Bob Odenkirk: The Art of Anger in Comedy

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Best of WIO: Bob Odenkirk (Recorded July 2025) Bob Odenkirk was already a comedy legend (SNL, The Ben Stiller Show, Mr. Show with Bob and David) before he took a left turn into dramatic acting with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Now he’s entered yet another new phase as an unlikely action star in films like the Nobody series. Bob sits down with Mike to discuss how anger works in comedy and action films, the stress of making Better Call Saul, and the time Bob played Mike’s brother on a TV pilot.

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0:00.0	I think there's a correlation between anger and comedy, certainly.
0:06.7	Yeah.
0:07.3	Oh, yeah.
0:08.0	Yeah.
0:08.6	Because I think it is, in some ways, comedy is, it's like a corraling of anger into something that can be funny.
0:19.6	I see it as a value, but also, Mike, I walk around.
0:24.7	I'm like, I'm having a good day.
0:26.9	I'm having a good day.
0:28.7	What the fuck?
0:29.7	What the fuck?
0:30.9	Motherfucker!
0:32.1	You just got, you know, whatever.
0:36.4	That is the voice of the great Bob Odenkirk.
0:39.4	It's Mike Barbiglio.
0:40.4	This is my podcast working it out today.
0:42.5	We are re-airing one of our favorite episodes from 2025.
0:47.1	It's the episode with Bob Odenkirk.
0:49.2	The response to this episode has been overwhelming.
0:53.6	There's a clip of Bob talking about being a dad
0:56.5	when I ask him who he's jealous of, and he said people who still have young kids at home.
1:02.4	And it was viewed by literally, and I'm not exaggerating, 35 million people on Instagram and TikTok.
1:11.8	And I say that I'm laughing because we've never had a clip like that before.
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