BEST OF: Bob Odenkirk on Comedy (and Drama)!

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this Best Of episode, we revisit our 2022 conversation with comedian and actor Bob Odenkirk! We got to hear from him about his memoir “Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama” and his early beginnings writing comedy in grade school. We reminisce about our days together at Saturday Night Live and discuss some of our favorite sketches. We also talk about his sketch series, “Mr. Show with Bob and David.”

Bob also shares about his 13 years playing Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and how he nearly died of a heart attack on set.

You'll also hear Bob discuss his then-new movie, Nobody, which was so successful, it got a sequel. Go see Nobody 2 in theatres now! https://www.fandango.com/nobody-2-2025-240144/movie-overview

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0:30.1	change, I actually mean it. We're bringing back my conversation with Bob Odenkirk,
0:36.2	which we taped back in 2022 after he had just
0:39.7	shot the last ever episode of Better Call Saul. Bob played Saul Goodman for 13 years, first on
0:47.4	Breaking Bad and then on Better Call Saul, two of my favorite series. Now, we're playing the best of not just because it's one of our best,
0:58.4	but because the sequel to his hit action movie,
1:01.7	Nobody, too, is out in the theaters now.
1:06.1	Bob told me a couple months ago that the sequel was testing through the roof.
1:10.8	So you'll want to see that in the theaters.
1:13.4	I know I'm planning on it.
1:15.4	And you'll want to listen to this one because Bob and I cover a lot of ground.
1:21.3	We started working together almost 40 years ago at Saturday Night Live.
1:26.3	I was one of the original writers on that first season, 50 years ago.
1:32.5	Bob joined as a writer in 1987.
1:36.4	We reminisce about the old day, some of the pieces we wrote together,
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