He describes his early years and how his obsession with sketch comedy was influenced heavily by the timelessness of Monty Python ('Python was like my Bible … kinder and more truthful') and how a trip when he was 14 to Chicago's Second City Theater, famous for its improv, gave him the first inkling that comedy could actually be a career. With his book, he demonstrates the big breaks of his career, whether obvious at the time or their significance only understood with hindsight. This, of course, is part of the point of Odenkirk's appropriately titled Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, which serves as a reflection on the self-described 'strange trajectory' of his career. Show with Bob and David (and Saturday Night Live writer best known for penning Chris Farley's iconic 'Van Down by the River' motivational speech) would be collecting Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for his dramatic acting and winning over critics as a convincing action star, well… they'd likely think you were performing some absurdist sketch.

For longtime fans, if you had told them 20 years ago that the surrealist sketch comedy master behind Mr. F or those who were first introduced to Bob Odenkirk through AMC's Breaking Bad or its spin-off Better Call Saul - or, perhaps even for some, 2021's action-thriller Nobody - his origins may be a bit surprising.

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