NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this essential ( Entertainment Weekly ), hilarious ( AV Club ) memoir, the star of Mr.
Why? Read this and do your own psychoanalysis--it\'s fun! Featuring humorous tangents, never-before-seen photos, wild characters, and Bob\'s trademark unflinching drive, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama is a classic showbiz tale told by a determined idiot..
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.
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.
Show with Bob and David .
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.
He somehow made his way to a job as a writer at Saturday Night Live .
Bob embraced a life in Comedy after a chance meeting with Second City\'s legendary Del Close.
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.
And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you.
I can\'t think of another entertainer who has improbably morphed so many times, and all through real genius and determination.--Conan O\'Brien ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vulture, Newsweek Bob Odenkirk\'s career is inexplicable.
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.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this essential ( Entertainment Weekly ), hilarious ( AV Club ) memoir, the star of Mr