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Buress has been doing stand-up comedy for years, appearing on a number of Comedy Central and late-night shows and releasing five albums. However, the bit you're probably most familiar with is his 2014 routine railing on Bill Cosby's sexual assault allegations, a piece which is credited with bringing the accusations back into the public eye after years of being kept under the radar. The bit went viral and brought new accusers out of the woodwork, resulting in renewed public attention to the accusations against Cosby. Buress has downplayed his role in the scandal, though, telling the Television Critics Association press tour, "I do a lot of other s**t. It's weird that it happened like that. I was calling a bunch of other comedians rapists and that was the only one people took seriously. ... That's just one joke people took and really ran with it."

Buress was a writer on Tina Fey's 30 Rock when he began to play the bit part of a bum who resides outside her office, along with other minor characters. Appearing in a total of nine episodes, Buress did everything from standing in for Tracy during his televised reconciliation with Liz to creeping on Liz's new baby-talking TGS hire to (heroically) throwing up all over Lutz. His most notable appearance, though, was in the Season 6 episode "Queen of Jordan 2: The Mystery of the Phantom Pooper," where he became embroiled in a plot by Jack and Mary Steenburgen's Diana to cover up their affair. Rus/Gus loved wearing a tinfoil hat and messing up not-so-well-thought-out plans with his wacky comments, and for that, 30 Rock fans will always love him.

OK, so you probably don't recognize Buress' The Mindy Project appearance unless you're one of the show's superfans, but he did have a pretty funny cameo on one of the show's Season 1 episodes. Buress played a receptionist somewhere in the building of Mindy's office who lets down Amanda Setton's Shauna when he tells her that the doctors usually steal the People magazines from the waiting room (after a funny gag with him pointing to the rest of the room and identifying them as people). His appearance may have been brief, but it was a moment of hilarity in The Mindy Project's struggling early episodes.

Buress may have first come on your radar as half of your Broad City OTP Linana. (Yeah, we never came up with a good couple name for those two.) While Lincoln and Ilana unfortunately didn't last forever, their not-so-official coupling gave us many, many moments to remember (aside from just their super-depressing breakup), including smashing their faces into cakes (as all couples should do together at least once) and Ilana surprising Lincoln at his graduation from trapeze school. RIP Linana, you will be missed.

Buress' next film, Band of Robbers, was a modern-day retelling of Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn stories. The film pictured the gang all grown up, joining together to find Murrell's treasure, the loot they searched for in Twain's novels. Buress played Ben Rogers, one of Tom's friends best known in the books for being tricked into whitewashing a fence and helping Tom avoid his chores. Ben in the movie is similarly gullible, but he also provides some of the movie's best comedic moments. Band of Robbers also marked Buress' most notable big screen appearance to that point, spurring roles for him in bigger films in the following years.

Buress' appearance in Shane Black's The Nice Guys was brief but amazingly weird, with the actor voicing a giant bumble bee who pops up in a hallucination from Ryan Gosling's drunken Holland March. While Buress' Bumble demurs about the effects of increasing smog on bees' ability to fly, March is, in real life, falling asleep at the wheel, crashing the car in which he and Russell Crowe's Jackson Healy are riding. The scene is brief, but it's one of the great bizarre and surreal moments in Black's under the radar action-comedy.