For the latter, he received six nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series , which ties the record for most nominations in the category without a win. He is also known for the HBO sketch comedy series Mr.
He took the leading role in the action film Nobody , which he also produced. He also lent his voice in the Pixar animated film Incredibles 2 He describes his father as "remote, fucked-up, and not around". I couldn't wait to move into a city and be around people who were doing exciting things. Odenkirk attended Naperville North High School and graduated at 16; he was "tired of high school", and because he had enough credits, he was able to leave high school when he was still a junior.
After three years of college, Odenkirk was three credits short of graduating when he decided to try writing and improv in Chicago. He completed the credits at Columbia College Chicago and received his bachelor's degree in communications from SIU in Odenkirk sharpened his stand-up and improv skills at Elmhurst's now defunct Who's on First comedy club, then part of The Steve and Leo Show. Odenkirk visited Chicago's Second City Theater at the age of fourteen. He said his strongest comedic influence was Monty Python's Flying Circus , primarily due to its combination of cerebral humor and verbal slapstick, which Odenkirk characterized as "laugh-out-loud" humor.
Odenkirk was hired as a writer at Saturday Night Live in and worked there through Working alongside Robert Smigel and Conan O'Brien , he contributed to many sketches they created but felt uncertain of the efficacy of his writing at the show. He acted in several small roles on the show, most visibly during a parody commercial for Bad Idea Jeans. Working as both a writer and actor on the show, he created and starred in the memorable sketch "Manson Lassie", and helped the show win an Emmy Award for writing.
However, the show had already been canceled by the time it won the award. Show with Bob and David. He would continue the character through Odenkirk briefly attempted a stand-up career in the mid 90s, but ditched it soon after, admitting he "hated telling the same joke twice.
