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A review by renatasnacks
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama by Bob Odenkirk
3.0
This was an interesting read. I felt like I already knew maybe 1/3 of it just from various podcasts/interviews/etc, and the style of this is kind of podcast-esque too in that it's mostly a series of vignettes. I appreciated his prickly honesty in here--there are definitely stories where he comes off like a jerk, and he knows it now. In the last chapter he literally said something like, "My wife told me I should say something about white privilege and I guess that's what this whole book has been about," which is well, true. His stories of the heyday of 90s alt comedy are very white and he's at least now aware of how hostile to women the crowd was, though he seemed to have been oblivious to it at the time.
He cited that his impetus for writing this book was reading another Hollywood memoir and realizing that his kids had no idea who that person was (he doesn't name the celeb in question, perhaps to save them from shame) and that he had a quickly-closing window of relevance. But interestingly this was written and finalized before his heart attack, which...I mean, not to make him drag himself through it or anything but seems like maybe that would have been worth tacking on another chapter or something if possible??
This might have been better on audiobook but it was fine as a print book. Honestly if you're a big enough fan of Odenkirk to consider reading it you'll probably like this. It's not one of those celeb memoirs where I'm like, "Wow even you don't care about this person's career it's a great book!" (See: [b:Just Kids|341879|Just Kids|Patti Smith|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1259762407l/341879._SY75_.jpg|332242], [b:Greenlights|52838315|Greenlights|Matthew McConaughey|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1604281659l/52838315._SX50_.jpg|78998213], etc for examples of that).
He cited that his impetus for writing this book was reading another Hollywood memoir and realizing that his kids had no idea who that person was (he doesn't name the celeb in question, perhaps to save them from shame) and that he had a quickly-closing window of relevance. But interestingly this was written and finalized before his heart attack, which...I mean, not to make him drag himself through it or anything but seems like maybe that would have been worth tacking on another chapter or something if possible??
This might have been better on audiobook but it was fine as a print book. Honestly if you're a big enough fan of Odenkirk to consider reading it you'll probably like this. It's not one of those celeb memoirs where I'm like, "Wow even you don't care about this person's career it's a great book!" (See: [b:Just Kids|341879|Just Kids|Patti Smith|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1259762407l/341879._SY75_.jpg|332242], [b:Greenlights|52838315|Greenlights|Matthew McConaughey|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1604281659l/52838315._SX50_.jpg|78998213], etc for examples of that).