‘Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama,’ ‘Game Theory with Bomani Jones’ and why ‘The Godfather’ resonates with Native American writer Sierra Teller Ornelas

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes actor Bob Odenkirk, star of “Better Call Saul,” which is in its final season on AMC. Odenkirk also wrote the memoir “Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama” about his long and ultimately satisfying career in television. Next, Bomani Jones, host of HBO’s “Game Theory with Bomani Jones,” talks about the challenge in having nuanced conversations about the intersection of sports and culture. And finally, on The Treat, “Rutherford Falls” co-creator Sierra Teller Ornelas talks about the impact of the film “The Godfather” on her as a storyteller.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.4	It's the Treatment.
0:15.5	It's the Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.6	My guest has done pretty well for himself from the 25 years since I last spoke to him on the show.
0:21.4	Of course, he's won an Emmy for Mr. Show with Bob and David,
0:25.4	and has been nominated four times for a little show called Better Call Saul,
0:29.8	which has had an astonishing mid-season finale.
0:33.1	And is now the author of a book, Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama.
0:37.2	I'm speaking to Bob Botenk.
0:38.9	Bob is always good to talk to you.
0:40.5	Good talking to you, Elvis.
0:42.0	One of the things I've always been struck by, and we get to see it and saw,
0:45.4	but it's kind of something that kind of runs through the book,
0:47.3	is that it's always amused me when you play characters who wear suits
0:50.5	because they always are acting what they think their version of an adult is.
0:54.7	That's funny.
0:55.9	As an actor, you get a lot from your costume and your makeup.
0:59.5	I learned that a long time ago when I was doing comedy at Who's on First in Elmhurst,
1:07.1	a little comedy club, and we had a Sunday night show that I talk about a bit in my book
1:12.1	because there were such interesting people there doing oddball stuff. We had Sunday nights,
1:19.1	and Leo Benvenuti, who is an inspiration to many of us and later became a writer of the
1:25.8	Santa Claus as well as Space Jam. He used to have these pieces of
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