comedy comedy comedy drama the sunday times bestseller bob odenkirk

One of the most notable things I learned about Odenkirk that I did not know was this: He created the 'living in a van down by the river' bit that Chris Farley executed with brilliance on SNL.

His professional trajectory includes Second City, Saturday Night Live, HBO, a plethora of gigs at varied venues, FX and more. His career goes back to the 70's when he was feverishly penning sketch comedy as a teenager.

Having witnessed firsthand, the Saul Goodman phenomenon, I was anticipating learning more about Bob Odenkirk's life and career before 'Better Call Saul.' This book is chock full of the comedy Odenkirk has created and participated in. Featuring humorous tangents, joyful interludes, never-before-seen photos, wild characters from his winding career, and his trademark upbeat but unflinching drive, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama is a classic showbiz tale-and a moving story about what it's like to risk everything you think you know to make a change. Throughout Bob's travels, his memoir preserves the voice he cultivated from years of comedy writing. His embrace of this strange new world of dramatic acting led him to working with Steven Spielberg, Alexander Payne, and Greta Gerwig, until finally re-re-inventing himself as a bona-fide worldwide action star for reasons that even he does not fully grasp! Read this and do your own psychoanalysis-it's fun! But when all hope was lost for the umpteenth time, Bob was more astonished than anyone to find himself on Breaking Bad. Then his career met the hope-dashing machine that is Hollywood development. Show With Bob and David, which inspired an entire generation of comedy writers and stars. As he weathered the beast that is live comedy, he stashed away the secrets of sketch writing-employing them in the immortal 'Motivational Speaker' sketch for his friend Chris Farley, honing them on The Ben Stiller Show, and perfecting them on Mr. Charting a 'Homeric' decades-long 'Odyssey' from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago all the way to a dramatic career that is baffling to his friends, it's almost like there are two or three Bob Odenkirks.but there is just one and one is enough, frankly.īob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting with Second City's legendary Del Close, which eventually led to a job as a writer at SNL. And yet he will try like hell to explain it here, because that is what memoirs are for. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nobody opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his legendary cult status as a comedy writer, and what it's like to reinvent himself as a no-holds-barred action film ass-kicker at fifty.īob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr.

Comedy comedy comedy drama the sunday times bestseller bob odenkirk