Not everyone can make comedy that stands the test of time as well as Monty Python did, and few people get this like Bob Odenkirk . That's because, before he ventured into more diverse genres like drama and even action, he was himself a comedian — or, better yet, still is, and a fine one at that. Odenkirk never hid the huge influence the Pythons had on his humor , from his writing on Saturday Night Live , where he created characters like Chris Farley 's failed motivational speaker Matt Foley, to his own criminally underrated comedy sketch show with David Cross , Mr. Show with Bob and David on HBO, which often feels like watching something way ahead of its time. Or maybe behind its time?

Making comedy for television means having to adapt a lot of your work to

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