Confessional comedy for beautifully bad decisions.
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil is a comedy show built around stories that normally stay buried. Comedians, actors, writers, and performers trade disasters, awkward encounters, social panic, and public embarrassment, with the conversation staying loose, sharp, and deliberately unsentimental.
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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil is a comedy show about the moment a story stops being merely embarrassing and becomes impossible to forget. The premise runs on confession. Guests bring tales of romantic misfires, workplace panic, airport absurdity, celebrity awkwardness, misread social cues, bodily embarrassment, and the strange situations that only become funny after enough distance. The episodes are conversational, but they are not casual in the sleepy sense. They have the charged energy of friends daring each other to say the worst part out loud. One story can start with a car ride, a party, a green room, or an old song, then expand into a full anatomy of discomfort. The show does not chase redemption. It keeps returning to the pleasure of shared mortification, where the point is not to improve the memory but to survive retelling it. Jameela Jamil frames the room with blunt warmth, quick reactions, and an appetite for chaos. The guest list leans toward performers who know how to build a scene from panic: comedians, actors, writers, podcasters, and people comfortable letting a humiliating detail breathe. Episodes include Ian Lara, Michael Blieden, Kat Bird, Ava Bunn, Olivia Lee, Cariad Lloyd, Daphnique Springs, Matt Braunger, Alan Tudyk, Jade Catta-Preta, Taran Killam, Jenn Lyon, Guy Branum, X Mayo, Blair Socci, and Arden Myrin. The conversation can be bawdy and direct. It can also swing into oddly specific cultural detours, from Tenacious D fandom to 90s R&B lyrics, airport security, naming mishaps, and the terror of being the uncool person in a room. Its comedy comes from exposure rather than polish. Awkward pauses matter. So do bad decisions, bad timing, and the sudden realization that everyone involved understands how bad things have become. Wrong Turns suits listeners who prefer their celebrity-and-comedy talk loose, adult, irreverent, and human. It is less a neat interview show than a rotating archive of social disasters told by people who can make embarrassment feel communal.
Made for: For fans of adult conversational comedy, performer stories, and candid embarrassment told without motivational gloss. It best suits listeners who enjoy sharp, chaotic banter and guests from stand-up, acting, writing, and podcasting.
What sets it apart: The show refuses the usual redemption arc. Its signature is letting humiliating stories stay unresolved, uncomfortable, and funny, with Jameela Jamil steering the room toward candor rather than life lessons.
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 [email protected]. 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…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jameela Jamil turns guest embarrassment into lively group comedy, using sharp follow-ups to expose the small choices inside spectacularly awkward stories.
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil turns guest conversation into a forensic examination of embarrassment. Jameela Jamil brings on two guests at a time, asks each for a mortifying misstep, and keeps the account open to interruptions, follow-up questions and her own disclosures.
Jameela Jamil turns celebrity humiliation into a group project, and your dignity gets the night off.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A podcast choice makes a ride to work awkward for both passenger and driver.
A passenger puts on a podcast for the ride to work, then hears a discussion of race and starts wondering how the driver will take it. He worries the driver might think the choice was aimed at him.
Killam recalls meeting Jack Black at nineteen, silver pen and all.
At nineteen, Killam was working on MAD television and eager to talk about Tenacious D. Will Sasso loved the album too; he would play guitar in the dressing rooms while they sang its songs. Then writer Michael Hitchcock offered to introduce Killam to Jack Black.
Celebrity complaints at airport security lead to a strange find and a loud, funny exchange.
A guest's attempt to get celebrities through airport security gives Jameela Jamil and Guy plenty to interrupt and question. Chaka has already made it through, while others balk at removing their rings and necklaces.
Arden and Blair recall childhood songs and trade jokes before Blair begins her wrong turn.
Jamil welcomes Arden and Blair to Wrong Turns with embarrassment already on the table. Arden remembers another embarrassing story, and Blair says she has had bladder-related incidents over the years.
Agee's maybe four kidney stones meet Jamil's fourteen before the conversation turns to morphine.
Erica Rhodes and Steve Agee join Jameela Jamil for a conversation that starts with Agee's credit in Kicked in the Nuts. He clears up the detail: it was a web short. The teasing soon reaches his account of passing maybe four kidney stones.
Fear, personal change, and compassion amid a friend's political shift.
The conversation begins with a disagreement about what it takes to change your life. One speaker says people seeking change cannot be scared; the other makes room for fear, so long as it does not make every decision.
Jameela Jamil interviews Tamsen Fadal about menopause awareness and advocacy.
Comedians Russell Howard, Judi Love, and Grace Campbell join the host to share and commiserate over personal disasters and humiliations.
Jameela Jamil hosts an unfiltered AMA episode, answering listener questions directly, with sponsor messages at the start.
Jameela Jamil interviews Danny Wallace about disinformation and conspiracy theories on the I Weigh podcast.
Jamila Jamil interviews Erin Gibson about the importance of engaging in local politics and community activism.
Comedians Ian Lara and Michael Blieden join the host to share humorous stories, with Michael recounting a gross parenting moment involving his son's smelly finger.
The host announces a live Wrong Turns show at Netflix's A Joke Fest in LA with special guests Lamorne Morris, Lisa Trager, and Chris Fleming.
Olivia Lee and Cariad Lloyd bond over shared humiliation and discuss Cariad's work on grief and her children's book about loss.
This episode of Wrong Turns features comedians Matt Braunger and Daphnique Springs discussing their most miserable moments with no silver lining.
Alan Tudyk joins the podcast Wrong Turn to share stories of shame and humiliation.
Taran Killam tells the Jack Black and Dave Grohl story that ended with "sodomy and cows."
Jameela Jamil hosts Guy Branum and X Mayo on Wrong Turns, where humiliation becomes the main subject and “dignity goes to die.” Guy Branum, credited with Hacks, Bros, The Mindy Project, and My Life as a Goddess, tells a long Amsterdam story that ends with him washing his clothes and still going to a club.
Wrong Turns with Blair Socci and Arden Myrin opens with the premise "where dignity goes to die" and stays there for the rest of the hour.
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil pairs Jameela Jamil with Erica Rhodes and Steve Agee for stories about public embarrassment, dating mistakes, medical procedures, and chaotic film sets.