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Bob Odenkirk recently opened up about his experience as a writer on Saturday Night Live<\/em>, a gig he got when he was only 25.<\/p>\n

“I was unsure of myself. It was hard,” he told comedian Tig Notaro on her podcast. “It was existentially dangerous. I had feelings of ‘I should erase myself.’”<\/p>\n

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The context of the conversation was advice the Better Call Saul <\/em>star had recently given to his 24-year-old son, who also wants to be a comedy writer.<\/p>\n

“I was too young when I got hired at SNL<\/em>,” Odenkirk continued. “That was not a good thing. That could’ve gone wrong. That could’ve gone so<\/em> wrong. It came this close so many times to going so wrong. You gotta believe me. And it’s hard for kids to believe you when you say, ‘I had no f***ing clue what I was doing and I was scared outta my wits for years.’”<\/p>\n

His time from 1987-1991 on SNL<\/em> wasn’t all post-teen angst, though. After writing the character “Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker,” for Chris Farley pre-SNL<\/em>, the duo brought it to the show. In an episode of Hot Ones<\/em>, Odenkirk said that his time working on Chris Farley’s Matt Foley sketches was “most fun I had in show business.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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