And, of course, he is Saul Goodman, the sleazy lawyer whom he’s played for 13 years on the hit AMC drama Breaking Bad and its spin-off, Better Call Saul. Over the decades, Odenkirk has appeared in The Larry Sanders Show, How I Met Your Mother, Steven Spielberg’s The Post, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, and the 2021 action film Nobody. It would take a dozen paragraphs to encapsulate everything the actor, writer, and director has accomplished, so here are the highlights: In the 1980s, while on the Saturday Night Live writing staff, he created the iconic character Matt Foley, the motivational speaker played by Chris Farley who “lives in a van down by the river.” In the ’90s, he and David Cross created, wrote, and starred in the cult HBO sketch series Mr. Anxiety Inspires ‘Veep’ Writer Georgia Pritchett.
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