Top 30 Hannibal Buress Quotes

In my hometown of Chicago, I’m kind of a medium deal.

I haven’t really tried to write a movie. It’s tough to get into that mode.

For me… you know, the most I’ve paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can’t just go into Supercuts.

I don’t seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.

I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you’ll just see a bunch of black and gray. It’s simple. If I like a shirt, I’ll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. ‘That’s the same shirt you wore yesterday.’ ‘Yeah, but this one is fresh.’

I’d like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, ‘I’m taking it one day at a time.’ Yes, so is everybody. Because that’s how time works.

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.

I remember ‘Def Comedy Jam’ being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, ‘I want to do that.’

I don’t like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

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.

‘SNL’ doesn’t have a traditional writer’s room. On Monday, there’s the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.

‘SNL’ is the first real job I’ve held for more than a month and a half.

I think it’s a tough transition. It’s easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.

A lot of comedians do bits where they say, ‘I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?’ And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it’s more energetic.

Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.

I like getting ‘Times’ articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

I could maybe coach kids’ basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.

Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, ‘I want to do standup in 30 minutes,’ and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, ‘I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.’

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That’s what Seth Rogen does. He’s writing and producing a lot of the movies that he’s the lead in.

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.

Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he’s super sharp.

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.

I like that Barack got that job.

I need to have something else going on. I’m able to write a lot if I have an episode of ‘Friday Night Lights’ going on my computer.

If I ever have downtime, I’m usually sitting in my place playing video games. Or eating sandwiches somewhere, or watching sports some place.

Once you’re in a room like ’30 Rock,’ it’s a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you’re still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn’t sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn’t be able to travel as much.

I really like Halal food.

Comedy is basically self-deprecation.

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.’