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" Hannibal Buress is a curious dude. Most comedians make their living questioning life&amp;#039;s inanities, but Buress does so with such an endearing mix of indignation and wonder that Comedy Central decided to give him his own platform specifically to &amp;quot;answer life&amp;#039;s biggish questions.&amp;quot; The show is called, simply, Why? with Hannibal Buress. It premieres this Wednesday night. Buress has long been overdue to helm his own half-hour. He&amp;#039;s done just about everything else, from playing ultra-chill dentist Lincoln on Broad City, to being Eric Andre&amp;#039;s sidekick on Adult Swim&amp;#039;s The Eric Andre Show, to winning the Roast of Justin Bieber, to touring his standup around the country like a madman, to late last year flicking the match that ultimately burned Bill Cosby&amp;#039;s popularity to the ground. Now, with Why?, which will be filmed weekly in front of a studio audience and feature pre-taped segments, Buress finally has a national spotlight to himself, and on his own terms. We recently caught up with the comedian to put his new favorite question to him. Why? is going to be going up against Shark Week. Why should people take a night off from sharks to watch the premiere of some weird show on Comedy Central? I mean, if you&amp;#039;re interested in sharks\u2026 I don&amp;#039;t think I can convince the person who&amp;#039;s going to watch Shark Week to watch comedy instead. I feel like that person is already super into sharks. My show&amp;#039;s at 10:30, so if they wanted to switch over for a half-hour, or set their DVR, it&amp;#039;d be nice to have them, but it&amp;#039;s if not, then that&amp;#039;s okay, too. [Since this interview, Buress decided to take a more aggressive approach to courting shark fans:]        Why were you ordering breath freshening spray Binaca on Amazon? I just thought it was funny. I&amp;#039;m trying to bring it back. I jokingly talk about what advertisers I wanted to have on my show and I brought up Binaca, because I hadn&amp;#039;t seen anything from Binaca in a while. So I bought some Binaca just to show Binaca that I support their product and that I want them to come give me money for them to advertise. My show is a new hot show, hopefully, and Binaca is an older product and a lot of people probably don&amp;#039;t even know about it. Younger people probably don&amp;#039;t even know about it. So I&amp;#039;m giving them a little bit of advertising for free. That&amp;#039;s how it works. You&amp;#039;ve got to give people a sample and then if it works they come back, so we&amp;#039;ll see what they want to do. Why are you qualified to review the nation&amp;#039;s casual dining establishments? Why not me? Why not have a trusted comedian go around and give travel tips? I&amp;#039;m traveling around the country all the time. I haven&amp;#039;t done as many restaurant reviews as I should have done. I should do way more. But I do the ones I do because the people want to see me do this. I&amp;#039;ve only given one negative review, and that place really did suck. My reviews are mostly positive. I try to find the good in most places. I&amp;#039;m not a harsh critic. I&amp;#039;m a fair critic and I don&amp;#039;t use fancy food words. Why are they putting hot dogs in pizza crusts now? Isn&amp;#039;t pizza liked enough as it is? It&amp;#039;s the product of some people sitting together in a conference room just throwing out ideas. So we&amp;#039;ve done cheese in the crust. We&amp;#039;ve done garlic crust. Do we put salami in the crust? No! Lettuce in the crust? Boo! ... Did we try hot dogs in the crust? Whoa!!! It&amp;#039;s just people throwing out random ideas and then they decided to execute them. They&amp;#039;re going to try it out and see how popular it is. Why is the hot dog a sandwich, or why is the hot dog not a sandwich? Where do you stand on this divisive issue? A hot dog is a sandwich depending on which way you turn it... A hot dog is a sandwich if you really think about it. It&amp;#039;s bread, it&amp;#039;s meat, it&amp;#039;s toppings. It&amp;#039;s just a different approach to the sandwich. It&amp;#039;s not a sandwich like, classically, but it&amp;#039;s a sandwich in spirit and it has all of the things a sandwich would have. When you hosted the Webby Awards in May, you made a few jokes about Tinder and the Tinder founders weren&amp;#039;t too pleased. Why can&amp;#039;t the Tinder guys take a joke? I don&amp;#039;t know, man. [laughs] I don&amp;#039;t know. I&amp;#039;m sure some serious relationships and marriages have happened because of Tinder. I don&amp;#039;t doubt that at all. But a lot of fucking has happened. A lot of immediate, location-based fucking has happened because of Tinder. I don&amp;#039;t know those guys personally. It&amp;#039;s fine. They&amp;#039;re fucking billionaires so hats off to them, but people use your app to fuck strangers. Why couldn&amp;#039;t LeBron get it done in the Finals? As a Bulls fan, if Game 4 of Bulls/Cavs was officiated correctly, then I don&amp;#039;t even think the Cavs make the Finals. David Blatt tried to call a timeout, there were some bad calls, Pau Gasol was out. If Pau Gasol was in there I don&amp;#039;t think the Cavs make it out. LeBron didn&amp;#039;t have his people, you can argue. That&amp;#039;s why people will go, &amp;quot;Oh LeBron didn&amp;#039;t do it without Kyrie [Irving] or Kevin Love.&amp;quot; Well, I can make the same argument about the Bulls. They didn&amp;#039;t have Gasol and all these other things. He&amp;#039;s obviously a great player, but Golden State is a team that goes very deep, man. It was a fun series to watch.   Why is gonzo comedian Eric Andre the way he is? He&amp;#039;s pretty damn weird.  I don&amp;#039;t know. I mean, he went to college for music, that&amp;#039;s one thing. [laughs] He went to Berkelee [College of Music] in Boston, so he probably made some weird stuff while he was there. That&amp;#039;s part of it, but he was probably weird before that. I don&amp;#039;t know. He&amp;#039;s a very creative dude. He&amp;#039;s a very smart dude. He meditates. He works hard. He&amp;#039;s a good dude. Why was there a flamethrower in the background when Chelsea Peretti FaceTime&amp;#039;d you? It wasn&amp;#039;t a flamethrower. My friend invited me to this loft party in downtown LA. I get there and it&amp;#039;s this really beautiful loft and people are playing music and stuff. Actual music. Keyboard and guitar. There&amp;#039;s this really nice backyard. I go in the backyard and a couple people come down and they light these sticks on fire and start spinning them around and stuff. So it was funny to have her FaceTime me and it was like, &amp;quot;What the fuck is going on?&amp;quot; That tweet made it seem like it was a rave but there were only like 15 or 20 people there. The next morning I had to be up early as fuck so I left at like 11:30. [laughs] I FaceTime with two other people in my life and not even on a regular basis, so that was pretty funny to get that from her. Why did Diddy use a kettlebell to attack that UCLA football coach? That&amp;#039;s alleged! [laughs] I don&amp;#039;t even know what a kettlebell is. Sometimes I&amp;#039;ll allow myself to be ignorant about something. This is one of those things where I&amp;#039;m like, what is that? But I&amp;#039;m not even looking it up. I read the article and it said there was no injuries. So how is it assault with a deadly weapon? Did he just raise it at somebody? A kettlebell sounds dangerous from what I hear, but it says nobody was injured, so if nobody was injured, I think that&amp;#039;s going to go away. Why is New York better than LA? New York is better than LA because it&amp;#039;s just denser and there&amp;#039;s more going on and there&amp;#039;s just a better feel as a city. If you want to walk around, New York is a good place to see all types of people. There&amp;#039;s people from around the world. There&amp;#039;s a great comedy scene, a great music scene. You can kind of just walk around and find your night that way. You don&amp;#039;t necessarily have to have a destination. You can walk around and pop into places. There&amp;#039;s a great energy to the city, and it&amp;#039;s a late-night city and it&amp;#039;s a fun place to live. Why is LA better than New York? LA is just different. LA has weather, obviously. Consistent weather. I&amp;#039;ve been out here for a couple of months now and I&amp;#039;ll be out here for a couple more months filming the show. I don&amp;#039;t like when people talk about the weather to me. It&amp;#039;s annoying. I&amp;#039;ll get in a car and someone will be like, Man, this weather! I&amp;#039;ll be like, Dude, it&amp;#039;s been the fucking same thing for the past two weeks, what they fuck are you talking about? Whoa, this weather! Yeah, 85 again, man. It&amp;#039;s pretty consistent. Let&amp;#039;s not talk about that. You got some music you want to talk about? Because I don&amp;#039;t want to talk about this same ass weather with you, man. But there&amp;#039;s good energy here. It&amp;#039;s a lot of work, but as far as me personally, it&amp;#039;s a good place for entertainment and being in television. I&amp;#039;m able to get a lot of work done here. I&amp;#039;m a little more relaxed here. There&amp;#039;s great comedy here, great music. You&amp;#039;ve got access to the beach, you&amp;#039;re close to Vegas. It&amp;#039;s a good spot. Speaking of New York, why do some people think it&amp;#039;s okay to clip their nails on the subway? Because nobody ever told them to stop, I think, right? Nobody said, &amp;quot;Hey, why the fuck are you doing that?&amp;quot; Then maybe they&amp;#039;d catch themselves or look at themselves and think, &amp;quot;Hey, what am I doing? What the fuck am I doing?&amp;quot; And then they&amp;#039;ll stop, and look at their lives and realize they&amp;#039;ve been doing wrong. They may even post an apology on Tumblr, to all the people that they&amp;#039;ve wronged in their time of clipping their nails on the train. It&amp;#039;s a biological hazard, man. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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