The actor joined the writing team on Saturday Night Live when he was 25.
Odenkirk insists that during his early years atSNL, “I was unsure of myself.
It was existentially dangerous.
Bob Odenkirk in a cameo on ‘SNL’ in 1991.Saturday Night Live/Youtube; Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images
I had feelings of ‘I should erase myself.'”
“I was too young when I got hired atSNL,” he continued.
“That was not a good thing.
That could’ve gone wrong.
That could’ve gone so wrong.
It came this close so many times to going so wrong.
You gotta believe me.
Odenkirk wrote forSNLfrom 1987 to 1991.
Odenkirk oncetold PEOPLETVthat he was “such a prick back then.”
“I wish I wasn’t such a stuck up young man,” Odenkirk told PEOPLETV.
“I wish I was a sweeter fellow because I had a great opportunity there.
I made the most of it.
His time onSNLwasn’t without its highlights, though.
The sketch came from the duo’s pre-SNLdays in Chicago.
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