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I’d feel faintly mad saying the new Jez Butterworth-scripted James Corden vehicle Mammals is a disappointment because it is actually clever and surprising and often as funny as any other comedy I’ve seen this year. There was even a point right at the end of the first episode where I hooted with laughter out loud, even though I was sitting in the office and great sitcom jokes normally just make me jealous. Yes. I’m dead inside.
My expectations, though, were perhaps unfairly high. I know Corden isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but I’ve always thought him an unequivocally brilliant actor, comic or otherwise, even in Gavin & Stacey which I broadly hated. (See above.) Butterworth, meanwhile, is just a genius. Everybody always goes on
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