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John Bishop: ‘I went into a mad depression because I realised I was a man being told what to do by another man’
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Director Bradley Cooper’s approach takes us closer to an improv night than a session of disciplined joke-telling
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Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl and Jackie Chan are wasted in this superfluous sequel
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Netflix releases first snippet of ‘dry comedy’ ‘Flaked’
Irish actor Ruth Kearney co-stars alongside co-creator and main draw Will Arnett
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