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🗓️ 17 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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My old SNL colleague talks about his weird, amazing career arc!
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, we have a very enjoyable one today. |
0:08.6 | You know, for once, Bob Odenkirk is my guest. |
0:13.1 | Bob, of course, the star of the drama Better Call Saul, which is about to start its sixth and |
0:19.9 | final season now on AMC. |
0:24.0 | Also, you can get all the previous seasons on Netflix starting, I think now. |
0:29.8 | And Bob has been playing Saul Goodman now for 13 years, first on Breaking Bad. |
0:37.0 | This year, Bob tells us better call Saul is going to be thoroughly |
0:41.9 | intertwined with Breaking Bad. So this season is going to be a doozy. Bob has written a memoir, |
0:50.8 | which is terrific. The title, comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama, and that title captures the arc of Bob's |
1:00.3 | career. |
1:00.8 | I've known Bob for, I think, 34, 35 years when he started working on S&L. |
1:08.3 | I'm thinking that's 1987. |
1:16.5 | And Bob, like I, started writing comedy in grade school. That's not that unusual. Now, I remember when I was at S&L, and actually, to this |
1:24.3 | day, I have acquaintances, friends, donors who come to me and say, |
1:31.2 | my nephew or niece wants to be a comedy writer. I was wondering if you could meet with |
1:37.0 | him or her and talk with her about that. And I'd say, sure. And too often when I asked them are you writing comedy |
1:46.8 | they will say no I years ago I had one kid when I asked him this said oh I don't have time I'm on the |
1:58.0 | Columbia varsity basketball team and And I said, let's say I was Magic |
2:05.2 | Johnson and you came to me and said you wanted to be a pro basketball player. And I ask you, |
2:12.8 | are you playing basketball? And you said, no, I'm just too busy doing stand-up comedy. |
2:22.3 | So anyway, Bob grew up near Chicago, loved writing, loved comedy. |
2:28.8 | But like a lot of us, he didn't know anybody who actually was in show business, |
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