Hannibal Buress has reportedly gotten death threats from Bill Cosby fans after he brought increased scrutiny to the latter's history of alleged sexual abuse.
Comedian Buress famously brought public attention to what turned out to dozens of rape allegations against the comedy legend during a stand-up routine.
In October, Buress was lampooning Cosby's outrage at African-Americans who don't make the most of themselves in society when he made THE joke.
"Bill Cosby has the f--king smuggest old black man public persona that I hate,” Buress, 32, ranted to the crowd at his comedy show in Philadelphia.
“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. ‘I don’t curse onstage.’ Well, yeah, you’re rapist, so I’ll take you saying lots of motherf--kers."
After Buress' remarks - which included inviting people to Google the Cosby allegations if they didn't believe him - went viral, more than 30 women came forward.
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Cosby fans are livid with Buress, and the many death threats he's received would be the literal case of killing the messenger if they ever came to fruition.
Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday about the firestorm he ignited, Buress said, "It's definitely a weird situation. I get a lot of messages from people about it."
"Then having to hit your friend up and say, 'Hey man, can you tell your buddy to stop saying that he's gonna murder me?'"
"'I didn't really think he was gonna kill me ... but I'd just rather not take that information into my head if I didn't have to.'"
Buress indicated to Kimmel that he's not exactly worried about the threats, for the simple reason that "I don't think that's how killers operate," he said.
"'Yeah, I'm gonna kill Hannibal Buress. But first, I'm going to this coffee shop and buying something so they give me the Wi-Fi password.'"
"'When I'm sitting down, I'm pulling out my laptop and I'm logging into Facebook. Then, I'm searching Hannibal Buress. Then, I'm spelling Buress correctly. Then ...'"
