Ian Lara and Michael Blieden
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Comedian, writer, and producer Ian Lara (Tonight Show veteran, HBO special Romantic Comedy, new free special Material Boy on YouTube) and writer, producer, and director Michael Blieden (The Daily Show, Broad City, forthcoming Mitch Hedberg documentary) join Jameela with stories that will make you feel significantly better about your own life choices.
Ian once decided the best path to fame was an original rap performed acapella in coordinated outfits in front of his entire elementary school. Michael once accidentally played a podcast that opened with "Are white people special?" to his Black driver and just... kept it on. Jameela once performed a full Sally Bowles striptease routine from Cabaret at her all-girls school aged 12, and was bribed by her headmistress not to do it again.
Also: an exploding chili dog audition, Larry David, and a listener who learned that "Fiona" sounds like Italian slang for something you really don't want your name to mean.
You can follow Ian at @ianlara on Instagram and TikTok and watch his specials on YouTube and HBO. Keep an eye out for Michael's Mitch Hedberg documentary, coming soon.
And book now to see Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil live at the 2026 Netflix Is a Joke Festival with guests: Lamorne Morris, Liza Treyger & Chris Flemming.
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. |
| 0:11.8 | This is the show where dignity goes to die, your weekly dose of smug as you feel better |
| 0:16.9 | about your own life and your own terrible decisions because you hear how much |
| 0:19.9 | dumber we are. And every week I invite my favorite funny people to come and tell me their |
| 0:24.8 | tales of woe and joining me today as a writer-producer and comedian who's performed on the |
| 0:28.6 | tonight show six times. His latest special is Material Boy and you can see it now on YouTube. |
| 0:34.0 | See him live around the country and buy tickets at Ian Lara Live.com. It's Ian Fucking Lara. Hello. |
| 0:39.0 | Hey, guys. Thank you guys for having me. This is very cool. I appreciate it. |
| 0:42.8 | Thanks for being here. I am also thrilled to welcome a writer, producer, director, |
| 0:46.8 | and performer from The Daily Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Broad City, Brooklyn |
| 0:50.2 | 9-9 and Southside. His latest project is a documentary about the comedy legend Mitch Headberg. It's Michael Blyden. Yay! Oh, gentlemen, how are you doing? How are your |
| 1:01.2 | lives going? You're right? I have two little kids, and so I don't feel exhausted today, |
| 1:07.6 | and that is the benchmark. I have no kids,. My life is great. I'm just like doing |
| 1:12.9 | whatever I want. Yeah, I'm exactly the same as Ian. I have no children. So we look like this |
| 1:19.0 | every day. I'm sorry, Michael. Yeah, it's very cool. I can talk about it. Yeah. I'm sure you will. |
| 1:27.2 | But how old are your kids? They're going to be five and |
| 1:31.8 | seven and I was cuddling with my son two nights ago and he's like, hey, smell my finger. And I was |
| 1:38.7 | like, I'm really not interested in that. And he sticks his finger here and it's a mixture of |
| 1:43.1 | fecal smell and anal gland smell |
| 1:47.3 | and then just like other associated smells and I was so nauseated that I started to panic because I |
| 1:53.2 | kind of a germaphobe and I was like okay we're going to go wash your hands right now we're |
| 1:59.4 | going to wash your hands right now and don't touch anything on the way to the bathroom. And of course, that was the wrong thing to say |
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