He studied with Del Close, the pioneer of improvisational theater and longtime consultant to NBC's "Saturday Night Live," and he joined the Second City-affiliated Player's Workshop, where he met fellow writer Robert Smigel who took a job writing for "SNL" in 1985. After three years of college, Odenkirk dropped out and moved to Chicago to dive into its storied live comedy scene. Upon graduating Naperville North High School, he attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, then transferred to Southern Illinois in Carbondale, IL, honing his sketch-writing and performance skills with live shows on both colleges' radio stations.
By junior high school, Bob had begun putting together sketches that he would perform for classes. He grew up a fan of sketch-comedy impresarios Monty Python and "SCTV" (syndicated/NBC/Cinemax, 1976-1984), and he and his brother Bill showed a penchant for showmanship early on, doing imitations of people in their lives to entertain the family. They raised Bob and his six siblings in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, IL.
22, 1962, in Berwyn, IL, to Barbara and Walter Odenkirk, who ran a printing business. A missionary of ironic over-the-top social satire, Odenkirk made himself a nexus of the edgiest comic circles.
BOB ODENKIRK SNL WRITER SERIES
Maintaining a regimen of comic supporting roles and TV guest-work, Odenkirk in 2009 joined the cast of the Emmy-winning AMC series "Breaking Bad" (2008-2013) as the cheerfully malignant TV lawyer Saul Goodman, a role he deepened and expanded on the seriocomic prequel "Better Call Saul" (AMC 2015- ). Show." (The pair reunited later for a second series, "W/ Bob and David" (Netflix 2015).) He would expand his résumé as a producer-talent spotter of underground, post-structural comedy for online media and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, and as director of such offbeat, almost awkwardly silly comedy features as "Let's Go to Prison" (2006) and "The Brothers Solomon" (2008). Finding the "SNL" environment suffocating, he landed a cast role on "The Ben Stiller Show." Though the show only lasted a season, it would put Odenkirk in with Hollywood's comedy in-crowd, netting him work on HBO's groundbreaking single-cam "The Larry Sanders Show" (1993-98), writing for fellow "SNL"-alum Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show, and eventually creating his own HBO series alongside former "Stiller" co-writer David Cross, "Mr. A native of Chicago's suburbs and later product of the Second City comedy fraternity, he followed that talent pipeline to a writing job on NBC's weekend institution "Saturday Night Live" (1975- ). Odenkirk was on Howard Stern this week (he’s promoting his memoir) and was asked about the Seagal episode, which Odenkirk did not hesitate to call a “nightmare.” Odenkirk, a writer on SNL when Seagal hosted, spoke about that experience, including the bizarre, inexplicable sketch in which Seagal brought in his own stunt people.In the 1990s, Bob Odenkirk established himself as an avatar of the next wave of edgy, ribald American sketch comedy, initially as a cast member of the short-lived but portentous Fox series "The Ben Stiller Show" (1992-1993), then as co-creator and star of the off-the-wall subversive HBO series "Mr. The fact, as Bob Odenkirk explains, that Steven Seagal had somehow never seen SNL may explain some of his prickliness, in addition to genuinely being an asshole. Even with Seagal, David Spade kind of sort of defended him, saying that he was prickly and protective of his image and didn’t want to be made fun of on a show whose job it is to make fun of the host. The one guy that no one seems to be shy about outing over the years has been Steven Seagal.
A number of cast members have also spoken about the awkwardness of having Donald Trump on as host. Occasionally, a cast member will let spill the identity of a bad host or musical guest - I’ve heard Justin Bieber mentioned (from Bill Hader), as well as Paris Hilton, Milton Berle, and of course, Chevy Chase. As a cast member, past or present, you don’t want to discourage future hosts by suggesting you might gossip about the assholes or even those who have a bad week under stressful circumstances. If you listen to a lot of SNL cast members on podcasts and in interviews, they will talk about bad experiences with hosts, but they will almost never identify the hosts.
0 kommentar(er)
