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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Taran Killam and Jenn Lyon

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

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

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and actor Taran Killam (Saturday Night Live, High Potential, 12 Years a Slave) and actor Jenn Lyon (Claws, The English Teacher, Dead Boy Detectives) join Jameela and immediately reveal themselves to be two of the purest, yet most deeply unhinged people she has ever encountered.


Taran opens with a micro humiliation for the ages: the time he forgot every lyric to the same Hamilton song he'd performed hundreds of times, in front of 1,300 high school kids who knew every single word. His Big Wrong Turn, however, takes us back to 2001 and a backstage encounter with Tenacious D and Dave Grohl that begins with hero worship, escalates through increasingly desperate attempts at shock humor, and ends with Jack Black delivering the most devastating possible verdict on his presence in the room.


Jenn's micro humiliation is a masterclass in the cruelty of school nicknames, and how she went from "Majestic Lemon", to "Derbis", to "Two Tut" all within her fourth grade year. Her Big Wrong Turn arrives courtesy of the Atkins diet, a metric ton of sugar-free candy, and the particular horror of realizing mid-song, in full period corsetry, that something has gone catastrophically wrong inside your tights.


Along the way, Jameela reveals a friend's long-running photo-bombing habit that has somehow survived the #MeToo era, and explains exactly why she could never, ever do a play or a TED Talk.


Misery Loves Company comes from Greg, whose college habit of casually exposing a testicle in public went unnoticed until a woman asking for directions clocked it and offered some gentle medical advice.


Watch Taran Killam and Jenn Lyon in Stumble, Fridays on NBC and streaming on Peacock.

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, the show where dignity goes to die, where I bring on my

0:13.7

favourite funny people and they tell me their tales of woe and humiliation. Both of my guests

0:18.4

today star in the critically acclaimed comedy Stumble, which you can watch Fridays on NBC and the next day on Peacock.

0:24.4

They are two hilarious human beings and very wonderful human beings.

0:28.6

Joining me, I have comedian and actor from Saturday Night Live, high potential, and 12 years a slave, because he's got fucking range, people.

0:35.8

Yes.

0:36.3

It's only Taryn fucking kill him. Hello! Hi, Jamila. Hello, hello. Hello. You were my last true attempt at a new friendship before the world fell apart. That's beautiful. I don't know if you remember that, but we presented at an award show and we're like, hey, you're fun to hang out with

0:54.7

and let's hang. And then we happened to run into each other. Just before COVID. And it was like,

1:00.3

let's get dinner sometime. And then the universe reacted so appallingly that it killed millions of

1:07.7

people just to stop that from happening. Maybe we should just avoid each other and stick to Zoom.

1:13.8

Also joining me today, she's appeared in Claws, English teacher, and dead boy detectives, and justified.

1:19.9

It's only Jen fucking Lion.

1:21.4

Hello.

1:22.2

Yay.

1:23.4

So you two are pals?

1:26.9

Yeah, we like each other a lot. Gosh, I like him so much that I have to try to like play hard to get a little bit on set because I always want to like knock on his door and be like, what are you doing? That's why she lives in New York. I keep trying to get her to move out west. I end every text exchange with, hey, move to L.A. We're learning quickly that Taryn is a big old beg friend in the best possible way.

1:45.8

He is such a social butterfly, dude.

1:48.8

Please.

1:50.6

Taryn, you came on my last two podcasts, but I don't know if you know this.

1:54.8

We had to can your last episode.

1:57.6

Did you know that?

1:58.4

What did I do?

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