Hannibal Buress Made Headlines & I'm Exploiting it

Just to talk about Hannibal Buress.

If you don’t know what headlines I’m referring to, you need to step up your Internetting. Fine, or just Google “Hannibal Buress” and maybe throw in a “Bill Cosby” for good measure.

Bill Cosby being an accused rapist (again and again) aside, it is apparently a bit that Hannibal has been doing for about 6 months now that randomly got traction/blew up the Internet because the technological age is …. slow sometimes?

https://twitter.com/hannibalburess/status/524542974622195712

But I’m using this brief window in which Hannibal Buress is a headline story to my advantage to praise a guy who may be the next in line for the title of the best in comedy, potentially taking the helm from a personal fan, Louis CK.

Much of the Funkhouser writing crew is already in love with Hannibal Buress, and here’s just a few reasons why:

30 Rock

Hannibal Buress was a writer for the fifth season of 30 Rock for a short six months, but his real impact on the Emmy-winner and my favorite comedy of the 2000’s, was felt as the “recurring homeless guy.”

Whether it was vomiting on (stupid) Lutz for proclaiming “it’s just hard to concentrate, it’s so nice working outside” or telling Liz Lemon to kiss a sexy baby, Hannibal really brought it to the obscure cameo role, summing up why it’s not really that crazy to hate New York.

Gibberish Rap

The original song was recorded in a “friend of a friend’s”, and was released with Clams Casino on THA BEAT and production help from his friend, Tony Trimm. It came out in the glory days of rap music, late 2012.

Naturally it blew up because look at these $%&*%^ lyrics (brought to you by the good people of Rap Genius):

Rappin, rap rap rappin’
I’m rappin, rap rap rappin’ (rap)
In my socks rapping (socks)
Got on my jeans (jeans)
Jeans, degrees put on deodorant
Soda sh*t, Whodepsit
KSBFKLAJSBVLJHEB;OAWEINVWEAIORBNVEWI;RV;KASNDVK;;adl;knadkjvndkjans;kvjv ksJDNVSKJDNVSD;JNSDKJ
Gibberish rap!
*raps more gibberish rap followed by the line killing the b**ch*
Gibberish rap. *begins laughing*
Yooooo, That was off the top of the head!!!!
Y’all want more? Oh sh**!!!!

Some other lyrics have been added or subtracted since the original recording dropped, namely some referring to chicken body parts, but I digress.

The song became the #1 rap single in Norway, supposedly, and was then remixed by Skrillex himself live, with some help from Ryan Phillipe.

His music career has taken off, and Hannibal released a classic two-sided mixtape with Tony Trimm which featured Flying Lotus, A$AP Rocky, and more. Dope.

My favorite part? “I was drinkin’ in the club, I went to the club, had a drink in that club then I left that club, went to another club, beat a seal with a club.”

Listen to Charcuteries and Champagne here.

Because of his unparalleled musical genius in scat and autotune, Hannibal Buress was chosen to direct and star a music video for up and coming rap star, Chance the Rapper (who recently visited UK’s campus).

Watch “NaNa” here.

Juice

Hannibal Buress is likely best-known not as failed SNL writer or a musician, but a standup comedian. He’s been featured on a 2012 Comedy Central special, Animal Furnace, every late night show that remains on your television, and has performed with John Oliver and Aziz Ansari, and probably others, I DUNNO.

But through listening to far too much Hannibal standup on YouTube, I have come to the conclusion his best jokes are about juice.

Hannibal enjoys pickles, and rather than throwing away the jar once the pickles are gone, he uses the pickle juice for seasoning, flicking it upon his sandwiches. Very economical and eco-friendly. Neil Young would be proud.

Hannibal’s other juice bit revolves around apple juice; if you’re buying a lot of apple juice on sale at a grocery store, the old man glaring at you and your white girlfriend must not be racist–he’s jealous of your apple juice. That’s what the euphoria of apple juice does to a person, makes them forget racism exists.

The Eric André Show

It’s a late night, parody talk show on Adult Swim. It stars Eric André and Hannibal Buress. They talk about such useful things as Elmo and sampling pretzels. It’s known for making some nervous.

Lincoln

Lastly, in my “stuff about Hannibal Buress and why he’s awesome” list, we have Broad City.

After scoring his own development deal with Comedy Central, Hannibal is co-starring in the series Broad City, has a commitment for a pilot for his own show, and a one-hour standup special after his ongoing standup tour.

Here’s what Buress had to say on all that Comedy Central $$:

This is really exciting I can finally quit my day job at Quiznos. People talk down about the illuminati a lot, but this is proof that membership has its benefits.

My favorite comedy currently on television, Broad City is the expansion of a web-series started by Abbi Jacobson and Illana Glazer. The show is essentially a buddy comedy about two loser 20-somethings making their way, poorly, in New York City. No, it is NOT HBO’s Girls, in that it is actually funny as opposed to just depressing and anxiety-inducing.

Hannibal stars as dentist and hookup partner of Illana, and he is the responsible voice of reason alongside Illana (she eats bagels from trash cans and sleeps on toilets).

The show has absolutely allowed Hannibal’s brand of dry humor to thrive, and if you’re going to watch anything on this list… don’t watch the Eric André Show. Make it this.

Heroes.