What’d he learn from Murphy about comedy, music and success in general? "Comedically, you have to understand we have very few people you can look at and say, these are the bullet points. That’d freak people out! Even I might not be able to fully protect him." Williams recently filmed a part in an Eddie Murphy movie, Norbit. His stand-up tour is billed as "Katt Williams and Friends." The friends include host Red Grant, Lunelle and Melanie Camacho.
So people feel like, the kind of people who tune in to see me, they feel they can do that." "I think 80 percent of everybody is pimping something," Williams said. It keeps you current."Īnd it’s hard not to notice that a lot of his fans taking the pimpin’ philosophy to heart, leaving all sorts of comments on his page to pimp their own sites, CDs and projects. Considering I have 250,000 friends on there, it takes so much time (to respond to messages)…But I appreciate how you get instantaneous feedback on things. Although Cook appears in Williams’ top friends list. You can’t believe everything you read on there." "MySpace also says I’m one of the sexiest men in the country. "That would be first quarter 2007," he said. Well, January, according to his MySpace music page. "I try not to say anything because it’s not my thing." His thing, "It’s Pimpin’, Pimpin’," is due out in early 2007. "Old managers of mine put that out, trying to cash in," he said. 5, but Williams said that’s not really his thing. Actually, another CD, "Live: Let a Playa Play" is out Dec. He has his first CD coming out over the next couple of months. Williams certainly has gotten himself on the right track. (Adopting a dorky voice) ‘Hey everybody, life is wonderful!’ It’s not…You have to really go out of your way to make life wonderful." If it wasn’t offensive to somebody, it would just be a guy onstage saying pleasantries. It’s one of the most hilarious things ever." You’d have to know Paul Mooney to get this joke. Why the laughter? "Because I know Paul Mooney. The other part I can’t understand is Paul Mooney said he’d never say it again because he heard a white guy say it." Williams pauses to laugh about that some more.
"What? Because a white man said it?" Williams said he could understand why Jackson and others would want to take back the word nigger. "What? A white man said it? Now I’m not going to say it again?! It’s so retarded…It was a light-bulb experience for him?" Williams is quoting Mooney’s description in recent interviews there. Note: On Saturday night at the Orpheum, Williams told the sold-out crowd that he would’ve had to punch out Richards if he had seen him that night, just on principle.īut about Paul Mooney…Williams was incredulous. But if you get to the point where that’s offensive, what’s next? You can’t talk about fat people or slow people or offensive people or retarded people? I think if you can get in front of black people and say something bad like nigger and get away with it without something bad happening to you, you’ve done something right." A comic can do 30 minutes on the intricacies of the vagina, or doing bowel movement. As a comic, you’re allowed to say whatever. "They were as wrong as (Michael Richards) was. "No, they shouldn’t have done that," he told me. 1 (now out on DVD), was, to quote Williams, the biggest hit "in the history of niggerdom." Suffice it to say, Williams isn’t afraid of Masada’s edict. Jesse Jackson calling for a boycott of the word in entertainment circles, and veteran comic Paul Mooney saying he’d stop saying the word that has made him so much, I just had to ask Katt Williams about it.Įspecially since his HBO special, Katt Williams, The Pimp Chronicles pt. And considering what’s happened since, with club owner Jamie Masada saying he’d ban and fine comics who utter the word, the Rev. That word has been in the news and in comedy debates in the two weeks since Michael Richards (not Kramer) went off on a rage-filled rant at the Laugh Factory in L.A. Avert your eyes now if you don’t want to know what it is, even though you know all too perfectly well what the word is, and as Louis CK will tell you, just saying n-word puts the actual word in your head.
Hold on, hold on, just hold on one second.
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