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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Mike Birbiglia

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

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

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Comedian, storyteller, and writer/director Mike Birbiglia joins Jameela this week to discuss what got him into comedy, being a "good person to bully" in high school, approaching "the hill" (middle age), why he changed his mind about having children, and his sleep disorder which inspired his film Sleepwalk With Me. Check out Mike's podcast, Working It Out, wherever you find your podcasts.

If you have a Wrong Turn of your own to share with Jameela, email a voice memo to PersonalDisasterStories@gmail.com, and we may include it in a future episode!

Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and TikTok @jameelajamil. Her Substack is A Low Desire To Please.

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Our consulting producer is Colin Anderson.

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


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jimmy and a Jamil. I hope that you're well

0:04.4

I hope mostly that you listened to my episode last week with Jane

0:10.8

Fucking Fonda. That's her whole name. It's fucking it's her middle. It's not don't tell her I said that please. Thank you

0:18.4

What a legend and I

0:21.2

I got so many I got truly thousands of messages from all of you about what an icon she is about how some of you were crying

0:28.4

two minutes in because she's so inspiring and

0:32.7

A lot of you told me off

0:34.7

for having berated myself at the beginning by saying that I felt like a wilting

0:40.6

Sweating squirrel and that's fair because I

0:44.9

Preach all the time to not do ourselves down and then I did it. I went and bloody did it

0:49.5

But no one's immune alright when I'm faced with a giant like Jane Fonda. I

0:54.1

Yeah, I become David to her Goliath. I am very beta

1:01.5

And you know I this is just this is who I am. I'm a scared guy

1:07.5

Anyway, I have a less threatening but equally important to me guest on this week. He is a comedian

1:15.4

He is a writer. He's a stand-up. He's an actor and he's just

1:19.9

He's a relatable king. I I think he's so funny and so relatable and when I watch his stand-up shows

1:27.5

I don't feel like I'm watching a comedy show which sounds like a disc, but it isn't

1:32.0

I feel like I'm watching the best Ted talk with my soon-to-be best friend

1:38.0

For hours and hours and I could just listen to him all day

1:41.1

His name is Mike Bribiglia. You may have seen him in train wreck. You may have seen him in girls

1:46.7

He has so many different shows that he has put out that are one-man shows

1:53.7

Sometimes filmed on Broadway things like my girlfriend's boyfriend or his latest one Mike Bribiglia

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