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" You may not know Hannibal Buress&amp;#039;s name, but you know his face. The New York City comedian had a recurring part as a homeless man on 30 Rock, has shown up on Louie, and has appeared on almost every late night show out there. Recently Buress has earned a new fan base with his role as Lincoln on Broad City, where his amiable deadpan hits exact the right comedic notes, and his voice role as Crisco on Chozen. Buress has a new hour-long special, Live from Chicago, airing on Comedy Central tonight, which recounts various instances from his life. When Buress calls to discuss the special, he refers to it as a collection of &amp;quot;stuff that I do that works.&amp;quot; The central theme appears to be himself, with each story during his set simply an augmented memory from Buress&amp;#039;s life. With that in mind, we asked Buress to recount some memories that didn&amp;#039;t make it into the special, some recent and some from his youth. If you&amp;#039;re the girl the comedian almost had sex with on a high school trip, well, we&amp;#039;re sorry you have to relive this.  Childhood Fights &amp;quot;My first fight was in grade school. I don&amp;#039;t even remember who it was with or what it was about. I think I won. It was people your size and you&amp;#039;re six or seven so it can&amp;#039;t get too crazy. That&amp;#039;s the one okay thing about being a kid \u2014 if you fight somebody your size usually nobody&amp;#039;s gonna die. I&amp;#039;ve been in some scuffles throughout my time. I think I&amp;#039;ve got about a 50 percent record. I don&amp;#039;t know how many fights exactly but I think I&amp;#039;ve won half of them.&amp;quot;  First (Failed) Sexual Experience &amp;quot;There was this high school program where in my senior year they had a bunch of us on this bus tour of different colleges. It was called Upward Bound and they took kids from the city and we went to check out all these college campuses. It was real cool, actually. There were a bunch of girls from different schools and I met this one girl. She had kind of a hood-rat vibe. We started kind of hanging. That was the first girl I actually kissed ever. I was sharing a room with two or three other people but she comes to the room. But thing was she smelled horrible, to the point where it killed my erection right away. But I was still trying to make it happen. I was like, &amp;#039;Whatever, this is my virginity and I&amp;#039;m about to lose it now!&amp;#039; It was an Embassy Suites so it was one of those hotels with an open-air atrium so you can look across to the other rooms. So the counselors saw her go into my room and they came and knocked on my door and stopped it. But that was probably for the best because she stunk.&amp;quot; Pre-Comedy Career Choice &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t go to as many concerts when I was younger. I started going to more in college. I would perform at open mics and there would be rappers. There was this open mic I used to do called Sunday School Sessions and rappers would be there and I would host it and that&amp;#039;s when I started being around music more. I would go to battle raps and I actually did battle rap for a little bit. I did a couple. It&amp;#039;s just about being funny and getting the action out of the audience so doing stand-up lends itself to that. I recorded music and songs with my friends before I did stand-up for the first time, and they were goofy-ass, weird songs.&amp;quot; Early TV Experiences &amp;quot;TV sets, at least the ones I&amp;#039;ve been on, are pretty tame. My first TV was in Holland, in Rotterdam. That was crazy because that was the reason I got my passport. I got to travel over to Rotterdam and hang out in Amsterdam and smoke weed and get overly paranoid. It was a good time. Later I was on Craig Ferguson in 2007 and I had a horrible outfit on \u2014 jeans and a t-shirt that were too big. The brand was LRG. You weren&amp;#039;t supposed to be able to wear labels, at least that blatantly, on TV, but they didn&amp;#039;t know the label. They had a bunch of people looking at my t-shirt like, &amp;#039;Can he wear that? Should he be able to wear that?&amp;#039; And they just let me wear it. After I hit up the company, LRG, and said, &amp;#039;Hey, I wore your shirt on Ferguson. Check out the link. Can you please send me some free clothes for future appearances?&amp;#039; I knew what to do.&amp;quot; Recent Fans &amp;quot;Lately with Broad City, the fans have been kind of intense. I like to do late-night shopping. I needed a new computer so last night I went up to the Apple store at like two in the morning and then I had to upgrade my Xbox and they have 24-hour Best Buy in New York. I&amp;#039;m going in Best Buy at like 2:30 a.m. and there&amp;#039;s this little girl like, &amp;#039;Oh my God!&amp;#039; I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s 2:30 in the morning!&amp;#039; She legit ran up on me, which is brand new. People sort of know me but with this show it&amp;#039;s been a real different energy. That threw me off just to be walking in Best Buy in Union Square and have people run up on me. She didn&amp;#039;t look drunk. She just seemed excited.&amp;quot; Problems with Being a Comedian &amp;quot;Me and friends went to this bar Junior&amp;#039;s after the Mets game in Brooklyn recently. I&amp;#039;ve learned from years and years that it&amp;#039;s not worth it to tell people I do comedy because they probably can&amp;#039;t do something except annoy me and ask me to tell them a joke or tell me about their dreams. But this dude found out we did comedy and acting, and this motherfker just goes on and on about how he knew Joe Franklin and a book he&amp;#039;s writing. He&amp;#039;s going on: &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ve interviewed this dude and I&amp;#039;ve interviewed Bill Cosby.&amp;#039; And it made me sad. Some people make you sad. I&amp;#039;m usually a funny dude and me and my friend cracked up afterward but at some point I wanted to yell at the dude to shut the fk up. Like, &amp;#039;Stop it, man. We don&amp;#039;t care about any of this. Why are you showing us this picture?&amp;#039; He monopolized our life during that time we were having drinks at the bar. That bummed me out. That&amp;#039;s to show that some people can affect your energy and we weren&amp;#039;t comfortable around that dude. Maybe I should have shut him down. Maybe that was my fault, like, &amp;#039;Hey man, we don&amp;#039;t want to talk to you anymore.&amp;#039; But when it&amp;#039;s older people I feel obligated to let them talk because they&amp;#039;re gonna die soon.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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