Episode 270 - Jameela Jamil

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Arts, Food

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Today Jameela Jamil joins us at the table for a bonus episode! She talks getting discovered, the power of saying "yes", and how she almost killed herself with RAID. Enjoy! Check out Jameela's podcast Wrong Turns, wherever you podcast. -------------- 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:32 Patreon Shoutout 0:00:55 Lighter space 0:04:03 How scary is the world? 0:08:00 Cake and overwhelming flavors 0:08:48 American food 0:11:16 Drugs & alcohol 0:12:00 Not having kids, maternal instinct 0:14:50 Dogs 0:15:53 Ronald McDonald 0:16:42 Master of 3 dishes 0:19:00 Cleaning during parties 0:21:05 Parents & needing to feel useful 0:23:14 Politicians & wasps 0:24:10 Horrific RAID story 0:28:06 Surviving in the woods 0:28:57 Did not want to be in Hollywood 0:33:20 Saying yes 0:36:00 Substack and dealing with death 0:45:02 Uncomfortable moment 0:47:33 Instagram 0:48:40 Scars from curry 0:49:50 Indian food in LA 0:51:00 Uncomfortable run ins with famous people 0:53:03 Barbara Streisand & George Clooney 0:56:32 80 year old Jameela & the elderly -------------- Tom Papa is a celebrated stand-up comedian with over 20 years in the industry. Watch Tom's new special "Home Free" out NOW on Netflix! Radio, Podcasts and more: https://linktr.ee/tompapa/ Website - http://tompapa.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tompapa Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tompapa Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/comediantompapa Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/tompapa #tompapa #breakingbread #comedy #standup #standupcomedy #bread Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Who did the cooking for you?
0:02.4	Ronald McDonald.
0:04.1	Right.
0:04.8	Gave you most of your food.
0:06.6	I would say most of my nutrition came from Mr. Ronald McDonald.
0:12.3	That's not bad.
0:13.5	It wasn't bad.
0:14.3	It was great.
0:15.0	Yeah.
0:15.6	It was fucking fantastic.
0:17.3	Yeah.
0:17.8	It's pretty great.
0:18.9	Yeah.
0:19.8	And then my brother worked there, so I ate there
0:22.6	for free, for years and years and years, every single day. And that's why I look so young for my
0:27.4	age, because I'm 39, but I've not a wrinkle, and I haven't had Botox or filler. I'm full of
0:31.1	preservatives. It's breaking bread. If you haven't joined our Patreon yet, you really should.
0:37.3	It's pretty great. You get stuff
0:38.7	from the road. You get extra downloads after the episode, lots of cool content. Go over to patreon.com
0:47.7	and look up our podcast. And we'd love to see you over there. And for those of you have already
0:53.8	signed up, we'll see you there in a little bit.
0:56.1	How's life?
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