*The comic who reminded folks in a standup routine last fall of Bill Cosby’s rape and sexual assault allegations says he’s received death threats over his comments.
Hannibal Buress said during an October 2014 stand-up routine that went viral: “It’s even worse because Bill Cosby has the f**king smuggest old black man persona that I hate. He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the 80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.”
Now, speaking to Jimmy Kimmel this week, Buress said he did receive backlash for his part in the Cosby story.
“I get a lot of messages from people about it,” Buress said, before joking about the kind of comments he received.
“The weirdest thing about getting a death threat from a male body builder-slash-stripper on Facebook is when you click on his profile and see that you have one mutual friend,” Buress said. “And then having to hit your friend up and say, ‘Hey man, can you tell your buddy to stop saying he’s going to murder me?'”
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