the date that launched a viral moment, involving a wildly inappropriate comparison, some questionable role-play, and a man who ma...

Comedians Travon Free ( The Daily Show, Two Distant Strangers - Netflix) and Rob Corddry ( The Daily Show, Hot Tub Time Machine ) join Jameela for a masterclass in public humiliation, professional disaster, and the kind of moments that will forever wake you up at 3am. Travon shares the teenage moment he thought he had twenty minutes of privacy with his girlfriend, until he very much did not, and t...

Jameela welcomes Ed Helms ( The Office , The Hangover , SNAFU podcast) and Brian Huskey ( Veep , Bob’s Burgers , Community ) for a masterclass in public humiliation, bodily betrayal, and the art of staying professional while everything is actively going wrong. Ed shares about his resting plane face, then revisits an Office scene that turned into a sealed-car panic situation. From there, things esc...

Comedians Jiaoying Summers ( What Specie Are You? Hulu Special, Tiger Mum Podcast ) and Yola Jean Lu ( Help My Vagina Is Trying to Kill Me special, Patsy short film) join Jameela Jamil for an “Asian invasion,” unpacking shame, power, and humiliation in ways only Wrong Turns can. Jiaoying shares the childhood story that rewired her immune system forever, involving a roadside motel and discarded “ba...

Comedians Leah Rudick ( High Maintenance , Spiraling special on Apple, live tickets ) and Alyssa Limperis ( What We Do in the Shadows , Short of the Week film, No Bad Days special on Peacock) join Jameela for a conversation that begins with a “30 Day Rule” for food found on the floor and somehow escalates into concussions, sex education failures, and deeply inappropriate generosity from future in-...

Comedian and writer Jessi Klein (Big Mouth, Inside Amy Schumer, I’ll Show Myself Out ) and comedian Trae Crowder ( The Liberal Redneck Manifesto , Trash Daddy ) join Jameela Jamil to unpack a lifetime of exquisitely timed social misfires, celebrity encounters gone wrong, and the unique horror of realizing you may have accidentally discouraged a bunch of people who later became extremely famous. Je...

Comedians Steph Tolev (Hacks, Filth Queen on Netflix) and Frankie Quiñones ( This Fool on Hulu, What We Do in the Shadows ) join Jameela Jamil for a tour through humiliation, betrayal, and stories that should never be told in public but absolutely must be. Steph recounts a series of escalating disasters, including waking up extremely drunk in a basement during a hookup gone wrong, a teenage escape...

Comedians Jessimae Peluso (Girl Code, Sharp Tongue, Dying Laughing podcast) and Justin Martindale ( Just Sayin’ podcast, Gay Bash ) join Jameela Jamil for a Wrong Turns episode that escalates from bad dates into full survival mode. Jessimae shares how mistaking a walking red flag for romance led to “dating the DSM-5,” escalating behavior, and ultimately pursuing a restraining order when things tur...

Comedians and podcasters Naomi Ekperigin ( Broad City, Hacks, Mythic Quest ) and Andy Beckerman ( The Pete Holmes Show, Cedric’s Barber Battle, Couples Therapy ) join Jameela Jamil for a messy dive into marriage superstitions, chaos goblins, and a truly staggering collection of micro-humiliations. Naomi relives the nightmare of meeting Andy’s parents for the first time, only to end up hospitalized...

Adam Rose ( LA’s Finest , Small Stupid Stuff podcast, YouTube ) and Kevin James Thornton ( Be Yourself special, Call Kevin podcast, YouTube ) join Jameela to unpack a series of deeply questionable life decisions, including pet squirrels with boundary issues, cosmetic school as a financial strategy, and how to make it through a night in jail as a 16-year-old dance instructor. Childhood arrests, dis...

Comedians Shapel Lacey ( Three Dads Two Moms special, current tour dates ) and Aaron Branch ( Unstable on Netflix, The Kevin Langue Show , The Forehead Tour ) for an unforgettable episode full of wiener stories. Shapel bravely recounts the worst gig of his life, the cheer-camp sex he may never recover from, and the moment a stranger declared that his penis is the joke. Aaron, meanwhile, brings sto...

Comedy troublemakers Dan Schreiber ( No Such Thing As A Fish , The Museum of Curiosity , author of The Theory of Everything Else ) and Andrew Hunter Murray ( No Such Thing As A Fish , The Naked Week , writer for Private Eye , author of A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering ) join Jameela for an hour of friendship chaos, gig disasters, and stories that make you grateful for every bad choice y...

Comedy powerhouses, Aparna Nancherla ( BoJack Horseman , Corporate , Mythic Quest ) and Eliza Skinner ( The Late Late Show with James Corden , Drop the Mic , and Earth to Ned ), join Jameela for a perfect storm of humiliation, soft chaos, and stories that instantly make you feel better about your own life choices. Aparna kicks things off with a micro humiliation involving an aggressively friendly...

Actor and writer Mary Elizabeth Ellis ( It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Licorice Pizza, New Girl ) and actor, writer, filmmaker, and "everyone's sexual awakening", Lake Bell ( Bless This Mess, In a World, Harley Quinn ) join Jameela for a gloriously unfiltered session of tiny humiliations and lifelong cringes. Mary Elizabeth shares the on set moment a costumer quietly asked if she'd braided her...

Jameela welcomes actor Penn Badgley , with his Podcrushed co-hosts Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari ( podcast: Podcrushed , new book: Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss and Coming of Age ) for a truly chaotic and hilarious hour of wrong turns. From Sophie’s doomed West Village romance and Jameela’s on-set “fart coffin,” to Nava’s accidental Ambien-induced text to Ariana Grande’s manager and Penn’s near...