Bob Odenkirk On Returning To “Ridiculous” Comedy Post ‘Better Call Saul’ With ‘Guru Nation’ & AMC’s ‘Straight Man’
deadline.comAfter playing the gravitas of moral-shifting, slick attorney Saul Goodman on AMC’s 39-Emmy nominated Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk, is –to use a line from one of his Mr.
Show sketches ready “to blow up the moon” as he pivots back to his comedy roots.“We are going to blow up the moon, exactly,” beamed Odenkirk about the new mockumentary series, Guru Nation, he’s developing with his Mr.
Show collaborator David Cross at Paramount+.“Guru Nation is ridiculous,” Odenkirk told Deadline last night at the season 6 Hollywood premiere of Better Call Saul, “we’re playing multiple gurus, David and I.”“We tell the story of some young people as they make their way through these cults,” he described.Odenkirk is also returning to work with AMC, this time on the series adaptation of the Richard Russo novel Straight Man.
In the show, set for a 2023 debut, Odenkirk plays William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.
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