Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

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 Trait...

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 on...

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, ...

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 ...

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 po...

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...

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 i...

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 friend...

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 ...

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 ...

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 int...

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 J...

Laura Peek (Comedy Central, The Tonight Show, After Midnight) and Audrey Stewart (Just for Laughs New Face, Netflix Is a Joke Festival, Don't Tell Comedy) join Jameela for an episode that goes places no one anticipated.

Laura's eighth-grade country club pool day goes catastrophically wrong thanks to one forgotten detail and a high dive. Audrey finally hooks up with her dream college crush only for him to ruin it all with two dev...

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 ...

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 scho...

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 ...

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 i...

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 encou...

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 dress...