Gianmarco Soresi and Raanan Hershberg
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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 of anxiety about cracking during a song culminated in exactly that, on the final note of an eight-minute Rodgers and Hammerstein soliloquy, in front of everyone, with absolutely no way to play it off. His Big Wrong Turn begins with a gig booked through his uncle in real estate: a private roast of a 50-year-old stranger at his second bachelor party in a New Jersey steakhouse. He shows up in a suit. They're in shorts. They're sitting in a circle. And it only gets worse from there.
Raanan's Big Wrong Turn is less wrong turn, more system failure. His girlfriend has an eye stroke, and what follows is an ambulance with no siren, insurance paperwork filled out in the back of said ambulance, a doctor appearing via video call from her kitchen, and a transfer to a second hospital in a storm immediately after taking blood thinners. America!
In this week's Misery Loves Company, a listener named Edward recounts a fraternity initiation involving a marshmallow relay race that is exactly as bad as it sounds, and makes the only sane decision anyone in this episode manages.
Follow Raanan at @RaananComedy and watch his podcast Your Favorite Movie Sucks on YouTube. Follow Gianmarco at @GianmarcoSoresi and catch him on tour across the US, UK, and Europe, his special Thief of Joy is out now on YouTube.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to wrong turns where dignity goes to die. This is a podcast that celebrates |
| 0:14.4 | the humiliating moments that happen to us that have no great fucking silver lining, no |
| 0:18.5 | wisdom learned, no redeeming quality. |
| 0:21.7 | It's just where shit happens. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm joined by two of my truly favorite comedians in the world at the moment. |
| 0:29.0 | We have an actor and comedian who's performed on Comedy Central on Netflix. |
| 0:31.7 | He's also the host of the wonderful podcast, The Downside, with John Marcus Aresi. |
| 0:35.1 | It's John Marcos O'Racey. |
| 0:36.9 | Hello. |
| 0:38.1 | Hello. And we also have a writer and comedian who has appeared on The Tonight Show and Comedy |
| 0:42.3 | Central. You can watch his most recent special, Brave. It's so, so funny, on YouTube. It's |
| 0:46.9 | Ronan Hirschberg. Thanks for having me. How are you? Good. We have a real Jewish |
| 0:50.9 | burden or anything going on in this meeting between the two of us. |
| 0:54.1 | We're uniting. His tallness is really emphasizing my troll. We have a real Jewish bird and Ernie thing going on in this meeting between the two of us. |
| 0:54.7 | We're uniting. His tallness is really emphasizing my trollness right now. |
| 1:00.1 | It's like Jewish, Cisco, and Ebert. |
| 1:02.2 | We're not all the same. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.7 | And that's the point we're trying to drive home. |
| 1:05.6 | The two different types of Jews right here. |
| 1:07.8 | This is a political episode. |
| 1:10.1 | Apparently, my people are originally from the land that would be the Israel and Palestine area, but we were exiled in 10 AD. |
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