The hottest comic on the planet comes to town on the heals of a record breaking Comedy Central special and being named Best Club Comic at the 2012 Comedy Awards.

Hannibal Buress has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Late Late show with Craig Ferguson, and numerous other late night TV shows. He has also made prime time appearances on LOUIE and 30 ROCK, and will appear on upcoming Adult Swim series THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW and THE NICK SHOW KROLL. Buress has previously worked on the writing staffs of 30 ROCK and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and released his debut album, MY NAME IS HANNIBAL, in 2010 on Stand Up! Records. His new Comedy Central special HANNIBAL BURESS: ANIMAL FURNACE will premiere on May 20th and the DVD and CD will be released on May 22nd.

Though perpetually touring, Buress considers New York City, where he hosts a weekly Sunday comedy night at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory, his place of residence. He lives with zero pets and an XBOX 360, and has a cable package with the Starz network but never watches it.

“If Steven Wright, Mos Def and Dave Chappelle had a baby, that would be disgusting, but it would sound like Hannibal Buress. The funniest young comic I’ve seen in years.� - Chris Rock

“Hannibal is incredibly funny with a smart, unique style and I am proud to be his father.� - Jim Gaffigan

“I haven’t heard this album, and I never will. But I’ve seen Hannibal do comedy, and if the CD is a recording of him doing comedy, then it’s probably worth getting. I mean, I still won’t get it, but you can. And you might like it.� - Todd Barry

“Hannibal is funny on stage and off stage and right in between, too.� -Demetri Martin

“Hannibal’s debut album is hilarious. Also hilarious – Aziz Ansari’s debut album Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening, now available in stores EVERYWHERE!� - Aziz Ansari

“One of the best joke writers I’ve ever seen. He’s one of the few performers I’ve come across that creates such electricity in a room that I think ‘this guy is going to be a star FOR SURE.� -Mike Birbiglia, star of What I Should Have Said Was Nothing and author of Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories

• TIME: 8p.m. Thu-Sat; 2nd show at 10:30 Fri/Sat

• COST: $15

• WHERE: Comedy Attic, corner of Fourth and Walnut streets, Bloomington. comedyattic.com;

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