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Jameela Jamil: Accidentally Becoming A Hollywood Star & Why I Don’t Trust Journalists

October 19
1h 5m

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What do you do if your school bully edits your Wikipedia?

Jameela Jamil chats to Romesh about her huge success in Hollywood and how she accidentally got her role in The Good Place. Jameela also tells us her problem with journalism and her embarrassing moment live on stage in front of 6,000 farmers…

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00:00 Intro

01:20 Jameela Impersonates Priyanka Chopra

02:26 “No Marlon Randos”

05:00 COLONIC Irrigation!

07:50 Cake Break

09:40 Journalists and Wikipedia

17:26 “I’m not a profound thinker”

18:12 Shanthi’s Question

21:15 Jameela’s SUCCESS: "How did you do it?"

22:30 BULLIES and Standing Ovations

27:00 The Good Place AUDITION

28:20 Changing Philosophies

36:00 Outrage and LOLS

37:17 Larry David’s Wedding

38:45 On Being Brown

43:50 Turning 40

46:20 Shame and Humiliation

47:15 “Misquoted”

51:45 ORG*SMING on stage!

56:00 Laurence Fox

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