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The legendary Katt Williams, hailed by many as the greatest comedian alive, joins Shannon Sharpe at Club Shay Shay for an explosively candid conversation. Renowned as one of America’s most exceptional entertainers, Katt fearlessly takes shots at fellow comedians like Rickey Smiley, Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey and Kevin Hart. He opens up about his turbulent life, revealing his homelessness experience after moving out at 13 and shares the financial challenges he faced in kickstarting his comedy career. Also, Katt recalls what lead to his famous outburst on Wanda Smith’s radio show and how he found himself staring down the barrel of a gun afterwards. Amidst laughter and revelations, Katt Williams pays homage to Ice Cube, giving him the flowers Katt feels he’s deserved for a long time. The conversation turns philanthropic as Kat discusses giving back and helping up-and-coming comedians financially after successful shows. Katt delves into personal aspects, explaining why he’s never been married and addressing the situations involving Taraji P. Henson, Nick Cannon, Jonathan Majors, and Kanye West. Katt reflects on the comedy landscape of a bygone era, shedding light on the dynamics within the Kings of Comedy and their negative sentiments toward Bernie Mac. This episode is a rollercoaster of humor and unfiltered truths showcasing Katt Williams in a light that goes beyond the stage.
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Katt Williams Unleashed | EP. 102
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The price want a slice got the roll a dice that’s why all my life I rning on my life hello welcome to another episode of Club sh Shay I am your host Shannon sharp I’m also the proprietor of Club sh the guy that’s stopping by for conversation and the drink today ladies
And gentlemen you’re going to love him some call him the greatest the greatest one of the greatest comedians Dead or Alive one of America’s greatest entertainers one of the funniest men on the planet world-renowned multi-talented a comedy Legend he’s touring he’s the top touring comedian selling out Arenas he’s a hilarious Storyteller Emy
Awardwinning actor voice actor rapper writer producer director icon genius a National Treasure philanthropist humanitarian social activist a father one of the great funny men of Our Generation and any Generation Mr Cat Williams thank you sir that was magnificent you are you are you are magnificent at intros and
You did not skimp on mine I appreciate it appreciate that you know anytime you come to club sh Shay we have to toast yes bro you’ve been doing it I mean you told you one of the top tour you’re the one of the top touring comedians of all
Time you already got started before we started taping I did appreciate that tell the people at home I thought they was lying and um yeah this particular alcohol is stronger than you think it would be probably by about two and unbelievably smoother and milder by the same maybe 30% than you
Could possibly expect and unlike knacs the world over this one doesn’t taste like wood at the end and it doesn’t taste like it’s got artificial colors and it doesn’t taste like it’s got artificial flavors uh it’s a it’s a fine product he’s a conso you can tell he’s a
Con a KAC connoisseur he understands the method that goes into making knac right well as a comedian you get free drinks at the club so all comedians either turn out to be connoisseurs like myself or straight up and down alcoholics like 60% of Hollywood well thanks thanks for
Stopping by the club I understand that you’re very very busy and for you to take time out of your busy schedule and stop in today we really really appreciate here at Club Shay Shay so thanks for stopping by cat and I needed you to know why I came by yeah I need
You to tell us why people know I don’t go everywhere I’m not interested in talking to people unless it’s like a Larry King or somebody of an amazing ilk that I would actually want to go talk to in real life okay um I don’t do it so I
Can sell product and I got things to sell so let me come talk um you have a great product here and as a fan base we love the attention that you spend on the guest we we love how much work you’ve done how well you know them how prepared
You are the same things that we liked about you in football you brought that on over to here and that’s uh why it resonates and the reason I had to come is because you made a safe place for the truth to be told you know what I mean
Thank and I have watched all of these low breath prow comedians come here and disrespect you in your face and tell you straight up lies I’m talking about things that have never been heard in all of black Hollywood they feel comfortable sitting here and lying to you about it
You going say the record straight are you kidding me you let Ricky Smiley sit here and you said out that mouth you stole Friday After Next the one I was in I wish all all of americ fumbled a bit when that happened and then he said some
Stuff that we haven’t heard in 100 years in Hollywood you ain’t say nothing this man told you he had Cat Williams role he was going to be Money Mike and Cat Williams was going to be was going to be the Santa Claus now let’s three quick
Points you mean in Hollywood they cast a 5 foot5 black Santa Claus that weigh 145 lbs that’s your story your story is the Ricky Smiley that couldn’t even do curse words because he had a Christian fan base he was going to play the pimp why
You didn’t ask him why has he played a woman in more movies than he’s played a man well I didn’t know he he shouldn’t be able you wouldn’t let a athlete that been on steroids talk about one of the greats Ricky Smiley can’t act cuz Ricky
Smiley can’t act he told you the story about when the movie came out where did he say he watch it at home he wasn’t even at the premiere you telling this man you stole that oh so he could get his name in the same sentence with a
Great one it is sad he was just that bitter when we were shooting it he told everybody it should have been my role everybody on the scene why do you think no cast member has ever said anything he couldn’t have played that role like you
I thought he sir no one why no he was with KD he beat get up Terry Cruz why nobody know this story you talking about in Hollywood they switched off road you take this and he what so Ricky Ricky Smiley knows this and I don’t know why
He would lose a child and come on the air and start lying that’s why people believe in rituals right there is because well why would he lie I don’t know why Liars lie but I can tell you this we auditioned in Los Angeles yes I was audition number 2011
200 black comedians auditioned for the role of Money Mike with me you’re saying all 200 and one of us was auditioning and you had already had the roll and had already shot the roll in four days the truth of the matter is the Money Mike in the original script got
Raped in the bathroom and that’s what Ricky Smiley was okay with Cat Williams had to take the risk in front of the studios and the cast and our power hours that be in his very first movie and say respectfully humbly guys if we talking about anything else I have no
Credibility and I have no pull but we’re talking about comedy right where I have all the credibility and all the pool the problem with Friday After Next is we’re trying to make a classic comedy and this comedy involves a rape and rape is never funny no matter who who it happens to or
What the circumstances are if you would allow me to allow us to do this movie without a black man getting raped in it I promise you that it will be twice as funny as it would be with him getting raped so considering that’s the real story why would you bring up that story
35 members of the cast and crew have never brought up that Ricky Smiley was GNA play Money Mike no one ever saw me put on a Santa Claus suit we got a wardrobe department they made a santa claw suit for me why that wasn’t in the bloopers what and and here’s the other
Thing everything that money Mike said Cat Williams wrote so what Ricky Smiley say on his you can’t say my lines I wrote them that’s how I all ready know that I’m going to be funnier than you what he told everybody was Cat Williams and don’t nobody know who he is I’m on the
Radio I’m with Steven said everybody know me that’s what he told everybody that we listen to on the set that’s the truth of the matter he was so egregious not now then he was so egregious that and Hollywood has never heard this in a hundred years he was so egregious I put
In my contract that I won’t work with Ricky Smiley again unless he’s in a dress now what was Ricky Smiley’s next movie was it first Sunday did he wear a dress in it you bet he did it’s in my contract why would you put that in your
With in your contract cat that’s where he’s the a believable actor him and Tyler Perry can’t play a man to save their life they play good women and I believe that the best actor should be in the best role so that’s why because when we released that clip and he said that you
Responded because he said he was supposed to play money mik and you were supposed to say play Santa Claus an outright lie so that he knows is a lie so why would he say it cuz he’s a liar Nobody Knows Why Liars lie and that’s
Why I had to come on the program Cedric did the same thing Cedric told you when you asked him did you steal Cat Williams joke he said it don’t line up how it don’t line up that I did it on TV in 2018 you came to see me at The Comedy
Store do it in 2019 and then did it on the Kings of Comedy like what doesn’t line up I this is a televised joke that Mark Curry helped me punch up and get to the level that it was the same Steve that went to go watch Mark Curry do his
Whole sitcom and then stole everything Mark Curry had now Steve got a sitcom where he the principal and he wear a suit and he and then he gets this high top fade making all black men think he got the best lineup in the business and
It’s a man unit then you ask why you not a movie star I didn’t want to be a movie star that’s the same negro that hated on Bernie with this same thing I didn’t want to be a movie star no you couldn’t be a movie star there are 30,000 new
Scripts in Hollywood every year not one of them asked for a country bumpkin black dude that can’t talk good over and look like Mr Potato Head there ain’t none you would have to have a range I played a lot of characters 60 movie roles I’m not playing Cat Williams in
There I don’t know I don’t know cat we might not let you drink anymore the way you you I mean we ain’t even got I’m not fuel by alcohol I’ve had a sip less than you the truth don’t need motivation I’m just saying I can’t let these dudes lie
Cedric sitting here telling you why he ain’t a movie star he over here look like a walrus you didn’t say nothing he can’t even get his arms off his stomach sitting over why I’m not a movie what he never wrote anything remember when Cedric the Entertainer starts he’s
Supposed to be singing dancing and telling jokes that’s why he’s called the Entertainer we found out he can’t sing can’t dance and doesn’t write jokes he did four comedy specials they’re so bad Shannon they’re not available on Netflix or tub can I say that again for the
Audience they’re so bad that they’re not available on Netflix or Tob you don’t think s’s a good a good comedian the world doesn’t think that sir I have 12 comedy specials he has four specials that are not available on Netflix or to be it seems to me cat that you had a lot
To get off your chest no no you wanted to set the record winners are not allowed to allow losers to rewrite history I don’t say any of these things if my name is not breached by these people on your platform they if you give a liar a
Platform to lie then I I’m not being messy by saying hold on that never happened it’s untrue and there are hundreds of witnesses for each thing I’m saying so let me ask you this what is your relationship with Steve Harvey Ricky Smiley and Cedric Entertainer as
You sit here currently they for 30 years they’re a group these aren’t three random guys the way that that Ricky Smiley kept appearing at all of my auditions is because of Stephen said he would tell anybody that listen they got a gang on that side they know what it is
They know who the gang is why earthquake not in movies cuz he’s illiterate he can’t read and they found that out when they gave him a show and put the cards in front of him like all of these dudes are co- entwined and they share secrets
And this is the age of Truth and and and the truth doesn’t need to be scared of the fact that people tell lies uh cats on drugs where are the stories why is there no story of anybody who ever sold a drug to me did a drug with me was
Around me when I was inebriated I got five daughters I got five Sons why would we tell these ridiculous stories because it’s competition you you feel like well why comedy comedy guys can’t just get along why why didn’t you get along with the other teams you were competing
Against if you’re a Denver Bronco why you don’t get along with the Cowboys something wrong with you but I don’t disagree I don’t just likee all the Cowboys cat damn you like dis like okay what comedians do you like did you play against the team yes I’ve taken 46
Comedians with me on the road 46 okay I’m not the comedian you can give that too I only put on comedians that are funnier than me anybody that ever told you differently was a fat Faison liar there’s nobody like me in the business just called straight Faison said that getting a
Netflix special is easy I have 12 specials guess how many fison got zero why is he allowed to have conversations about real standup people we do not let people who are on the juice discuss real athletes that’s all as a journalist that’s all that’s all I’m saying I don’t
Have Harbor any resentment to any of these entities because I can’t be jealous I’ve never seen them have anything that I ever wanted if you sign up for their program you get a lightskinn weird faac wife that never do an interview listen in 20 years won’t do an
Interview nobody’s ever talked to her and she’s never been interviewed any where and now understand I’m not talking about one person what I just told you applies to seven people how they all end up with that that’s part of what you get I came in this business saying I was going to
Expose when I talked about Michael Jackson when I talked about R Kelly they canell me for these things because why would you talk about another black dude race is not where the line is drawn it’s God’s side and the other side and we don’t care nothing about the
Other side period period all of these uh big dick deviants is all catching hell in 2024 it’s up for all of them it don’t matter if you Diddy or whoever you is TG Jes any of them the every all lies will be exposed that’s all and and and and
Anyone who takes that the wrong way know why they take it the wrong way the truth is the light I need have another one of these amen amen [ __ ] kind of get here right after that I don’t really kind of know where to go let me one more [Laughter]
Time right we good now because the people want to know why would he get black ball yeah oh because because because in 30 years I’ve done nothing but collect information knowledge and your secrets so if you and a man was in a corner doing something you wasn’t
Supposed to be doing you will tell it no somebody come to tell me okay I gather that I value that I’ll pay for that come tell me I know so many things I shouldn’t know and they all know it they all know it why because you don’t make
Me the villain not the guy that raises black children and they never done a hard drug in his life and don’t have no stories of doing nobody dirty and they’ll just go out and they’ll lie the the industry doesn’t mess with cat cuz he didn’t show up for the studi no
Studios have ever said that look at my IMDb it will show you that no Studio has ever lost money with me on the script how that’s why I’m saying that’s why I can’t let Ricky Smiley say he was supposed to play Money Mike because I wrote the words for Money Mike I
Designed the hair for Money Mike I collaborated with the Wardrobe department and made outfits to make sure that no one in America would be wearing What Money Mike was wearing I told them to go get the prowler I then told him to paint it purple I told him don’t have a
Actor at playing a pimp we could get an actual pimp Arch Bishop Magic Don Juan to play like I I did far too much work for somebody to come years later and try to tag along just for their own self aggrandisement why didn’t Cube say the record straight Terry Cruz could have
Set the record straight Mike EPS could have set the record straight why none of them set the record straight that’s what you were supposed to ask him when he told you those lies that no one’s ever heard right but he’s telling you something no one’s ever heard of nobody
Has ever heard oh Matt Ben Affleck and Matt Damon was in a movie and somebody said y’all should switch roles like this is a business but that’s the thing C normally when people will give you information I’m thinking I’m hearing it for the first time and they’re giving
Information no one else knows or have ever heard so I’m taking them at face value these are lot this is like Steve Harvey telling people he used to be homeless that’s my story that’s not his story Steve Harvey was never homeless when he Mark Curry was touring with him
25 years ago he was making $3,000 a show in cash and doing five shows a week did they just tell the stories this my thanks to my wife I’m where I am you said that about the first wife you forget that you told it was her then you
Went and married somebody else that think like a man like what are you talking about they just they think they can rewrite history that uh uh guy Tori did a beautiful special about The Comedy Store in Fat Tuesday where he said that Steve and Cedric and Kevin Hart and
Tiffany hadish came through there and made all lies Stephen Cedric never performed at The Comedy Store at all Tiffany was only seen at the lab Factory in 15 years in Hollywood no one in Hollywood has a memory of going to a sold out Kevin Hart show there being a
Line for him ever getting a standing ovation at any Comedy Club he already had his deals when he got here have we heard of a comedian that came to LA and in his first year in La he had his own sitcom on network television and had his
Own movie called Soul Plan that he was leading no we’ve never heard of that before that person or since that person what do you think a plant is maybe people don’t understand the definitions of these words he just did his documentary with Chris Rock where he shows you that his
Whole upbringing and comedy was on the East Coast yeah so how simultaneously was he here in Los Angeles doing the same thing it did happen it didn’t happen and I I I hate to seem like a petty individual for picking apart lies but Jesse smle going to keep lying until
You say we don’t believe you like it’s important in the checks and balances of the universe that Liars not get to make complete narratives for themselves are you not afraid about being black balled again these are some power people what do you mean again these people are not powerful Satan can’t create
Anything that includes blessings for his people that’s why you know what the number one job of somebody that sold their soul in Hollywood is what is to act like it didn’t happen they all do the same job why do you think Gary Owen can’t cross over and he already whiteed and
Been in comedy for 25 years if what I say ain’t the case it’s a cabal it’s a it’s a Consortium they they rock with who they rock with and they don’t with who they don’t but I’m not scared of being the competition anymore than you were when
You ly signed up across from a superior team yeah on paper they’re a better team they have all the assets and resources and we don’t but let us get on the line boy boy and see if that factors in I I guarantee you it won’t wow because Shannon sharp got to be a
Different person than that other person absolutely and he always was that doesn’t change when I change teams That Remains the Same that’s how a legacy is built all of these shortcut takers I I was they cancelled me for talking about Harvey Weinstein before the thing came
Out but he offered to suck my penis in front of all my people at my agency what am I supposed to do he did all of that I’m thinking I’m the only black person on the script I get there it’s three other black guys on there woo huh so you
Wonder what they did to get I told him no what y’all do and this is why when I walk in a room heads go down behind my back I’m nothing I’m just a regular old comedian that’s bitter and jealous but in my face no no no the King
Has walked in and they have to respect it only because I’m not taken the shortcuts I’ve not been funded they pay you to not talk about things they don’t want you to talk about they tell you that themselves I can’t do that cuz I Steve told you that he stopped doing
Standup because he has seven TV shows the only problem is when he stopped stand up he didn’t have those seven TV shows he stopped stand up because he got in a comedy battle called the championship of standup comedy with one Cat Williams in Detroit in front of 10,000 people and lost because Cat
Williams said he was actually bald and that was a wig and I went in and that’s why he couldn’t do stand up anymore imagine him coming to tell you another story where he got so big and it was Bernie and them’s fault cuz they wanted to be movie stars
What you called ocean 11 to get that nigga’s part what do you mean you didn’t want to be a movie star so on the behalf of Bernie I I would have to say what I have to say have you ever been have you ever been on tour with any of these guys the
GU I every guy I mentioned to you is not funny out there in real life so no Faison’s never done his own tour in 30 years Steve Harvey don’t do stand up no more Cedric doesn’t write I’m sorry he doesn’t write Ricky Smiley has been playing the same old black woman forever
Like you can’t get a young fan base with that like you got to be doing karaoke around the country to make that work right and he is but I’m a standup comedian this is my 19th 100 City Tour I’m not gonna have a conversation with these lazy bums
That’ll take a shortcut at any point yes it’s easier for you to juice than to get in the gym but you don’t get to bring that body in here talking crazy talk about how good you look what no no there’s too many Comics out there that are putting their life on the
Line to tell these jokes man okay let’s get to your upbringing we’re gonna Circle back and we get huh I want to protect real quick you had said for the Kings of Comedy it was in 2018 2019 but did you mean 1999 because it came out in 2000 so I
Just want to make I no no no so what I meant to say was remember he said I couldn’t do standup anymore I had seven TV shows I say he didn’t have any of those TV shows at the time I you about you about Cedric J
From you said that 2018 2019 but it came out in 2000 so I just want to make sure okay no no no no no what comes out in 2000 the original Kings of Comedy right my I’m on BET’s Comic View and they’re using this as the commercial in
1998 that’s why I’m saying yeah so if I yeah so if I said the dates wrong let’s go back and clear that up okay you said yeah I had Cedric on here and I asked him about the jokes he said the timeline doesn’t add up to
To to that point you say right so he thought that I was just a no-name comedian and that he could take this joke and nobody would know right the issue was that I had already done this particular joke on BET’s Comic View twice right it had done so well on BET’s
Comic View that they have made it part of the commercial so part of the commercial of make sure you tune in to bet was you seeing me doing this joke and this joke is one of those jokes in comedy where you set it up and it takes
A little longer to set it up takes about 3 minutes but then you’re just hitting them with jokes after that cuz you don’t have to set it up right uh Mark Curry had already helped me work on this joke because I thought it was good cuz I was
Getting a standing ovation on it he had me go back in the lab then help me craft it to be an even more powerful joke so this is not just a random joke this is my very best joke and it’s my last joke and it’s my closing joke okay
1998 I’m doing this joke it’s on Comic View Cedric comes to The Comedy Store he watches me in the audience he comes backstage he tells me what a great job I did and how much he loves the joke two years later he’s doing that as his last
Joke on the Kings of Comedy and he’s doing it verbatim he’s just changed my my car into a spaceship him and Steve had already apologized for me so I gave him a pass for a decade why would you sit here and be like I talked to I saw cat 30
Times and Cat didn’t do as I stand before you Shannon I would have bust Cedric’s stomach there was nothing that would have kept me from one of these in in that patch right there like are you kidding me why would you downplay me like that why did I give you a pass if
You were just going to lie and so that’s what I’m saying like they’re all a group Cedric Steve Ricky they’ve been a group everybody knows that they’ve been aligned and and there are these alliances in comedy and if you stand against them then they sometimes have a
Problem but we don’t let that change the content because that’s all you know me for is that I’m quite likely to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God can you believe we’re this deep into the NFL season we got to make every second count with draftking
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Raised in Dayton Ohio what was Cat Williams upbringing like your parents were Jehovah Witness you were a a prodigy you were brilliant you talk to me that you got accepted in college at 7 years of age you can read fluently at 3 years of age so having that kind of
Knowledge having that kind of of of of of of prodigy or so what was so I mean was it what was your upbringing how how was it how was life as Cat Williams crunk coming up um I I I was often confused because I knew
Things and I wasn’t sure how I knew him um I knew things that I felt like I don’t have a reason that I I know this but I I love to read um I was voracious because they told me when I was young that knowledge was powerful uh that knowledge was power and
And I had studied powerful people and I I um I really believe that I I I immediately my next project was to read the whole Encyclopedia set so when you’re like six s years old you read the whole encyclopedia said you think you one of the smartest people in the world
Only to get out in the world and find out you don’t know anything you know so it um it was a it was a confusing time but yeah I had a childhood I was I was grown but I I at 5 years old I was in front of 5 10,000 people given a
Performance with a full suit and tie on you know what I mean so it hasn’t it had it it it came full circle um for my life I knew that the Applause and um the giving of information and laughs and Truth to people somehow benefited them and also benefited you and
Um yeah so when they would ask me what I wanted to be everything that I would say that I wanted to be was something that didn’t exist and they would never give me credit for it because I needed to say um a doctor or a lawyer but that’s not
What I wanted to be so your parents weren’t as supportive as you would have hoped because you were wanting to be things when you got older that they had no knowledge of or it didn’t exist at the time no it it wasn’t that it it was um I’m saying
I’m I’m almost a 100 years old right now but if we go outside right now I can run a 4340 or or sub I can do a 416 if I Jimmy John across the street we can order a sub but um oh you been on the submarine that what you sub so
Um so back then it was even greater so you got this guy that all the coaches want to play he C don’t do that hold on because I’m I’m 5 foot five in the fifth grade I’ve been this size my whole life like there was a portion of school where
I was one of the big dudes like it just as soon as everybody caught a grow spurt I was out out of there but I’m I’m saying I was a competitive individual my father was an ath like like like no I’ve been 145 lbs my whole career that’s why
I never bothered when they said your cats on drugs I knew how you going to prove that I’m my body is a temple i’ I’ve been the same size since I was 10 like what do you yeah like I I haven’t I haven’t changed off this pivot foot this has
Always been who I was before standup or anything but it was a um it was an interesting childhood I I I appreciate my parents even though um I couldn’t live within the religious Frameworks of what they had set up um but that was more not wanting to live a double life
And not want to embarrass my family you know what I mean because I read where a form of punishment for you is that they would take books because you mentioned you were such a voracious reader and a form of punishment was when they would to take the books for because you could
Read fluently you you you told me how at like three or four years old you could read read read not not just a little child’s book but you could read read well I’m saying when we when we go to Haiti to do missionary work understand that my mother and my father
Nobody that’s there with us speaks French and I mean it speaks Creole and reads French so I’m in charge of everything from the housing to the cars to the The Gardener like I I’m saying so I’m not just reading I’m reading in multiple languages like I’m I’m probably
Reading 3,000 books a year from the time that I’m 8 years old to the time that I’m 12 no no no fiction books at all I’m only reading nonfiction you could drive at 12 you received a full scholarship to the National Science Academy in Dayton Ohio
But you failed so you couldn’t become so you would become ineligible why didn’t you want to take that opportunity I didn’t see it as an opportunity when I got in there all the students were wearing lab coats and it seemed very confined and restricted and nobody
Seemed like they were having fun it just seemed like everybody was smart I I didn’t want that that was that wasn’t what I was signing up for at all and plus um I thought that I was I Jesus was my big homie so you know how you get a
Story about a dude joined the gang and you get a big home right like at this particular point in my life I’m my thought is that the Bible is the greatest book that’s ever been written okay that it houses the truth and that it gives you this story of Jesus and
That I’m supposed to be like him okay so I it’s already in my head that as soon as I get 13 I’m leaving you you you at 13 you don’t only like okay Mama moving out you move from Ohio to Florida on your own you weren’t afraid I mean you like
Did you on did you not have so what were you so what were you going to do when you got to Florida don’t say I wasn’t afraid there’s no such thing as a human being of not being afraid okay there are certain human beings that understand
That being afraid in no way stops you from doing what you got to do okay so um I I was afraid um but I couldn’t be that afraid because I knew what had happened with Jesus I knew how it worked out I I I knew that I wasn’t in the wrong with
How I was feeling and I knew that I I didn’t have any bad intentions in it right so I trusted God that it will work out why Florida um because I if you’re raised in Ohio the one thing on your list is I’m going to get away from snow and I’m
Going to get as far I want to go tell me the place I literally went to a truck stop and I asked all the truck drivers where they was going and there was one guy going to California and it was one guy going to Florida and they told me
How long it was going to take and so that’s why I ended up in Miami because how’ you get there you c a bus or no I just told you I was at the truck stop I heit I got in I didn’t hitchhike I got in the back of the dude’s 18-wheeler me
And my Rottweiler puppy and my suitcase yeah because I was I probably had $2,500 on me like I like I was shoveling snow and cutting grass like I always that pocket full of money when did you make the decision that you were going to leave Ohio and go somewhere and
It ended up being Florida so but when did you know that you were leaving Dayton Ohio going to Florida and my father and I’s last interaction um somebody could have not made it and we both understood that was all bad was the disagree AG about
Um if if you say that my family is very religious let just say I’m not so anything that I I’m going to do is not is going to fall out of the guidelines right but I’m not going to let you tell me what I’m going to be even especially
If what you’re saying is wrong I can’t condone wrong and if I find out that something’s wrong and I tell you it’s wrong and you don’t me that’s what it is even as a young child you were willing to tell your parents that some of the things that
You’re saying doesn’t coincide what I’ve been reading in in in the Bible no no very simply don’t don’t try to disfellowship me for sexual acts and I’m a virgin Sorry God Don’t Make Mistakes you don’t get two times to [ __ ] me over what do you mean you went to God and he
Told you I was guilty you just lied on God so long that’s it there’s no conversation Deuces that’s what it was that’s when you made the decision after that conversation right there you say no I can’t I can’t live under this roof it wasn’t a conversation it was an
Altercation in the altercation I love my father my father loved me but we are two men at it that it’ll never be the same again you can’t sleep comfortably around me and I can’t sleep comfortably around you how similar are you to your father um I don’t I don’t know he’s a
Great man I’m I’m saying uh my seem like y but y butted heads right but I’m saying that generally happens with a Father’s son Dynamic it was just that um religious relationships are always different C in families they always are before it got to the point because the dynamic he’s father your son
Before that Dynamic and you step up on his level and you challenge him you felt it was best for you to leave no no no I’m not being challenged I’m being Beat to Death oh he was abusive I didn’t say that I said we were in an
Altercation oh I see what you did there I saw what you did there I saw what you did there cat I saw what you did you was in alocation you didn’t say you lost you say you the altercation I in no way gave you the impression that I won anything I’m the one
Leaving I’m out of bounds this his house right yeah so as long as I’m going to be under his roof you there are certain things that I’m going to have to do right and the only way that’s going to change is either this or that and I I’m
Saying I had two younger brothers like I’m not I’m not an unreasonable person like I don’t have any mental issues whatsoever despite what they lead people to believe you know I make good pretty good decisions were you not so how was their relationship with your father were you not afraid to leave
Them well I asked because it it went all the way to the actual department so it was actually going to be something um and when I asked them if they could just just make sure that my brothers didn’t get separated and what so have you um they said they couldn’t make those type
Of guarantees that they weren’t really sure what would happen if this went down and so part of leaving was the hope that it would be okay for them because n none of them experienced what I experienced I’m saying I’m the old this is a lot riding on me I’m supposed to at least
Religiously hold down the family’s name at this household you know what I mean how much older are you than the baby and the knee baby like a lot older like I if I’m I 12 13 yeah they’re five and in Pampers wow right you go to Florida you tell the
Story I’ve heard you you were homeless and somebody else told the story said were homeless and you said they they hijacked your story now I don’t hey I don’t at 13 I shouldn’t have to tell you I’m homeless I’m in a I’m in Miami Florida I have no family members in
Florida I couldn’t buy a house if I wanted to I couldn’t get an apartment if I wanted to I don’t have a credit history like this is not a stretch for me to say that I’m homeless I’m I’m living in a park in coka Grove the park
Still exists to this day for 8 hours a day I would get up and go to the library and study for8 hours a day to increase my education and then I would leave out of there and go to the marina and steal car radios and make $2,000 almost
Daily like I had a routine this so you really could have played that Sant old thie and Santa Claus you could have played it no the Santa Claus wasn’t a thief the the Santa Claus you can’t tell me I read the script Ricky Smiley told you he didn’t read the script the the
Santa Claus was a crackhead he just had that outfit on that’s what I couldn’t have played okay like I couldn’t have played a black guy that got raped in the bathroom right so at any point in time you like man I made a mistake man I should have
Stayed my butt in Ohio man cuz this is Man this ain’t what I signed up for I didn’t experience anything once I left home that I hadn’t signed up for if anything it saved my life me being homeless for that small period of time allowed me to see all of the people
That were in that situation and to see that these were lawyers and doctors and and teachers and that these people were white and black and Asian and Indian and the only thing that all of these homeless people had in in in common was um they made a bad decision and aligned
Themselves with drugs and I interviewed them all what drug what and guess what Shannon nobody had a great story nobody had a great story of what meth had done for them what crack had done for them what cocaine had done for them what heroin had done for them with speed had
Done for them nobody had them stories everybody’s story was I had my life together and then I decided to do this dumb thing and I lost my wife I lost my house house I lost my cars I lost my reputation and now I’m now out here sucking penis in the
Woods what talk about Scared Straight you ain’t got to worry about me if it ain’t weed or nicotine you won’t see me touching it I don’t want no parts I didn’t seen what these things can do to people anything that take over your free will is the devil itself have
You ever thought about what your life would have been had you stayed in Dayton Ohio no that that’s like asking somebody that’s in the NBA for 14 years like what would have happened if you didn’t come to the NBA oh I shudder to think I I I
Thought it was what I was made for I thought it was what I was built for anybody that knows me will tell you that when they first met Cat Williams when I was Cat in the Hat and they tell these stories about how he changed his name
Look look the truth of the matter is Disney sued me yeah I was catting a hat they sent me a cease and deist letter and I’m not even making $25,000 a year and the mega company Disney has sent me a CN assis telling me I can’t use any variations of that name
Fine I’m Cat Williams that’s all that happened I have been this same product the entire time they will tell you when they first saw me doing standup I was just like this this is what I bring this my style when did it when did you know you
Was going you want were you always funny did you always want to be a comedian how did you stumble on a comedians ship no I I I loved what they did and so I studied them all of them I studied all of the white comedians because I wanted to know
Why is Monty Python funny why is Don not so talented I wanted to know what is George Carlin’s thing like where so I studied all of the comedy Masters regardless of the field because I loved to laugh I didn’t know that these people were making a great living
At doing this I thought this is just what they did they tell jokes they’re funny people but I loved the craft and that’s why when I got into the craft I thought it was my o ation to make sure that I kept writing new material so much
That it forced these comedians to stop doing the set they’ve been doing for 10 years and keep writing some new stuff and I knew that if I could get that to take on that most of these bums would have to just quit comedy cuz they can’t keep up they’re not going to keep
Writing an hour worth of material I’ve written an hour worth of material 19 times they not gonna do it why because they’re not creative writers they want to get somebody else and have them write it and put it together so if I’m listening to you correct correct me if I’m wrong I think
The best thing that ever happened was the internet because now they have to because normally like you said you could do a set and you do that do that that set in Kansas City people ain’t hurting in San Francisco people ain’t hurting in Miami they ain’t hurting Detroit Chicago
Atlanta so forth and so on now you do a set it’s on the internet somebody heard it so you can’t do a set and make it make it last 3 months 4 months well it it doesn’t allow the regular comic the ability to grow is the real
Problem like the part of Comedy is me taking these jokes in January and by March I’ve begun to craft this joke it’s not as simple as it was when I wrote it it was just da da da da but now it has the complexities of the fact that I’m having
To deliver this to a East Coast audience a Down South audience a Midwest audience a Utah audience a Colorado audience and so it begins to take on a different complexion because you’re having to deliver it to different people okay and so this is what sharpens your joke you
Then take those sharpened jokes that make us special not you just randomly take some so it’s a process you don’t allow them to process if the first time the guy did the joke now that’s his joke and the joke is everywhere that just sets it up for people to steal so how
Many times must you tell a joke before you master it how many times have you had to sleep with a woman before you done with her that’s not fair if it’s great never if if it it if it ceases to have usefulness so it has been
Spoken right I was I I read that you was raised in in in Florida you had some some help some ladies of the night no no no that’s not true no that whole story doesn’t take place in Florida that story takes place in Oklahoma City okay so after I’m in
Florida I then join um I try to join the Marine Corps and they won’t accept me because I’m I’m too I’m too young and I’ve lied and told him I’m 16 and my family is moving down and I don’t have my ID but it’s coming and so they let me
Go to the boot camp that’s not going to work now okay so I’ve learned that lesson so then I get this job selling stuff door too um across the country and so I’ve been to all 50 states again I’m third 14 years old um so I did that at
While I’m doing that one of the places I’m at I’m in Oklahoma M and I’ve decided I’m going to stay here because of meeting these ladies that you’re talking about and that situation I don’t know at the time why that’s important in my life or why it’s
Something I should be doing or any of that but now later on it certainly helps me in formulating Money Mike for Friday after next and uh pimp name slickback uh for The Boondocks San Oklahoma so San Francisco Oklahoma Sacramento from Florida you moved to the West Coast after so you traveling when did
You set up shop on the west coast how old were you been so I I guess I’m uh 18 or younger and I um once I have my once I have a child I realized that um I can’t it’s a lot of things that I could use to make money that now
Is a nogo so anything with Street aspirations that I might have thought about pursuing or being good at um I now am a single parent and I got to redo these things so I need comedy to really work out for me and me and God go into um extreme conversation where I’m
Explaining to him that I’m a crash out dummy if he don’t send me a Lifeline like I need something I can hold on too before I had left Florida I did stand up one time cuz we was trying to get in the club I didn’t have ID so I
Said I was a comedian they end up having me do five minutes but I kept that in my head that I had done that when we get to Oklahoma they’re having a competition for standup and if you win you get to go out on the road with uh Jeff Foxworthy
And Dan Whitney who is Larry the Cable Guy and Richard Jenny and these great Comics you get to open for them and once I did that I realized okay as a comedian I’m like way behind schedule I done started this too late all the funny guys are already funny and known names like
How am I going to progress so I realized that I I I do better with a white audience than I do with a black audience and I’m not sure why that’s occurring okay but the white audience likes me more that’s that’s interesting so when I moov to Sacramento it’s
Because Sacramento has a white and a black audience almost 5050 that’s almost the makeup of Sacramento so I live in Sacramento for 2 years until I get to the point where I am equally as funny if the room is black as I am if the room is
White okay that’s not enough now I need to be one of the good ones when it comes to Black Comics so now I have to move to Oakland and that’s what lands me in Oakland for 3 years once I have dominated uh male black comedy in Oakland to
My liking now I’m prepared to go to Los Angeles now now I know you can’t throw me any curve balls if it’s a white audience if it’s a black audience no matter what they are I’m prepared to deal with all of the audiences do you write jokes Accord to
The audience that you’re going to be in front of or or is your joke Universal well in in the beginning I part of my framework is that I’m tailoring every show to this audience okay and that’s how I was able to show my range and show that I was better than
My competitors is that I’m Cat Williams but I was still doing clean comedy so I was still going to churches and doing 45 minutes of stand up at the church with no curse words no sex drug material no none of that just straight standup and then I was doing everything else and I
And the regular Club yeah that was that was the range is that where when in Rome do as the Romans do so um that’s how I started um but as you begin to get better you begin to be able to speak to your entire fan base and that’s really
What’s been helpful is that I’ve been having the same conversation with my fan base for 12 comedy specials is that what set Cat Williams apart is your range is that you can do a comedy do 45 minutes in the church I can go to a comedy club in front of 250 or I
Can go into arena with 15,000 that’s range cuz everybody can’t do that cat well if that’s what range is called then then then yeah it’s range but I I like the people I’m talking to you see what I’m saying so it’s not it’s not like um it can’t be
Condescending because I’m talking to my white male friend when I’m telling that white joke right when I’m talking about this joke about this black lady I know that black lady that’s who I’m talking to I’m I’m I’m I’m speaking to this fan base that I’ve been speaking to from the
Beginning I already told him what I was on when I first came in told them they was going to come after me they was going to cancel me they was going to say terrible things about me and try to mess my life up I I said that coming in to
Stand up I’m I’m saying it in my so you knew it was going to be it has to be I know I’m going into the belly of the Beast how could I be naive I know that I’m going into Satan’s playground but I’m trying to be so good that you got to
Bring me in so close that I can see who’s doing what and what’s going on in there in San Francisco you join the nation I was ever in San Francisco I was in Oakland you was in Oakland did you join the nation is that yeah Minister honorable Minister faran and I have
Um an extremely close relationship he he refers to me um as one of his sons so um yeah I I spent a period of time let me explain yes because my particular background was already religious and super strict right I didn’t find out about other religions by
Reading about them I went to their religion I I I don’t want to learn from Jewish people from outside I want to be in the synagogue I want to I I don’t want to learn about Muslim people from I I want to be in the mosque I I I don’t
Want to hear about the Baptist or the Pentecostal I want to go to their church and see and so that was the religious discovery that I was on through that period in my life when did you know you were funny probably um about 10 years
Ago 10 years ago yeah about 10 years ago so you didn’t think so you didn’t think as a child because obviously you said the very structure background your family was very religious so obviously you didn’t get an opportunity um and did a talent show I was never any any extracurricular activities I was
Never in drama I was never in band camp I was never Bo you didn’t stay in school long enough to get for it cuz you Dro you understand you understand so there was no like I don’t I don’t tolerate high school games I didn’t go to high school I don’t I
Don’t know how most of the games they think I play I’m not even aware of them but but C for you to get on stage and like said a lot of people like a lot of comedians I had a few here they’re like okay you know I told jokes to get girls
I told jokes to you know get people to laugh at someone else but you is like at you say you did comedy one time in Florida yeah and you had this other opportunity like in Oklahoma that they were going to take you out if you won
The talent show you was going to go on the road with these these well-known Comedians and I did but I’m just saying how at in Florida at 13 14 years of age you like 16 I can do that well because I knew that there were
A lot of other things I could do like when I looked at drug dealers I thought I could do that yeah you so right and who doesn’t like that right huh I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to make it but now that I got to do it on
This side I but no you your question was when did I think I was funny I never was my biggest fan to this day I’m not the biggest fan I’m a fan of Comedy I like great comedians like I like Chappelle I like Patrice O’Neal like I like the
Greats of Comedy because I do like I I like Ron White I like Bill Inbal like I know Comics like people that did the craft they raised me I was touring with Steve Marell and Richard Jenny and real journeyman so my comedy upbringing was standard I thought you had to work all
Night every night all around the country and you had to write jokes and that you were trying to write jokes that other people weren’t writing and that your job was to be funnyer like I people that know me will tell you I’ve been on this
Like I I had a list of all the black comedians that were more famous than me there was 300 of them on the list and I had to be able to cross them all out before I could make it to the next level before I felt like I was funny enough to
Do that and so I I I I appreciate what competition does for sports and for my particular Sport and comedy is a sport what gave you the confidence that you could get on stage you remember I was 5 years old on stage okay but I was re reiterating God’s word
At that point now I just have to make sure that the content is good if the content is good what part can I not do I’m a vessel giv me these gifts to be able to do certain things so I just want to utilize them in my craft that’s all
Do you remember your first set mm how long five 10 minutes no no um I I think three minutes three minutes yeah Standing Ovation booze some Applause some jeers no none of that they they applauded like I was a professional at it but now looking back I understand
Because you had to understand they were all thinking he don’t even look old enough to be in here and we don’t have any black guys that live in this town right where did he come from and then he gets up there and for three minutes he talk about the
Fact that he is the entire black community right and he is as disappointed in them it look like they looking for where the rest of them is and so is he and that was his set but I understood from that point that the truth is really the
Commodity and the fact that um we are all individuals and all separate and all our own Islands but not in real life in real life it’s only five or six different types of people and you going to see them everywhere that you go and all like all my enemies all look the
Same in the eyes whether it’s faon Wanda Aries Spears they all look like bab what you got against wandy you think I don’t rumor that’s sir Wanda Sykes and Wanda Smith are two separate people I only said one name Sir W Wes is amazing I love wand and I agree I love W
That’s my girl but I I remember on the radio you went on the radio interview if I’m not mistaken that’s in Atlanta right and you came on there with seemingly good intentions and she attacked you it wasn’t just that part it was the fact that before I go in there she has a
Conversation about okay now I just want to talk to you because you just wanted Emy for the City of Atlanta and this isn’t Atlanta and they just want to hear about the Emy and hear from you and to thank you for what you did putting the
City on and we won’t talk about your kids we won’t talk about jail no cases we ain’t going to talk about none of that and immediately gets in there and goes the opposite way you can’t flip up on me because you’re an inferior comedian I’m going to destroy you and
I’m never going to call you out of your name I’m never going to say say anything disrespectful to people that look like you I’m it’s a very thin line I got a call but this lady is trying to embarrass me in front of a largely homosexual fan base that’s why she got
Cancelled gay people don’t take it kindly that you would as a derogatory call me gay gay people don’t feel like it’s derogatory so why are you trying to shame me with something in a community I don’t even belong in there’s no gay people saying I belong over there
Or been over there but I have no hatred of over there and how dare you you did a number oner though hey you did a number on it that that’s legendary no you either believe in karma or you don’t because I didn’t even know any of the
Stuff that she had done to my fellow comedians until afterwards I just know she that it was a setup right and and remember they they tried to kill me this same weekend not in jokes with a real gun in my real face on real camera understand I’m losing my life for
Participating in something that goes along with my job like there two comedians what do you mean and and the world was okay with it because it was me had that happened to anyone else the world went crazy when will smack smacked Chris this is a person pulling a whole
Gun on a comedian in the confines of their job it’s it’s really a weird situation uh when they hate you that bad yeah yeah you felt she hated you at that moment because you you mentioned that she said it was going to be very professional oh you want an Emy
Congratulations you put the city on you own for the city yada y y and now did she mention anything about the Emy on camera I believe you saw the video and you know that none of that took place see the the issue is that um all the
Comedians have to come do these radio stations because you have to sell your tickets and so that means you have to go to the radio station I don’t go to the radio station and I don’t make post to sell tickets I just don’t so you’ve not seen me I’m I
Haven’t I’m not here in some subservient position where somebody sent me I’m you hear out of the kindness of your heart you are no no I’m saying yeah yes situation yeah like right for sure yeah and this person knew I wasn’t there for that or yeah it’s but
How hard because you have to understand she is a female and so you have to be careful you have to handle her with kid gloves sir sir you want to go ahead and take that out you don’t want to be against equality do you no no what you just said
Was very unequal Siro but I think maybe you’ve had enough of that because I think I just heard you say but you that women are not equal and should be treated unequally they want to be treated you mean as a comedian no no they want listen you understand and I understand
Yeah in certain situations they want to be treated equal not all situations and and what part of what you saw her get oh she deserved everything hold on what part would have been different if she was a man it would have just been more vicious yeah that that’s that’s my point I took
All the vicious and ven them away because I didn’t have any plus I understood I’m not trying to offend black women with short hair I’m not trying to offend heavy set women I’m not trying to upset fellow comedians I’m not trying to do any of that and I can’t I
Am qualified to be able to do none of that and still eviscerate you because I’m smart enough to know that I need to say that you have gnarled fingers because I know you’re limited education means you don’t know what the word means so you can’t possibly respond to it
You’re not sure of the meaning and I’m going to continue hitting you because this is what comedians do you’ve been masquerading that you’re a comedian too and that’s the fallacy so nobody in boxing fights out of their weight class if you’re a 130 pounder you don’t
Just show up with the 160 Pounders you stay in your weight class is that what you wanted to do no that she was out of her League when it came to because I didn’t want to do any of it I know you didn’t want to but when she took it
There you did you feel that you had to go there oh you could you could have said Wanda I didn’t come come here for that I just want to do the interview I just want to talk about what happened oh you misunderstand my job my my job is to be
Funny my job is to be funny first my first job is to be funny my second job is to be respectful my third job is to be Immaculate and Gaza stripp it h that’s nonpolitical I’m saying if you do a you let a terrorist accidentally touch
Over here and I want stop burning you down until there ain’t nothing left it’ll literally be Rubble on top of rubble and I’ll still be bombing why because that’s why you should mind your business this is what F around and find out is about right have you ever been boo cat um yes
Yeah I have what was that feeling like did it like want to give up cuz we don’t I mean because when you have I mean I don’t know how early it was in your career obviously it hadn’t been in the I don’t think it’s in the last decade because you’ve been
Immaculate have you ever dropped a pass I have I’ve been booed too you know the little segment between everything is fine and I got it and then you noticing where it is now M yeah it’s that um the thing about as a comedian the audience’s opinion is the
Only opinion that matters not you the writer not none of that and so I don’t think any comedian has ever been booed unnecessarily either sir oh yeah yeah yeah yeah I’m I’m saying I’m saying I’m saying what what do they say when a guy shoots the
Air ball in the NBA they say air ball to make sure everybody knows but again he still got to get back on D right like the game didn’t end he don’t get to throw his hands up and sulk right that’s supposed to be used as a learning experience most comedians don’t get booed
Enough I mean this is how you end up with a Michael blackon who’s a real doing a fake African ACC okay this guy is mad at me all I did was give him the best advice of his life remember he was wearing dirty the Shiki
And I told him he needed to dress to be in the position that he’s trying to say that he’s in and if you’re the African king of comedy sir there’s actually comedians in Africa doing comedy if you going to say that you got to go to Africa and get a school dude everybody
Got you you got to put in some work and these guys they take my advice they change their whole Persona and and then they hate me for it and generally I’m just too big to comment or make a statement about it or do a live or any
Of that but when it gets to be a whole grouping of these guys I got to come and talk to [Laughter] Shannon I got to lay it down at the altar you know every comedian this is the other side of Kirk Franklin prank this is the Reckoning
2024 the Reckoning you are that you know every comedian that’s been on my show you know you watched every episode cuz you know that’s not what you said you said I know every ComEd you know every comedian you’re limiting me oh you watched every episode because you you
You know things you know things I that that’s always where I’m trying to come from whether it’s is comedic or otherwise that’s why even if you see me get arrested 10 times in a row on TV as a fan of mind you can be like he going to be right
Out yeah but they just said he ain’t do it he couldn’t have it’s stupid why would he do something stupid knowing he got to come back and talk to us n they they respect that every time it happens I’m Gonna Be Free as a bird sitting out here talking to you about it
That it really was what I said it was that’s all you end up you come down you’re in La yeah now I’m reading Cat Williams won Cedric the entertainers and haer Bush best best Los Angeles comic award did you win that award one Cat Williams is a simple yes or no it’s not
A rhetorical question it’s a question that probably should have been asked to seder the entertainment I’m asking you I got you here though I know I couldn’t believe s didn’t get asked that question you still a D’s Joker to give a award and then 10 years later you don’t know nothing about
It hey but I but I promise you this what if he sees me again before he sees you he’ll be talking different when you see it that’s for certain that’s the difference that’s what these Comics understand is that I’m not doing nothing for clout I don’t even recognize
Clout but eventually the Lord is going to let me and you be in one hallway a lot of these dudes go Kevin Harden went 25 years without ever being in the same building with me at the same time if I go in the building he walk out you’ve never seen us in the
Same building ever in 25 years like it’s like that why why because I’m really the product it’s not what you think I am never under the influence of anything I’m always in my right mind I’m always a physical specimen and when you see me I’m much much bigger than you had
Thought I have far less play in me than you would like and I’m Relentless I’m out there I’m still to this day I play 11 games of basketball with a 20 year old the record is 92 and six this is just in the yard just to the
Rack just cuz you work out C I mean know you work out cat not to the gym you don’t work out in the gym you pushups situps I my whole life it was um it was just push-ups and situps only I would do like um 100 push-ups a day just I
Thought you were going to say a thousand no no no because this is literally every day right is not for the yeah for the gram you know what I mean like literally 100 a day and I would do push-ups and then I tore both my rotator cuffs and so
It was only thanks to golf that I was even able to get myf back I’ve been a golfer for quite some time my short game is impeccable I I I can’t get you but but twoing some change off of the um te off the te but I’m still I’m I’m I’m
Still coming in for par guaranteed you playing for tips uh no i’ I found that you don’t get anything for that it seems like it seems very ego maniacal they go hey cat for free you can go further back hey what wait a minute does it
Still count the same hey I’m up at the ladies tea don’t tell me my pronouns on the golf course I’m she her him them and they whoever who at the front te we’re I know we’re joking we’re having a great conversation but you did win the award how did the award help
Your career it had to help some cat nope no come on C I didn’t remember it it happened to you just said it SE how can Cedric give you an award that was worth something everything Cedric and Ricky Smiley ever been in got cancelled for not being
Funny Ricky sat here and told you that they cut him out of every movie he did they always had a reason like that’s why I’m funny cuz I’m a happy person I laugh all day long I can’t even imagine the misery of these bumps just to not be good at what you do
Not work hard at what you do but have to act like you’re the best that what you do it is crazy it’s crazy but they be touring they they they be doing like aund shows year that’s me I don’t run into none of them that’s what I’m saying if you a fa
On love fan you mean you’ve been a fan of him for 32 years you still waiting on him to do his first special you mean to tell me if Steve Harvey your favorite comedian you mean you’ve been waiting for him to do stand up for 15 years
Now I mean Steve got got a lot of other DL still out there none of those irons matter to stand up who cares that they wrote a plaque card for you to do Family Feud on like you’re you’re successful because we’re surprised you can talk for a living and it’s entertaining that you
Going to say some funny country things but not a writer right not a writer how did you develop Money Mike and get it I mean that I mean everybody Talk Money Mike is how how did you come up with that and say you know what this
Is how he should dress this is how how he should talk this is how he should look this is the kind of whip he should ride this is how he should talk so if you’ll remember that that was my first movie just understand that what I did then I’ve done with every single
Role whether it was an Emmy winning role or whether it wasn’t whether I was playing somebody homeless whether I was playing a dirty Vagabond on Atlanta whether it was an Ecentric guy in first Sunday regardless of what the role is the first thing I do is Erase Me from it okay so anything
That I would naturally do MH that’s what I’m not going to do because I’m playing a different charactera play a character okay right so I then create this person based upon real life circumstances so I don’t have to wonder what a pimp thinks cuz I’ve been in that position for a
Little while I also worked manual labor for some time in my life so I don’t have a problem paying somebody that works and I don’t have a problem uh being a go-getter cuz I’m a go-getter so I bring whatever I can to these characters I was able to
Um the first week that I got the script there was a a pimp guy that used to be a pimp but he wasn’t anymore he was a rapper now and his name was M Minister and he um had been a pimp and was going to be a rapper and
I had never done a movie before I was a standup and I’m getting ready to do the movie and so I was able to craft what a real pimp was like what was too much I didn’t want to be stereotypical right I I I did the research I saw how many
Times people played pimps and they were always it was always something weird about them I guess cuz it’s a weird job you know what I mean and I wanted somebody that didn’t seem like none of that that he really thought it was a business and treated it like that and so
You know those adding those levels to acting is what all actors do if they’re not Steve or Cedric or Ricky like you’re trying to create a character you don’t you can’t just be faas on in every movie like you just going to take your shirt
Off on every movie like why does it say that in your script man let Big Worm live let him breathe cat let big let let Big Worm breathe sto him out now you having an unnatural allegiance to losers is not like you no I ain’t got no
Allegiance to the man but you got to admit the role that he played big I mean big Perman Friday night you got to give him credit for the road now come on now let me ask you a question yes if what you’re saying is correct why wasn’t he
In next Friday or Friday After Next I mean his role I mean it wasn’t good sorry there was a lot of people that didn’t that appeared in the first one that weren’t in the second one cat I’m just telling you why I’m sorry I’m sorry that it’s a
There a news flash that there are reasons for things in a business yes oh okay well what would you why would you why why did you bench DLo he had two points what are you talking about shut up but I like him nobody cares about that that’s not what we’re talking about
These are business conversations that deal with businessmen right right when you’re good at something you should progress the guys that are not as good they should fall down by the wayside that’s natural there where they so you believe if your talent doesn’t support it you should fall by the way size and
The guys that have the talent and they get elevated they should move no that’s what water says that’s what the universe say the universe say the levels they every no I don’t not I say who am I I’m nobody but I’m working every day as if I think
That’s what should happen is how it should be and I’m choosing comedians that also write and work hard and don’t steal other people’s material and I’m making sure that they all make $300,000 a season and I’m making sure that they’re not ever signed to me or my conglomerate and that’s why they’re
Successful no you can work with me and still be an independent businessman boss owner like you came in right I don’t need you to be subservient to me that’s those other guys that make you pay dues you said earlier that you rewrote a lot of what Money Mike was to say and
How he behaved so they allowed you the the the the freedom the Liberty to add Li how much would they allow you to just make an interception if it didn’t nobody talk about it as a football player if the ball come your way can you just grab it
Can you make an interception anytime are you allowed to pick up any fumble are you you can do any hustling right oh okay same here same here but here’s the thing though even as a even as an offensive player they might let me add live once I get a couple of years into
My breath they weren letting me add Li as a rookie that was your first movie I I told you the conversation in my first movie just because I’m I am committed to laughs the only way I made it past those 300 comedians I didn’t tell you this
What it required is I had to watch all 300 comedians 10 times a piece I watched your set 10 times of you performing whoever you were and then I counted how many laughs you got every time you did these amount of minutes so if you told
Me this uh comedian and told me he did 30 minutes I could tell you that he got 26 laughs in that 30 minutes because I had done the numbers on every body so I didn’t just say I was funnier I knew I was funnier than the comic you liked and
I could tell you how many jokes funnier I was because that’s how we judge stand up you do 15 minutes I do 15 minutes how do I know I’m funnier than you cuz you got six laughs and I got 16 I’m almost three times better than
You low key boy boy but I’m never going to tell you the formula so you going to keep just going out there telling jokes now understand it that I psychologically the Audience by 10 years is convinced that I’m funnier than you they just don’t know why cuz I’m putting out more content
Better I had Terry Cruz on here he said at the time that you did the movie you were homeless is that true um this was my situ situation I 5 months prior to me getting this first audition for Friday After Next I got this baby
Son I’m holding him up above me he grabs my little chain he’s playing with it and he accidentally drops it it breaks out my front two teeth I’m in a situation now where when I go to the dentist they telling me this going to cost thousands and thousands of dollars to fix this
Right they not telling me what it’s going to look like I go get an estimate with no money involved find out what I need to do they find out you got a tumor in your upper jaw so we’re going to have to do a whole surgery for you it’s going to be 100
Bands I don’t have it I don’t have it and um I’m only going to have this check from this movie so while I’m doing this movie we live in this trailer um um this where we live so when they come to work at 5:00 in the morning we already there
When they leave at night we still there we just double back um because we understood that this is our one opportunity um and we have this opportunity to change our lives just like a young man going for the draft we can actually get in the league with this
There are 30 comedians on this cast they’re all magnificent this is the Holy Grail of the situation um so yeah I was a bble to make sure that because it wasn’t just my first movie it was KD Al Bear’s first movie it was Terry Crew’s first movie
Absolutely I was the leader of this group which meant that we did we didn’t do their rehearsals they did rehearsal we did our own rehearsals daily to make sure that we were at the level of professional actors which is what made it so egregious that guy saying I was supposed
To you was supposed to what KY did have a good part in the movie Man the Santa Claus was funny man the dude said the entire time we’re filming I can’t play this role they got a bandana over my nose and my mouth my th they not even going to know who this
Is so yeah tell your start he’s 10 Terry Cruz also said that you guys had a lot had a lot of conversation that this was your opportunity and you needed to seize this moment Terry had the benefit of having been in some very high-profile situations already and took lse like he
Had been in the league you know what I mean he he he had um done pro wrestling he had done a lot of things he had been televised and some things that hadn’t worked right and this was just fortuitous for him and now you know what nobody has ever said in the whole
Industry in 20 years about you know the whole Money Mike not getting raped in the bathroom right so I understood going in that there’s no reason I lost every for a five-year period every single movie that Kevin Hart did was a movie that had been on my desk that all
I had said was just can we take some of this step and fetchet [ __ ] out and then I can do it like it don’t need to be overtly homosexual cuz I’m not homosexual right it doesn’t need that to be funny right and and me saying that
And them going oh yeah no problem and then going to give it to this other guy and having him do it just like it was and acting like I’m a bad person because I keep standing on my standard but um yeah it’s uh it’s interesting but I
Wouldn’t change it for the world like again I’m I’m on The Winning Side of these decisions you know look I’ve had Cube I’ve talked to cube and a lot of people say Cube don’t doesn’t pay what’s your relationship with Cube and what did that opportunity mean for you well the ungrateful bastards that
Was say anything about Cub’s payment you shouldn’t even talk to them anymore like you don’t you don’t go to Goodwill you don’t go to a Goodwill thrift store and go look at all this cheap ass [ __ ] W you shut up won’t you shut up you could
Have went to Hermes why you didn’t go to Balenciaga why you didn’t get a B of the ball main you want to have that conversation what you mean the independent black dude who’s filming it partly out of his [ __ ] pocket what you mean he didn’t pay you enough they
Weirdos weirdos that felt like they earned the opportunity because they were big no no I understood that ain’t no $200 million movie well I mean how much did you expect you was going to make well I made enough to get them T fix just like you did so so
I it was no harm no foul I knew that I was going to go from there and there was no there was no turning back for cat William well here’s the thing um I wrote it what I’m saying I’m saying if I did
And I did a good job at it you can thank me I was involved right I’m not going to come later on and tell you I never even read the whole script so how you know a rose what what do you mean you never read like you
Like these guys whole job is to present something unfortunately and I’m just not a presenter if you ask me a question I’m just going to tell you the truth of how I went would you be willing to do another Friday Cube already asked me to write it I was
Supposed to have been writing it that’s this is what these guys are mad about like we lost some great people before this movie could come out regardless and so yes there desperately needs to be one um um but um we missed John wither spoon in in a way that can’t really be
Quantified if I’m being honest with you and um the Chris Tucker that we got now is Epstein Island Chris Tucker Oh not smokey oh Lord Mercy if I didn’t know no better I tell you he’s the greatest I don’t care what to say to be confident and not delusional is a real skill
Most of these confident people we see is really dulu well you don’t think you don’t think they ask Chris Tucker to come back in the second in the in the second Friday smokey smokey was all in smoking there ain’t no Friday without smoking we all agree to that and there’s
No next Friday without Friday and there’s no Friday After Next without we talk about the road because you said if they don’t here’s the thing here’s the thing Chris was allowed to make the decision at the time that this is happening Cat Williams is known for smoking weed Willie Nelson is known for
Smoking weed snoop’s known for smoking weed but none of us is really known except will it and I’m saying Chris Tucker didn’t want to be the poster child for smoking weed he don’t smoke weed like that he in the church he Michael Jackson’s best friend Christmas Michael Jackson called him Christmas you
Ever met a man that gave you a little nickname like that no me [Laughter] neither must be the greatest man I ain’t going to be able to get nobody back on I ain’t going to be able to get no more comedians they all coming no they ain’t are you kidding nah
Hey I proba good thing I got all the rest of them I I done got the ones every I promise you everybody trying to double back you going to be having to beat them off with a stick you won’t let him they coming much as you on De Comedy Jam Comic View what
Were those experiences like what do you what do you remember most about de Comedy Jam and Comic View uh Comic View was everything um Comic View was really The Break um and not Friday After Next just because Comic View was just 3,000 of your standup up
Peers and we just throw sets of all of them up there and we see who the audience likes who do they like and um it was a great Wild Wild West time to be involved in comedy and um the same is true for de Jam because uh hip-hop was a
Fad at one time and Hip-Hop ain’t going to last and why you doing that um and that’s how it was for blue comedy um if you were a comedian that cussed you were ridiculed by the mainstream comedy Guist that would be like me being on Joe Rogan Joe don’t
Want me on there I need to be on Shannon Joe Joe got six comedians that never been funny he want to push out but that’s really how it is I’m so sorry I’m competitive you’re an athlete right yeah yeah I I can tell you understand will there ever be another
Comic new de Comedy Jam could could could that in today in 24 25 26 could we see that again they’ve already announced it’s already going you didn’t know yeah Kevin Hart purchased it so he’s now doing uh ComEd view that happened at the same time that they gave DC Young Fly uh
Hollywood Squares yeah because they tell you that there’s no Gatekeepers but we keep seeing the same people open the gate didn’t Kevin open the gate and let Tiffany in and he now opening it up for don’t such and such open the Gat what do you mean ain’t no
Gatekeepers there’s a 100 Gates out here would you I everyone I’ve seen got a keeper would you have wanted to do Comic View a de Comedy Jam would you have wanted to be I think we just mentioned I did them both no I’m saying he purchased the rights and refranchising
NOP they didn’t offer it to me anyway like Comic View did a couple disservices to Comedy as well so there were people like me that were out there getting two and three standing ovations in one set and that wasn’t good for television so what they did was they
Started making everybody get a standing Novation so they would tell the audience when they get off stage Everybody Get Up and cheer and so now the fact that I’m the only one out there going to get standing ovations is now making people think everybody get a stand in Ovation
And that’s not how comedy is so I I understood why that couldn’t go anymore because remember Ricky Smiley sat right here and told you a story about how he performed with uh Mike EPs and Cat Williams when he did Comic View and to let him tell it he was funnier than
Both my name little he talking about the special needs that’s Oho that’s good that’s a different time some clever material that was a different time cat no it wasn’t it was the time I was there but I’m saying that time this time same times no but I’m saying just like people that tell
You the Egyptians they’re not black Egypt is in Africa folks as long as Egypt is in Africa then Egyptians are African do you believe you could tell the same jokes today as when you started out I mean Eddie Murphy not telling those jokes Richard not being wouldn’t
Be able to tell those jokes in 2024 that they told in the 70s and the ‘ 80s so they wouldn’t have told them but that’s my point they’re not inferior people no if they were in this time they will be going according to our time just like
Then we were going according to that like that’s how it is in the world there are words that we can use for a while and we use them for a while until somebody says that ain’t a good word we should stop saying that correct that don’t make people feel good and we stop
Saying the word and we move on to another word you can’t say the r word you can certainly say special needs you can certainly say Spectrum you can you can you there are things that you can say to get your point that don’t have to hurt people but you would know that if
What you did was construct the English language for a living then you would understand that part you financed your first standup you had 20 it cost you 22,000 you had 25 to your name what why did you decide to do that you you you you believe that much
In cat I believe that much in business and business the goal is for you to become independent and be the boss take the responsibility and also get the profit okay that’s all how how how can I be looking for you to put me on if I
Wouldn’t and if I can’t show you what you missed out on why would you believe me now the fact that I was able to do it 12 times that’s the real thing the thing the part that I’m able to do it all across the country the fact that every
Time I do a tour or a special you think that’s sponsored by somebody somebody did a good job no no just just the guy they’re kicking around just the one that might mentally not be all there he’s the one picking the outfits writing this guy’s material booking the shows making sure he gets
There he’s the one hiring the other comedians he’s but hey I knew that that’s the end goal so if that’s the end goal and I’m there when I start why would I deviate from that right remember I I I I my goal was to get this far in Hollywood and
Still have a virgin [ __ ] and never had sucked a penis that was my only goal I didn’t want to get with a white woman cuz I was scared she might have me running down the street like Jonathan not because I didn’t like white women I think white women are as great
As any other women but I’m not going to act like I’m not scared of them I have a reason to be scared you could be K the Conqueror and they could take your rabbit ass down in two weekends and that’s the truth of the matter so I say
Away from that and remember I told you the drug story from when I’m in the Park yeah so these are just the things I had all of those when I came in I already was ready for that that’s what they don’t like I did not know you you’re
Telling me and showing me a side of the business that I didn’t know that you guys a man the competition the competitiveness that’s all business I don’t care if they selling Coke you wouldn’t believe the things that cocacola says about Pepsi you wouldn’t believe the water conversations between
Danani and liquid de like in all business in All Sport competition is a driving force I don’t require anybody to be better who am I I just require if you’re a loser and you’ve taken shortcuts at every chance and you’ve made sure that you didn’t put anybody on
That really had a work ethic and was a God-fearing person and you helped that if that was never you then don’t act like that’s you don’t get out here now that you don’t do stand up and start acting like oh you not sure why you don’t do standup no more I heard you
Got to run off you better be careful the [ __ ] that run you off going to show up and he going to tell everybody man what you going to be able to say nothing why you think I speak with such Clarity I’m actually involved in each one of these stories I told you
About right right the one comedian as we’ve been sitting here doing this interview that you hold in very high regard is Dave Chappelle Dave Chappelle walked away from 50 million you said it was more tell the story that’s right I would let you tell it no you’re no I want you to
Tell him you really are the best you proving it here today as much as I’m proving it you proving it you proving it um yeah that wasn’t the thing it wasn’t people say that he lost $50 million no no that’s not even close to what happened to this dude and until you
Understand what happened to the dude you don’t understand what happened like no not they offered him 50 million and he turned it down who going to turn down 50 million now I’ve had to turn down $50 million four times four times just to protect my Integrity in that virgin hole I was
Telling you about right uh cuz P didy be wanting the body and you got to tell him no you got to tell him no I did I did see I got the receipts for everything I’m telling you that’s why I can say them so fre I need K I need know you
Here get you thank you sir thank you come on cuz early on you was accusing me of being k b it’s crazy I mean but you know the some of the people Martin tried to put me in my first dress when he had to go
On his Hiatus he tell me cat when I come back I need you you my young partner you’re my brother in comedy when I come back just promise me that my next movie it’ll be me and you we going to do it together we going to do some buddy cop
[ __ ] I said Martin you got my [ __ ] word my [ __ ] go do what you got to do when you come back I’m in your movie don’t trip I don’t need to see the script or nothing you know we get in that office and this fool pull out Big Mama’s House
Too I almost died and I got to read this script in front of all these good white people where this [ __ ] want me to get in a dress with him and I’m literally saying to everybody why is he in a dress again you already played the old lady as
A FBI agent we can play anything now we can be playing a dog catcher this time why do we need to be in the dress and I get so mad I say you don’t want me you want Brandon T Jackson and that’s who they went and got twice I said that they
Went and got him just like I’m telling you I had the other dude’s work I had all of it all I did was say I want to punch it up so it’s not offensive to real [ __ ] and that’s how I got in this position Lord I sure hope I have a club
Shaay after this a it’s going to be in a dimension it’s never been yeah it’s going to be it the greatest thing floating in 202 Mark the words no way in a in a whole different realm of business Oprah coming next oah Once I establish this as a place of
Truth yeah oh yeah watch Watch God’s people ain’t that few yeah Prince you met prince prince was a friend of mine he was a friend of mine what was those conversation cuz he look I mean sometimes we don’t really understand or or appreciate someone until they’re gone I did I was a big
Prince fan all of this stuff because he could play all the strum he could sing he could dance he was an Entertainer that could sing and what he wrote I mean who thinks of cherry moons who thinks it snows in April who a Raspberry Beret a Pink Cashmere the thing the Purple Rain
The things that he wrote about like bro who who mind goes there yeah he was um he was like any unlike anybody in the world um he he he was um he was just an amazing individual I I was able to meet him when I was 12 and I
Knew him um my entire life through all of his changes I was able to um assist him many times if you go look at Prince’s car collection you’ll see that Prince don’t have not one car Cat Williams Ain’t Got he got the prowler for Friday After Next sit there he got
The same Bentley as me like because we share certain things our our connection was lyrics Musical lyrics um women and cars and that’s those are the areas where he trusted uh my opinion on things and um that’s where I got to be helpful in his
Life and he was helpful in mind in um really all different types of way especially about the business as far as being a black man that was rich in this business at 18 years old had already did his first million dooll contract had already broken Records Was determined
That he didn’t want to be like anybody else was so great of a guitar player that black people just stopped caring about guitar and he got left out on the limb and somehow still had to create his way out of that he was just really a a a
One in a billion type person I was luging it on now they are specials and the streaming um I don’t know I don’t think there’s as many there’s no DVD now so where so so where are you on this this streaming the specials I mean obviously you you still
Tour but how much do you focus on okay I’m going tour say 100 days or 150 days but I’m going to do a special well now that our relationship with Netflix is at the eight figure Mark um eight how how you eight how often you
Want to make them you you said eight I mean like like five six seven eight got to be 10 million to qualify yeah so what I’m saying is once you’re at that level how many would you do I I I I’d be willing to bet you
Say every time you turn around I’m going to be doing another one I think that’s what you would say if he was any good and like I said like I said with 12 comedy specials why do I need to be in these conversation with these specialist
People say it ain’t got no special you remember Steve ain’t got no specials you remember Ricky ain’t got no special you remember Fon ain’t got no what so why do yall special yep it was 20 minutes long it was good too though it was he’s good
Not it was good he’s good qu good don’t think because I said something um derogatory that I I don’t I don’t know how to hate earthquake has consistently I don’t think anybody’s ever said Quake wasn’t funny he he probably never been booed I don’t think I don’t think he’s ever given a bad
Performance but but um but his just du was overdue he was in a whole different situation yeah because he wasn’t able to translate the standup to the movie thing he took a hit most people don’t take a hit they’re just judged on their standup so yeah no I I
Even though it sounds like there’s a lot of people I don’t that’s not the case I I am a i a proponent of all of us who are in this business working hard trying to make it when you got in the stand up was crossing over was doing TV was doing
Movie was that was that a part of it you’re like okay I’m going I’m doing standup okay next next the the next progression is TV movies throughout throughout the history of standup sir that’s that’s the goal for all of us that’s how it goes that’s why when you hear these dudes talking
About oh I didn’t want to be a movie star you just know it’s disingenuous like what are you talking about dude yeah oh no no I just wanted to do a game show right what are you sure are you sure cuz I thought you did Mark Curry’s show over after he had just
Done hanging with Mr Cooper why would you do all of that man’s stuff that he did on his show on yours and then do the dud stand up when you go on the road and then you never put Mark Curry on your show or nothing like if you don’t say anything these
Dudes will run over you I don’t know if you know how bullies operate but if you don’t stand up for yourself there really is nothing they want to do right you’re a very generous man cat uh you you’re the sole sponsor of me Mo getting a start in Hollywood Walker Fame you sp
You did all that on your own why what do you have a personal relationship with Melba No No I um I I understood that she was a black woman in a time where it mattered what you look like and they had a certain thing that they
Needed you to look like and act like in order to be successful and she just never did that she wasn’t tall enough she wasn’t fine uh they didn’t like her looks they didn’t like that her hair was natural they talked crazy about her and yet she still made all of these achievements
And I’m like understand I’m already in the comedy Hall of Fame I’m already going to heaven no matter what happens if it ends in a second I’m up there so it gives me the leeway to do some things that are simply because it’s the right
Thing to do so the truth of the matter is they wanted to give me a star but please don’t consider me and this this person been sitting on this list this whole time and just cuz they ain’t got enough money they can’t get they just do that’s crazy when do you start
That that’s hurtful what if somebody can’t afford their flowers you mean they don’t get them no God don’t operate like that he was send a dummy like me to come and take care of that just so that the right thing happens that’s how the universe works because remember I don’t what am I
Spending my money on I’m not spending my money on strippers I ain’t spending them on drugs not like strip because if I go in if I go in a strip club I’m only trying to get her out of there yeah I have no intention of her or any other people being in this
Position if I see a girl I like at the strip club I’m telling it you know you don’t have to strip no more after this this could be your last day how about that what would it be like just to leave it all you ain’t got to be a whole no
More I don’t even want you to go get your purse just leave it we get new ID we get new ID in credit in Social Security card we don’t need none of that none of thatone that this life don’t look good on you yeah [ __ ] you don’t
Even look like a drug addict got be thinking got be thinking C right you hear these athletes talking about yeah we was out there tricking what what why you’re part of the problem you’re part of the problem stop paying people that you don’t have no respect
For it sets it up bad for us we got women out here can’t find a man cuz they acting like him you a alpha now the alphas all want these subservient husbands you can’t have one no they it ain’t going to happen sorry about that okay go ahead boy you done got me
Cancelled how many times in this program where’s the camera I didn’t write nothing I said tonight it’s all been on these Q cards and I’m just going to keep reading them ask your next question the Migos do you help them get out of financial situation
I don’t think we ever as a nation can remember a time that the Amigos were financially unsuccessful so for the record I would assume that they’ve never needed Cat Williams financial assistance for anything I’m sure that between QC to label and other things they were taken
Care of on the other hand if I was given the opportunity to help them would I of course I would that’s what I do I’m I’m I’m a pro black non-racist like I really really love black people but I don’t love them more than other people I love everybody I
Just I’m a black guy and I I I I I try to stick with that but um yeah I I’m I’m not one of those uh pillow talkers either like when I do something good I’m really not doing it for the gram it’s not it’s not for it’s not for any of
That I’m just doing it because it’s good to do I appreciate that I read I don’t know if this is true but I did read that comedians on your show say that women sometimes would bring them money and not say where it came from say that again comedians would say
Women would bring the money and not say where it came from right so um I’m not a feminist like um a feminist would be but I do believe that there are no know there that in my camp like if I had 35 people in my Camp right I believe that other than four
Jobs I believe that a woman is better at any of them jobs than any man could be okay so 10 of these jobs no man can work because I rather a female be there if I got to smell anybody’s breath I want it to be hers I don’t want none of you
Crusty like so so what I’m saying is it if in a staffing issue I’m going to have 75% women just cuz I prefer them I I don’t prefer to hear two guys talking in the corner I prefer to hear two ladies talking in the corner I don’t care what
They’re talking about I just prefer that so A lot of times I will utilize ladies to convey a message if a comedian is doing a great job um somewhere in the country he he just did a masterful set and nobody’s going to pay him they just
Clapping and I I know he’s broke as [ __ ] back there wouldn’t it be nice if somebody just showed up and gave him a little blessing and he didn’t have to suck me off for it and thanks cat and boy I really needed it why would you do that if you was
Actually just trying to help people you would people know that’s how I pay my tie if I got paid $100,000 to be at your city I’m going to take 10,000 of that and put it in your homeless area not cuz I got to cuz you gave me a 100 racks to
Come to your little Rinky Dink Town who would I be to not pay my ties back to your town that’s how I got in this position wow you adopted seven kids why that’s a lot of kids for a man that’s as busy as you are travels as
Much as you do on the road as much as you are spend a lot of time because you have to spend a lot I mean it’s not easy I mean maybe it comes just so comes so natural to you to put pen the paper and
To write things down and be able to go out there and perform a set but that’s a lot of responsibility cat right right but if there was a god what would he think about you if you did that I’m saying let’s just let’s say for example okay that God is real yes okay
And let’s say he be looking at what you do yes what would he say if you did that he said that cat that’s that’s a very that’s a very kind gesture that’s very generous of you my whole life since I was telling you when I was young and they was asking
Me what I wanted to be and nothing I wanted to be was what I wanted to be God’s friend that’s a weird thing if you a atheist if you’re an atheist I didn’t even say nothing but if you believe believe in God and I tell you that I
Wanted to be God’s friend and I wanted to even go to Hollywood and still be God’s friend if I told you that that was my aim you can understand where I’m at like I promise you I no jealousy no bitterness none of that I got exactly
What I was trying to get I haven’t been shorted in any way I mean seven eight kids single you going to get married you remember the conversation where I was where it was me yes and I didn’t know what was going to happen to my two little brothers and it
Was just going to be out there yes so when it Go full circle and I’m one of the I’m one of the richest men that ever lived and I don’t I don’t I don’t mean please don’t look at my net worth I saw my net worth I I had that on
Me I swear to God what I’m saying is like I’m saying my net worth is less than my last Netflix deal you understand what I’m telling make it make sense but I’m fine Jesus was poor Jesus ain’t had nothing so why don’t be mad you say I
Don’t have nothing they a have the amen they have back then though okay say it again we got different amenties now not not more than gold gold was the amenity of that time we still got gold gold still running they have no rolls Roy they got you you
Can buy you can buy a ass that’s what they call it in the biblical time they would cheat I’m saying if you really want to say I’m saying a color n is cheap so back in the day I would get my girl a donkey today we get her color now
But I’m saying whoever I’m saying whoever whatever it is I’m saying we yeah I’m saying because what we going to do I done already told you I’m one of the richest people that ever Liv yes only in the fact that when I wake up in
The morning no matter where I am I don’t need nothing whatever I need is right around me and whatever I don’t have it’s only just cuz I don’t have it it’s not cuz I can’t get it all I got to do is want it and it belongs to me so because
Of that because I’m favored by God like when I see people’s wives and stuff I don’t even look at them you know what I mean like I I don’t want to look at nothing I don’t want to have because I I know how blessed I am if I look at it I
Got it that’s how Diddy be feeling come on man so you’re not supposed to look at anything that you don’t want not me personally just because God has given me literally everything I ever even pump faked like I want and that’s the whole thing that’s that’s the whole thing is I
Don’t I don’t have a type of woman every woman that I ever had as a type I ended up getting her now she’s not the type anymore now I understand that every woman is a one of one like you can’t really have types what cuz see Tred to ask me
Something about marriage but then I I ain’t say nothing about no marriage yeah you did when you rewind the tape you you let it out you was like so you ever going to get married and then you took it back it’s okay it’s okay I was known
As a photographic memory are you I’m not against it like most people that are not married is because they afraid of commitment it’s not that like that for me it’s just the whole time I wanted to be married I I had kids so I had to try
To fill my wife’s place before she got there I’m already got kids without a mother but so now I got to be doing laundry I’m I’m washing dishes I’m reading stories I’m having to nurture I’m having to do all of this and I got to the point where I didn’t need the
Wife I’m doing it and we’re doing it and I’m not replacing a woman in their lives I’m letting them see that that’s just the only thing that we don’t have and um it was easier for me to do that because you have to understand that all of the
Kids I’m raising at this point they have fathers you see they have a mother you see I’m a different person I’m raising you and so that needs to be done with the other respect for the others that put work in as well so yeah um I I never had a problem getting married
I what’s one of the one things you try to teach your kids I don’t teach anybody anything that’s over 18 I’ve done the work I was going to do but as kids I really just tried to teach um the things that can’t be bought um your integrity um trying to live your
Life in a way that you yourself could be proud of if you had to look back on it and um um I didn’t do very good at leading by example but behind the scenes I was that that’s never what I was pushing um um they understood
That because of my stance there was a certain thing that would come my way and so accountability and responsibility is part of what you’re teaching is that you know even if you’re doing the greatest thing in the world there’s this thing called no good deed goes unpunished like
There’s a real Murphy’s Law like but basically in raising kids you’re just trying to give them a better manual and an outline of how life Works than your parents gave you you know and so um that’s how I did it how do you avoid toxic
Women give me give me give me I mean so I mean because obviously you know you like women I do and I probably like toxic ones more than because I ask you hold on because toxic women are exciting and that’s just a fact part of toxicity is
Exciting I’d rather skydive with her uh but but but if you have toxic women just understand that all monsters are feeding off of something and if you find out what this toxic woman is feeding off of you can just begin to turn off her feeding points
And it drives a toxic person crazy and they’ll get away from you so whatever if if she’s truly toxic there are certain things that she’s doing that help fuel her toxicity you’re not noticing it but it’s what it is why do you think she watches murder mysteries before she goes
To sleep why is it always a crime drama playing and turn it off turn the cartoons make no no you don’t get to what she listening to you going be listening to sexy red you’re broke toxic people are trying to get things they’re not being toxic for no
Reason they’re gaining something out of how they operate that’s why they operate like that cuz they get something soon as you find that out you’ll be able to cut off what they getting and they will leave yeah you were married once never you weren’t married never in life so would
You have a cohabitation agreement never how how could I be a single parent and be married you could two you know there are people that like were married and then they get divorced and then they become single parents that’s how that works yeah but a person who’s never been
Married means he’s never been married okay okay I’mma take your word for it why would you need to take my word for it hold on hold on if I had been married wouldn’t it somebody said who she was no it might have been a long time ago Noe
I’ve never not been famous sir I’ve just I just I just worked the story out to you that I don’t have no hidden mysteries in my life that was Jesus I don’t have no periods in my life where it’s unaccounted for no no no that
Person that said that was a liar I got a case right now in La this lady saying she was my assistant for 14 years and I hurt her or something like that I never worked for me not a day in my life liers lie cuz they want to but people always
Say why would they lie no there are several women have said they was married to me it’s just when he went to court they had to say I was married to him spiritually you shut up how you going to be married to me my kids don’t know
You answer me that so do you have a problem do you have a problem bringing women around your kids no not then or [Laughter] now I’ve always lived with several women like I’m known for several yeah like more than one I’ve already told you that I prefer the company of women to the
Company of men so have I told you that me and a couple dudes on my staff sometimes have to cohabitate nobody finds a problem with that yeah so it’s me and three ladies cohabitating because that’s how the business gets done like I don’t want a chef that scratches his
Nuts for it Cooks I don’t like I no disrespect to these guys that go around with these large male only groupings but that’s not my episode Entourage man you were approach you were approached by seven gmen you were robbed shot in the th say it again you were robbed once
Correct no I’ve never been robbed you didn’t get robbed you didn’t you didn’t get approached by government trying to get robbed they didn’t take anything I wasn’t even the I wasn’t even um the target I wasn’t even who they were talking to and not because I say
That because if you look at what time period it is I’m not even making 5,000 a year so robing me wasn’t man answer this is before Oklahoma you you talking about a terrible condition they’ have been disappointed thinking they getting some mother you huh if they robbed you look I in three
Cities there it’s legendary that Cat Williams would walk down our streets with his baby in a baby stroller with a diaper bag with a gun in a diaper bag the only thing I need is a pass don’t mess with me and just let me go about my business I I’m living in Englewood
Compton I’m living on Manchester and Western I’m in La the gang capital of the world but never robbed because why I’m not pretending to be something I’m not you think I’m a blood you think I’m a [ __ ] I’m from Ohio I’m a comedian I’m a father right I’m trying to do
Something out here and not only do I not judge what you doing I’m not trying to be involved right that’s the difference that’s where the respect comes from to you’re touring right now Dark Matters the Dark Matter tour yeah filming next uh uh Netflix special in May May y next Netflix special oh
YouTube theater in Englewood I’m about to catch that I thought you might said that I’mma catch that one right because it’s a homecoming for me because I lived on um I lived on Hazel so you know I got to cat people know I lived in heart of
Engle wood they saw me walk down marus street with the babies I’m raising like they understood that no no no I was really not pretend oh he want to be from the hood no I’m living there on the street what’s your favorite City to tour in the next one
Sir yeah that’s the that’s the real beauty of travel right that’s why most people don’t have the Imp empathy and the sympathy that they need to have for other people is cuz they haven’t seen other people right like if you went to Ireland and you saw what them people was
Like and you went to Sweden and saw what them people was like if you really went to Africa and you really saw what the people was like you went to Hai you went to Puerto Rico if you really traveled across the country you would see that all people is the
Same it’s way more people that’s good than the [ __ ] up individuals you seeing and if you understood that it would change everything so I don’t I I I don’t have any favorites in the world just because every place is dealing with their own issues their own troubles all
Places look better than they actually are for the people that live there and it’s always a difference between what it seems like and what it actually and what it is like people will tell you I went to Paris I was there at the I Tower [ __ ] you had bed bugs and there were
Ramps everywhere the food was terrible tell the rest of it don’t tell some let me ask a question when you go when you go to these cities to tour do you make it a habit of getting out that’s how I built my reputation it’s also how I
Ended up in jail 19 times uh because when I come to do a show I’m really in your city so whatever the strip club is I’m there whatever the top bar is I was there drinking whatever the I was you had a casino I was at it like what it
Huh cuz I’m in your city I’m a this is how I’m learning your city so that when I do my show I can be talking about what I know not what I think right and so that was what I did at every city that I
Went to the first 15 minutes of my show is what it’s like to be here you see what I’m saying and so that was always a part of what kept my Legend going to the point where I can still be in the Arenas without you ever seeing a poster with my
Picture on it without you ever seeing a flyer without you ever seeing a post it goes hey it’s cat could y’all make sure y’all come out and come see me cuz I’m going be in would you please come on out guys and I really because we have a different
Respect I know I’m coming they know I’m coming I know they going to be there and they know I’m going do the best job I can possibly do and they know beyond the shadow of a doubt whatever hour he was doing when we last saw him he won’t be
Doing that hour when we see him this time it’s a whole new conversation and because I’ve never strayed from that they’ve never strayed from their part I’m looking at some of the the the the actors that you’ve been on screen with Cube Tracy Morgan Regina Hall Terence Howard they are look Nick
Canon I mean Tiffany I mean bro who who brings out the best in Cat Williams how do how does someone get the best out of Cat Williams do you need a comedian do you need a serious actor how do we get the absolute best out of Cat Williams on
Screen well I would be disingenuous if I didn’t remind us that that’s never anybody’s goal it’s never anybody’s goal to create a great situation for me to do a good job why in a script the way it works is the script is already there this is a
Character in The Script if they give me the job I make it my job that this character here this character here has to be as big as this whole project so if you don’t even see the movie School Dance I want you to remember who’s goddamn white baby is
This and the only way that I can guarantee that you will remember my scene if you didn’t remember a whole movie movie is if I make sure that my scenes are that good because that’s what I watched I watched great actors you never saw daero you never saw peshy you
Never saw any of these dudes and something you was like nah I don’t really believe it you sure you’re the Great Gatsby like no like you believe that this dude Danel is a hobbit that’s part of The Lord of the Rings right you see I’m saying and so I
It’s a having a respect for the craft that I’m doing that means I got trying to do the best job possible what was it like working with Spike Lee doing Priceless Spike Lee is everything that you said I was in my intro he’s just really a innovator and a groundbreaking
One of a Kind Dynamo and um and I knew that they were like they tried to sabotage me even then like as soon as I said I wanted to get Spike leader directed cuz that was the biggest thing I could do they immediately gave Spike to gerod
Carmichel and had him do his special too at the comedy store and just to undermine like but I I if there’s one thing you can take away from me as a person whether you like me or you don’t if you take this from me you will be a better person if you deci
Decide today that you’re going to live every day like it’s your last for real which means have a conversation with yourself every night that okay that was it may not be no more after that and really count yourself every day like this could have been it all right before
I go to bed this could be it all right how’s that looking if you can do that it’ll change your life you’ll really start making decisions and living your life like this all you got just this one day but you could be a winner you could be a winner
On this day it just it’s just work ethic and not the work ethic they talk about they tell you work ethic where they do all these movies I’m the hardest working man no everybody goes to work every day but right yeah I’m say I go to work all
The time everybody who works goes to work every day shut up shut up you get what you think I respect you more than my Gardener I don’t I don’t he work every day rain or shine I don’t know if you saw this but teraj P Henson got extremely emotional
The other day she was giving an interview yes and saying that they’re vastly underpaid and say the math is not mathing they get x amount of dollars by the time Uncle Sam get his cut by the time the agency get their cut and what you see they were
Supposed to get is a fraction of that where do you come down on that cat it was the saddest thing ever because because imagine imagine being in your genre in your sub Niche whatever it is imagine being in your lane imagine being one of the very top of your lane that to the
Point where if they don’t take you for the role there’s not three black actresses that they can say are bigger than you that we going to give this to imagine you being at that point and have to humble yourself and say they not paying me y’all and they
Not making my pay go up cuz I’m doing better or nothing it don’t matter to them that I’m famous and people know me or nothing they want to pay me exactly what they pay in the new girl and I’ve been suffering under it for a a decade
Now and just taking it I just been getting whooped but I just got to come say this is wrong we should be ashamed but this is a country where we don’t pay the teachers and then we say the kids is the most important thing you can’t have both of
Them if you do that we’re going to end up with a generation that can’t read guess what generation Z and a can’t read why cuz who was giving him a book we gave him an iPad or a phone and now the letters don’t mean the there’s no
Cursive writing sorry about that so yeah it this is what period of time it’s in it’s the period where the victims get to say they’ve been hurting me for a long time and I just ain’t said nothing cuz I was trying to be strong and I didn’t want to shame
Anybody when our people call out for help we got to understand you know what I mean like like we we we put too much pressure on Tyler Perry you know what I mean he ain’t put nobody on the people that been in his Productions they not famous all them can walk through the
Mall without security be what you going to be but put your people on if you a gay person and you in there put some other gay people on put somebody on or don’t be wondering why people keep saying Gatekeepers cuz clearly y’all keeping these Gates clearly wilding out how difficult was it
For Nick Kennan to get you on and what what was that what was that experience like I’ve known Lin Canon since he was a teenager he had to have his he in the comedy club if you’re underage you can’t be in regular Club you had to be in the
Kitchen right so I was the master of the kitchen every comedy place because I got a child and my child is back here in this place while I go on stage right so I’ve known Nick Canon since he was 14 Nick Cannon has never called and asked
Me to do one single thing and I turned him down because I’ve known him since he was a young black child in Hollywood wow so um what I did in wilding out was to be his protector and to be his voice um with hip hop so the whole thing was the
Thing that he was trying to do had never been done before you can’t bring six comics in and let six Comics talk [ __ ] about six rappers because the six rappers will beat the six Comics ass right you will have to have a comic that could actually stand in between and go
Look we Comics we going to say what we going to say y’all going to take it and understand it’s a joke if you want to fight we fight before the show so you can go out there with your black eye we’re not going to do it comedically this is what needed to take
Place in order to be for it to be successful which is why it had already aired and didn’t work and then suddenly when it comes back with me it suddenly works because respect has to be in there as well if you trying to do it with
Having a heart you and him going to get run over you you you a teenager he fire too like what’s going to happen who are some of your favorite young comedians I don’t I haven’t seen a young comedian I don’t like if you name any of
The young comedians I’m aware of all of them and they’re all doing a great job it doesn’t matter if it’s country Wayne or Desi Banks it doesn’t matter if it’s Carlos or chico it doesn’t matter if it’s uh DC or just hilarious it it really doesn’t it really doesn’t matter
Once we go to the young part um the young comedians are dealing with things that we never dealt with and so that gives them more benefits but it also gives them uh more chances of failure so it’s not easier for them um so yeah I’m I’m a big supporter of um young Comics
We we have uh Miss Pretty Ricky and Taro Williams um I’ve taken 25 uh black women on the road in these tours um it’s important to me that the young comic uh gets the benefits and the advantages of the big Comics platform right Matt R whing out recently got
Cancelled you see Jonathan major what he went through Marvel dropped him as soon as they’re guilty uh uh the conviction came out and you were telling the hey you saw that black woman come get his charge cut in half thank you Megan good God bless you coming to save that slave
If he had to be there by himself he was getting all F guilty guilty guilty guilty she came in there was just so beautiful they had to knock half of it off bless his heart so Matt R you know you know him from Wild and he gets cancelled for time
Trying to tell I never knew him from Wild and out to be honest I I I came across him as a new comic okay and U yeah I’m really just trying to see the comics judge where they are see it yeah right go ahead so the the counseling uh
What what what do you think about this cancel culture you see the situation with Jonathan major I mean for all sense and purposes I I don’t know if maybe he can bounce back in in a couple of years but man he was he was hot he was hot as
He was cooking I mean you see him in Creed he’s in the Marvel movies and then just like that maybe I’m a conspiracy theory but I thought Cal Williams said any time they make you into that position part of that contract is you do understand whenever we want to take you
Down we can right part of giving you the world first of all they went around the world for two years straight telling any women that would listen that this was a good-looking negro mhm since when when did y’all start liking a big nose and when did y’all like a little head and a
Big jaw when say when that look like my daddy when you start liking my daddy you like black people’s features like that if this ugly [ __ ] is goodlooking then all [ __ ] is goodlooking anytime you see them telling you something you can’t believe just understand it’s a play and it don’t
Matter you going to know it’s a play soon as they get in that position and think they going to tell somebody something no you’re not no you’re not Marvel will cancel you so you won’t be allowed to read a comic book what is you talking
About get out of here get out of here ugly boy yeah they love fooling the people what’s your relationship like with SH not you still close with SH have you spoken to him have you talked to him recently yeah he doing good um yeah he’s uh man when you a friend
You a friend for life with you with cat William yeah because the people that come to me are trying to better their life they’re not trying to continue doing what they have been doing okay so when somebody comes to me male or female it is in the opes that this is what I
Did this is what I used to do this ain’t what I want to do no more and I want to do something else and I’d like it to go a different way okay that’s what I offer yeah so um if you come to me under those offices is then my loyalty is lifelong
Why would it not be T Lane and Meg what what would you take on that cuz I know you you got to take on everything I know you it’s a difficult position because somebody’s not going to tell the truth and the truth has got to be told in all
Circumstances the truth has got to be told so if you don’t want to say she shot her then you shot her and that’s the end of that oh you said you’ve never have you ever spent time in jail 30 [Laughter] times when when you was in there what
Was going through your mind C what what did I mean some people like man I had an opportunity to reflect and I was like man this ain’t the place for me I ain’t coming back here when you in so so what I’ve never I’ve never been in jail and
It was my decision to be there if if if it’s dangerous to be in the hood and you have to have a gun on you for protection and it’s either be judged by six or I mean judged by 12 or carried by six I’m always going to
Have my heater on me so if you want to tell me that you’re going to pull me over 15 times looking for it I’m going to tell you 15 times you going to find it unfortunately I smoke cigarettes and weed if you catch me 15 times 15 times
I’m going to have it on me what do you think I’m in jail thinking oh I don’t [ __ ] up damn these decisions I’m not going to protect my life at all when I get out of here [ __ ] it let them do what they want
To do to me no no when I’m in there I’m fine and I’m understanding that I’m put here for a reason and the people that get joy off me being in here are really going to look stupid cuz I’m F to be free because you got to be setting this
Up I’m never anywhere to get anything you don’t know I just made $300,000 in your city that’s why you think might be out here as a Nar Dell you think I’m he’s smoking weed yeah he’s got a medical license for it he needs it it’s his only medication do
You mind if he takes it it helps him eat cuz he does 19100 city tours flying across the line and so he doesn’t get hungry on the regular he doesn’t get sleepy at night he’s got to literally put himself to sleep he’s L got to make himself eat so this marijuana helps him
Do both of those things marijuana help you sleep oh yeah because remember remember as a comedian what you’re doing is against your natural timeline your natural timeline wouldn’t be that you would start your work day at 8:00 p.m. right and then your work day is over at 2:30 a.m. like
That’s a weird yes right so to tell your body now that we’re pumped up on endorphins now let’s go to sleep but three it don’t work like that your body has to try to get a whole new schedule so you know it suffered but that’s what
Worked for me I consistently used it I told people all across the country don’t worry this will be legal in our country as soon as they find out how to charge taxes for it we will be legal in this country do they view me as some sort of
Visionary for my forward no no he own drugs what I heard okay but how have you been I mean bro every time they try to put you down they try to put you to the back yeah you put you bounce up you move right back to the
Front damn you I mean you like a Super Bowl you just keep bouncing and you bounce higher trampoline skin is something that you ask God for when I watched you play football you had it there some people that there’s really no such thing as hitting Shannon sharp so hard that he
Don’t want to run the ball the next play right absolutely and if that’s your only goal is to hit him so hard that he don’t want to be him no more you just out of luck yeah you wasting your time there’s no no your coach can’t help you there
Ain’t no pep talk going to help you don’t matter about the uniform you chilly none of that matters if it ever gets to Mono IM Mano May the best man win and if you’ve been living yourent entire life trying to be the best man that you can for yourself then you
Should feel great about those odds what do you think about Kanye rants what’s going on with Kanye from a distance obviously I don’t know how well you know Kanye I don’t know if you’ve been around Kanye but from a distance what what what what do you suspect is going
On I suspect that we’re pretty awful people if we say that somebody got a mental illness and then we watch what they do if you say somebody got special needs then why would you be watching them and holding them accountable like everybody else wouldn’t you grade them on a curve when you
Gooo this guy because I mean what are we reacting to what are we reacting to you’re the one that put him in a position where he thought he was God and could call himself ye and you the one told the guy that writes Musical lyrics that he was a
Genius you’re the one that’s like so what what do you expect the guy married a [ __ ] like what oh Lord I didn’t mean it like that I mean married her because she was one now he didn’t know he understood that he wanted that he courted that that’s what he
Wanted to base his got a good heart though I know what you going to say don’t you say it cat don’t you say it I’m going move to if what I’m saying is not correct then how do she end up with Pete Davidson I mean it happens all the and
What if you weren’t even good enough for Pete and he leaves you what do that mean the product was no I don’t I don’t support or villainize Kanye because I don’t understand what it is we want from him I I don’t know why we look at a basketball
Player and say he didn’t score no hockey goals this whole season he don’t play [Laughter] hockey Kanye don’t say nothing I can agree with okay I he was the weird guy in the beginning with the pink sweaters when we met him like what do you think moving to
A beat of your own drop this this dude started a church and kept cussing nobody in black church said nothing you would have thought all the pastors would have came you can’t be no gospel artist you just said [ __ ] that [ __ ] nobody said nothing cuz TD Jak’s
Over there with be in it like come on cat only the guy you had here has been upfront and honest and a man of God and humble and took the L’s he had to take and didn’t I I did see it with was trending though but I ain’t know I I
Don’t I I ain’t know why c i don’t let me go to this question right here all people that love the truth got to be happy if the truth coming out and lies is getting exposed that’s just what time it is 2024 folks are you related to uh
Luda no um so there was a Crossroads where we were both invited to an Illuminati thing and it had to be one or the other of us and decisions had to be made so it was both of us we were equal one of us had to cut
Off all their hair and couldn’t do the Sideburn thing no more with the points and the next person they said was going to get $200 million because they were going to pay him 10 million a movie to do 20 movies and that’s how the conversation happened one of those
Persons turned out to be ludicrous and the other person turned out to be Cat Williams now one person ended up with a light-skinned ugly faed wife that’s never done remember I told you that if I say that it apply to seven people it’s part of what they give you okay I didn’t
Get it I’m not mad about it how much money they give 200 sir Fast and Furious is on what number right now 10 more 200 million I might need get me one of more women look look the same that’s what they all end up saying
That at the end of the day Kevin told you he won’t go wear no dress until they offered him the dress and then he put it on and what did he say after he wore it I made my own decision duh but you didn’t make it before they brought it up
Did you it’s okay it’s all right you have a lot of politics never talk about it I’m not that controversial what where are we go where are we head to cat uh this is sad this we’ve never been here before we’ve never been at the point where
Neither option is good for us in real life no this is a different conversation this is would you rather go back with your ex or would you rather go back with the person before them both bad option both bad options like one guy one guy can barely put his
Sentences together and the other guy will put sentences together from whatever he’s read or whoever told him like but how do we get how do we get here how do we get here all division divides there’s no way around that all division divides um politics even in the beginning when our constitution was
Drawn up the the two parties was not what they had in mind no they always thought that it would be two main and another independent party they always assumed the Independent party would be um just as strong as the others a lot of that just didn’t happen and
Um that’s what I’ve learned more from Comedy is that Republicans laugh at the exact same thing that Democrats laugh at as long as I’m talking to Democrats I can make them laugh for one hour straight about what Republicans do by the same token I can go talk to
Republicans for one whole hour and have them dying about the stuff that Democrats do but at the end of the day who does that yeah your team got a offense and a defense they not supposed to be enemies the enemy is the other side well you can’t do politics like
That nope it’s not good for the country man you see this Mark Zuckerberg building this $270 million bunker if you have a billion dollars we have learned that you can do whatever you want to do when Eli mus wants to send space things in space you don’t have to ask nobody’s
Permission Congress don’t meet Senate don’t meet no Police Department got to be warned he don’t need a permit none of that if you got a billion dollars you do what you want to do and then you tell them what you did hey and that’s how it
Go what he building the a $270 million bunker what he know that we don’t know C Kim Jong Un what I don’t know what you don’t know do you understand that people that are not very brigh are in charge of nuclear bombs all across the country
Mhm that’s what he knows he knows that 30% of all weapons systems are running off regular Wi-Fi so what does that mean that means if a solar flare or a meteor hits either one of those literally a bomb can go off just because the system accidentally got turned off yeah that’s what he
Knows the the people that are in power know that the people that are running the most complicated and deadliest things on the planet are just an average idiot and you know lots of idiots I do yep and these these people are not special back in the day they were yeah
Not today not today you say you smoke a little weed you ever smoke with Snoop yeah I’m actually a bigger smoker than Snoop He he’ll tell you that but I don’t like I don’t mix anything with my weed I just do weed right so no yeah nobody has
Minimum I mean you nobody nobody has nobody nobody does 20 blunts a day like me for 30 years like like I was the first person to have a weed roller like somebody whose job it was like I haven’t I haven’t rolled a blunt in 20 years
Like if you go I’m saying I I prefer the saliva of ladies oh my goodness no no understand what I’m saying if for a blunt it’s necessary for it to get lit right and so if you had spent 20 years smoking with dudes that’s a lot of male
Saliva that you would have just accidently ingested I I can’t I can’t be this specimen on that it takes uh the saliva of nice ladies on that but yeah I’m a yeah that’s all I do that’s just do you consider yourself a king of comedy where where does no they they
Consider that like like when after Bernie left them same three guys I’m telling you about the Kings yeah right cuz DL is the greatest no DL slander gets tolerated um but they came to me I was supposed to be the fourth King I got the offer then what happened but I
Turned it down why because you [ __ ] on Bernie and I know the truth you think I’m let you [ __ ] on Bernie and then come get me I’m the next king [ __ ] you why because the whole time Bernie was here you was acting like you was funnier than him the reason you were
Supposed to go last is cuz it was your tour tell the truth it was Steve’s tour not it was gonna be called the Kings of Comedy was Steve’s tour these are the guys opening for him of course you got to close if it’s your door that’s why it
Was such a big deal but you couldn’t do it cuz you can’t beat the best and until you humble yourself you will forever be kinged by the king and because you finally did it cuz you didn’t had no other choice and now that he gone you going to act like he
Wanted to be a movie star you stop it you stop it that man was funnier than all of y’all and y’all thought y’all had one over on him you thought thought he were black and ugly and you were goodlooking and he couldn’t make it cuz you did and that ain’t the way comedy
Work the king is the funniest period every time and that’s why no audience member was ever swayed it didn’t matter where Bernie went you think if Bernie went first he wasn’t the king get out of here get out of here get your ego out of this you let the best be the best
Right Cat Williams ladies and gentlemen thanks for coming on bro I really appreciate that thanks for sharing thank you the stories setting the record straight now you know they going to double back impossible impossible only because if once you play this back you’ll realize I didn’t say anything that made me look in
A good light I I wasn’t tearing down others to boost myself up I but I do have to acknowledge things that did not take place like we’re very ingenuous if we say this is not a game and we don’t play it and people ain’t in positions and people don’t have their favorites
And they group and they click right well that happens in all businesses we no no say what side you want say why you don’t like the other side and then get to the game but in the game I’m wiping the field with them to the point where they
Don’t even compete anymore so how you going to let a dude that been on the for 15 years I would have beat Jordan’s ass Shut up Jordan is still alive we’ll call Jordan right now you can’t beat him [Laughter] now not then you can’t beat him now right Cat Williams Shannon
Sharp appreciate you bro appreciate you all my life grinding all my life sacrifice hustle P the price want to slice got the roll of dice that’s why all my life i’ been grinding all my life all my life been grinding all my life sacrifice hle P the price want a slice
Got the roll a dice that’s why all my life been grinding all my Life
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“ALL DIVISION DIVIDES”
Dayton Ohio home of the funk 💪🏾💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Katt Williams is going GTA 6 trailer numbers with this interview lol. 🤝
this dude is a dragon. "we don't let people on the juice discuses real athletes". Is my new quote.
He said he’s too big to respond or go live 😂😂😂😂 I love him
Katt THE TRUTH
katt got started 4 mins in lol
Speak the truth that God loves. And with no fear.
Dude got beat up by a middle schooler
Best interview hands down might even be a documentary
Good at what he does. I've looked up movies because of clips like who white baby is that
Respect for Katt Williams. This was an amazing interview.
1:45:29 they called it!! We want Oprah next lol
Kay really just had his best stand up on Club Shay Shay lmaooooolllll
6 Milly views on 1 day, craaazyyyy
Less than you😂😂😂😂
love this episode!!!🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
7:39 yeah if someone got raped in Friday I wouldn’t have watched it or been a classic to me
Matt Williams is ANNOINTED TO SAY TRUTH!! Keep Going Katt💖💖!!
Not light skin weird face wife! 😂😂😂😂
Man, this was a great interview! Club Shay Shay is going to be launched into the Joe Rogan ranks, thanks to the one and only Katt Williams. Give that man his flowers while he's here to receive them.
Next, Shannon should bring Louis Farrakhan on…
I’m telling my kids Katt Williams made Minecraft, that hat is wild
Katt and trump 2024
Katt Williams was AMAZING❕
That Wanda Smith radio interview is sooooooo funny.
I stand with Katt, just like I stood with Chappelle 🤞🏾💯
😅 Definitely needed to be said and heard! Salute to my bro Katt Williams and Shannon Sharpe for this truth 💯
Katt Williams is top shelf
This interview was 3 hours too short
dinner and this movie !!
he cant read. ha.
Patrice O’Neal🗣🗣🗣❤️😢🙏🏾
He used the word "phallusy" in the wrong context. Haha
LETS GOOOO KATTTTT
Great interw. And it's almost @ 8 million!!
Egypt is in Africa folks. As long as Egypt is in Africa Egyptians are African. 🤯 😂
This goes hard unc
The Katt is outta da bag for real😅
Great interview! R.i.p Bernie Mac!! One the greatest to ever do it!
This is freaking amazing…….PREACH😂😂😂😂😂
Intro 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
8 mill views in a day is crazy 😭
Katt done hurt everybody's feelings got them making statements
It was at 5 million when I started it and it’s already at 7million and I still got 20 mins left
P Diddy wants a body😆😆😆
Breakin the internet
“One of the top 2..” being
1. Dave
2. Katt