Katt Williams became a living comedy legend – as well as one of the most controversial comedians in history – in part because of his scorched-earth honesty. But he outdid himself on the newest episode of Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast, which dropped Wednesday.
The interview has gone viral thanks to Williams firing Howitzer-caliber shells at some of the most famous working comedians. The first 35 minutes of the two hour and 46-minute interview – the longest in Club Shay Shay history – are the juiciest, but Williams keeps up his attacks throughout the entire interview.
Sharpe strategically let Williams get his shit off, defending his friends from Williams’ venom when necessary but giving him the space to say everything he wanted – quietly containing the excitement of knowing that viral gold was unfolding.
Williams came for what felt like nine-tenths of Black entertainment — from Diddy to Tiffany Haddish to Martin Lawrence. Even Sharpe caught a round or two on his own show: “You having an unnatural allegiance to losers is not like you,” Williams told him.
Here are the comedians licking their wounds after that explosive interview:
Rickey Smiley (and Tyler Perry)
Smiley was the very first in Williams’ crosshairs following Sharpe’s introduction. The comedian responded to Smiley’s claims on an earlier Club Shay Shay episode that the roles both comedians played in 2002’s “Friday After Next” were supposed to be reversed.
Williams disagreed vehemently and took the opportunity to shoot deuces on Smiley’s entire career. He also made the bananas claim that he placed a clause in his contract that he’d only work with Smiley again 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,” Williams said. “It’s in my contract. 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.”
Smiley responded this morning, essentially taking the high road while suggesting that he and his family are “hurt” by Williams’ claims.
Steve Harvey
Mr. “Think Like a Man” was riddled with bullets and left stretched out on the ground. Perhaps Williams’ most shocking claim is that Harvey quit standup only after he called out his famous flat-top as a “man unit” during a stand-up routine.
Williams also claimed that Harvey stole the idea of his popular sitcom “The Steve Harvey Show” from Mark Curry’s “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper” and that Harvey hated on the late Bernie Mac’s transition to Hollywood because he wanted to be an actor but didn’t have the chops.
“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 of Harvey. “There ain’t none. You have to have range.”
Faizon Love
Love, known mostly for his supporting roles in several sitcoms and as Big Worm in the original “Friday,” caught a stray when Williams used the phrase, “Fat Faizon Liar.” Sharpe pointed out the stray, to which Williams responded: “Faizon said getting a Netflix special is easy. I have 12 specials. Guess how many Faizon got? Zero.”
That wasn’t the last of the unfavorable Big Worm mentions.
Earthquake
Williams said that the comedian Earthquake can’t be a famous movie star because he’s illiterate.
“He can’t read,” Williams said. “They found that out when they gave him a show and put the cards in front of him.”
Ouch.
Kevin Hart
There’s been funky blood between Hart and Williams for a while: The famously congenial Hart called him out during an interview on “The Breakfast Club” years ago.
Williams came at Hart’s entire origin story, suggesting that he was an industry plant because Hart found immediate success in Hollywood following a move from the east coast.
“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, him getting a standing ovation at any comedy club,” Williams said. “He already had his deals when he got here…what do you think a plant is?”
Michael Blackson
Williams let off a quick round toward Blackson when Sharpe asked him if he were ever booed.
“Most comedians don’t get booed enough. That’s how you end up with Michael Blackson, who is a real African, doin a fake African accent,” Williams said, before insisting that Blackson has stayed mad at him for years because he told him to stop dressing in “dirty daishikis.”
Blackson responded immediately:
Chris Tucker
When Sharpe asked Williams if he’d ever do another “Friday” film, Williams said Ice Cube asked him to write it and suggested that any new film couldn’t replicate the magic of the first because of the death of John Witherspoon and the fact that today’s Chris Tucker is not the Tucker of 30 years ago.
“The Chris Tucker we got now is Epstein Island Chris Tucker,” he said, in reference to the fact that Tucker’s name is on the recently unsealed Jeffrey Epstein files.
Williams also claimed that Tucker never wanted to be the poster child for smoking weed because he was a church boy. He also said that Tucker was pals with Michael Jackson, who called him “Chris-mas.”
“Ever met a man gave you a lil’ nickname like that?” Williams asked Sharpe. “Me neither.”
Cedric the Entertainer
Of the dozen-plus names Williams dropped unfavorably, his beef with Ced feels the most personal. Sharpe asked Ced on a previous Club Shay Shay episode if he stole one of Williams jokes – a claim he denied.
Williams laid out his whole side of the story, insisting that Ced closed his “The Original Kings of Comedy” routine with a barely altered version of his biggest joke.
“He thought that I was just a no-name comedian and that he could take this joke and nobody would know,” Williams said.
Williams leveled several ad hominem weight-based attacks at Ced and claimed that he shot completed stand-up routines that are so unfunny that Netflix and Tubi wouldn’t release them.
Ced responded immediately in the comments section of Club Shay Shay’s Instagram page, calling the whole thing “revisionist history:” “And all that tough talk! Is corny af I’m grown ass man. And none of that shit gonna go like you think. You do you and I got this over here..”