28 Facts About Hannibal Buress

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Hannibal Amir Buress is an American comedian, actor, rapper, producer, and writer.

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Hannibal Buress started performing comedy in 2002 while attending Southern Illinois University.

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Hannibal Buress starred on Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show from 2012 to 2020, and was featured on Comedy Central's Broad City from 2014 to 2019.

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Hannibal Amir Buress was born in Chicago, Illinois, on February 4,1983, the son of Margaret Buress, a teacher, and John Buress, a Union Pacific Railroad employee.

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Hannibal Buress was raised in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.

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Hannibal Buress was named after Carthaginian general Hannibal, and has told stories in his stand-up act about his name causing women to turn him down because of its association with fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter.

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Hannibal Buress has been featured in The Awkward Comedy Show special on Comedy Central, and alongside comics Baron Vaughn, Eric Andre, Marina Franklin, and Victor Varnado, and on the FX sitcom Louie.

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In July 2010, Hannibal Buress made Variety magazine's "Ten Comics to Watch in 2010" list.

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Hannibal Buress was a writer on Saturday Night Live from 2009 to 2010.

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Hannibal Buress left with only one of his sketches having aired.

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Hannibal Buress released his second album, Animal Furnace, in 2012, which aired as a special on Comedy Central.

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Hannibal Buress used to host a weekly stand-up comedy show at The Knitting Factory on Sunday evenings in Brooklyn, New York.

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In October 2016, Hannibal Buress began a podcast called Handsome Rambler.

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Hannibal Buress played Coach Wilson in the 2017 Marvel film Spider-Man: Homecoming.

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Hannibal Buress paid a lookalike who did not look like him to attend the film's premiere in his place, because he was busy with the film Tag.

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Hannibal Buress got in contact with the lookalike when he did a video for the MTV Movie Awards.

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Hannibal Buress was one of many collaborators on Foam and Flotsam, a comedy album by Chelsea Peretti about coffee.

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Hannibal Buress addressed Cosby's legacy of "talk[ing] down" to young black men about their style of dress and lifestyle.

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In December 2017, Hannibal Buress was arrested in Miami for disorderly intoxication.

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Bystander footage of the arrest showed Hannibal Buress mocking the police officers and demanding to know why he was being arrested.

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The arrest report revealed that Hannibal Buress was detained because he approached the police officers and would not stop asking them to call an Uber for him.

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Hannibal Buress follows me into the bar, and told me I'm too drunk to go inside.

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In July 2020, Hannibal Buress brought a lawsuit against the City of Miami and the officers involved for constitutional violations in connection with the incident.

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Hannibal Buress owns a building in Chicago and in 2017 removed residential tenants in order to convert the property into Airbnb short-term rental units.

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In October 2019 he posted a tweet against Bernie Sanders' call for rent control and asked for donations to an Illinois landlords association, leading to Twitter users criticizing him with the phrase "Hannibal Buress is a landlord".

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Hannibal Buress later stated that he regretted his-deleted tweets, which he claimed were jokes meant to stir up controversy.

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Hannibal Buress attributed the criticism he received to fallout over comments he made on Bernie Sanders' age.

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Hannibal Buress said a housing charity had refused his $4,000 donation due to his perceived landlord advocacy.