( CNN ) Those Hannibal Buress jokes about Bill Cosby ? They 've been no laughing matter to Buress , he told Jimmy Kimmel . `` It 's definitely a weird situation , '' the comedian said on Wednesday 's show . `` I get a lot of messages from people about it . '' Well , maybe some of them are a laughing matter . One of those messages , Buress continued , was a `` death threat from a male bodybuilder-slash-stripper on Facebook . '' And there was a twist : He and the bodybuilder had one mutual friend . It made for an awkward situation , Buress said . `` Having to hit your friend up and say , 'Hey , man , can you tell your buddy to stop saying he 's going to murder me ? ' `` Buress kickstarted the recent Cosby controversy by referencing the rape allegations against the `` Cosby Show '' star in a routine . One video of Buress ' stand-up went viral . Since October , when Buress ' video was posted , more than 20 women have made or reiterated abuse claims against Cosby . Cosby himself has not directly addressed any of the accusations . His attorney , Martin D. Singer , has called the accusations `` ridiculous . '' A concert with Bill Cosby : It 's complicated . Buress , a star of `` Broad City '' and `` The Eric Andre Show , '' is currently on a comedy tour .
Hannibal Buress says he 's been threatened since his Bill Cosby routine went viral . Buress told Jimmy Kimmel that more than 20 death threat came from `` bodybuilder-slash-stripper '' It turned out that he and the other person had a mutual friend , he added .