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 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.
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