Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Streaming, the cord-cutters guide to the week that was—without a cable subscription. This week, we're going to talk about the meteoric rise of Haniball Buress through a joke about Bill Cosby as well as some shows to binge watch in preparation of a new season launch.

Hanniball Buress, Comedy Camisado

Recommended dosage: A drink you make yourself and never leave unattended

There was a time when the now infamous Cosby allegations were merely whispers from the mouths of comedians. I remember a joke from 30 Rock where Tracy Morgan's character becomes all but unhinged when talking on the phone with someone he believed to be Bill Cosby on the phone. 

Most people just assumed it was a throw away joke, meant to play on Tracy's insanity. However, a few years later the scandal exploded when Hannibal Buress, comedian and former actor/writer on 30 Rock did a bit about Cosby being a rapist. 

People lost their minds, and Hannibal, whose previous claim to fame, other than bit parts on television was a fantastic bit about using a flick of pickle juice on his sandwiches was now front and center in the mainstream comedy scene.

I love Hannibal. I think he's hilarious, and I'm glad that he's funny enough to sustain success on his comedy chops and isn't going to be a mere footnote in the Cosby saga that will undoubtedly be unfolding for, well probably at least another decade. 

Netflix just released another great standup special with Mr. Buress and I'm going to go ahead and encourage you to watch it immediately. He deals with some incredibly pressing issues of our time, like zipper etiquette and his experiences from the entire Cosby fiasco. 

In honor of the first great binge week of 2016, you should run through 30 Rock, Broad City, and High Maintenance, all great shows featuring Hannibal. He also had his own show for a second... Why? (You can skip that one though)

Once you're done with those you can go ahead and continue getting your fill of Hannibal as he plays the role of an Ed McMahon or Andy Richter as a sort of innocent bystander to the sheer insanity of Eric Andre on The Eric Andre Show. The most under-appreciated show around.

Coming Back Soon:
Better Call Saul

Recommended dosage: A few meals worth of delivery. You have some serious binging to do.

Netflix knows its audience. They recently added the fantastic first season of Better Call Saul to their library, just in time for all of us hardcore Vince Gilligan fans to re-watch the critically acclaimed prequel as well as all five seasons of Breaking Bad.

I've been having a blast catching up with the adventures of "Slippin' Jimmy" and Mike Ehrmantraut, everyone's favorite secondary characters from the Breaking Bad universe.

(Confession: I just realized his name wasn't Mike Herman Trout.)

Last we saw them, Saul Goodman was diving headfirst into life as a crooked lawyer—his brother had just taken off his tin foil blanket, and Mike had just hopped back into a life of crime. The trailer doesn't reveal too much, but I'm expecting to start seeing some more characters from Albuquerque as the show ramps up into more action and elaborate capers.  

Nothing would make me happier than to watch this show start reaching the heights that its predecessor claimed as must-watch, short cinematic pop-culture masterpieces. 

So hurry and get caught up, the new season starts this coming Monday, February 15, on AMC. 

Coming Back Soon:
House of Cards

Recommended dosage: 450 cc's of whiskey.

I'm not sure if anyone actually likes this show or if its popularity derives from a universal appeal of hate-watching something. The first season of House of Cards introduced us to the idea of binge-watching as a new medium of consuming entertainment. Everyone I know powered through the first season so they had something to talk about at work the next day. Nobody wanted to be left out. 

The same thing happened with season two, then I think everyone collectively turned on the series somewhere between a prostitute shooting a syringe of bourbon into Doug Stamper's mouth and Pussy Riot making a cameo.

I honestly can't tell if it's a good show, and I'm really confused on why I'm so excited about a show that I'm not sure I even like, but watch this trailer:

I'm so pumped. I'm in for just about anything. Nothing seems out of bounds. Hell, there's a chance that we're heading towards the President of the United states suiting up like Iron Man and declaring war on America. 

See you at the water cooler.