Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

I'm Jesse Thorn. So a lot of TV fans know Bob Odin Kirk as Saul Goodman from Breaking

Bad and Better Call Saul, but comedy fans know him from another show, Mr. Show. The sketch

comedy series that aired on HBO in the mids and late 90s, it's been reinvented recently

on Netflix as with Bob and David. A lot of times Bob Odin Kirk performs the straight

man to David Cross's goofball, but on a dime, Bob could turn that dynamic on its head.

His rage boils over and it's hilarious.

Greg, damn it, get out of here! You suck in your waist in my time! How did you think

that this was a stew? People like to laugh at me being angry, which is... people ask me

to write damn it into their books. You know when they buy this book? They say, could

you please write damn it. I don't think it has the power when I write it out as it does

when I say it. It's Bullseye.

This week you'll hear my conversation with Bob Odin Kirk. We'll share some of Bob's

best moments on Mr. Show and talk about why that sketch comedy series influenced a generation

of new comedians. Odin Kirk will also talk about why acting on Breaking Bad wasn't the

big leap you'd expect. A lot of what I did at Mr. Show, things like prenatal pageants

or whatever, those were to me whole characters. Yes, he said, prenatal pageants. Despite

the success of his own TV show Better Call Saul, he'll explain why he still doesn't feel

like a celebrity. Yeah, I'm just a dad and I just work and I go to work and I do my work

at the work and then I go home and do as much as I can with my kids who are now teenagers

and want me to leave them alone and not attend anything that they do. And that's it. And

I watch American Pickers and go to bed. Plus the historian, author and DJ Ricky Vincent

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