Name: Joe Rogan Experience #836 - Hannibal Buress
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #836 - Hannibal Buress' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-08-23. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #836 - Hannibal Buress

Da-da-da!
Hannibal Montana, is that it?
Hannibal Montanival experience.
The Hannibal Montanival experience.
Can you get sued for that?
Or it's parody, right?
Uh, it's Hannibal Montanival.
There's balls at the end of it.
What is a Montanival?
Montanival rhymes with Hannibal.
What is Hannah Montana?
Let's see.
It's the show with that cute girl.
Yeah, it's on Disney.
The Cyrus girl, right?
Yeah, Marley.
I hope they sue me.
The tour could use the bump.
Yeah.
They can't win.
They can't win.
Right?
It's parody.
It's not.
It's, yeah.
And it's not a mock.
It's just because I think it's just a goofy thing.
It's not mocking anything.
It's not, I'm not using any imagery.
I just think those, it's just funny words to me.
Even if you were, you know?
Yeah.
I think you're okay.
Whatever happened to that chick?
She was going crazy for a while.
She, uh...
Remember?
She was grinding on people on TV.
She's on the new season of The Voice right now.
That's just started last night.
She's a judge.
Oh.
Yeah.
Is she one of the judges or something?
Hmm.
She's a talented girl.
You ever heard her sing?
She's super talented.
She sang that song Jolene, like that Dolly Parton song?
Yeah.
Wow.
Like, if she just sang shit like this, she'd be goddamn gigantic.
If she just sang...
She's a good actress too.
What are you trying to say?
Hmm?
Really?
Yeah.
I think she's a solid actress.
What have you seen her in?
Her stuff on...
Well, she's been on Saturday Night Live.
Oh, okay.
I thought you actually watched Hannah Montana.
I actually did watch a little Hannah Montana.
Back in '08.
And when I was...
I remember watching a couple episodes.
I'm like, this is alright.
But also my...
I used to be a Dat Fan fan too.
Oh, that's hilarious.
That's so much...
Used to be a Dat Fan fan.
Dat Fan took too much heat, man.
He did.
God, man.
I remember when Dat Fan was on Last Comic Standing because it was season one
and I was
one of the judges.
Yeah.
And he fucking killed.
Right.
And it didn't seem like there was anything wrong with what he was doing to me.
Yeah.
But a lot of people got mad at him.
Just for being...
I don't know.
It was like they just thought he was too much of a big show.
You know, he's too loud.
Yeah.
I don't know what it was that they got upset with him.
I don't know.
People like what they like.
People get angry.
People get angry at weird stuff.
I know.
People just get specifically angry.
Myself included.
But I don't share that for the internet.
I'm just angry amongst my friends and we talk shit.
But I don't like to show that.
Right.
Like you get mad if your friend likes a movie that sucked.
Yeah.
We'll just...
Yeah.
Sometimes my friend...
Didn't...
What was the movie with the moving shots?
It was the...
Zach Galifianakis is in it.
The play.
Birdman.
Birdman.
Oh.
Zach Galifianakis was in Birdman?
He's like the stage director.
Oh, that's right.
Of course.
My friend Tony, we were in Denver.
Tony Trim, my DJ.
He had one of them weed patches.
We were in Denver for like four days.
He had a weed patch that you could put on.
He got it from the dispensary.
And then he got high.
And then we started to talk about Birdman.
And I was like, yeah, I kind of like Birdman.
And he went on a ten minute rant.
Like, fuck Birdman.
The movie's pretentious.
And he was just like, man.
He was like, I like Birdman, but I don't know if I like it as much as you hate
it.
It went on forever.
I couldn't believe it.
He's kind of got a point.
It's kind of pretentious.
But I mean, don't you want that sometimes?
Like someone to take a chance to make something that's just bizarre.
It was a bizarre ass movie.
Like that was a chance taken movie.
Right?
Yeah.
I enjoyed it.
I've never seen somebody be so passionate about that.
You ever be around your friend like, I didn't know you were capable of such
hate.
People get like that, man.
They get like that with music.
Yeah.
You know, you could talk to some people about certain bands.
Right.
You're just not supposed to like.
Like when I was a kid, I used to have to hide the fact that I loved Kiss.
Yeah.
Because like when I was in like seventh grade, Kiss was not cool.
I was like, it was not a cool thing.
Like the young kids, they all wanted to know about like AC/DC and Led Zeppelin.
So where, when you were in seventh grade, where was Kiss in their trajectory?
Here's what happened with Kiss.
Kiss had this gigantic loyal following that came to all their concerts.
They sold out gigantic arenas all over the world, but they couldn't get any
radio play.
It was real weird.
They only had like a couple of big hits.
They had like Beth.
Beth was a big hit.
Detroit Rock City.
Rock and Roll All Night.
Those were big.
And Party Every Day.
That's still a big one.
But there wasn't a lot of radio play.
It was hard, like there was a lot of bands that had way more radio play.
But for whatever reason, they never lost their popularity amongst their
hardcore fans.
Because they put on a great show.
I went to see them twice when they made their comeback tour with Kevin James.
Kevin James was opening for Kiss?
Yeah.
No, no, no.
We were friends.
We went to watch it.
Are you with Kevin James?
What a combination that would be.
Doing some stand-up in front of Kiss.
Have you ever done stand-up in front of a band?
Lots of times, yeah.
Do you really?
Yeah.
Do you like it?
Sometimes.
Sometimes it can go well.
You have to be set up correctly though.
And I've learned what to ask for to make the show go right.
What do you ask for?
You just ask for somebody from the band to introduce you either on stage or off
mic.
And so you establish in front of the crowd as a friend of theirs and not just
some asshole
that the venue booked.
Right, right.
Where the band says, "We booked this guy.
This is our guy.
Please welcome Hannibal Buress."
I learned that when I opened for this band.
Super nice guys.
They saw me at Zaney's in Chicago.
The Chicago band, jam band, Umphrey McGee.
That's a huge fan base.
They tour all the time.
And they asked me to do this gig in DeKalb outside of Chicago.
I was excited to do it.
It was a couple hundred bucks or something.
Different gig opening for a band.
It was cool.
And it's packed.
It's theater.
It's packed.
And then they telling me, you know, it's getting ready to go on.
And the lights drop and the crowd goes crazy.
And I was like, that is not for me at all.
And so then I just walk out cold.
Like, hello.
I'm Hannibal.
And start trying to do comedy.
And people were just like, where's Umphrey McGee's?
Where's Umphrey's?
And they just didn't know.
We didn't know.
So just, you know, every crowd isn't ready for comedy.
And you have to settle.
People have to be expecting it or be settled.
Yeah.
Or it's a fight.
And I wasn't prepped to fight at that moment just to fight them down.
I did all right.
But that's it.
Sometimes, I mean, I do shows where I have rappers or bands open for me also.
And sometimes the crowd, some people in the crowd are into it.
Some people aren't.
But it's music that I enjoy.
So I try to just mix it up sometimes and have a bit of a variety show versus
just straight stand-up.
Why not?
If that's what you want to do, definitely you should do it.
I've opened for a few bands back in the day, but I'd never do it again.
Some of the experiences were just horrific.
Yeah.
I opened for Bon Jovi once in a theater in the round.
It was this thing for VH1.
It was in the round.
And I was on stage with like a bunch of like musical instruments.
Like a lot of like, it's like there's a drum kit there.
I had to move around.
I couldn't like do anything physical.
It was like a microphone set up.
And then after I did my set, I was supposed to bring girls towards the front of
the stage.
They wanted to pick out attractive girls in the audience.
To go backstage?
No, no, no.
Be around the stage.
Okay.
So when they're filming it.
Oh, okay.
They're the ones who are really close to the camera screaming.
Yeah.
There's Bon Jovi and then go off.
I'm a dirt bag for backstage, right?
They turned you into the Wrangler.
They turned me into the Wrangler.
You can open, but you got to also grab some girls.
Yeah.
Here's the deal, bro.
We're road dogs.
No, they wanted a bunch of it.
Because they were filming it for like VH1, I think it was at the time.
Yeah.
But I was like, I can't keep doing these.
They just don't go well 50% of the time.
Yeah.
It's, I mean, I've done some, you know who Chance the Rapper is?
Uh-huh.
He's a rapper out of Chicago.
I've done some stuff with him and sometimes it'll go well.
And then there's one in Chicago.
And I'm from Chicago, so I'm thinking this is going to be great.
This is my city too.
Dude, it was just, it was because I made fun of, you know, Chicagoans that live
in the city.
We'll, uh, sometimes you'll meet somebody and you're like, where are you from?
And they'll say, Chicago.
What part of Chicago?
And they'll be like, Schaumburg.
Like, that's not Chicago.
Right.
Like this is suburban.
That's what that improv is.
Yeah.
It's 40 minutes outside of Chicago.
Right.
It's a suburban kind of city, sort of.
It's like Thousand Oaks.
Yeah.
That type of thing.
And so I talked about that.
I did that on stage.
It was, it was the venue was in the city.
And then I talked about that on stage, but most of that crowd was like white
kids from
the suburbs.
And then it just turned from there and it was just started.
It just got, got restless.
And then some dude just yelled out for no reason.
He was just like, Kevin Hart.
I was like, what does that mean?
Wow.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
But that's some psychology shit, right?
He's going to point to the most successful comic ever.
Yeah.
Right.
And compare you.
I mean, Kevin Hart is, if he's not the most successful, he's like top two.
Right?
I mean, who, what are the arguments?
There's three arguments, right?
It's like Dice Clay, Dane Cook, and Kevin Hart.
And as far as sustaining it.
Yeah.
He's, his run has been pretty crazy.
Insane.
He has his own shoe.
So I think it's him maybe.
He's got a motivational shoe.
He has a motivational shoe.
It's a shoe with like motivational quotes all over it.
His shoe actually, Kevin Hart's shoe looks better than a lot of athletes' shoes.
Definitely.
He's a smart dude.
He's a smart dude.
He's a savvy dude.
He's a smart dude.
Worked hard.
Nice dude.
He thinks that like yelling that out, it's gonna hurt your feelings.
It was just more weird.
It is weird.
It is weird.
But that's a, that's a, that's a jab, you know?
Yeah.
It's interesting that people do that.
Like you point to like, as if, almost as if someone's success, even though it's
like astronomical, like crazy success.
Yeah.
Even to a really successful guy like you, he'll fuck with you.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I mean, you do really well.
I know you're not walking around going, man, I wish my life was fucking better
right now.
Yeah.
No, you're great.
Everything's awesome in your world.
It's smooth.
Everything's smooth as fuck.
But someone can yell out, Kevin Hart.
Like, yeah.
No, people, it's a, it's a weird space to be in.
Cause some, like now, like you have that, well, two, that it's a different way.
You got your fans.
And then you also have people that just know who you are and might not fuck
with you at all.
They just know.
They're like, oh, that's it.
And so I, I went into this Mexican restaurant in Chicago last week.
And, uh, I, uh, I go straight to the bathroom in the back.
There's a spot.
It's a great spot in Chicago, by the way.
Check it out.
Allende, Lincoln and Fullerton.
And, uh, go to the back and I come back out.
He's tall, too tall, black women.
And, uh, one of them, like I'm right next to her.
She gestures towards me.
Like, yeah, he's famous or something.
Like real dismissive.
I didn't say anything to her.
I was just being it.
Yeah, he's famous or something.
Then she says to me, yeah, my friends tried to get me to come hang out with you
at Mad River.
It's a bar in Chicago.
They had to try to just get you to come to hang out.
But we didn't want to.
I'm like, all right, wh