![]() After the 1987-88 season, a Writers Guild strike sidelined the staff, and Odenkirk, Smigel and fellow "SNL" writer Conan O'Brien returned to Chicago where they put on a sketch revue called the "Happy Happy Good Show" at Victory Gardens Studio Theatre, starting a tradition of Odenkirk's return to live-stage comedy during the summers. Two years later Odenkirk joined him on the show. He studied with Del Close, the pioneer of improvisational theater and longtime consultant to NBC's "Saturday Night Live," and he joined the Second City-affiliated Player's Workshop, where he met fellow writer Robert Smigel who took a job writing for "SNL" in 1985. After three years of college, Odenkirk dropped out and moved to Chicago to dive into its storied live comedy scene. Upon graduating Naperville North High School, he attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, then transferred to Southern Illinois in Carbondale, IL, honing his sketch-writing and performance skills with live shows on both colleges' radio stations. By junior high school, Bob had begun putting together sketches that he would perform for classes. He grew up a fan of sketch-comedy impresarios Monty Python and "SCTV" (syndicated/NBC/Cinemax, 1976-1984), and he and his brother Bill showed a penchant for showmanship early on, doing imitations of people in their lives to entertain the family. They raised Bob and his six siblings in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, IL. ![]() Robert John Odenkirk was born, in Berwyn, IL, to Barbara and Walter Odenkirk, who ran a printing business. ![]()
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