Bon Odenkirk visited The Daily Show Thursday night to talk about old times and his plunge into a leading role on a major drama in the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. Odenkirk’s blasé attitude towards locking down a leading role dates back to his “jaded” times as a young comic in New York, when he, Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel all wrote for Saturday Night Live together. Odenkirk would see Stewart on the comedy club circuit and their friendship was born. While the two didn’t share many credits, they both appeared in episodes of The Larry Sanders Show together in 1998, a year before Stewart’s Daily Show reign began.
