by flagamuffin

When you're a young black comic with a cutting sense of irony, comparisons to Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle are inevitable. But Hannibal's style is a bit more inward and perverse. He's more of a witness than a critic. His humor doesn't depict a larger social world so much as it fixates on how that world occasionally intersects with the strange contours of his own life. He always maintains a quality of baffled incredulousness, which is what makes the characters he plays on TV so relatable: Broad City's Lincoln Rice, so steady and pragmatic while everyone else around him is impulsive and reckless; and the chill, skeptical sidekick he plays on the surreal meta-talk show The Eric Andre Show.