Bob Odenkirk shows Stephen Colbert the lonely process of writing your autobiography
Sometimes you just have to yell at your roomful of ghost writers until they shape the hell up

Reversing the career path spelled out by the title of his new autobiography Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, Bob Odenkirk got the dramatic stuff out the way first on Monday’s Late Show. Having just wrapped on the final ever scene of Better Call Saul, Odenkirk told a rapt Colbert about the day he nearly died on set, when, in July of last year, the now 59-year-old actor and comedy legend collapsed after suffering a heart attack.
“Well, when you come back from the grave, you get applause,” joked Odenkirk about the rapturous and relieved applause that greeted his entrance. So there was a little comedy—it is Bob, after all. But after that, Odenkirk reiterated how grateful he was seeing the outpouring of well-wishes that greeted the happy news that the Mr. Show star was going to be okay. “For the rest of my life, I’ll be thinking about the warmth that was sent my way when I went through that,” noted Odenkirk earnestly, before incorrectly claiming that he didn’t deserve such a wave of online love.
Underscoring just how close we came to losing him, Odenkirk told fellow Second City star Colbert that he simply doesn’t have any memory of the day some insidious arterial plaque tried to straight-up murder him—or the entire week afterward. He also praised Better Call Saul’s health safety supervisor Rosa Estrada and assistant director Angie Meyer for immediately working to keep him alive until paramedics arrived, a sentiment we can all get behind. Odenkirk told Colbert’s crowd that CPR certification is a thing we all might look into, should we wish to keep our loved ones (or the multifaceted star of one of the best dramas in recent TV history) from dying.