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  • -Our next guest is a talented actress you know best

  • from her role as Tahani on NBC's "The Good Place,"

  • which airs Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.

  • Let's take a look.

  • -Do you remember all the rules about

  • what can and cannot be worn inside an MRI?

  • More specifically, what if one's brassiere

  • is very thin, but also very pure gold?

  • -I don't know, but I'm in a similar situash,

  • because the spots bra I'm wearing is

  • kind of rust-colored underneath the armpits.

  • So I guess we'll roll the dice together.

  • -Please welcome to the show Jameela Jamil, everyone.

  • [ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪

  • Welcome to the show. -This is wild.

  • I have loved late-night TV for so long.

  • I can't believe I'm on an American talk show.

  • -Well, this is -- I am sorry this is your first.

  • -Oh, no. This is great. -I am huge fan of the show.

  • Tahani is a wonderful character, who we've grown to,

  • I feel, have more affection for.

  • She was a little insufferable in the beginning.

  • Is that fair --? -A little?

  • -Okay, yeah, she was wildly insufferable.

  • -She's disgusting. I hated her.

  • I hated her for ages.

  • Yeah, it was hard to play her because I hated her so much.

  • But once I realized how disgustingly awful and evil

  • her parents were, I started to develop something new

  • I'm learning about called empathy.

  • -Oh, wow. Do you not have that in England?

  • -No. No. No. -Okay, gotcha.

  • -No, we just have beer. -Oh that's it.

  • -Yeah. So, that was a great part

  • of my starting to fall in love with Tahani.

  • And now I fully love her, and it's so fun to play her

  • and explore her, because I don't look down on her anymore.

  • -She's a wonderful character.

  • The creator of the show, a dear fiend of mine, Mike Schur --

  • You know, when he started this show, he established that,

  • you know, basically, what happens to us after this life

  • is based on a point system.

  • -Mm-hmm.

  • -And is it true that you're trying to

  • live by this point system now?

  • -Yes. No fooling. -What's an example.

  • -I don't fart anymore. -Really?

  • -I believe that every time you fart, you lose a point.

  • -You think you lose a point? -I hold it in. Hold it in.

  • -Surely, though, but, like, if you were home alone,

  • would that cost you a point?

  • -Yes. He's always watching.

  • -Oh, wow. -Okay?

  • Every single one. That's one point down.

  • -That seems like a high price to pay.

  • -Well, it's worth it in the end. -It is worth it in the end.

  • You started an Instagram account called "I Weigh."

  • This is very positive. -Mm-hmm.

  • -What brought you to it?

  • And explain exactly what "I Weigh" is.

  • -What brought me to it is that

  • I'm now really trying to get into the good place.

  • -Okay. And just not farting.

  • -Nothing to do with ethics.

  • I'm just trying to get to heaven.

  • But it's a life-positive movement

  • in which women and men value themselves,

  • for the first time ever, based on their achievements

  • and who they are, especially with women,

  • because we don't tend to value women like this --

  • by their achievements, their relationships,

  • and all the things that are great about them,

  • rather than just the number on a scale,

  • which is how we still sort of identify women's worth.

  • And, so, I weighed my amazing relationship,

  • my appearance on "Seth Meyers,"

  • the fact that I stopped farting.

  • I've beaten it. I've overcome it.

  • [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you very much.

  • -All things that are deserving of being weighed.

  • -My job on "The Good Place."

  • -And has the response been what you expected?

  • -The response has been so amazing.

  • No, I thought I would drag it down to the ground.

  • And, so, I have not managed -- Oh, wait.

  • Do you mean "The Good Place" or --

  • -No, I meant the "I Weigh" Instagram.

  • -Never mind. I'll take that again.

  • Okay. "I Weigh" has been way more than I've expected.

  • Like, I didn't even expect anyone --

  • I posted a post weighing myself,

  • my sort of things that I measure myself in,

  • and then thousands of women started sending me theirs.

  • And now we have an Instagram account,

  • and it's got 170,000 followers just by itself.

  • It's really this organic, lovely movement

  • full of happy people, and there's no trolling.

  • And it makes me feel really happy.

  • And I feel like I'm getting closer to the good place.

  • -I think you are, too.

  • I think we can all agree on that.

  • Maybe -- Well, I'll let you tell the story,

  • and then we can let everybody judge if this has helped you

  • get you closer to the good place.

  • When you auditioned for the show, you had to curl your hair.

  • Yes? Is that -- And how did that go?

  • -Didn't go very well, Seth. -Okay. Yeah.

  • -So, I've never curled my hair before, 'cause --

  • and this this isn't going to make me sound great --

  • other people have always done it for me.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • But, because of that, I'm not familiar with the utensils.

  • So, I lived with a model at the time,

  • and she definitely has all that sort of stuff.

  • So I went into her room.

  • I found the box that said "hair tong" on it.

  • I opened it. The box was pink. The hair tong was pink.

  • I thought, "This is great."

  • I take it out and I'm like, "Oh, it's wireless.

  • God, technology's really come a long way."

  • And it's got these ridges.

  • And so that must be where the hair goes.

  • -Sure, sure.

  • -So I start wrapping my hair around it

  • and I'm like, "Oh."

  • I feel around and "Oh, there's a button up there."

  • So I press the button, and it just starts going...

  • [ Imitates vibrating ]

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I realized soon enough

  • that I'm curling my hair with a penis.

  • -Yeah. You sent us a photo.

  • And when you hear that story -- I'm glad you sent the photo,

  • because I will say, I have your back on this,

  • because it is fully --

  • -Come on!

  • -I mean, that is...

  • At the very least -- at the very least,

  • I want to give it up to your ex-roommate

  • for putting it in the safest place possible.

  • -She's going to murder me for telling you the story,

  • so can you hide me?

  • -Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah.

  • That's a -- Well, look, it's a wonderful piece of equipment.

  • -But then I almost missed the audition

  • because I had to rewash my hair because of all the penis on it.

  • And, so, it almost actually broke the show for me,

  • but because I was made late,

  • I think I was so out of my mind with nerves.

  • I went all the way through to the other side

  • that I was able to weirdly power through the audition.

  • And then I got it. -I think that's great.

  • -So curl your hair with a dildo. -Yeah.

  • Well, there's something to be said for --

  • When you audition for things -- I mean, looking back to

  • when I auditioned, it's such a vulnerable moment,

  • like, when you go in a room and -- And, yet, no matter how bad

  • it could have possibly gone,

  • it wasn't going to be worse than when you realized --

  • -That I was curling my hair with a penis?

  • -Yeah, exactly. I'm glad it worked out.

  • -Thank you.

  • -And It was lovely having you here

  • and so great to meet you.

  • Thanks so much. -Thank you so much.

-Our next guest is a talented actress you know best

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