Bob Odenkirk made a memorable guest appearance in an episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm way back in season 1. At the time, Odenkirk was best known as the co-host (with David Cross) of the delightfully absurdist sketch comedy series Mr. Show. He’d previously written for Saturday Night Live and played Larry’s agent in The Larry Sanders Show, a stylistic precursor to Curb Your Enthusiasm. While Odenkirk is most renowned for his portrayal of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill in Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul, he has also experimented in other genres too, appearing in Little Women as Father Robert March and The Incredibles 2 as Winston Deavor.

Curb Your Enthusiasm’s guest stars often play themselves since the series revolves around a fictionalized version of Larry David’s life as a TV producer living in Los Angeles. Appearing on Curb Your Enthusiasm allows public figures to...