Jimmy Kimmel asks Hannibal Buress about ruining Bill Cosby's reputation

When comedian Hannibal Buress started telling jokes about Bill Cosby date-raping women, "it snowballed, it really put a crimp in [Cosby's] dating life," Jimmy Kimmel said on Wednesday night's Kimmel Live. So he asked Buress about starting the end of Cosby's career. "It's definitely a weird situation," Buress said, and not everyone has been happy about it. "You know, the weirdest thing about getting a death threat from a male bodybuilder/stripper on Facebook is when you click on his profile and see that you have one mutual friend."

After discussing death threats, Buress and Kimmel talked about the Justin Bieber roast, which was Buress' first to participate in. "It's a weird state of mind to be in, when you have three or four weeks to think of the foulest things you can say about somebody," he said. It's also weird when you finally say it to their face, he added, using Martha Stewart as an example. Well, at least her fans won't threaten to murder him. —Peter Weber

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