Katt Williams Slams Cedric the Entertainer for Allegedly Stealing One of His Jokes
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Katt Williams has gone after Cedric the Entertainer for allegedly stealing one of his jokes.
Speaking on the Club Shay Shay podcast, Williams seemingly responded to Cedric, who denied that he stole the joke when he was on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast in 2022.
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“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.”
The actor-comedian continued, “This is not just a random joke, this is my best joke and it’s my last joke and it’s my closing joke. 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.”
Cedric previously claimed on the Club Shay Shay podcast in November 2022 that he thought it was “ridiculous” that Williams was upset and denied that he stole one of the comedian’s jokes. “I’ve seen this guy [Williams] 30 times. Like, dog, if you literally was that upset about it, like why didn’t you say nothing, like that don’t even make sense,” Cedric said at the time. “This is some internet shit, and that’s all I can say, so, you know, when I responded to him, he didn’t respond back to me and I left it at that.”
Williams claimed that Cedric, as well as Steve Harvey, had previously apologized to him, so that’s why he never brought it up during their interactions and gave them a “pass for a decade.” But the comedian became frustrated when Cedric went on the podcast and publicly denied the allegations of joke theft.
“Why would you downplay me like that? Why would I give you a pass if you were just gonna lie?” Williams said. He also went on to say that Cedric’s specials are “so bad that they’re not available on Netflix,” though Cedric’s Live From the Ville special is currently streaming on Netflix.
After the latest podcast clips were shared on social media, Cedric responded to Williams’ claims in Club Shay Shay’s Instagram comment section.
“Revisionist History, regardless of whatever Katts opinion My career can’t be reduced to One Joke Katt Williams claims as his,” he wrote. “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 added, “And all that tough talk! Is corny af I’m grown ass man. And none of that sh*t gonna go like you think. You do you and I got this over here.”
Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Williams claimed that Cedric, Harvey and Rickey Smiley work in a group to shut him and others out of the industry. He said they aren’t “aren’t three random guys,” they’re “co-entwined, and they share secrets.”
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