Hannibal Buress addresses Bill Cosby joke at Television Critics Association panel

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PASADENA, Calif. --Hannibal Buress said he probably won't be cracking any more Bill Cosby jokes.

Buress -- who spoke on a panel alongside comedians John Mulaney and Patton Oswalt -- finally addressed that much-talked about 2014 joke he made about Cosby on Sunday at Netflix's Television Critics Association presentation.

"I do a lot of other shit," he said when asked about life after the joke that garnered him many headlines. "It's weird that that happened like that because I was calling a bunch of other comedians rapists and that was the only one people took seriously."

He then yelled out Mulaney's name jokingly.

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"I've been working for a while and I continue to work," he said of his career since then. "I work in film, I do voice-overs and I continue to do stand-up. That's just one joke people took and ran with it."

Mulaney and Oswalt were quick to support him, noting Buress had made a name for himself on the comedy landscape long before the Cosby joke.

"Many knew him before," Mulaney said.

"Hannibal was doing fine without that joke…[he’s] bulletproof as a comedian," Oswalt echoed. "That's just incidental to where he was going anyway. It was just someone with a camera phone. I feel terrible for posting it."

When asked whether his stand-up routine would include anymore Cosby jokes, Buress said probably not.

"You'd probably hear a joke about being able to Google people's property values with ease," he said of his stand-up routines. "That's what I talk about."

Oswalt then garnered laughs from the room full of reporters after chiming in to say that Buress is also known for poking fun at another comedian.

“He’s doing a lot of Billy Crystal stuff … and it’s really dark.”

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