Name: Jameela Jamil - “The Good Place” & Tackling Toxic Diet Culture | The Daily Show
Uploaded: 2020-02-25T22:00:55.000Z
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-Season four. -Season four of The Good Place.

-Mm-hmm. -That's starting... That started tonight.

-Congratulations. -(cheering and applause)

-Mm-hmm. -And then some people are in hell,

some people are in heaven, but then some people

have been mixed up on where they should be.

-No, I'm saying, like... -I'm an actress.

(chuckles): I would go straight to hell where I belong.

-You think you'd be in hell? -Yeah. Where are you going?

I think I'll get into heaven 'cause of my mom.

that they'll be like, "Yeah, she's got a plus-one.

-That's probably what it'll be for me. -We'll see. Yeah.

(laughs): But... I like how you're, like,

-you're waiting for me. "Oh, Trevor!" -Okay, Trev. Yeah.

Um, the show... the show has been really popular.

It's just, like, got-got an interesting vibe about it.

Like, what the story is. But you have become

really popular on the show not just because

of your character but because of the backstory.

-Because this is your first acting gig. -Mm-hmm.

-Yes. -(laughs): Uh, and I then moved to America.

Didn't know what I was gonna do. Thought I'd just be

-a writer. -Oh, so you were getting paid in pounds.

-Yeah. -So maybe it's more money, but carry on.

Well, it is kind of the same now 'cause of the economy.

-(laughs): But yeah. -Well, that's Brexit, not my fault.

Um, so, I, uh, yeah. I moved here to be a writer,

and I-I got, uh, an agent based off a script that I wrote,

and that same agent was also representing people

And he said, "We need a Pakistani, overly tall,

And I went to the audition, and I got it.

Yeah, but you-you've really connected on the show.

One thing I've heard a lot of people say--

not just from the show, but in real life-- is they go like,

-"Jameela is one of the funniest..." -I'm a bitch?

No, they go, "Jameela's one of the fu..."

-People go, "Jameela's..." -No, they just say I'm a slut.

They go, "Jameela is one of the funniest people

"you will ever meet, but she is also one of the most,

"like, what people would say 'woke' people

-you will ever meet at the same time." -Right.

-in the world that we grow up in. Right? -Yeah.

I always say to people, like, I think wokeness is learned.

I don't think anyone just wakes up, and they're just, like,

It's been a journey for you. Where did it begin?

That's when I started activism. And, uh...

Started in activism, rather. And it's just been an on--

It's an upwards-- like, it's an uphill struggle, I guess.

Like, you know, it's something that you're constantly learning,

Everything is constantly updating around us in humanity,

-and we need to update alongside it. -Right.

And so I'm just-- I call myself a feminist-in-progress,

because I consider myself never fully formed.

-that I always have more to do, more to learn -Oh, wow.

-So, you know... -(cheering and applause)

as a feminist-in-in-progress, but a lot of people see you

who are discriminated against, like, in-in front of doctors

and in our society because of their size.

It's a must-have movement for those people.

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