The premise is completely formulaic and potentially cheesy: A couple of go-nowhere buddies get arrested and, for their community work assignment, must serve as big brothers to a pair of misfit kids.

In comedy, as in Hollywood at large, there are so many ways to be boxed in. And Caleb Hearon isn’t going for any of them. This commitment has been a defining one for him from the early days of his ...

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