Trae Crowder and Jessi Klein
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Comedian and writer Jessi Klein (Big Mouth, Inside Amy Schumer, I’ll Show Myself Out) and comedian Trae Crowder (The Liberal Redneck Manifesto, Trash Daddy) join Jameela Jamil to unpack a lifetime of exquisitely timed social misfires, celebrity encounters gone wrong, and the unique horror of realizing you may have accidentally discouraged a bunch of people who later became extremely famous.
Jessi confesses to being Clare Danes’ first hater, gently warning a pre-My So-Called Life middle schooler that acting might not be a practical career choice, then doubling down years later by encouraging Mark Ronson to stay in college instead of becoming a DJ. Things only escalate from there, including an Ethan Hawke missed connection that still haunts her soul.
Trae shares his own catalogue of humiliation, from confidently announcing “I was on Bill Maher” to Tim Robbins with no follow-up, to screaming his friend GABE’s name across a room full of A-list celebrities, to destroying his kids’ new drone in front of an elderly father-in-law who immediately climbs a tree to retrieve it while silently judging him.
Along the way, Jameela recounts freezing into a full-body malfunction while meeting Whitney Cummings, and why sometimes the worst part of a sympathetic interaction is knowing you’ll definitely have to see that person again.
No villains. No winners. Just deeply relatable micro-humiliations, permanent psychic damage, and the long tail of regret.
Jessi Klein’s book I’ll Show Myself Out is available now, and she co-hosts the podcast Here to Make Friends.
Trae Crowder’s stand-up special Trash Daddy is streaming on YouTube, and his books The Liberal Redneck Manifesto and Round Here and Over Yonder are out now.
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. |
| 0:11.6 | This is the podcast that celebrates true, abject, misery, plus a fuck, and disaster. |
| 0:17.5 | I can already see two thumbs up, so I see you're on board. |
| 0:21.1 | One of my favorite things. |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah, this is where we live. |
| 0:23.9 | Where I stay. |
| 0:25.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.2 | Listen, the world is ending, and we are the Titanic band playing everyone out. |
| 0:32.8 | I've got my cello. |
| 0:33.9 | Yeah, all my strings. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah, not everything has to be fucking inspiring these days, all right? Let's just enjoy the dumpster while we can. I'm not trying to be that cook. Yes. That guy actually lived. Yes. Sometimes getting drunk works. Yes. Perfect. Well, joining me today, we have Emmy winning writer, actress and comedian from shows like Big Mouth Inside Amy Schumer, Saturday Night Live and Dead to Me, her latest book, I'll Show Myself Out, became a New York Times bestseller, and she co-hosts the podcast here to make friends. It's Jesse Bloody Klein. Hello. Yes, thank you. Hello. Thanks for having me. So happy to have you here, such a big fan. And we have a brilliant comedian, producer and co-author of two books, The Liberal Redneck |
| 1:12.1 | Manifesto, Dragon Dixie Out of the Dark and Round Here and Over Yonder, a front porch travel guide |
| 1:17.5 | by two progressive hillbillies. Yes, that is the thing. And you can watch his new comedy special |
| 1:21.8 | Trash Daddy on YouTube. It's Trey Crowder. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And sorry |
| 1:26.3 | about the long subtitles on those books. |
| 1:28.8 | I love the long subtitles. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm so happy that you're both here. How are you both doing today? I mean, you know, I'm all right. I'm hanging in there. Hilling in there. I'm a little bloated, but that's okay. Lorded. Yeah. I, you know, in these times, I've, I had a conversation with someone once who was saying that when the fire of the world is happening, it's better to ask, how are you faring other than how are you doing? |
| 1:54.0 | Because we're all kind of doing bad. |
| 1:55.7 | Right, right, right. |
| 1:56.2 | And fairing's like, how are you cooking? |
| 1:59.8 | Drinking. |
| 2:00.6 | Drinking. Like me and the cook. A night, like you and cooking? Drinking. |
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