Even though he wrote one of the funniest sketches for Chris Farley on Saturday Night Live, and made the TV sketch comedy rounds from The Ben Stiller Show to The Dana Carvey Show, it wasn’t until he met fellow comedian David Cross and the two created Mr. The Naperville, Illinois, native spent years finding his footing, performing and writing for various troupes. And because you know him from those, you might even say, “Wow, that Bob Odenkirk is one heck of a dramatic actor! He must be the darling of Hollywood.” That might be the case today, but it took a long time for everything to be all good, man.Įveryone has their own journey in life and Odenkirk shares his with modesty, compliments and neuroticism about the sketch comedy world. Nowadays, it’s probably Saul Goodman, or Hutch Mansell from Nobody. That’s actually his younger brother Bill. What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the name Bob Odenkirk? No, not the guy who writes for The Simpsons. it’s impossible to curb your enthusiasm for him.ĬOMEDY COMEDY COMEDY DRAMA By Bob Odenkirk After just a few pages reading about the adventures he goes on. He really is the Larry David of travel writing. I never realized (or perhaps I didn’t remember) just how sarcastic he is. But at least each one has a pub.īryson once again made me laugh…a lot. Bryson, who dealt with walking through rainstorms and waiting hours for buses to maybe show up, explored these off-the-beaten-path places that were once thriving but dealt some sought of economic blow and now survive under constant rain clouds and fog. After this trek, he would move back to America.Īs an unofficial Anglophile (my wife says I have an “English sensibility”) I was taken on a very vivid bus and train ride to such quirky-named towns and villages as Chepstow and Studland and Porthmadog. Notes From a Small Island is about Bryson’s seven-week attempt to circumnavigate Great Britain via public transportation, after the Iowa native had already spent more than 20 years living and working there. 89 on our list of greatest travel books ) written nearly 30 years ago – and I’m still hooked! After a long hiatus from reading any of Bryson’s tomes, I just had the pleasure of reading Notes From a Small Island (No. I’ve since read several other of his travel memoirs, but in chronological order, so I was unfamiliar with his early work. The first Bill Bryson book I ever read was A Walk In the Woods – his voice and humor, and ability to put himself in Larry David-esque situations, hooked me right away.
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