While a lot of viewers will recognize him from his HBO sketch showMr.
Here’s what you don’t know about Bob Odenkirk, and trust me, there’s alot.
“Monty Pythonbecame my religion when I was 10.
It led me out of the depths of darkness,” he toldThe Guardian.
“I watched those shows on the public television station in Chicago.Pythonreally spoke to me, as they say.
Odenkirk started his comedy career in the 1980s working for college radio stations (viaThe Second City).
WhileSNLwas an integral part in his career, Odenkirk has regrets on how he handled it at the time.
I made the most of it.
Performed by the lateChris Farley, Odenkirk is still really proud of what he accomplished.
“It’s such a performance heavy thing, but I’ll share credit on inventing the thing.”
Showon HBO (viaDen of Geek).
It also paved the way for independent sketch shows likePortlandiaandKey &Peele.
“It was a different world than the one that we have now,” Odenkirk toldEW.
“No one wanted to do sketch.
Now, you could probably submit a sketch and have somebody back you.
But back then, people just didn’t know what a sketch was.
It was like, ‘Is itSaturday Night Live?’
That was it.”
Odenkirk and Cross revivedMr.
Club, so they decided to do something completely different.
“We’re still writing stuff, we still enjoy working together.”
Bob Odenkirk was the original Michael Scott on The Office
In betweenMr.
ShowandBreaking Bad, you may have recognized Bob Odenkirk in a dozen or so roles on television.
As Fischer explained, she and Odenkirk were in the same test group.
“We had it all worked out.
However, up until this point, the actor hadn’t seen an episode of theAMCshow.
“I’d seen billboards forBreaking Bad, but I’d never seen [it].
Nobody watched it, you know?”
Like, ‘I’m a businessman, but I have fun.
Come on, it’s not all suits and ties’.”
“It made me happy, it made me smile,” he said about filming the pilot.
“You know, I liked him more than I ever had.”
