On a December night last year, the culmination of a decade's work on the part of Hannibal Buress was almost destroyed by an overzealous security guard.Buress arrived at the Gramercy Park Theater in Manhattan to film his first hourlong standup special, only to encounter some truly dedicated security guards blocking his path. He made it to the stage to talk about it, though, so the minutes-old encounter is now preserved as the opening joke on his Comedy Central special "Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace.""It's happened [before] at some of my own gigs," Buress says, sitting in a plush blue armchair shortly after the "Animal Furnace" premiere in May. "There's been times where I sold the place out, and I walked in and the guy's like, 'Uh, ID?' No, you can't ID me, man. I just sold this place out." He laughs. "People are just doing their jobs, but I think if.
- 7/4/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
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