Katt Williams slammed fellow comic Cedric the Entertainer this week in a fiery interview on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast.
In the podcast episode, launched Wednesday, the “Friday After Next” actor pulled no punches when he doubled down on a earlier accusation that Cedric stole certainly one of his greatest jokes, telling host Shannon Sharpe that Cedric later tried to “rewrite history.”
Cedric (born Cedric Kyles) had denied stealing the joke from Williams throughout an look on “Club Shay Shay” in 2022. But Williams insisted in Wednesday’s episode that Cedric did elevate his joke.
“He thought that I was just a no-name comedian, and that he could take this joke and nobody would know,” Williams stated. “The issue was that I had already done this particular joke on BET’s ‘ComicView’ twice.”
Williams has claimed that Cedric copied a bit that he used throughout a 1992 look on BET’s stand-up comedy collection “ComicView.” Williams accused the “Barbershop” actor of performing the alleged stolen joke within the 2000 movie “The Original Kings of Comedy.” Clips of each comedians performing their jokes have made the rounds on X, the previous Twitter.
“This is not just some random joke, this is my very best joke, and it’s my last joke and it’s my closing joke,” Williams stated. “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.”
He continued: “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 car into a spaceship.”
Williams claimed that Cedric and his longtime good friend, comic and TV host Steve Harvey, had already apologized for the alleged stolen joke.
“I gave him a pass, for a decade,” Williams stated.
He argued that he’s solely talking out now as a result of Cedric denied stealing the joke in 2022.
Cedric, for his half, instructed Sharpe in 2022 that Williams’ accusation was “ridiculous” and “some internet shit.” He then claimed that the timeline of when each comedians instructed their jokes didn’t sq. with Williams’ claims.
A consultant for Cedric didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark about Williams’ most up-to-date interview.
However, the “Johnson Family Vacation” actor responded to a few of Williams’ claims within the feedback part of a “Club Shay Shay” Instagram put up on Wednesday.
“Revisionist History, regardless of whatever [Williams’] opinion, My career can’t be reduced to One Joke Katt Williams claims as his,” Cedric wrote. “I been 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.”
“And all that tough talk! Is corny af,” he later wrote in a follow-up remark. “I’m grown ass man. And none of that shit gonna go like you think. You do you and I got this over here.”
Elsewhere in his look on “Club Shay Shay,” Williams criticized the comedic abilities of Harvey, Rickey Smiley, Tyler Perry, Kevin Hart and Michael Blackson — and leveled a slew of different insults and claims.
On Thursday, Hart responded to Williams’ interview in a social media put up selling his new movie “Lift.” Williams had accused Hart of being an “industry plant,” suggesting that the “Night School” actor took shortcuts to succeed in such success in his profession.
“Gotta get that anger up outcha champ… It’s honestly sad,” Hart wrote.
