Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir -- Bob Odenkirk

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - In this "essential" (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>), "hilarious" (<i>AV Club</i>) memoir, the star of <i>Mr. Show, Breaking Bad</i>, and <i>Better Call Saul</i> 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.</b> <p/><b>"I can't think of another entertainer who has improbably morphed so many times, and all through real genius and determination."--Conan O'Brien <p/>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New Yorker, Vulture, Newsweek</i></b> <p/>Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. 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. <p/>Bob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting with Second City's legendary Del Close. He somehow made his way to a job as a writer at <i>Saturday Night Live</i>. While surviving that legendary gauntlet by the skin of his gnashing teeth, he stashed away the secrets of comedy writing--eventually employing them in the immortal "Motivational Speaker" sketch for Chris Farley, honing them on <i>The Ben Stiller Show</i>, and perfecting them on <i>Mr. Show with Bob and David</i>. <p/