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GOD DAMN IT! Bob Odenkirk is unwell

Started by Neomod, July 29, 2021, 05:07:16 PM

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chveik

glad he's okay

when i finish my curb rewatch i'll do a mr show one

trabuch

Wonder what they were making him do.

jobotic

I've never seen anything with him until Breaking Bad (well, Curb but I didn't know who he was). Love him - must rectify this ASAP. Where can I watch Mr Show?

The Mollusk

It's all on YouTube! Thankfully the middling quality of the uploads is far surpassed by the comedic brilliance which would beam through even the shittiest of bitrates.

colacentral

It's worth getting the DVDs though. One of the all-time great commentary tracks for every episode - a good mix of funny and informative. If you're at all interested in comedy writing, it's a must listen.

jobotic

Quote from: The Mollusk on July 30, 2021, 01:13:03 PM
It's all on YouTube! Thankfully the middling quality of the uploads is far surpassed by the comedic brilliance which would beam through even the shittiest of bitrates.
Sweet. Thanks.

Fambo Number Mive

Just started watching Mr Show for the first time on Youtube. Loving it.


BeardFaceMan

Quote from: colacentral on July 30, 2021, 03:34:31 PM
It's worth getting the DVDs though. One of the all-time great commentary tracks for every episode - a good mix of funny and informative. If you're at all interested in comedy writing, it's a must listen.

And worth it for the improvised sketches they do over the top of the ones they don't like.

McChesney Duntz

#38
Advanced Odenkirk Studies, part duh: Here are the pilot episodes[nb]As with the first season of Mr. Show, Odenkirk knew how to stretch his resources - on a budget fit for one episode, he managed to generate enough material for two-and-a-half.[/nb] for his unaired post-Mr. Show show, Next! Not as good as Mr. Show, because what is?, but some enjoyable stuff featuring several soon-to-be-famous comic talents and the odd insurrectionist-to-be as well...

Episode 1: https://youtu.be/675vdrSAIq0

Episode 2: https://youtu.be/dMNuHLuDjJ4

"Extras": https://youtu.be/aD1FkLN2oGE


Blue Jam

Quote from: Lisa Jesusandmarychain on July 29, 2021, 05:27:58 PM
My thoughts are with Blue Jam at this difficult time.

Thanks Lisa, and my thoughts are with you and your MASSIVE RAGING MAN-CRUSH ;)

Don't take the piss please guys... I guess we could do with a pic here though, how about The Bob in Robert Evans Mode?



Well, I think he's handsome, and he comes across as a total charmer in interviews, and he seems like a genuinely nice guy, I guess his effectiveness at hiding all this under a thick layer of sleaze just shows how great an actor he is. That's why he's so fascinating to watch in Better Call Saul, portraying the kind-hearted and adorable woobie Jimmy McGill's transformation into the shuddersome and repellent and infinitely less sympathetic Saul Goodman. A ton of charisma and one hell of a range needed for that role alone, a younger actor could have been cast for the prequel but who else could have pulled that off?

Quote from: The Mollusk on July 29, 2021, 11:41:05 PM
One of my favourite understated Bob performances is Porno Gil on Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's such a brilliant "straight" role that he plays gloriously, and it's made even better when we see one of his tapes at the end of the episode and it's completely absurd and hilarious.

My favourite bit of that performance is a subtle thing. It's just after Gil opens the door to Larry and Cheryl, and as Larry is talking Gil keeps checking out Cheryl's body, stealing furtive little glances downward and doing a little bit of a leer each time. It's just a few fleeting little eye movements but I always notice and it gets me every time- me and Mr Jam always laugh at the same points, we can't not notice it. He's got really expressive eyes and he's a terrific eye actor, I don't know how something so tiny can be so hilarious and so utterly shuddersome. It makes my fucking skin crawl. Love it.

I also love noticing that Gil's house has a pool table. I like to imagine him going all Van Hammersley on it. That's another of those sketches where I have no idea why it's so funny, all I know is that it absolutely floors me every time:

https://youtu.be/NjDelKobC-s

Spoiler alert
"Ol' Felcher", fucking hell
[close]

JamesTC

Positive update from David Cross:

Quote from: https://twitter.com/davidcrosss/status/1421164595629248515Just got off the phone with Bob and he's doing great! Joking and japing and joshing. Both he and his family are overwhelmed with the outpouring of love and concern everyone has shown. You will be hearing from him soon. But he's doing really well!!!




mjwilson

Quote from: colacentral on July 30, 2021, 03:34:31 PM
It's worth getting the DVDs though. One of the all-time great commentary tracks for every episode - a good mix of funny and informative. If you're at all interested in comedy writing, it's a must listen.

What's the best way to get hold of region 1 DVDs these days? Amazon comes with a big warning saying "you might get charged a million pounds in import duties".

Josef K

Sounds like he got triples of the heart bypass

Blue Jam

#46
Quote from: The BobI had a small heart attack. But I'm going to be ok thanks to Rosa Estrada and the doctors who knew how to fix the blockage without surgery.

Sounds like a balloon angioplasty and/or a stent. Like Paul Whitehouse (and Prince Philip). Not quite Defcon 1 measures like Bob Mortimer's triples of the bypass. Pretty routine these days. He'll be fine if he just keeps to the heart-healthy food then. Maybe a spot of fishing to help him get back into the world.

JamesTC

Yeah, my Grandad has had two heart surgeries and he has bounced back from both really well. He had a heart attack 15 years ago followed quickly by a triple heart bypass and was very weak for a month but was then stronger than he'd been in years after it. Year before last he had a stent and it solved his breathlessness pretty much overnight.

Amazing how much medical science has advanced. Being a person who has bad hearts running in his family, it is a big relief.

Blue Jam

Quote from: JamesTC on July 30, 2021, 10:00:55 PM
Amazing how much medical science has advanced. Being a person who has bad hearts running in his family, it is a big relief.

This has freaked me out because I also have dodgy hearts on both sides of the family. All in heavy smokers with sedentary lifestyles (while I've never smoked and have a non-sedentary job) but that just means I have no idea how crap my genes really are so I still can't be too careful. Can't ever take oestrogen, started having heart checkups. Panicking a bit as I get closer to 45 as that's the age my dad was when he died of a heart attack.

Fucking daft research area for me to go into wasn't it? I'm more vascular dementia but still, I often go to lectures on cardiovascular disease and finding myself freaking out and getting psychosomatic pains on the left side of my chest (even though that's not a typical heart attack symptom in women). I've had a surprising number of colleagues say they get the same thing.

Brrrrr. Properly shits me up, all this.

Chollis

imagine going fishing with Bob Odenkirk and Bob Mortimer. can we make this happen? make a wish foundation or something?

Blue Jam

Who would be the American equivalent of Paul Whitehouse? Rich Hall?

BeardFaceMan

Well, he does have previous for making good fishing shows.

Barry Admin

#52
Quote from: up_the_hampipe on July 30, 2021, 08:51:28 PM
Statement from the man himself https://twitter.com/mrbobodenkirk/status/1421195860466089991

❤️

Get well soon, The Bob.



Good to hear this has at least got new people into Mr Show. One of the single greatest sketch comedies of all time. Effortlessly.

greencalx

Glad to hear this. Weirdly, my overriding memory of ABQ is of a lot of hospitals. So hopefully that means they have some good ones.

Brundle-Fly

After watching the trailer for Nobody (2020) I remember thinking to myself that Odenkirk must've endured a crash course in serious workouts to prepare for this role. I suspect it was physically demanding, unlike anything he's ever played before. It did cross my mind that for a man, like me, in his mid-fifties (he's 58 now) that must be quite a shock to the system and should he have concerns for his ticker? Or perhaps getting into shape two years ago saved his life?

13 schoolyards

Watching a few of the Bob-gets-shoutier episodes of Mr Show last night, I did wonder a little why everyone (including me) was surprised a man so skilled at playing a barely suppressed cauldron of rage had a heart attack

Blue Jam

#56
Quote from: Brundle-Fly on August 01, 2021, 01:00:17 PM
After watching the trailer for Nobody (2020) I remember thinking to myself that Odenkirk must've endured a crash course in serious workouts to prepare for this role. I suspect it was physically demanding, unlike anything he's ever played before. It did cross my mind that for a man, like me, in his mid-fifties (he's 58 now) that must be quite a shock to the system and should he have concerns for his ticker? Or perhaps getting into shape two years ago saved his life?

There's this promotional bit for Nobody where he talks about being a comedy writer (presumably a very sedentary job) who did "no exercise at all" before it cuts to him doing some crazy fighting training:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90swSDykLNg

He did two years of training so it sounds like he took his time over it, and I'm sure film and TV productions have medical advisors and make people get check-ups, for insurance purposes if nothing else, or because they don't want the cast and crew getting injured and delaying filming. I guess we'll never know, and healthy and fit people have heart attacks all the time- Rik Mayall had his after going for a run, and Douglas Adams had his after a session at the gym*.

It's reassuring to think about how people dropping dead from a sudden heart attack used to be a relatively common occurrence and how it seems much less common now. First sign of heart trouble you can get it checked out, pop a few stents in, job's a good 'un. Or just have a blood test and get on the statins. Bob Mortimer may have had more serious problems but even in his case the bypass was a preventative measure and he's still going strong.

Quote from: Barry Admin on July 29, 2021, 05:25:36 PM
Stumbled into his appearance on Jon Favreau's "Dinner For Five" many years ago, and that was well worth a watch; can vaguely remember Odenkirk telling many fascinating tales about Hollywood.

Sorry to derail the thread a bit here, but thanks so much for recommending this, I had never heard of it before and can't believe it passed me by. When I looked this epiosde up and saw the other guests included Michael McKean and Jeff Garlin I had to make time for a proper watch (it looks like they're all on YouTube), and it was fascinating. Put one of the Peter Falk and Garry Shandling ones on next, ditto. At Musso and Frank's as well! With the ancient waiters just like in The Kominsky Method! Then saw Ed Begley Jr. and Carrie Fisher were in one, put that on and just lost it at "...and we were all on mescaline". Legendary.

Might give the Marilyn Manson episodes a miss but there's plenty I need to plough through here:

https://www.ranker.com/list/full-list-of-dinner-for-five-episodes/reference

Pisses on Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee doesn't it? Comedians Smoking Cigars And Pretending To Drink Wine But Really They're All Drinking Water?

*...which, as Hitchhiker's Guide fans pointed out at the time, meant he had his towel with him.

Blue Jam