Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Updated: 28 Aug 2025 • 266 episodes
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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 PersonalDisasterStories@gmail.com. Wrong Turns takes over from iWeigh and Bad Dates as Jameela’s home in podcasting. You can still find the entire archive of I Weigh right here. Wrong Turns was created and produced by Jameela Jamil and Stewart Bailey, our consulting producer is Colin Anderson. Listen to Wrong Turns on Amazon Music or wherever you find your podcasts. Wrong Turns takes over from I Weigh and Bad Dates as Jameela’s home in podcasting. You can still find the entire archive of I Weigh right here in the Wrong Turns feed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode is wildly funny, celebrates female friendship, and delves into the depths of human misery and despair. Fun! Jameela is joined by writers and comedians Katherine Blanford (The Tonight Show, "Catholic Cowgirl" Special) and Jamie Loftus (Star Trek: Lower Decks, Bestseller "Raw Dog"). Come for the cringe-induc

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This episode is a master class on perseverance through utter humiliation. Jameela's guests are Kurt Braunohler (Bob's Burgers, The Big Sick, Bananas podcast) and Felipe Esparza (Netflix special "Raging Fool," What's Up Fool podcast). It turns out Kurt's German is nicht so gut, and Felipe glows in the dark in the one pl

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International comedy legends Katherine Ryan (What’s My Age Again podcast, The Audacity: Why Being Too Much Is Exactly Enough book) and Alan Carr (Interior Design Masters Netflix, Life’s A Beach podcast) join Jameela for a podcast episode full of mortification - professional, romantic, drunken, and always hilarious. Jam

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This episode brings us all to the edge of the cringe abyss and keeps us there. Jameela is joined by Adam Pally (Happy Endings, Staying Alive podcast) and Malik Elassal (Adults FX, Resident Alien), who confess to shameful childhood tweets and the car sex story that will scare you off the road forever. Jameela's Substack

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Jameela’s back in London to hang out with comedy legends Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Star Trek, Shaun of the Dead) and Richard Herring (Task Master, Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, Edinburgh Fringe).  Everyone shares tales of public nudity, we get into the risks of seeing

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Jameela welcomes the very funny Atsuko Okatsuka (Hulu special “Father”, HBO "The Intruder") and Matt Walsh (Veep, The Hangover). Atsuko learns anything can be called a water park, and Matt learns just how unforgiving an elf costume can be.  Jameela's Substack is A Low Desire To Please, you can also find her on Instagra

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