Bob Odenkirk speech at Carol Burnett's handprint and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre

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00:00Please welcome Bob Odenkirk.

00:05Wow, holy cow, holy cow, I can't believe I'm here.

00:14How's everybody? Good?

00:16All right, I wrote something.

00:18I'm very excited to be here today.

00:21I heard that Los Angeles was pouring fresh cement, fixing the sidewalk, I assumed.

00:29And I wanted to be there to see it for myself.

00:32True cause for celebration.

00:34Now I'm being told someone is going to immediately put their hands and feet in it.

00:38You can't have nothing nice, can you?

00:41Like everyone in America with a sense of humor, I love Carol Burnett.

00:46I was born in 1962.

00:48I was lucky that my parents liked comedy.

00:51Even my mother, who didn't have much use for entertainment and really only had seen about ten films in her life,

00:58seven of those being viewings of The Song of Bernadette.

01:05Anybody?

01:08She was Catholic, with a capital every letter.

01:13But my parents loved The Carol Burnett Show, and so did all seven Odenkirk kids.

01:21It was important to me, that show. Important.

01:25As funny as it was, the greatest thing was the laughter and the warmth between the cast.

01:30Harvey, Vicky, Tim, all the guests.

01:33I couldn't believe I was watching adults being funny and silly and genuinely happy to be around each other.

01:41Boy, I needed that.

01:43Laughs and good feelings pouring out of the TV.

01:46Carol's natural smarts, silliness, warmth, was at the core.

01:52The flame at the core of that show.

01:55When we were making Better Call Saul, we heard Carol was a fan.

01:58She mentioned it in some interviews.

02:00Amazing. I told my mom.

02:03And it was finally something that landed for her, that maybe I might one day make it in showbiz.

02:11I'm still working on it.

02:15Carol joined Better Call Saul to play an absolutely pivotal character, the humble Marion,

02:21who was overwhelmed by Saul's charming, fast-talking cleverness.

02:25And Marion is the one who wises up and turns Saul's world inside out.

02:30Carol, you were heartbreaking and funny and powerful in that role.

02:35I loved working with you. It was an honor.

02:38You're a king of comedy and drama, and your film work has been outstanding,

02:43covering so much range, Annie, The Four Seasons, Noises Off, The Front Page, and so many more.

02:49Always perfect.

02:51You're a movie star, a TV star, a stage star.

02:54And the reason you're a star is that your range is incredible.

02:58But you always brought your soul to every performance, and you shared yourself.

03:02So we feel we know you, even when you're deep in character,

03:06just like your childhood heroes everywhere around here,

03:10where you used to roller skate when you were a kid living down the street.

03:16So thank you so much for having me, and I hope that you'll leave a little of your DNA in this cement,

03:22and maybe Elon Musk can make us a thousand Carol Burnetts in a few years.

03:27Thanks.

03:29Thank you.

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