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Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

Auteur(s): Bob Odenkirk
Narrateur(s): Bob Odenkirk, Steve Rudnick, Leo Benvenuti
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 In this “essential” (Entertainment Weekly), “hilarious” (AV Club) memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty.

“I’ve known Bob Odenkirk for more than thirty years, and yet I had to read this book to believe his stunning career arc.”—Conan O’Brien

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Parade, The AV Club

Bob Odenkirk’s career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a “Homeric” decades-long “odyssey” from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago to a dramatic career full of award nominations—with a side-trip into the action-man world that is baffling to all who know him—it’s almost like there are many Bob Odenkirks! But there is just one and one is plenty.

Bob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting with Second City’s legendary Del Close. He somehow made his way to a job as a writer at Saturday Night Live. While surviving that legendary gauntlet by the skin of his gnashing teeth, he stashed away the secrets of comedy writing—eventually employing them in the immortal “Motivational Speaker” sketch for Chris Farley, honing them on The Ben Stiller Show, and perfecting them on Mr. Show with Bob and David.

In Hollywood, Bob demonstrated a bullheadedness that would shame Sisyphus himself, and when all hope was lost for the umpteenth time, the phone rang with an offer to appear on Breaking Bad—a show about how boring it is to be a high school chemistry teacher. His embrace of this strange new world of dramatic acting led him to working with Steven Spielberg, Alexander Payne, and Greta Gerwig, and then, in a twist that will confound you, he re-re-invented himself as a bona fide action star. Why? Read this and do your own psychoanalysis—it’s fun!

Featuring humorous tangents, wild characters, and Bob’s trademark unflinching drive, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama is a classic showbiz tale told by a determined idiot. Arts de la scène Divertissement et célébrités Essais Comédie Mémoires Drôle Biographie Spirituel Divertissement

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If you're like me (and probably most), you know Bob Odenkirk from his amazing portrayal as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. However, despite this massive success, the majority of his career (and indeed where he still puts most of his effort) is into comedy. This memoir mostly focuses on that, though it talks about his dramatic acting days as well.

Bob reads this story very well and really adds to the personality and humour on display throughout. His trek through comedy was certainly not easy and he talks at length about his humble beginnings in Chicago, to writing for and flunking out of SNL, to his cult favourite Mr. Show program and much more. He's candid about the things and people he wasn't fond of and is also very generous in his praise to those he admires. This memoir is told from a place of honestly, but also by someone who is clearly both funny and has a good heart.

If you ever wanted to really hear from someone who lives the motto "fail early, fail often, fail faster", this is it. Bob has had some great successes but in between all of those were a string of failures, some large, to a point where they might have broken people with less resolve. But he always picks himself up and moves onto the next thing, not letting his failures stop him. He truly loves the art of comedy and even when he fails hard, he never lets it dim his passion. It's quite admirable.

Even if like me, you only know Bob from his dramatic roles, this retelling of his life is engaging and fun. I highly recommend.

The Saul You Probably Didn't Know

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This book is amazing, he is a great human and a genius comedic icon. Thank you for this Mr Odenkirk, thank you!

I love Bob!

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It's hard not to like him, even as he works so hard to be unlikeable. Self deprecating and brutally honest. Really enjoyed it.

Definitely worth the listen

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I discovered Bob Odenkirk backwards. Not through Mr. Show. Not through Breaking Bad. Not even through Better Call Saul. No, my gateway drug was the movie Nobody, a film where Bob takes a hammer to the action genre (literally) and somehow makes violence feel both cathartic and deeply hilarious. From there, I knew I had some catching up to do.

This audiobook became my crash course in all things Odenkirk, and what a ride it was. It’s not just a memoir. It’s a rollercoaster of razor-sharp wit, awkward self-deprecation, and slyly profound truths about creativity, failure, and reinvention. Listening during endless hours of transit, I found myself laughing one minute, Googling Mr. Show sketches the next, and then staring out the window thinking, Damn… he’s right. Failure isn’t the opposite of success, it’s part of the recipe.

Bob’s style is the kind of humor I crave: dry, intelligent, surgical. The kind that sneaks up on you and suddenly you’re laughing out loud on a crowded bus, looking unhinged but not caring because, well, Bob wouldn’t care either. He’s the guy who reminds you that loving what you do, even when it breaks your heart (or your bank account), is the only real way forward.

This book didn’t just entertain me. It gave me a creative jolt. I dug out an old script I’d abandoned and started writing again. Odenkirk’s voice, equal parts comedy assassin and reluctant philosopher, was the push I needed to believe anything is possible, everything is possible, if you just keep showing up.

So yes, I’m late to the Odenkirk party. But if the doorman is Bob himself, cracking a dry one-liner as he waves me inside, then I’m glad I arrived exactly when I did.

Rating: FIVE-STARS (because even Saul Goodman couldn’t negotiate me down from five stars)

A memoir that punches harder than Nobody

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This is entertaining, but at times a lengthy journey of name-dropping disinterest. I had to up the speed of the playback just to get thru some of the middling chapters. Probably my last biography for a while. It was a journey and the quick recounts of his filming episodes of filming in Canada (especially with his own origins in Chicago/area) were my highlights.
Rating somewhere between 3.5 and 4.

alright journey thru BobO's life

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