Comedian and actor Gianmarco Soresi ( Thief of Joy comedy special, Netflix, The Downside podcast) and comedian Raanan Hershberg (The Tonight Show, Comedy Central, Your Favorite Movie Sucks podcast) join Jameela for an episode that encompasses the Middle East peace process, the American healthcare system, and fraternity hazing rituals involving marshmallows. Gianmarco's micro humiliation takes us back to college, where four years of anxiety about cracking during a song culminated in exactly that,...
May 07, 2026•42 min
Comedian and TikTok creator Caroline Baniewicz ( Homeschooled Freak musical, No Thanks, We're Good podcast) and comedian and actor Lea'h Sampson ( LOL! Live Hulu , YouTube , The Tamron Hall Show ) join Jameela to swap stories of strict Texas upbringings, spiritual awakenings at Chick-fil-A, and the kind of bodily betrayals that only happen when you're trying to impress the cool girls. Caroline explains what it's like to be your own school bully, and Lea'h reveals why you should always secure you...
Apr 30, 2026•46 min
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 fire. Krystyna's Big Wrong Turn takes us inside Hurricane Sandy, a flooding apartment, a boyfriend ...
Apr 23, 2026•39 min
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 an original rap performed acapella in coordinated outfits in front of his entire elementary school. ...
Apr 16, 2026•50 min
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 seven years, including one encounter set to some extremely ill-chosen background music, and another ...
Apr 09, 2026•43 min
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 ego the Sanitary Bag Lady - a woman dressed as a bathroom disposal bag who screams at men about period...
Apr 02, 2026•50 min
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 a woman he was having an on-again off-again affair with. What follows is a masterclass in how not to...
Mar 26, 2026•44 min
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 particular horror of confidently addressing the wrong powerful man by the wrong name to his face. His Bi...
Mar 19, 2026•38 min
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 song he'd performed hundreds of times, in front of 1,300 high school kids who knew every single word. H...
Mar 12, 2026•43 min
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 completely. Guy delivers a story that proves confidence is sometimes the worst possible thing you can bring i...
Mar 05, 2026•48 min
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 vibrator, a Catholic school gray sweatpants catastrophe, and a UTI so severe it required meeting a boyfri...
Feb 26, 2026•51 min
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 that it could not be left on the cutting room floor. What begins as a boisterous teenage party leads...
Feb 23, 2026•10 min
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 may or may not be a pathological liar. She also shares the most humbling twist of fate imaginable afte...
Feb 19, 2026•44 min
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 then the career nightmare of accidentally emailing one of his scripts to the entire staff at The Dail...
Feb 12, 2026•42 min
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 escalate in Bangkok, where one innocent street food decision leads to him shirtless on a red-light-dist...
Feb 05, 2026•49 min
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 “balloons.” She also recounts the most mortifying collision of debt, pride, and gynecological exams ima...
Jan 29, 2026•43 min
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-laws. Alyssa recounts the day an intimacy coordinator stopped a sex scene to explain that she was no...
Jan 22, 2026•45 min
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. Jessi confesses to being Clare Danes’ first hater, gently warning a pre- My So-Called Life middle scho...
Jan 15, 2026•45 min
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 attempt that leaves her hanging from a fence “like a muppet” in front of thousands of witnesses, an...
Jan 08, 2026•36 min
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 turned genuinely frightening. Justin recounts a friendship-ending humiliation involving accusations tha...
Jan 01, 2026•24 min
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 within hours, delivering her full medical history four months into a relationship that somehow surv...
Dec 25, 2025•47 min
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, disastrous career pivots, and the kind of dating stories that permanently change how you screen potenti...
Dec 18, 2025•52 min
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 story after story that make him look sweet, hot, successful, and this week's valedicktorian. Accidental...
Dec 11, 2025•40 min
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 you didn’t make. Dan kicks things off with childhood misunderstandings, a karaoke nightmare involving...
Dec 04, 2025•48 min
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 date, a forced smile, and the kind of social panic only she could navigate with total deadpan grace....
Nov 27, 2025•38 min
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 pubic hair, plus the C section experience where she tried to keep everyone comfortable by joking ab...
Nov 20, 2025•48 min
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-collision at the Met Gala, this one spirals delightfully out of control. Confessions, catastrophes,...
Nov 13, 2025•48 min
Comedians Ian Fidance ( Bein’ Ian with Jordan podcast, Wild, Happy and Free special) and Nathan Macintosh ( Tonight Show , Down with Tech special) bring two of the most chaotic Wrong Turns we’ve ever had: a near–loss of virginity on 9/11, a $600 phone sex bill, getting banned from a friend’s house for porn searches, coke-fueled job interviews, and the childhood moment that ended in a full-blown piss emergency in class. Jameela tries to referee as Ian defends the Spice Channel “squiggle” era and ...
Nov 06, 2025•45 min
Comedian and author Danny Wallace ( Yes Man , Join Me ) and writer-comedian Sofie Hagen ( Will I Ever Have Sex Again? ) join Jameela Jamil for a conversation about the chaos, coincidences, and canine catastrophes that make life unforgettable. From dogs with terrible timing to the unexpected moments that change everything, they share stories of embarrassment, empathy, and the strange comfort of realizing everyone’s a little bit ridiculous sometimes. Jameela's Substack is A Low Desire To Please , ...
Oct 30, 2025•53 min
Jameela Jamil is joined by comedy icon Margaret Cho (New album Lucky Gift , All That We Love movie in theaters November) and social worker turned standup comedian, actor, and writer Brandi Denise (Vulture Top Comics 2024, LOL! Live with Brandi Denise , Hulu) for an uncomfortably funny chat about their biggest personal disasters. This isn’t a pep talk, it’s a pile-on. From terrible diets and onstage mishaps to the mortifying moments you can never unsee, the three trade stories that remind us no o...
Oct 23, 2025•36 min
