Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Episode: Katherine Blanford and Jamie Loftus
Release Date: August 28, 2025
Host: Jameela Jamil
Guests: Katherine Blanford, Jamie Loftus

Overview

In this riotous episode of “Wrong Turns,” host Jameela Jamil is joined by comedians Katherine Blanford and Jamie Loftus. The theme, as always, is gleeful commiseration over personal disasters: mortifying moments, embarrassing stories, and the kind of chaotic incidents that make life so spectacularly humbling. With no silver linings required, the trio dive into humiliating audition tales, adolescent crush catastrophes, and gross-out medical misadventures—all delivered with sharp wit, vulnerability, and zero dignity.

Key Discussion Points & Highlights

Embracing Humiliation and Adulting

• The episode opens with the comedians bonding over chaos and “adulting,” touching on medical indignities like stool tests and learning to accept ongoing embarrassment as a fact of getting older.
  • Stool Test Confessions:
    • Jameela describes the process:
      "You shit in a taco box...it has changed me. I've lost my spark, and I don't think it's ever coming back." (03:18 – 03:42)
    • Katherine’s game-for-anything attitude adds levity:
      "I will do anything for material at this point." (04:54)

Audition/Worst Gig Stories

• Jamie shares an early audition for a mattress commercial, only to learn it wasn’t her awkward physical humor that lost her the role, but her mustache.
  • "It was because I had a mustache. So physically I looked normal, but except for my mustache, which had to go." – Jamie (06:01)
• Jameela’s Good Place audition disaster, featuring sabotage:
  • Jameela was intentionally misdirected by another actress competing for her role.
    "She sent me somewhere really dangerous...and she'd gone in on my slot. And I was like, are you fucking kidding me?" (08:38 – 09:02)
• Katherine’s Portland arena gig with Bert Kreischer:
  • Massive technical difficulty (mic cut out) and being booed by 20,000 people while making a joke about having the “smallest tits on the lineup.”
  • "All they saw was...I come out, I twerk, and then I look at the jumbotron, and I'm feeling myself up to silence. And they booed." (12:01 – 12:14)
  • Bittersweet moral:
    "Don't talk about your tits up top, because you never know when the sound could be cut off." (12:52)

Awkward Lies & Overthinking

• Jamie recounts an elaborate lie concocted to avoid admitting to Maria Bamford that she couldn't drive (and thus couldn't be her opener's chauffeur). She ropes in her family to pose as siblings for a long, awkward car ride.
  • "For today, you're my brother and you're gonna drive me and Maria Bamford to Connecticut and just say as little as possible." (14:52)
  • The ruse unravels after a slip from Jamie's dad:
    “Oh, I heard my nephew drove you. I'm Jamie's dad.” (17:21)
  • Jameela’s loving mockery:
    “That’s the sweetest, most pathetic nonsense of stress you put yourself through.” (18:10)

Big "Wrong Turn" Confessions

Katherine’s Celebrity Connection & Obsession

• High School Cheating and Accidental Rivalry with Jennifer Lawrence
  • Katherine’s boyfriend “gets even” for her infidelity by making out with Carrie's cousin, who turns out to be a young Jennifer Lawrence.
  • Years of low-key stalking ensue:
    "I would google her name...I would ask my friends: 'Do you know who this girl is?'..." (22:06)
  • The jealousy morphs into career envy, culminating in Katherine’s realization:
    “It starts as jealousy and then it just turns into like, oh, I’m just obsessed with this girl.” – Jamie (22:50)
  • The big reveal:
    “She was starring in a movie called Hunger Games. So then she…it was Jennifer Lawrence. Fuck me.” – Katherine (23:22)
  • Later, Jennifer hears Katherine’s comedy bit about the story:
    “Jen called [Carrie] and was like, ‘Are you telling people the story?’...And Jen remembered the whole story. She knows everybody’s names.” (25:14 – 26:16)
  • “She’s a win, win, win in this story.” – Jameela (28:08)
  • "You're a fucking weirdo. I love that story." – Jameela (28:26)

Jamie’s Teenage Heartbreak (and Unfortunate Wetting)

• Dating “BarrySaxSexGod” and Getting Dumped for an Instrument
  • Jamie, an awkward teenage oboe player with a back brace, falls for a senior saxophone star.
  • Their virtual romance (screen name “JamietheAvenger” x “BarrySaxSexGod”) and failed sexual misadventures:
    “I gave him a hand job. So wrong...I was just like guessing my way around.” (35:25 – 35:53)
  • He breaks up with Jamie over IM, stating he needs more time to practice saxophone.
    "He was like, 'No, it was for the saxophone. You were distracting me from the saxophone.'" (41:37)
  • The emotional aftermath:
    "I literally peed myself at school." (37:05)
    • Jameela, incredulous:
      "Sorry. No, that's not a normal pipeline." (37:05)
  • The saga continues with solidarity over back brace trauma and the revelation that her ex is now a saxophone professor.

Listener Story: "Misery Loves Company" (Timestamps: 43:29 – 44:56)

• A couple’s steamy hotel rendezvous is interrupted when a staff-guided family tours their occupied room.
  • Jameela: "A family of four opens the door and has a great view of exactly how doggy style works...I'm mortified." (44:45)
• The guest is offered free breakfast as compensation, which she refuses:
  • "I told them they could shove up their ass.” (44:53)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jameela on stool samples:
  "Turning 40 is nothing but a humiliation ritual...I will never again look at myself as special, attractive...for what I have watched myself do." (03:27)
• Jamie on audition heartbreak:
  "The thing that you think is fucked up about yourself...it's something else. Just the thing you weren't even thinking of." (06:46)
• Katherine on her arena booing incident:
  "So what they saw was...I come out, I twerk, and then I look at the jumbotron, and I'm feeling myself up to silence. And they booed." (12:01)
• On Jennifer Lawrence as Carrie's cousin:
  “She’s a win, win, win in this story.” – Jameela (28:08)
• Jamie on her high school breakup:
  "I can't be your boyfriend anymore. I need more time to practice the saxophone." (36:55)
• Jameela’s favorite email handle:
  "Mine was really racist but it was against my own race...‘packydoodledoo’...and then I became super famous..." (34:01)
• Jameela on holding in pee:
  “I won’t let myself pee until I finish the essay…Now anyone who subscribes will be able to detect, it’s written like a kind of adventure novel.” (38:31)
• Katherine’s self-deprecation & perseverance:
  "I will do anything for material at this point." (04:54)
• Jamie’s ultimate realization:
  "When people tell you who they are, believe them, even if it sounds into their screen names." (42:45)

Timestamps for Major Segments

• [01:30] – Episode Introductions & Setting the Tone
• [03:15] – Stool Sample Stories & Medical Humiliation
• [05:09] – Audition Humiliations, Mattress Commercial, Good Place Sabotage
• [09:26] – Katherine’s Worst Gig: Arena Story-Time
• [13:10] – Jamie’s Maria Bamford/driving lie
• [20:06] – Katherine’s Big Wrong Turn: Jennifer Lawrence Story
• [30:05] – Jamie’s Big Wrong Turn: Dumped by Saxophone
• [43:29] – Listener Misery Story: Hotel Room Nightmare

Tone and Style

The tone remains distinctly anti-inspirational and self-effacing, with all three comedians riffing on shame, self-deprecation, and the absurdity of their own experiences. There’s no attempt to draw wisdom from disaster—just laughter, playful banter, and the comfort of shared humiliation.

Conclusion

This episode exemplifies “Wrong Turns” at its best: a safe haven for the shameful, offering listeners the catharsis of hearing even successful comedians still get booed, dumped, lied to, and embarrassed by their own bodies. Katherine and Jamie share tales that are both specific and relatable, merging self-mockery with genuine camaraderie—and delivering endless comedic gold for anyone in need of some commiseration.

Find the guests:

• Katherine Blanford: @itskatherineblanford, katherineblanford.com
• Jamie Loftus: @jamiecraysuperstar, author of Raw: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

“Wrong Turns: Where dignity goes to die.”