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Summary:

"Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explain it here, because that is what memoirs are for. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "Odyssey" from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago all the way to a dramatic career that is baffling to his friends, it's almost like there are two or three Bob Odenkirks...but there is just one and one is enough, frankly. Bob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting with Second City's legendary Del Close, which eventually led to a job as a writer at SNL. As he weathered the beast that is live comedy, he stashed away the secrets of sketch writing-employing them in the immortal "Motivational Speaker" sketch for his friend Chris Farley, honing them on The Ben Stiller Show, and perfecting them on Mr. Show With Bob and David, which inspired an entire generation of comedy writers and stars. Then his career met the hope-dashing machine that is Hollywood development. But when all hope was lost for the umpteenth time, Bob was more astonished than anyone to find himself on Breaking Bad. His embrace of this strange new world of dramatic acting led him to working with Steven Spielberg, Alexander Payne, and Greta Gerwig, until finally re-re-inventing himself as a bona-fide worldwide action star for reasons that even he does not fully grasp! Read this and do your own psychoanalysis-it's fun!"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Madman Leads Me Astray
• ch. 2 My Funny, Angry Dad
• ch. 3 Chicago Funny Company
• ch. 4 Bright, Shining Nanosecond
• ch. 5 L.A., Comedy, Year Zero
• ch. 6 Valhalla, I Am Coming! At Long Last, Mr. Show
• ch. 7 Development Heck
• ch. 8 Incomplete Filmmaker
• ch. 9 Breaking Bad
• ch. 10 Drama!.

Author/Creator:

Odenkirk, Bob, 1962- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Comedy comedy comedy drama: a memoir [by Odenkirk, B.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Comedy comedy comedy drama [by Odenkirk, B.] (First edition; New York : Random House, [2021] — ISBN 9780399180514; LCCN 2021020154)

Subjects:

Odenkirk, Bob, 1962-

Actors — United States — Biography

Comedians — United States — Biography

Television comedy writers — United States — Biography

Television producers and directors — United States — Biography

General Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 15, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PN2287.O26 A3 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780399180521 (electronic book)
0399180524 (electronic book)
9780399180514 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021020155

OCLC Numbers:

1269418972

Other Control Numbers:

2917000 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302718375