Comedian Katt Williams Lights a Fire to the Fraternity of Stand-Up in New Interview

By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell 

 

Katt Williams is amazingly funny and highly underrated. From his first on-screen role as “Money Mike” in “Friday After Next,” to his role in Damon Wayans’ television sitcom “My Wife and Kids,” and guest spots on the sitcom “Blackish,” he has brought his bombastic personality and unvarnished truth to film and television for decades now and has made a success of it. However, he is not a household name, and he joined ESPN’s Shannon Sharpe on his “Club Shay Shay” podcast to spill the tea—or rather some highly expensive cognac—and discuss his more than 30-year career, his experiences, and insights into the supposed fraternity of stand-up comics.

As with most things out of Hollywood, all that glitters is not necessarily gold.

In the almost three-hour interview, Williams took no prisoners, throwing major shade at fellow comedians like Rickey Smiley, Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, and Kevin Hart. Williams complimented Sharpe on creating “a safe place for the truth to be told,” then he dropped the hammer: “I have watched all of these low-brow comedians come here and disrespect you to your face and tell you straight-up lies!”

On January 3, the internet was stopped in its tracks by precisely this as Williams sat down for a nearly three-hour tour-de-force interview with ESPN First Take correspondent Shannon Sharpe on his podcast, Club Shay Shay. “The reason I had to come is because you’ve made a safe place for the truth to be told,” Williams said at the top of the interview. “And I have watched all of these lowbrow comedians come here and disrespect you in your face and tell you straight-up lies.” Was he there to “set the record straight”? Sharpe asked in reply. Apparently so.

Williams first called out actor Rickey Smiley, saying that Smiley lied to Sharpe when he claimed that he was originally cast to play Money Mike in “Friday After Next,” but ended up playing the Santa Claus role. Williams set him straight…

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