About this episode

Jameela Jamil hosts comedians Gianmarco Soresi and Raanan Hershberg to discuss personal wrong turns and societal issues.

Comedian and actor Gianmarco Soresi ( Thief of Joy comedy special, Netflix, The Downside podcast) and comedian Raanan Hershberg (The Tonight Show, Comedy Central, Your Favorite Movie Sucks podcast) join Jameela for an episode that encompasses the Middle East peace process, the American healthcare system, and fraternity hazing rituals involving marshmallows. Gianmarco's micro humiliation takes us back to college, where four years of anxiety about cracking during a song culminated in exactly that, on the final note of an eight-minute Rodgers and Hammerstein soliloquy, in front of everyone, with absolutely no way to play it off. His Big Wrong Turn begins with a gig booked through his uncle in real estate: a private roast of a 50-year-old stranger at his second bachelor party in a New Jersey steakhouse. He shows up in a suit. They're in shorts. They're sitting in a circle. And it only gets worse from there. Raanan's Big Wrong Turn is less wrong turn, more system failure. His girlfriend has an eye stroke, and what follows is an ambulance with no siren, insurance paperwork filled out in the back of said ambulance, a doctor appearing via video call from her kitchen, and a transfer to a…

People in this episode

Host: Jameela Jamil

Guests: Gianmarco Soresi, Raanan Hershberg

Topics covered

• Middle East peace process
• American healthcare system
• fraternity hazing rituals
• comedy
• personal stories

Keywords

• comedy
• healthcare
• fraternity
• wrong turn
• personal stories

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Netflix, Comedy Central

Books & works: Thief of Joy, The Downside, The Tonight Show, Your Favorite Movie Sucks

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