Hannibal Buress ’s stand-up plan is coming together

Hannibal Buress has no problem pointing to the elephant in the room, he tells Richard Fitzpatrick

HANNIBAL Buress got his Christian name from Hannibal, the Carthaginian military commander who was famous for hauling 37 elephants across the Pyrenees and Alps and subsequently outwitting the Roman army in several battles during the third century BC, before his retreat back to northern Africa. His tactical nous greatly impressed Napoleon and obviously Buress’s father too.

“You know that’s a dad’s name right there,” says Buress. “That’s not a mom’s name.”