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Hannibal Buress Quotes
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![There’s no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don’t get them right away it’s tough winning them back even if you’re doing top-notch material. If you didn’t win them right when you walked out there, it’s tough Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/812/811799/811799.webp "There’s no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don’t get them right away it’s tough winning them back even if you’re doing top-notch material. If you didn’t win them right when you walked out there, it’s tough Picture Quote #1")
![Acting is fun; it’s easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That’s ultimately what I’d like to do Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/812/811712/811712.webp "Acting is fun; it’s easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That’s ultimately what I’d like to do Picture Quote #1")
![The more you progress, the more you learn. I try to pay attention to ticket counts, draws, guarantees and bonuses. I look at my deals closely these days and try to come up with other projects and ideas, since this business [comedy] is about creating content Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/809/808745/808745.webp "The more you progress, the more you learn. I try to pay attention to ticket counts, draws, guarantees and bonuses. I look at my deals closely these days and try to come up with other projects and ideas, since this business [comedy] is about creating content Picture Quote #1")
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I’m a dumb guy. My point of view is limited. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
In my hometown of Chicago, I’m kind of a medium deal (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I’d like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
When I’m doing shows I don’t need much from a city. All I’m looking for is a good meal and a decent spot to have a couple drinks. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I like getting ‘Times’ articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I’m in awful shape. I’m trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she’s in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, ‘Hannibal, you’re going to die.’ Stuff like that. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That’s a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don’t drive there, it’s a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I’m doin’ something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it’s not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there’s no huge message or through line. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
If you want to do anything, you got to go do it. Perform a lot, write a lot, make yourself better. Use the Internet, make videos, create content. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I think people overplay the ‘Saturday Night Live’ schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you’ll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I’d take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I did a ‘Last Comic Standing’ audition in 2006, where you’re just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it’s just real weird when you’re doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he’s like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there’s people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, ‘You so black, you purple.’ ‘You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.’ (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, ‘This is the first comedy show I’ve ever seen,’ so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody’s first time seeing live stand-up, well, you’ve not only tainted yourself, you’ve tainted a whole art form. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I don’t want to die before Will Smith ‘cause then I miss that awesome ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ marathon. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I had a sketch called ‘Fedora Basketball,’ which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don’t fall off. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I did not move to New York with a plan. The first time I moved to New York, I just popped up. My sister was living here in New York. I just popped up. She had her baby and a husband, and I just popped up. ‘Hey, what’s up? I got $200 and dreams. Let’s do this.’ (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
My nephew’s always crying. I’m like, ‘Dude, why are you crying? Your life is great. All you do is eat apple sauce and take dumps. That’s your day. (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
There’s no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don’t get them right away it’s tough winning them back even if you’re doing top-notch material. If you didn’t win them right when you walked out there, it’s tough (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
Acting is fun; it’s easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That’s ultimately what I’d like to do (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
The more you progress, the more you learn. I try to pay attention to ticket counts, draws, guarantees and bonuses. I look at my deals closely these days and try to come up with other projects and ideas, since this business [comedy] is about creating content (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
SNL’ is the first real job I’ve held for more than a month and a half (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he’s like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I’d like to get more bit - acting roles. I don’t know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I’d kill it (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
When I’m doing shows I don’t need much from a city. All I’m looking for is a good meal and a decent spot to have a couple drinks (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
When somebody mangles one of my jokes, that bothers me more than somebody saying that I’m the worst comedian ever (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it (Hannibal Buress Quotes)
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