He was a writer on “Saturday Night Live” and worked with some of its most notable breakouts including Adam Sandler, Chris Farley and Chris Rock. Some may not realize or forget that Odenkirk has a background in comedy. Odenkirk was drawn to the fact that Hank, with his discontentment and intelligence, is also quite witty. a 50-something former novelist, who has to contend with departmental cutbacks and his own family issues. Bob Odenkirk will play Henry Devereaux Jr. “Guys always want to be greater than their dad if they do the same thing or are similar, or they want to be the opposite of their dad and usually they can’t achieve either thing perfectly,” said Odenkirk recently over Zoom. Its based on the 1997 novel by Richard Russo and has been described as a midlife crisis comedy-drama set in the English department of a Pennsylvania college. There was a kick in it, there was something I connected with. He wrote a novel that no one read, yet his father’s retirement from the academic literary world was covered by the New York Times. Comedy arrived in his childhood Odenkirk discovered Monty Python, still his greatest comedy love and it was an escape. The Emmy-nominated actor hopes viewers will next take to him in the dark comedy series AMC’s “ Lucky Hank,” debuting Sunday, as Hank Devereaux, a college English professor who is department chair at an underfunded college, going through an identity crisis. He played the underhanded, calculating lawyer on “Breaking Bad” and then for six seasons on “ Better Call Saul. Bob Odenkirk loves Saul Goodman, but he’s also ready to leave the character behind.

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