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Bob Odenkirk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
546 total appearances

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

You know, it's funny.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

I have so many people, obviously, this is the biggest thing I did was Better Call Saul so far.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And I can't imagine doing anything bigger than that either.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

But...

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

I just forget that I was in this show completely.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

I mean, I lived so much of my life before that, and I achieved things that I cared about a great deal, almost to a strange extent.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

When I was writing my memoir, I wrote so much about sketch comedy, and I called it comedy, comedy, comedy, drama, because I was worried that people would go, oh, this is the Better Call Saul guy.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

I'm going to read about his journey to being...

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

on that show.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And it's like, no, I'm going to talk about, you know, 45, 50 years of caring about and writing sketch comedy.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

I'm barely going to talk about the thing that you know me from because that was such a small part of my life.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And still, when I was writing the book, I was thinking...

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

there's something wrong with this guy.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

It's an interesting thing to, you should write, anybody should write their memoir when they get around 50.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And you may see what I saw.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

We're like, this guy's like a, and we all are, but this guy's like a broken toy.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

He's got something wrong with him.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And he keeps going in this one direction.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

Like I'm writing about me and I'm like, will you give it up already?

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

You know, you've already been on Saturday Night Live as a writer and