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KANSAN.COM | MONDAY, OCT. 24, 2016
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Spend more time with loved ones. Apply discipline to a passion, art or skill and reap rich reward. Practice and grow stronger. Make friends with other players.
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Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Settle into a home project. Slow down and listen to family, especially children. Find out what's missing, and how to provide it. Domestic harmony soothes like honey.
Gemini
(May 21-June 20) Discipline with communications and writing projects gets great results today. Push harder and go further than anticipated. Listen to suggestions carefully, and take
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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Set long-range goals. Determine what you want, and go for it. Pour energy into personal growth and development. Grow your skills and capacities. Provide leadership.
leadership.
Comedian Hannibal Burress, known for his roles on shows like "Broad City" and "30 Rock" will perform at the Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland on Nov. 10.
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(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Get into an organization project. Archive photos and file documents. Complete outstanding tasks to clear space for what's next. Make plans and reservations to fill it out.
fulfill a dream.
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Wander into undiscovered territory. Let people know what you need. You can find the funding to make changes.
Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
A professional challenge has you puzzled. You can get what you want with self-discipline. Your influence is spreading. Dress for success. Listen to a voice of experience.
experience
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Manage work wisely. Can you mix business with pleasure? Stay on the practical road. It's time, not money, your sweetheart needs. Go
the extra mile.
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Collaborate with a partner to keep your financial boat afloat. Dig around for buried treasure. Pool your resources and work out a brilliant plan. Ask friends for referrals and connections.
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Work together to get farther.
Let someone else drive.
Share the load, and streamline the process. Hold yourself to high standards. Keep or change your agreements.
Aquarius
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(Feb. 19-March 20)
Healthy practices keep your motor purring. Nurture your well-being and your work flowers, which is useful, as demand is rising. Love provides the structure to rest on.
Kansan Q&A with Hannibal Buress
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Whether you best know comedian Hannibal Burress from Comedy Central's "Broad City," NBC's "30 Rock," his standup specials on Netflix or his time as a writer for "Saturday Night Live," his name has probably appeared somewhere on your Twitter timeline or television set.
I hosted rap shows; I hosted open mics. And I'm a big rap fan so for me it's an opportunity to bring something different to the show, make it more of a variety."
Hannibal Burress Comedian
And there's a good reason for it.
Kansan: You are known for bringing musical guests with you to shows, especially when you're in Chicago, where you're from. Anyone from the Kansas City area that has caught your eye that you might want to bring?
Burress: Mac Lethal is performing at this show actually. He hit me up and asked about performing. So he'll be there because he asked to do it and I said yeah. So if he holds up his end of the bargain then that should be what's happening.
Contributed photo Hannibal Buress brings his "Hannibal Montanabal" tour at the Arvest Bank Theater at The Midland on Nov. 10.
Now in the middle of his Hannibal Montanabal tour, Buresse spoke with the Kansan before his show at the Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland on Nov. 10. The conversation includes his thoughts on the role of the current political arena in his comedy act and what his Twitter would have looked like during college.
Kansan: What's the weirdest thing you've experienced while on tour so far?
Buress: In my Seattle show, there was a guy waiting outside across the street from the venue in a big foot/sasquatch costume or something. Like with a camera and tripod setup. I guess he was waiting to interview me, but people let me know that he was out there. He didn't ask, he was just waiting out there. I just thought that was kind of weird, so I went out a separate door.
Kansan: What is bringing musical talents with you on stage, for you?
Buress: It's kind of what I started in. I hosted rap shows; I hosted open mics. And I'm a big rap fan so for me, it's an opportunity to bring something different to the show, make it more of a variety. Sometimes it works for people and sometimes people don't enjoy it. People don't know what happened and say 'what is this?' and then there's people that are excited to find out about somebody they didn't know about. Or someone is excited to see someone they are a fan of and they didn't expect them to perform. It's mostly, for me, just trying to bring another energy to the table.
Kansan: Social media is big on college campuses, which actually takes me back to when you were in college at Southern Illinois University. Give me an idea of what the college Hannibal Buress Twitter would look like?
Kansan: Now toward your current tour, you haven't been known as someone who spends a lot of time talking politics. With the election coming up, do you feel you have an onus to talk about that? Are people expecting you to?
Burress: My college twitter [Laughs]. I think it would be me probably talking about ... in my college campus we had this fake security called Saluki patrol. Our mascot at SIU Carbondale was the Saluki, which is like an Egyptian hunting dog. But they were other students, so they
were just meddling and being annoying, so I would complain about them. I actually did a lot of stand-up about them.
You know what was big when I was in college? There was this website called CollegeClub.com. CollegeClub was a site - it predated Facebook a little bit where, you know, if you were in college you could set up a profile and meet people that went to other colleges. So I had a friend, his name was Raven. And he would meet girls and then we would crash at their spots. We went to a couple different college towns and just kicked it and stayed at people's houses that he met off CollegeClub. I remember we went to Nashville, which was for Tennessee's homecoming. This may be the year 2000 or 2001. Back then what they did, that shit was crazy. Like, "What are you talking about? You're meeting these girls online and you're driving to their house?" We were using a straight-up map to get there.
Buress: There's no obligation. I mean it's an interesting thing to talk about; it's an easy thing to make jokes about. But I don't feel obligated to talk about it. It's not like a thing where I'm like 'I got to do it because the people want to hear it.' I've got a few things to say about it, just like how I have a few things to say about the TSA or traveling or girls or sports. It's just politics. It doesn't dominate my act.
Kansan: On your new tour that's coming through Kansas City, what new topics have you become interested in, that people maybe haven't heard in your specials "Live From Chicago" or "Comedy Camisado?"
Burress: I talk about dying and buying a building. A lot about death. Just talking about funerals. I went to a funeral earlier this year and I just explore why I didn't like this particular funeral and what I would have done differently.
Kansan: Tell me about your new podcast "Handsome Rambler." Give me a taste of what we can look forward to?
Buress: People can expect me just talking. It's me and my DJ, Tony Trimm. We're talking and telling stories. Talk about what's happening on the road. I give advice to fans. We'll see. It'll maybe change over time. I just want to out the medium for a little bit and see how things go. Hopefully people connect to it, but if they don't it's okay. It's not the end of the world.
Kansan: To finish off, tell me about your time working on James Franco and Seth Rogen's "The Masterpiece" and what that was like?
Buress: It was cool, man. I was a big fan of the original "The Room." It was really funny and just weird. It was a cult classic for how bad it was. So when I heard they were making a movie about the making of that movie, I was all the way in. I'm just excited because that movie "The Room" was so bad. It was cool, I think I just worked one day on that. Franco was locked in. He was in his Tommy Wiseau makeup and was on point.
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