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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Aparna Nancherla and Eliza Skinner

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Disasters, Storytelling, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Shame, Comedy, Jameela Jamil, Personal Journals, Funny

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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. Later, she unpacks a Big Wrong Turn that somehow manages to include a disappearing audience, a disappearing sense of self, and a disappearing will to continue. We’ve all been there.


Eliza brings her own signature spiral, including the world’s worst party choice, a Disney meltdown, and one of the most impressively committed social misreads we’ve heard on this show. Together, she and Aparna form a tag-team of comedic self-exposure that warms the soul and singes the eyebrows.


Plus, Jameela reads a Misery Loves Company submission that proves sometimes the only way out is to laugh harder than you want to cry.


Come for the comedy, stay for the solidarity. If you’ve ever said “I'm really honest, I just like to tell it how it is,” then listen to hear why we're swiping left on you.


Aparna Nancherla has her very first hour-long standup comedy special, HOPEFUL POTATO, premiering December 15th on streaming service Dropout as part of its “Dropout Presents” series. It's directed by Eliza Skinner.

Jameela's Substack is A Low Desire To Please, you can also find her on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

Our consulting producer is Colin Anderson.

Wrong Turns was created and produced by Jameela Jamil and Stewart Bailey.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to wrong turns. This is the podcast where dignity goes to die, where we share our most painful inner memories and thoughts and we don't try and make each other feel better about it. And I'm joined by two incredibly funny, wonderful people. Today we have a comedian, actress, an Emmy nominated writer whose work includes The Great North, Bob's Burgers, Late Night with Seth Myers, Bojack Horseman, and What We Do in the Shadows. Her first hour-long comedy special, hopeful potato premieres on dropout December 15th. It's a parna nancella. Hello. Hello. Thank you, thank you. Hello. The queen of one onliners. How are you? It's nice to finally meet you. Oh, I know. We circled around

0:43.0

each other. Yes, we were discussing this earlier. You were in the cool inner circle and I was

0:47.9

I was outside near the garbage rummaging. So, but yeah, lovely to meet you in person.

0:55.6

I mean, maybe some people online feel like they've cracked something, but I never felt that way.

1:01.2

I always, I feel like online is where you constantly just feel like your life is about to be destroyed.

1:08.1

Yeah, 100%.

1:09.3

And we also welcome a fabulous comedian,

1:11.8

actress, producer, director

1:13.1

from shows like Adam Ruins Everything, Earth to Ned,

1:15.5

drop the mic, and the late late show.

1:17.3

She's just directed a comedy special

1:18.8

called Hopeful Potato with a young upstart named A Pana Nantrella.

1:23.7

It's Eliza Skinner.

1:26.0

It's me, It's me.

1:31.4

Yeah, we've finally been brought back together since our feud.

1:34.4

Ah, yes, you again.

1:36.6

How was working together?

1:38.0

It was lovely.

1:45.3

I feel like I was so happy Eliza was interested in directing it because I've been her friend but also a fan of her for so long.

1:49.6

So getting to work with your friends is one of the very lovely things about.

1:54.6

Yeah, it felt like becoming a partner's friend professionally instead of just on an amateur basis.

1:56.0

Like now it was a job. How long has it been that you've been friends?

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