580: Bradley Cooper On The Music Of 'Is This Thing On'
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Our latest guest on Soundtracking is Bradley Cooper, completing his hat-trick by joining me to discuss his new film Is This Thing On, which he co wrote, directs and also appears in. Loosely inspired by the life of comedian John Bishop and starring Will Arnett as Alex, a dad who takes up comedy in the wake of his amicable separation from his wife Tess, played by Laura Dern.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. I hope you had a great weekend. I am recording this on Sunday the 25th of January, |
| 0:07.0 | 2026. You're probably listening to it on the Monday at some point or whenever you are. |
| 0:12.2 | But I hope you've had a nice weekend. We've been doing various bits and bobs at home. |
| 0:17.0 | I just rewatched one battle after another because I saw a little clip from it and I was like, oh, I need to go and watch it again. |
| 0:23.1 | And so I did. |
| 0:24.2 | It's available to stream now, by the way. |
| 0:26.1 | You should definitely dive in if you haven't seen it already. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm doing some stuff on the Peaky Blinders film next week that I'm really excited for you guys to see that. |
| 0:34.4 | Tom Harper has directed it, who we know and love on this show from way back on |
| 0:39.4 | Wild Rose with Jesse Buckley |
| 0:41.5 | and Tom's done a phenomenal job |
| 0:43.6 | with this film as is Stephen Knight |
| 0:45.3 | with the script. So really excited |
| 0:47.3 | for you guys to see that. Also started watching |
| 0:49.5 | Idris Elba's hijack on |
| 0:51.5 | Apple TV. We've watched |
| 0:53.4 | the first two episodes because that's all that's available. They're doing that thing of weekly drops. But we didn't watch the first season. We just watched the kind of recap, which is fine. But there's obviously quite a lot of history there. But now we're enjoying it. It's good. My husband got really excited because there's a girl in it, an actress who was in the dark, which he absolutely loved. So, |
| 1:13.2 | yeah, it's good. It's a nice kind of like, 45 minute viewing opportunity to do at home, which I like. |
| 1:21.1 | Anyway, let's get on to this week's episode because I'm really excited. Our latest guest on |
| 1:25.6 | soundtracking is Bradley Cooper. |
| 1:28.1 | Yeah, I know. |
| 1:29.7 | I was about to call him Bradders, but I won't. |
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