Katt Williams was the talk of social media on Jan. 3 when the segment of the comedian being interviewed by Shannon Sharpe on “Club Shay Shay” was released. For almost three hours, Williams didn’t hold back and took jabs at several comedians, including Steve Harvey, Kevin Hart, Rickey Smiley, Michael Blackson and Chris Tucker.
Williams specifically went after Cedric the Entertainer, claiming he allegedly stole one of his jokes in the 1990s.
“He thought that I was just a no-name comedian and that he could take this joke and nobody would know,” Williams said. “The issue was that I had already done this particular joke on BET’s ‘ComicView’ twice. It had done so well on BET’s ‘ComicView’ that they made it part of the commercial.”
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“This is not just a random joke, this is my best joke and it’s my last joke and it’s my closing joke,” Willams said. “1998, I’m doing this joke; 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 just changed my car into a spaceship.”
Hour later, Cedric the Entertainer responded on Instagram, saying “Revisionist History, regardless of whatever Katts opinion My career can’t be reduced to One Joke Katt Williams claims as his. I been [in] over 40 movies, my specials and brand speaks volumes for [who] I am. The ppl I have put on including ‘Katt in the Hat’. At the Gibson Amphitheater.”
Check out the clip of the two jokes below.
