80 or livenation.Comedy legend and Emmy® Award-winning actor, Katt Williams, announces his “2023 and Me” Tour. “But if you want to sell genius, who don’t want to buy that? Because genius is real,” he said, before adding, “Can’t you tell I hate bragging? It (messes) with my natural humility.” But I do like making things for people and I realize that selling it to them afterwards is part of the business. “I don’t do ads because I don’t like selling things to people. His volatile, frequently hilarious stage presence is a legitimate draw in an age when so many comics and pop stars are groomed to within an inch of their creativity. Williams’ zeal for performing is a large part of what has earned him such massive audiences, despite not enjoying traditional advertising campaigns or a regular sitcom gig. “Just giving so much you can’t give anymore,” he said. He said one of his dreams is to die on stage. “I smoke weed and occasionally have alcohol but other than that I eat pretty good and I sleep pretty good.” “I’m over 40 years old and I’ve never tried cocaine or meth or speed or ecstasy or Viagra,” he said. To wit: Williams used a good chunk of his interview with The Denver Post to rant against AEG Live, the mega-promoter whom he blames for Michael Jackson’s death (Williams himself is represented by Live Nation).īut despite the occasional press speculation about his drug use and mental stability, Williams said the manic energy he displays on stage is just him at his most focused. With a persona that falls somewhere between a possessed revival preacher and Looney Tunes’ Tasmanian Devil, they’re probably happy not to have him. ![]() Indeed, Williams doesn’t show up at the usual red carpet premieres and Hollywood parties. So at no point when you’ve ever heard anything bad about me was I ever trying to get any attention.” “The reason that I’m in (the press) more times bad than good is because I don’t pay people to make me look good. ![]() “I could care less what people say about me,” Williams said. “If you want to talk to me about a comic greater than myself, then feel free to talk about Jeff Dunham or Ricky Gervais, but I’m not going to have no shudder in my spirit for no damn Louis C.K. True or not, it shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with Williams’ brand of braggadocio, which includes pimp suits, perms and, in the case of this interview, constant trash-talking about fellow mega-comics Harvey, Dane Cook, Kevin Hart and Louis C.K. “Steve Harvey talked so much that I decided I would come out and single-handedly earn $54 million in one tour and break the Original Kings of Comedy record, so I could call myself the original king of comedy.” “I found another goal,” Williams said of his return to stand-up, which takes him to the 5,000-seat Wells Fargo Theatre on Thursday and Friday. The special aired on Showtime in August, preceding a tour that has Williams again visiting some of the biggest venues in the country to ply his vigorously physical, profanity-laden trade. The L.A.-based stand-up and actor “retired” from comedy in 2008 only to reappear last year, when he taped a special (“Kattpacalypse”) on New Year’s Eve in front of 7,000 fans at L.A.’s Nokia Theatre. If Katt Williams really does have nine lives, as the title of a 2010 documentary about him implies, he has surely used up seven or eight of them already. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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