Katt
Williams
has
a
bone
to
pick
with
some
of
his
fellow
comedians,
and
he’s
not
holding
back
any
of
his
gripes.
Source:
Paras
Griffin
/
Getty
The
comedian
made
an
appearance
on
Shannon
Sharpe’s
Club
Shay
Shay
podcast
this
week,
where
he
took
shots
at
Cedric
the
Entertainer,
Steve
Harvey,
Kevin
Hart,
and
Rickey
Smiley.
During
their
conversation,
Williams
insisted
that
he
needed
to
address
the
lies
said
about
him
by
what
he
referred
to
as
“low-brow
comedians,”
going
on
to
call
the
three
aforementioned
funny
guys
a
“gang.”
“For
30
years,
they’re
a
group.
These
aren’t
three
random
guys,”
Katt
said
on
Club
Shay
Shay.
“All
of
these
dudes
are
co-entwined
and
they
share
secrets,
and
this
is
the
age
of
truth.”
More
specifically,
Williams
called
out
Cedric
The
Entertainer
for
plagiarism,
accusing
the
comedian
of
stealing
his
joke
from
a
comedy
set
in
the
late
’90s.
“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,”
Williams
explained.
“1998,
I’m
doing
this
joke.
It’s
on
‘ComicView.’
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
(Original)
Kings
Of
Comedy,’
and
he’s
doing
it
verbatim,”
he
said.
Though
Katt
says
he
initially
let
Cedric
slide
for
stealing
his
joke,
that
all
changed
when
Cedric
denied
taking
any
material
from
him.
“He
thought
that
I
was
just
a
no-name
comedian
and
that
he
could
take
this
joke
and
nobody
would
know,”
Williams
said.
Katt
Williams’
Joke
vs
Cedric
The
Entertainer’s
JokeThoughts
pic.twitter.com/RKnQo5eOwR
—
Evil
Joe
(@JoeMahgi)
January
3,
2024
In
response
to
these
allegations,
Cedric
the
Entertainer
took
to
Instagram
to
issue
a
response.
He
commented
under
the
clip
of
Katt
calling
him
out
and
called
his
retelling
of
events
“Revisionist
History.”
“Regardless
of
whatever
Katts
opinion
My
career
can’t
be
reduced
to
One
Joke
Katt
Williams
claims
as
his,”
his
comment
continued.
“I
been
over
40
movies,
my
specials
and
brand
speaks
volumes
for
I
am.
The
ppl
I
have
put
on
including
“Katt
in
the
Hat”.
At
the
Gibson
Amphitheater.”
Cedric
The
Entertainer
called
Katt
Williams
“corny
af”
for
talking
“tough”
in
this
sit
down
with
Shannon
Sharpe!
https://t.co/UF9aiq4mz7
pic.twitter.com/TXmFcW6JGP
—
TheShadeRoom
(@TheShadeRoom)
January
3,
2024
Katt
Williams
Calls
Out
Rickey
Smiley,
Rickey
Responds
Moving
on
to
Rickey
Smiley,
Williams
took
this
opportunity
to
respond
to
claims
he
had
previously
made
while
talking
to
Sharpe
in
his
own
interview.
In
2002,
Smiley
and
Williams
co-starred
in
Friday
After
Next,
with
Kat
playing
Money
Mike
and
Rickey
playing
Santa
Claus.
Smiley
recently
told
Sharpe
that
he
originally
had
the
role
of
Mike,
which
Williams
denies.
“This
man
told
you
he
had
Katt
Williams’
role.
He
was
going
to
be
Money
Mike,
and
Katt
Williams
was
going
to
be
the
Santa
Claus,”
Williams
began.
“We
auditioned
in
Los
Angeles.
I
was
audition
No.
201.
Two-hundred
Black
comedians
auditioned
for
the
role
of
Money
Mike
with
me.
You’re
saying
all
201
of
us
was
auditioning,
and
you
had
already
had
the
role
and
had
already
shot
the
role
in
four
days?”
After
working
together
in
Friday
After
Next,
Williams
claimed
he
had
a
clause
placed
in
his
contract
stating
that
he
would
only
work
with
Smiley
if
he
was
wearing
a
dress.
“Now,
what
was
Rickey
Smiley’s
next
movie?
Was
it
First
Sunday?
Did
he
wear
a
dress
in
it?
You
bet
he
did.
It’s
in
my
contract.”
Katt
said.
“That’s
where
he’s
a
believable
actor.
Him
and
Tyler
Perry
can’t
play
a
man
to
save
their
life.
They
play
good
women.”
Rickey
Smiley
swiftly
responded
to
Williams’
comments
on
The
Rickey
Smiley
Morning
Show
and
denied
lying
about
being
up
role
the
Money
Mike
role.
“I
had
no
reason
to
go
on
Shannon
Sharpe
and
lie
about
any
of
that,
that’s
what
I
auditioned
for,”
said
Smiley.
“They
added
that
whole
pimp
twist
to
that
character,
which
was
actually
a
better
decision
and
made
it
funnier.
Ain’t
no
way
in
the
hell
I
could
have
executed
that
role
like
that
and
I’m
glad
that
they
made
that
decision.”
To
emphasize
his
point,
he
even
had
his
former
manager
call
in
to
corroborate
his
story
about
the
Money
Mike
audition.
“They
wanted
you
to
play
Money
Mike,
that
was
the
audition
you
did,”
said
the
manager.
“My
recollection
is,
you
had
to
go
back
and
read
for
th
execs
from
the
studio
one
final
time
and
the
night
before
that,
they
said
‘No,
we
want
you
to
play
this
role
[Santa
Claus].”
Rickey
also
denied
Katt’s
claim
about
him
putting
a
clause
in
his
contract
about
him
wearing
a
dress.
“There
was
no
contract
ever
in
agreement
with
the
First
Sunday
movie
about
me
playing
Bernice
Jenkins,”
said
Smiley
who
noted
that
he
played
a
female
character
“for
the
sake
of
funny.”
“It
had
nothing
to
do
with
Katt
Williams’
contract.
I
respect
Katt,
definitely
disappointed
that
you
have
to
get
on
the
air
and
explain
something
like
this
but
that’s
the
truth.”
In
conclusion,
he
added,
“We
wanna
wish
Katt
Williams
the
best
on
whatever,
it
ain’t
nothing
but
love
over
here,
just
because
we
don’t
agree.”
Rickey
Smiley
is
the
first
to
respond
to
Katt
Williams
interview
👀👀
pic.twitter.com/w1YPiWKAFd
—
VINCE
VAN
(@VinceJVan)
January
4,
2024
Katt
Williams
Shades
Steve
Harvey,
Accuses
Him
Of
Plagiarism
When
it
comes
to
Steve
Harvey,
Williams
once
again
threw
around
allegations
of
plagiarism.
According
to
Katt,
Harvey
lifted
the
premise
of
his
show,
The
Steve
Harvey
Show,
from
comedian
Mark
Curry.
Curry
starred
as
teacher
Mark
Cooper
on
the
sitcom
Hangin’
with
Mr.
Cooper,
while
Harvey
played
a
high
school
music
teacher
on
his
sitcom.
“The
same
Steve
that
went
to
go
watch
Mark
Curry
do
his
whole
sitcom
and
then
stole
everything
Mark
Curry
had,”
Williams
said.
“Now
Steve
got
a
sitcom
where
he’s
the
principal
and
he
wears
a
suit.”
Williams
also
took
a
shot
at
Harvey’s
acting,
poking
holes
in
the
Family
Feud
host’s
previous
claims
that
he
didn’t
want
to
pursue
a
career
in
film.
“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…and
look
like
Mr.
Potato
Head,”
Williams
said.
“There
ain’t
none.
You
have
to
have
range.”
Katt
Williams
Calls
Out
Kevin
Hart,
Kevin
Hart
Responds
Williams
went
on
to
take
aim
at
Kevin
Hart,
alleging
that
every
movie
he
had
done
during
a
certain
timeframe
was
one
of
his
leftovers
.
“For
a
five
year
period,
every
single
movie
that
Kevin
Hart
did
was
a
movie
that
had
been
on
my
desk,”
Katt
said.
Kevin
clearly
caught
wind
of
Katt’s
comments
and
he
responded
by
calling
him
“angry”
while
promoting
the
latest
film
he’s
starring
in.
“Gotta
get
that
anger
up
outcha
champ….It’s
honestly
sad.
In
the
meantime….
Please
enjoy
MY
MOVIE
TRAILER
to
my
next
film
“LIFT”
which
will
be
dropping
on
@netflix
in
8
days!!!!!
There
is
a
moment
in
the
trailer
where
@gugumbatharaw
says
“They
Really
Love
You”
….I
now
know
she’s
talking
about
“Katt”,”
he
tweeted
Gotta
get
that
anger
up
outcha
champ….It’s
honestly
sad.
In
the
meantime….
Please
enjoy
MY
MOVIE
TRAILER
to
my
next
film
“LIFT”
which
will
be
dropping
on
@netflix
in
8
days!!!!!
There
is
a
moment
in
the
trailer
where
@gugumbatharaw
says
“They
Really
Love
You”
….I
now
know…
pic.twitter.com/vM8PhVoC08
—
Kevin
Hart
(@KevinHart4real)
January
4,
2024
