I am seeing random ass articles everywhere and celebrities responding back? https://fb.watch/pnkes_X7X7/?mibextid=Nif5oz
Answer:
Shannon Sharpe, a popular sports commentator and former storied American Pro Football player, has a podcast w/ video, “Club Shay Shay”, where he conducts in-depth interviews with (mostly African-American) celebrities and entertainers while sitting on a couch and sipping alcohol. Due to the intimate and extended nature of the interviews, they often branch into personal topics, where the subjects give insight into their lives, and into past situations with other people.
On previous broadcasts, comedians including Steve Harvey and Rickey Smiley discussed their views on media that Katt had been personally involved with, including the movie “Friday After Next”, and the comedy tour and video/DVD release “The Original Kings of Comedy” — as well as on alleged joke theft between comedians.
Katt, who had been listening to these previous episodes, and who has worked in close proximity to these comedians at various times in his life, took issue with their descriptions of a number of events that he was involved in, and decided to come on Shannon’s show and air out his grievances with a very long list of people (mostly comedians, including the aforementioned ones, and a few other celebrities).
What followed was a 2 hour interview in which Katt spends about 30-45 minutes, including the first full 20 minutes of the podcast, stringing together one takedown after another of well-known personalities, delivered in a way that alternated between humor and complete seriousness. And with such conviction and vitriol that Shannon, who typically has much to say, appeared to be at a loss for words at several points. It’s a wide-ranging and colorful description of behind the scenes events, with very few details spared, and plenty of jabs at some of America’s most popular comedians — and that combination sparked immediate interest and led to clips from the interview going viral.
So this week, Katt’s name is found all over social media, as the podcast continues to rack up millions of views on Youtube per day.
Here’s a compilation of edited call-outs from the show: https://youtu.be/nARu4hfaQKc
Here’s the full Club Shay Shay interview: https://youtu.be/8oRRZiRQxTs
Replies like this one is why I love Reddit
This should be pinned.
I found the interview intriguing and enjoyed his views on life in general. Dishing aside I now have a level of respect for Katt Williams outside of his comedic genius.
I've been a fan of his since his Friday appearence and fell in love with his standup with "The Pimp" in 2006. He's a mainstream underrated comic and he's amazing. Holds no punches and never has.
This is the most neutral thing I’ve ever read 👍
This reads like a Chatgpt answer and that's a compliment.
Chat GPT could never
If I wasnt broke I’d give you gold
Does anyone have a direct transcript of it as opposed to just snippets of interviews or an overall interview that’s 2+ hours long?
So what exactly did Harvey smiley and others say specifically about katt that had him all hot m bothered? Bc all it did was make him come off as extremely bitter that others found success where he didnt
If you’re a real person and not a bot. How can I become this disciplined??! Cause damn you went into full detail AND provided sources for the whole thing. I wanna be your friend lowkey lol thank you so much for this information, seriously. I didn’t want to watch that long 2-hour video but you’ve provided exactly what I wanted. The callouts.
What did i do before reddit I'll never know thank you for your in depth answer it's like Google tells you a whole bunch of conflicting information and i come to Reddit and suddenly I'm enlightened 🌤️
Answer: Katt Williams recently appeared on the YouTube series Club Shay Shay hosted by Shannon Sharpe. The episode is 2 hours and 45 minutes long and Katt Williams used the interview to "correct" things he saw other comedians say on their episodes of Club Shay Shay and continued to accuse some of stealing jokes and generally insulted numerous people.
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yes. twitter found it the same day
Who were the comedians stealing jokes?
The big one was Cedric the Entertainer and there is damming evidence of it too
Steve Harvey too, but he stole a Mark Curry joke, not a Katt joke
Does that guy still do "comedy?" I thought he just stares incredulously at a camera while stumbling around like he's had a stroke after someone answers a Family Feud question.
He’s long since defaulted to tv show host
Fwiw, he’s also hilariously bad at keeping a marriage, considering the nonsense advice he gives to women on his show
One of ex girlfriends used to read his relationship books and got me to read them to help me understand how much she loved me. Well, there are reasons she's an ex; it's not Steve's fault, but his books were just so on-the-nose with what women want to believe and hear about in a 'perfect' relationship.
I know this is you Steve.
This might've been a fever dream, but I think he has a new show where he's a judge now...
Nah, it's true.
That was the argument that Katt was making about Steve not being funny. Katt has 19 specials and a 8 figure Netflix deal and we ain’t never seen a single one from Steve, Cedric or rickey smiley.
ACCURATE 😂
He touches on this in the special. Apparently Steve hasn't done comedy since he lost a comedy battle to Katt. Give it a watch, amazing interview. So far nobody can say shit against his claims either. Even mentions some illuminati shit. I'm thinking Katt is one of the real ones to be honest.
It’s funny how algorithms work, because I started watching clips of his interviews on YouTube and Facebook, and then the receipts started coming through. He tore Steve Harvey a new asshole in that competition, they’re showing back to back clips of Hanging With Mr Cooper and The Steve Harvey Show, clips of 50 Cent making eerily similar remarks about Diddy and male artists— even a clip of Katt doing a 4.47 40. Anyone Katt spoke down on is looking real suspicious right now.
Didn't he steal a whole set from Mark Curry?
Not just a Mark Curry joke he stole his entire tv show as well. Look at season 1 of Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper. Same overall premise: Former famous person forced to teach at high school (Cooper played basketball, Steve Hightower was a former singer). Has issues with the high school principal who turns out to be someone they made fun of as a kid for being fat and even has a nickname (Peaches and Piggy). Now she’s their boss. The main differences were that Hangin’ w/Mr. Cooper started out as a black Three’s Company that turned into a more family show thanks to the network. The Steve Harvey Show stayed with being centered around the adults and had Steve living with Cedric. So there were small differences, but the main premise including the bad high school students were fairly identical.
It would be one thing if only one of these things happened, but considering that there is more than one “coincidence” between Steve’s career/jokes and Mark Curry’s it’s obvious that Steve stole a lot from Curry. Katr even went so far as to accuse Steve of lying about being homeless saying that was Katt’s life story not Steve’s.
Hanging with Mr Cooper == Steve Harvey Show, it was more than just one joke.
Katt originally did it, then the 2nd time Curry helped tightened it up. IT was KAtt's joke
He stole Katt’s joke regarding high gas prices. Look it up.
Steve Harvey stole Katt Williams gasoline joke. Just saw it yesterday. People will dig up receipts.
lol remember the Carlos Mencia drama? That man went from paid to laughed at and not because he was funny
I listen to a few comedian podcasts and they say joke stealing is a tale as old as time. So I wouldn’t doubt it
The only reason you've ever heard of Denis Leary is because he stole Bill Hicks entire act and persona.
Bill Hicks often joked that he quit smoking later in life just to see if Denis would too
Then im sure every one knows about Carlos Mencia and Amy Schumer. Both are irrelevant now a days because of joke stealing. Say what you want about Joe Rogan, he hated Carlos Mencia for taking his material enough that he went and punched him on stage once. Video is on YouTube.
South Park even joked about CM to paraphrase; "I don't have any jokes, I just stick a Mexican accent on other people material"
Dane Cook also was accused of joke stealing from Louis CK.
Denis Leary is because he stole Bill Hicks entire act and persona.
He also made it very big in the 90s with a song called "I'm an asshole" that actually got radio play - and not a little, btw, for months that song was all over.
Leary stole the song from Louis CK.
I was a big fan of Denis Leary during this time, I had the tape and book of No Cure For Cancer and I had entire sections of it memorized, I obsessively scoured for appearances on talk shows or whatever - and when he popped up in Demolition Man to deliver three minutes of deeply self-indulgent stand up, I was thrilled.
Huge fan.
Im also a huge comics nerd, and like all huge comics nerds i have read almost everything Garth Ennis has written, for good or ill.
In an early issue of Preacher, there's a bit where one character meets Bill Hicks - Preacher started in 95 so this was at least a year or two after he died - and I was so deep into the comic I needed to know more about this comedian that Ennis clearly had incredible respect for (this wasn't like a one panel bit, a character reminisces about seeing Hicks on stage and then meeting him afterwards during an extremely formative point in his life and the narrative insinuates that this meeting was deeply influential) but I had never heard of.
I found videos and tapes of old Hicks stand-up routines and the similarity to Leary was impossible to ignore - like, I felt like I was hearing someone do a Leary routine but way better, less theatrical and much more honest - less self-indulgent ranting and more connection to the material, the things he was saying.
The similarities were so immediate and so impossible to ignore that for a second, I actually thought that Hicks had ripped off Leary. Just for a second.
And then I found that quote you mention, where Hicks jokes that he was tempted to quit smoking just to see if Leary would too.
And I felt legitimately disgusted and betrayed.
I had been such a big fan of Leary and everything about him was just ripped off from someone I had never even heard of. I felt like Leary had stolen something from me, that by posing as a xerox of Hicks, Leary was in some way trying to prevent me from discovering the source of everything I had liked about him.
I know that sounds a bit dramatic but I was seventeen, life is dramatic when you're seventeen.
Still hate Leary, though.
I hope you've come to enjoy bill hicks though through out all that. He's a legend.
This was more than twenty five years ago and I am proud to say that upon finding the source of everything I had liked about Denis Leary, transferring my fandom was easy as fuck.
Pretty incredible that Louis clip from 11 YEARS AGO has a chyron that says “Comedian/Masturbator.” When people try to tell you who they are, listen…
I was wondering about the date on that. You're spot on.
But had the nerve to liken women going on dates with men to interacting with a bear: “I sure hope this bear doesn’t do what bears do.”
The jokes not wrong. It’s just that it made you think he was observing it from the sidelines, not actively participating.
This story is eerily familiar. Finding out about Bill Hicks was both a huge letdown and kind of refreshing, because Bill just did everything so much better.
It was my first real experience with this kind of thing and it absolutely changes you. I was salty as fuck over it for a while, I felt cheated and lied to, I spent such a long time following the wrong one.
I wasn't ever a fan of James Somerton but I can absolutely relate to his fans right now, suddenly discovering that everything they ever liked about him was outright stolen from someone else.
It's like a punch to the gut.
South Park even joked about CM to paraphrase; "I don't have any jokes, I just stick a Mexican accent on other people material"
South Park tore that guy a new asshole, that shit is still funny like 20 years later. *Please man, just get the joke, it's funny ok.*
Do you like fishsticks?
People used to joke and say the only reason Denis leary had a career was because Bill Hicks had Cancer.
RIP Bill, you crazy son if a bitch.
Specifically "Bill Hicks died because there is No Cure For Cancer." No Cure For Cancer was Dennis Leary's first standup special and about half was directly lifted from Bill Hicks last tour.
No one could get up in front of a crowd and just be angry like Bill. Dennis Leary doing the same material needed to be a little silly and over the top to deliver it. Bill could spend several minutes telling the advertising people in the crowd to kill themselves with no let up and the crowd would love it
Carlos Mencia was a known joke thief but he never stole from Rogan, and Rogan never hit him. This is factually incorrect.
Rogan confronted him on stage about it, on behalf of other comedians who didn’t have the professional leverage to do so.
You should correct this in your post because the rest of what you said is accurate, but this part brings all that into question.
Not saying you’re lying, this is just what happened and maybe you heard it wrong.
I don't remember him getting punched on stage either, I remember Joe confronting him on stage, and I remember a separate instance where George Lopez claimed to have either punched or choked Mencia over it.
There’s full video of the situation online someplace. I’m just being lazy
Robin Williams used to do it too.
Also Leary stolen from Louis CK too. The asshole song and such is similar to Louis old stuff.
Yup. Watch some of those old stand-up documentaries and it comes up repeatedly: Robin Williams was notorious for stealing jokes.
My understanding has always been that's it's more because of Williams' off the cuff flow style he'd say things that were in his head he'd heard elsewhere but without consciously planning to say it. Then he'd go afterward and pay the comedian the joke originally came from for using their joke.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
he went and punched him on stage once
No he didn't.
I think this is a combination of events being muddied together. George Lopez claimed to have physically assaulted Mencia for stealing his jokes, and Rogan got on stage with Mencia and dressed him down verbally. I definitely don't remember any assaulting by Rogan on video
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The general public didn’t care as much about it back then, and nowadays nobody’s going to complain about anybody doing anything to Bill Cosby.
Also Pryor is dead, it's not gonna affect his career
If you didn't happen to be up at 10:35pm on that specific date, watching that particular channel, paying attention during that specific sentence, and also care that Richard Pryor said that, you wouldn't have ever known. There wouldn't be 200 blogs, articles and Reddit posts within 24 hours, and you couldn't just watch the YouTube video/VOD later.
The Pre-Internet age was wild. The studio/your manager could completely craft your image, and unless you caught your hair on fire live on stage in front of writers from Rolling Stone, the public wouldn't know any better.
Leary stole quite a bit from the late legendary Jay Hickman as well.
Carlos Mencia fell off, but Amy Schumer is still around. She still has her sketch comedy show and just released a netflix special. I don't think the joke stealing accusations have much traction overall. Not saying they're not true, just that people either don't know or don't care to the point where it would substantially impact her career.
Yeah, she's not as hot as she was ten years ago but she's still very much around, she just hosted the Oscars two years ago.
I've heard her show was full of stolen material.
To me, the worst joke she stole and tried to use was when she was a co-host of an awards show and said the same shit that the extremely talented and extremely funny pair of non-stealing comediennes Tiny Fey and Amy Pohler said at the Golden Globes. That it was cheaper to use them as a group, than to hire a single male. Amy Schumer said the exact same line. Exact same. Like two years later.
It was so blatant that I'm still mad about it. Schumer was actually funny when she started. She did funny stuff and had funny bits. She got lazy soon after she hit big and has been an embarrassment to comedy since.
yikes, that's blatant. Although usually award shows are scripted by writers, the host might be given leeway to put their own jokes in or banter for a while or improvise or whatever, but I wonder if that was her or writing staff.
Are you referring "inside Amy Schumer"? That show got cancelled like 3 years ago. The last stand up special she released (as far as I can see) was 5 years ago.
Edit: nvm I see released a Netflix special like last summer. No one bothered to update her Wikipedia page lol.
No one bothered to update her Wikipedia page lol.
damn. harsh lol
Everyone gets an itchy butthole, I can't write a joke about that?
Sure a joke about an itchy butthole is fine, but if your joke includes the use of ketchup, a knuckle, a quart of sauerkraut and a cactus then someone else tells the same joke and keeps everything the same but swaps out ketchup for siracha, you gonna be mad.
Rogan never punched mencia. George Lopez did
The only reason you've ever heard of Denis Leary is because he stole Bill Hicks entire act and persona.
Bill Hicks often joked that he quit smoking later in life just to see if Denis would too
If I remember correctly, there was a joke cut from the Roast of Dennis Leary from Lenny Clarke where he said there was a carton of cigarettes waiting for Leary backstage with a note from Bill Hicks that read: "Wish I had gotten these to you sooner."
Dennis Leary stole the asshole bit from Louis Ck
Dane Cook also was accused of joke stealing from Louis CK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC1JocG-Adg
Personally, I think most joke stealing accusations come down to two people arriving at a similar comedic conclusion to a premise independently, or making a similar observation about life, and the public declaring the more popular comedian the "right" one and vilifying the other. Because it simply doesn't make sense why anyone would purposefully lift a joke, especially from a world famous comedian, knowing how the internal comic community as well as the fanbase reacts to it.
And I mean c'mon man, I love Bill Hicks, but he didn't invent being a funny asshole, that was a schtick that existed long before he was around. The world is full of those kind of guys. As long as they write their own material they can have at it.
Yeah, the Dane Cook accusation always rubbed me the wrong way, even before Louis's fall from grace. They were similar jokes about the same thing (a guy on a bicycle riding into an open car door), but they were very dissimilar in how they were presented. I found it so odd in the Dane Cook episode of Louie where they talk about it and I was completely on Cook's side the entire time. Keep in mind, Louis CK was my favorite comedian at the time and I've never been a big fan of Cook's, but him confronting Louis about how messed up it is that this legendary comedian that everyone in their profession looked up to would casually point fingers at Cook and suggest he lifted material from him was pretty insulting was pretty interesting, especially since Louis wrote the dialogue in that scene (apparently Cook asked to write his own dialogue and Louis refused).
I've personally seen a guy ride his bike into a car door so I could easily see two different comedians joke about it.
I got the impression that his appearance on Louis was intended to be a rebuttal or chance to vindicate himself from the accusations.
Me too. I’m surprised Louis wrote the dialogue, seems like exactly what he would have said.
It was, in every way. And it honestly cleaned Dane Cook up a bit as a comedian. However, him not stealing jokes doesn't mean that his original material is in any way funny. Dude's just not good.
I agree. 'Joke Stealing' has gotten waaaaaaay too easy to 'prove' in the age of social media and YouTube. Jokes aren't complicated mathematical theorems or PhD theses, they're reactions to the surrounding culture, and a lot of times that shit is arrived at independently, especially by people with similar outlooks who are living similar lifestyles.
Sometimes it's egregious, sure, but common phrasing or easy targets don't count as stealing a joke. People are getting ridiculous.
Exactly, and the reasons why the accusations happen are:
1.) Comedians spend a lot of time and effort on their craft and are understandably protective of what they write, but are also incredibly biased due to that and can easily interpret "two people arriving at the same conclusion independently" as theft because of that bias mixed in with some pride and fundamental attribution error.
2.) A lot of fans have a parasocial relationship with these comedians, and feel the need to crusade for them when there is an accusation that they've been wronged.
Yeah, I think Point 2 is really important. 2023 was the year of the Parasocial Relationship for me, a term I was not aware of 18 months ago. The more that term's gotten tossed around, the more I've become aware of the problem and just how deep it goes. It's one of those things that's always been around to an extent, but Social Media culture seems to have made it worse and easier to fall in to.
There’s a 3rd big reason to add here, which is they all frequent the same comedy clubs when they are developing their bits and all watch and listen to each other. Robin Williams spoke about it at length when he addressed his own stealing with Marc Maron years ago. Sometimes you steal material knowingly, sometimes it’s by accident bc you heard it, think it’s your own original thought and work it into your act.
When you decide to accuse someone directly and/or publicly it’s usually bc you literally witnessed them absorb your material and quickly start to use the same idea for their own profit.
You make it sound like that would make it acceptable, it's not. You never hear any comedian saying anything nice about Dennis Leary. That's because he's a joke thief. Carlos Mencia lost his career over stealing jokes. Comedians hate joke thieves.
This article addresses all of it, including the claims of joke-stealing:
https://www.theroot.com/black-twitter-black-hollywood-reacts-to-jaw-dropping-k-1851140771
What a truly unreadable website experience. One sentence at a time broken up by huge ads with the entire thing being covered by a minimum of two pop up ads.
I love that this is what people cared about not Williams claiming Harvey Weinstein tried to pay him to let Harvey suck his dick in front of Kat’s team.
everybody already knew Harvey was freaky deaky and sick.
Not with this those teeth.
Does it seem like he's talking sense, or is he making a ruckus unnecessarily?
little of both but people have verified a lot of his claims
Never can tell what you're gonna get from that dude. Is he dropping truth bombs? Maybe. Is he assaulting and subsequently having his ass kicked by a 7th grader? Also possible.
“verified” is a stretch lol
People have found the plagiarism. Multiple other comics have admitted Katt helped them financially. Gary Owens backed up his claims about the industry wanting you to perform sexual acts to advance your career. Don Curry backed up his claim of the industry wanting to put black comedians in dresses on a consistent basis. Being accepted into college way earlier than normal was verified too — only it wasn't at 7 it was at 12. People even found the Detroit standoff between he and Steve Harvey. Multiple people have also backed up everything he said about the "Friday" series.
I would say verified is a sufficient way to describe the above. He might have exaggerated some things, but a lot of what he says has veracity.
Part of what makes it interesting to watch is it varies wildly. Katt Williams is a person who has witnessed a lot of horror in his life and who has been indoctrinated into multiple extremely hardcore religious movements, so his perception of reality is warped. In this interview he often talks like a survivor of sexual abuse who refuses to accept that he is a survivor of sexual abuse and where that becomes relevant he gets very extreme.
So he says very credible things about Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer disrespecting and wronging comedians like himself and Bernie Mac.
But he also has this weird obsession with men wearing dresses as a ritual humiliation that comes up many times through the interview in weird ways. Like he says Martin Lawrence offered him a co-starring role in Big Momma’s House 2 and he’s extremely upset about it and thinks Martin Lawrence was betraying and humiliating him by offering him a role where he would have to wear a dress.
And then he says things that sound insane, which are at best exaggerations- like that Ludacris made a deal with the Illuminati to be in all the Fast and the Furious movies and get $200 million in exchange for cutting off his sideburns in another Biblical ritual humiliation - and that he was in the final two for this deal but is glad he didn’t get it because it was evil.
He really really hates it when his competitors in the comedy business did better than he did financially because they took advantage of networking and connections - he accuses Kevin Hart of being an industry plant which is odd because at this point Kevin Hart is an industry - and attributes all of it to a conspiratorial “cabal” and implied when he doesn’t outright state that they all were offered these things in exchange for ritual humiliations including degrading sex acts with other men.
There’s some truth in there of course about the abuses in the industry. When he says he wouldn’t work with P. Diddy because P. Diddy would have raped him he seems to be speaking from an honest place. When he suggests that Kevin Hart wearing a dress on Saturday Night Live is evidence he is part of a Satanic conspiracy to manipulate the entertainment industry then you remember he is in the Nation of Islam.
Katt Williams is all over the place with it and keeps going on about it for almost 3 hours. And while he’s doing it he’s talking to Denver Broncos Legend Shannon Sharpe who just drinks cognac the whole time and lets him cook.
This one gets it. Katt Williams Lorekeeper.
thank you for this. seeing a lot of people who are like "he only tells the truth!!!!!!" and im like he accused people of being in the illuminati! said he read 3,000 books a year as child lol. he's nuts but has good stories
i also loved his "no one has ever seen me intoxicated" line because katt what are you talking about? we've all seen the videos!
That intoxicated line really cracked me up. I was like “Could’ve sworn I saw you drunk/high in a Target and also get your ass kicked by a 10 year old in the hood”
Chappelle has also talked about the black comedians in dresses before. It was a very prevalent thing for a time. Martin Lawrence, Chris Tucker, etc.
I think it's filled with homophobia. A lot of white comedians for years and years have done so from Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, SNL ,etc etc and you don't have this conspirational backlash.
Looking back at it though, it reeked of the same overly flamboyant portrayal of black comedians as being effeminate exaggeration under the guise of being “funny and artistic”. Ruby Rhod? I can understand a protest against toxic masculinity with people of color, but there’s historical context to it. For years, black men have been stereotyped as scary, strong, physical people. There is a lot of violence and abuse for men who are outwardly weak appearing in black communities. Katt views Hollywood directors and producers forcing black actors to wear dresses and make-up as an extension of white supremacist imperialism to humiliate role models for black people. Is he right? He might be under stating how involved those black men are in deciding it themselves, but I certainly cannot look at what he’s saying and believe it’s 100% wrong.
If people are bringing up performances like Will Smith in Six Degrees of Separation, then it's not that. Williams is buying to that predominant argument which is based on homophobia. Like I said it's common in both white, black and hispanic comedy forever and yet it's a conspiracy for people like Katt without coming up with why they think it's "humiliating".
This is the best overview I’ve come across. Thank you!
It’s 3 hrs long. There’s a little of this and a little of that
Makes sense, that's reasonable. It's been a while since I heard his name, so with the title and the way things have been, I was worried that he came out extremely unhinged. Glad to hear he's just a guy being a dude.
When I saw the title, my mind also went straight to "Today in Dystopia!"
He’s touring! Go see it .. Katt might show up or he might not ..
I would be much more inclined to believe what he says if he didn't lie so blatantly while he did it.
He said he was accepted into college at age 7
That from the ages of 8 to 12, he read three thousand books a year. That's like 8 books a day.
Etc.
You can't go on a show to set the record straight and throw in all these things.
He said he was accepted into college at age 7
Seriously? The intelligent design guy that did an 8+ minute bit about how evolution is bullshit and people are stupid for accepting it? Are we sure he didn't say 'collage' and was actually talking about an art project in the 1st grade?
Link? I wanna hear that lol
I can only find this 2 minutes clip, maybe I misremembered the length. But while looking for it I also found this unsourced quote which might be from the same stand up:
Kirk Cameron is brilliant. Stephen Hawking is a role model to everybody who has flesh. And if he believes in God, then he’s right. And if he doesn’t believe in God, then he’s just another crippled guy with a bad idea. … God still runs this earth, Satan’s breath still stinks, Charlie Sheen still doin’ crack and Katt Williams is still the funniest black man you’ve ever seen.
That from the ages of 8 to 12, he read three thousand books a year. That's like 8 books a day.
No, you got it wrong, his parents owned stock in Little Golden Books. So most of those books were 16 pages long. They count, though! They count! It's NOT the size that matters!
Keep it going for Katt Williams everybody. Isn’t he adorable? What a cute little kind of person he is. Holy shit. Katt, you’re like Afro-Sheen: some white people have heard of you, but no one knows what you do. What a teeny little pimp. Man, being a pimp ain’t easy, especially when you have to stand on phone books to smack a bitch. You got a great look, Katt. I was backstage, I thought I smelled the stinkiest, nastiest butt - it turns out it was just Katt ironing his hair.
- Greg Giraldo, Roast of Flavor Flav, 8/2007
Greg was gold
was accepted into college at age 7
I thought that might be the record youngest, but apparently there was someone at age 6. Still, being the second youngest would be something to be more well known if true.
Michael Kevin Kearney is the youngest kid to go to college at the age of 6. He graduated college at ten years old with a degree of Associate Science in Geology. Aside from being a college professor, he is a game show contestant who has won cash exceeding a million dollars.
His sister graduated college at 16.
Imagine being the loser of the family for only graduating college at 16.
Wouldn't Katt Williams have been the youngest until Michael Kevin Kearney came along? MKK was born in 84 so he would have been accepted into college in 1990. Katt was born in 71 so he would have been accepted into college before Kearney was born. He would have held that record for 12-13 years before losing it.
Edit - not that I believe Katt's claim, just adding additional information.
You have a point, i really don't know their ages at all, or who was first.
degree of Associate
psshhh, not even a bachelor's, c'mon!!
I’m so happy… I read your comment and thought, “please tell me this is the guy that called his dad to tell him he was gonna win the million dollars” and it IS. I love that video… It’s like a lil internet loop just closed in my brain. Edit: I was wrong, that was John Carpenter!
Not the same guy. The winner who called his dad is John Carpenter
Man, first he makes some great movies, and then wins a million dollars. How wholesome. /s
I can't decide if I'm a giant dork with a particular set of skills or that million dollar question was just really easy.
I think you’re thinking of the IRS agent who was the first to win Who Wants to be a Millionaire. This is someone else.
I remember that, it was such a badass move.
He also said he left home at age 13 with like 2500 bucks in his pocket from mowing lawns and whatnot lol
He can also run a 4.16 in the 40
I’ll probably get a lot of hate for this, but if you follow Katt you’ll notice a pattern.
There is not one interview this man does not do where he isn’t throwing someone under the bus, and trashing them. No matter what the subject is, he always finds a way to get a petty jab in. He will then dress it up as just being ”real” or ”honest” followed by a “I don’t mess with anyone” but what it really boils down to after awhile…is just plain bitterness and jealousy. The black community doesn’t get on him for it, cuz people laugh and think it’s funny and see this as spilling tea. But nothing he said on Club Shay Shay is new to anyone who’s seen his interviews before. Ive heard the same stories, I’ve seen the same fingers point in the same direction…the set up and follow through always is the same.
And if you actually follow this man, and watch his interviews, you will notice that he finds a way to throw jabs at people when it’s not even context of the interview. He also always finds a way to then prop his accomplishments up while downplaying everyone else. Interestingly enough, he never seems to have an off hand remark for those doing worse than him, and that’s by design, how else can he say he’s the one comedian reaching back and helping the new generation? Cedrick may have stolen his material, Tiffany Haddish isn’t funny…but multiple things can be true, along with Katt being envious of the success of his peers.
Edit He never speaks ill of Dave and I think that’s mostly because Dave has proven himself to be the truth. Dave also has just as much dirt on the next guy as Katt claims to have himself. The difference between Katt and Dave, is Dave doesn’t need to sh** on others just to get recognition. Katt can’t talk about his success without doing it on the back of someone else.
I saw him at Wild n Out show in Las Vegas a few years ago. He had a set at the end of the show. For about 30 mins he was funny, then he started rambling about stuff and people started to leave.
2 hours and 45 minutes?!?! I watched a 35 minute video, you mean there's MORE??
The while video is on YouTube; it has almost 21 million views in only 2 days: https://youtu.be/8oRRZiRQxTs?si=-RlvxreDxuO3VZPf
Bunch of clips here: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/katt-williams-shannon-sharpe-interview
I got around to listening to the interview today, and it was a LOT!
Isn’t that what he does on a regular basis?
Question: what does this have to do with Steve Harvey or Dave Chapelle?
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Then he pointed out the Diddy and Will Smith stuff as things he’s been telling people about Hollywood for a long time.
Question: what WIll Smith stuff?
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Old coworker of mine was a producer and left for the same reason. Said Eddie Murphy did not refuse.
Edit: Come to think of it…he mentioned Chris Tucker too. I'd never guess it from the guy who killed the role of Ruby Rhod.
What about Eddie Murphy
That sexual quid pro quo is at least partially responsible for his success.
In an old clip, Katt claimed Chappelle made half a billion for the network but only offered him 10%. Thats where the turning down $50M offer came from. Iirc Chappelle had said he was owed more and it was Netflix who recognized his worth.
I heard the part where he calls out Harvey for being jealous of others talent and not being as funny as several other comedians.
He just spoke his feelings and truths on several topics. The truth pisses most people off.
He claims one comedian is illiterate, a rapper of being mentally ill, and the wife of someone being a "whore".
I agree with him that Steve Harvey is not funny.
He's got a funny stank face that works perfectly for family feud, but his stand up was ass.
I was hoping someone would link meatcanyon
wtf did i just watch?
His teeth are very funny though.
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Nah that's for true, he sold them for a buck a piece, stole two thousand a day
Crazy how no one is even fact checking Katt. And if they respond then they're just being salty. Katt fans are insane.
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I watched the whole thing, what do you think he's lying about? He's kind of on one like he's having a mental health episode and says stuff like he used to read 3000 books a year. But the stuff about other black comedians what do you think he's lying about?
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I think the complaints about Steve Harvey, Cedric, and Rickey Smiley that got clipped are mostly legitimate. Like saying, "I said a joke in my special that they used on the commercial for BET and then he used it in Kings Of Comedy and lied about it." That stuff seems true. But having listened to the whole interview now I'm inclined to agree with you, and it seems like most people commenting haven't heard the whole thing. He talks about auditioning for the Illuminati with Ludacris, keeps implying people joined the Illuminati or cabal by marrying a "light skinned woman". He says white woman a couple times, but says "light skinned woman" maybe 20 times, which is kind of alarming eventually. The idea is that Steve Harvey remarrying to a "light skinned woman" really means something about his character and him being a sellout. In summary he's doing a Kanye, he's not okay.
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This. My coworker was the one that told me about the interview. I watched it and came back the next day pretty much telling him this. Theres probably a decent amount of truth in what he said but it all came across as eccentric. How much truth? I dont know but I know but some of his self proclamations seemed untrue. I didnt fact check though. Were they lies told in jest? Maybe but then what else was? Idk...He is a comedian after all. I kind of liken it to Kanye Wests many rants. Heres someone that has relevant career accolades and long work history to suggest he has a lot of industry secrets. He has a soliid fanbase as well. So im not surprised some people are acting as if he spoke nothing but facts.
I was thinking the same thing. I was with him until he started showing how arrogant and narcissistic he is. He thinks he's the smartest person in the room and talks down to people a lot.
Cedric the entertainer does have a Netflix special.
He wasn't lying about Bernie Mac. Ice cube is backing him up 100. Must be they're in on the lies together.
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I believe the bit about putting on the dress. I also believe lots of people sell their soul. Call it the illuminati or call it a job that steals your soul by crushing it day in and out.
I mean people believe that we came from man's rib and worship a sky daddy who has a list of 10 things he doesn't want you to do. Selling your "soul" to a group of Hollywood weirdos doesn't seem that far fetched
...but that rapper is Kanye West and he actually had a pretty sympathetic and nuanced take about the situation. You should watch that shit.
Yeah, I only saw the clip and still came back thinking he wasn't attacking Kanye. He was attacking everyone that takes Kanye so seriously.
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A Looooot of people say stuff about S. Harvey. do some digging, it's insane
Answer: Kat Williams did an interview on Shannon Sharpe's podcast. Currently at 14 million views on You Tube and that's within 48 hours.
OK to properly explain this you need some history.
- Kat is an OG comedian. He has been in the game for decades, since the 90's. And being in the entertainment game for as long as he has comes with history with others.
Now to Kat's credit 90% of what he said on the interview with Shannon. He has said before. If you followed Kat's career and listened to interviews he has given at various radio stations. He has said these things before.
But because the voices of the other comedians were getting heard more due to their platforms. It never caught on. Until he got on to Shannon's platform. Shannon had an established audience. And most importantly, Shannon lets his guests talk, he doesn't corral them or limit them or cut them off. Which is a rare combo
So why the heat.
Ugh... OK, personal note I live in LA for 15 years and worked in health care. Got in with some celeb trainers and got exposed to a few things.
Bottom line. No one breaks through with out a little compromise. Now this does not always mean "casting couch," or the infamous "putting on a dress." Sometimes it involves looking the other way on things you notice, "lightening up" your act or stand up, or being ok being around certain types of people. Not everybody is cool with it.
Secondly, Kat has always been himself. Without compromise, this has lead to a strong following. Personally I think the man is a genius, not a comedic genius. I mean a legit genius. I can't say he's as smart as he claims. But he reminds me of some "Sheldon Coopers" I have worked with. Brilliant, but if you don't communicate with them in a certain way they are not easy to be around.
From a business standpoint he's the guy who grosses a million dollars and keeps 80%, while the other person grosses 10 million but only gets to keep 20%.
The latter person will eventually make more money than Kat but not with out some compromises or being beholden to other people. Not only is Kat beholden to no one. He has legitimately helped multiple people in the entertainment field, and I mean some big names in the field today financially as well as emotionally.
The other factor is the "Sell out" issue. In the black community there is a tightrope you walk with being successful and being seen as a sell out. That's a whole other long post, debate, argument. But in a nutshell, there are a wide variety of Black Americans despite what gets portrayed on TV.
Kat feels that other comedians have compromised themselves to get where they are, aka sold out. And he's not the only one who feels that way. At the same time on the other side there is the feeling that some needed to compromise to get to that next level to help other people up without them having to compromise as much.
An example of this would be Bill Cosby vs Red Foxx. We're going to ignore the legal issues here. In my opinion Red Foxx is just as good, just as iconic comedian as Bill Cosby. But his style of comedy is not going to gather as big an audience following as Bill's. So Bill made more money overall. Red was not going to compromise.
Also Kat has issue with Cedric the Entertainer telling a similar joke to his on his "Kings of Comedy" tour. I am not ready to say he full out stole it because that's a whole other dynamic. I am not a stand up comedian, so I feel that's outside my scope of knowledge.
OK, so to try to sum this up. Among black comedians Kat was and is one of the best. These other comedians ended up surpassing him in public attention and money due to in his opinion selling out, compromising and stealing.
Or in some cases dumb luck by sucking up to Joe Rogan. Again, his view not mine.
Kat can back up a lot of what he says, at the same time we all have our own truths and we make choices that effect us. For example Kevin Hart went full into the use of social media with his stand up career to build himself up after the Soul Plane flop, to create his opportunities. Kat chose not to go that route. And still doesn't really do social media.
Kat came out and basically broke down every thing he has been saying for the last 10 years in one "interview."
Only now, his words are really being heard.
Now this does not always mean "casting couch," or the infamous "putting on a dress."
What's "putting on a dress"? I searched it, but I just got results of how to put on a dress.
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Exactly. Although personally I feel the pressure put on Jaleel White given his age was unnecessary.
Do they do this to everyone because Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, Zach Galifianakis, Jared Leto, Tim Curry, Willem Dafoe, Tom Hanks, Patrick Swayze, Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc all wore em.
If you believe what Katt Williams is saying, it’s a Hollywood thing more than a race thing although there is more emphasis put on it for black men. Basically saying that people like Harvey Weinstein will essentially force up and coming young men in the industry to emasculate themselves in order to receive further opportunities
Yeah it just feels like theyll do things to remind you who owns you. I do believe there is an emphasis on black men to emasculate them though.
That video is some conspiracy theory bullshit
Agreed. Thought something real serious happened with the first caption over Oprah holding her expression an uncomfortable amount of time... then I realized it was doctored.
I remember Chappelle talking about this on his Inside the Actor’s Studio episode
It’s nonsense. It comes from People who think the illuminati is in control of who ends up famous or not. Part of their theory is that A) the illuminati exists & B) they force men to publicly humiliate themselves by wearing dresses, in exchange for fame. If you have twitter, check out some of the stuff people have been saying about Kid Cudi since he wore a dress. It’s unhinged and not based In really.
Kat chose not to go that route. And still doesn't really do social media.
And the only reason people are thinking about Kat right now at all is because of what he just did on social media.
I care nothing for Kat.
Calling people who believe in evolution "you dumb mother fucker you": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe78LRY9VYk
Years later he eases up, saying he believes in evolution but god did it: https://youtu.be/SoHe1KqMWl0?si=Z5Vtqns36bvNgllI&t=62
He is no genius.
Yikes. That was brutal.
I like Kat but I agree he is doing this primarily to boost his career again. He has gotten more publicity and notoriety over this podcast than he has had in a decade.
People act like hes doing some kind of sacrifice or greater good scenario. Hes still looking out for Kat and airing dirty laundry gets his name back in the spotlight.
This barely answers the question at all and is instead your lengthy biased (not necessarily wrong, just against the answering guidelines) opinion as to who Kat Williams is and why he is the way that he is.
It exactly answers the question. He made inflammatory statements about other famous comedians on a show with a large viewer base while he himself has a large and loyal audience of people. That is stated above.
We're going to agree to disagree. The reason Kat is every where right now is because he was recently on Shannon Sharpe's podcast. That's the answer.
But the reason why a man who most don't see on TV, or in movies can have this big an impact with his views. You can't ignore that.
Yes I added my take on the back story, but I answered the question. Every one has their biased. Which is why I was clear about my feelings about Kat in explaining my take on his back story. People can take it as they want.
But the reason why a man who most don't see on TV, or in movies can have this big an impact with his views. You can't ignore that.
I think your reasons make sense for you and most of his fans but as far as i can tell its because hes always saying crazy shit or something wild so a lot of people are just like "oh shit what did he say this time?" Cuz its just what he does.
The last time he had this much attention was when that clip of him fighting a 12 yr old was going around
Agree to disagree.
He was on the Sherri show 2 months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oEoYeQ0-IU&t=199s
He's still doing comedy shows and specials with other comedians. He has multiple specials on Netflix.
He has as much attention as any comedian could want, outside the stadium headliners.
If you're not a fan that's fine. But that doesn't diminish what his career is
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Good explanation. I like Katt, but I feel like he can be bitter and he exaggerates a bit on the “sell out” parts. I am not black, but I am familiar with many of the stories and conspiracies he and others like Dave Chappell have talked about.
To pretend that asking a man to wear a dress for a bit or a movie is something that’s mainly done to black men is a complete mischaracterization of the truth. Many men of other races have dressed up as women over the years (or women as men). I don’t think it’s necessarily something that “you have to do in Hollywood”. But I do believe there are roles that more popular “family friendly” actors have taken. As an example, Matt Damon is a popular actor that gets paid, I don’t remember seeing him in a role dressed as a woman. This is because he’s an action/drama actor, not a family friendly actor. Actors have many choices they have to make, being typecast is one of them.
Answer: "Katt Williams Shannon Sharpe Interview refers to a viral video and interview in which comedian Katt Williams appeared on the Club Shay Shay podcast hosted by former football player and sports commentator Shannon Sharpe in early January 2024. The long-form interview, which delved into many facets of Katt's career and of comedy as a whole, went viral overnight as several clips of Katt talking about other famous comedians began to circulate on social media, some of which also became used in memes."
Answer: Katt Williams is batshit crazy.
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