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Bob Odenkirk (born Robert Odenkirk on October 22,
1962 in Naperville, Illinois) is an actor, writer,
Television director|director and producer.  

Bob is best known as the co-creator of the Home
Box Office|HBO sketch comedy series, Mr.
Show—one of the most unconventional and
intelligent sketch-comedy shows since Monty
Python's Flying Circus. Bob began his foray into
comedy writing as a radio DJ for his local college
station at the University of Southern Illinois.
Inspired by his local success, he decided to go to
Chicago and, under the pretense of doing a
radio-show interview, speak with members of Second
City and see what it took to make a career in
performing and writing comedy. Time and again he
kept hearing "magical" stories of how the really
successful members such as John Belushi or Joe
Flaherty simply showed up to Second City "and a
week later they were on the Main Stage!"

Bob was disheartened with these tales in that it
seemed like a regular guy like him could never
achieve the same sort of "magic." Disappointed, he
was all set to return to college when he happened
to run into former Second City director Del Close
(who had mentored the likes of Bill Murray and
John Belushi), at the local bookstore. Bob
nervously struck up a conversation with Close and
asked if he would mind being interviewed. He
agreed and they went back to Close's apartment.
During this conversation with Close, Bob began to
realize that people in show-business, even stars
like Belushi and Murray, had also just been
regular people to begin with.

Inspired, Bob immediately moved to Chicago three
credits shy of graduation and got involved in the
local improv and comedy scene. He started in
improv workshops and doing open-mike stand-up
comedy and after a few years had made several
friends as a result—most importantly (future
Saturday Night Live writer) Robert Smigel. It was
through his friendship with Smigel that Bob, after
Smigel had been hired as a SNL writer, began
submitting his work to SNL and eventually Bob
himself was hired as a writer. 
Bob was initially elated to be working for SNL,
but after awhile he became more and more
frustrated with the politics of the show and
rarely got any of his work on air. 

Bob decided at last to give up at SNL and try
working in Los Angeles. Around this time, he
visited his friend Steve Meisner in Austin who
informed him that the TV show Get a Life (TV
series)|Get a Life was looking for writers. Bob
submitted some material and was accepted onto the
show. Though Get a Life was cancelled fairly
quickly, he made several important friends on the
show who later helped him get a job writing for
The Dennis Miller Show. Bob made his first acting
debut on The Dennis Miller Show where he was
noticed by Ben Stiller who later hired him as a
writer and actor for The Ben Stiller Show. While
working on Ben Stiller, Bob met fellow writer
David Cross and after Ben Stiller was cancelled,
Bob and David began performing sketch-comedy shows
together in LA. These sketch comedy shows
eventually evolved into what became Mr. Show.

Bob was the spokesperson for Miller Brewing|Miller
beer, in their Election|electoral-themed
Television commercial|commercial campaign to
become The President of Beers during the U.S.
presidential election, 2004|2004 Elections.

Bob's brother, Bill Odenkirk, wrote for Mr. Show
and Futurama_%28TV_series%29|Futurama.
==Films==
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
style="margin-left:3px" align="center"
|Year||Film||Character
|-
|1993 in movies|1993||Wayne's World 2  ||Concert
Nerd
|-
|1994 in movies|1994||Clean Slate||Cop 
|-
|1995 in movies|1995||Mr. Show with Bob and David 
TV Series||Host/Various
|-
|1996 in movies|1996||The Truth About Cats & Dogs,
The||Bookstore Man 
|-
|1996 in movies|1996||The Cable Guy||Steven's
brother
|-
|1996 in movies|1996||Waiting for Guffman||Caped
Man at Auditions 
|-
|1997 in movies|1997||Hacks||Cellmate
|-
|1998 in movies|1998||Mr. Show and the Incredible,
Fantastical News Report (TV)||Various Characters
|-
|1999 in movies|1999||Can't Stop Dancing||Simpson
|-
|2000 in movies|2000||The Independent||Figure 
|-
|2000 in movies|2000||Sammy TV Series
(voice)||Gary Blake 
|-
|2001 in movies|2001||Monkeybone|| Head Surgeon 
|-
|2001 in movies|2001||Dr. Dolittle 2
(voice)||Animal Groupie #4/Forest Animal/Dog
|-
|2002 in movies|2002||Run Ronnie Run!||Terry
Twillstein 
|-
|2003 in movies|2003||Melvin Goes to Dinner||Keith
|-
|2003 in movies|2003|| The Big Wide World of Carl
Laemke (TV)||Carl Laemke 
|-
|2004 in movies|2004|| Tom Goes to the Mayor  TV
Series||Mike Fox 
|-
|2004 in movies|2004|| Lil' Pimp|| (voice) 
|-
|2004 in movies|2004|| My Big Fat Independent
Movie  (post-production)||Steve
|-
|2005 in movies|2005|| Relative Strangers 
(filming)||Mitch Clayton 
|}

==External Links==
* http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0644022 Internet Movie
Database Profile
* http://www.bobanddavid.com Bob Odenkirk & David
Cross website
* http://suicidegirls.com/words/Bob+Odenkirk
SuicideGirls Interview

==Sources==
Odenkirk, Naomi. Mr. Show: What Happened?! The
Complete Story and Episode Guide. Squaresville
Productions, September 2002.

Klein, Robert. Patinkin, Sheldon. The Second City:
Backstage at the World's Greatest Comedy Theater.
Sourcebooks, October 2000.