Comedian Katt Williams' show Friday night at Oracle Arena came to an early end when a confrontation with a heckler led to a visibly angry Williams being dragged off the stage by his own security.
Here it is.
and another recently in Denver, CO
Here he managed to at least stay at the show.
I don't think that guy actually understands search engines. Putting the sentence in 5 times doesn't help.
There are so many Katt Williams meltdowns maybe he felt he needed to be specific.
Wow, pimpin really isn't easy...
The best part of this is that you can see him get picked up like a bratty child at 1:15. Feet off the ground and all that lmao
You are a comedian, heckling is part of the job. You have to learn how to deal with it.
This is what happens when a nigga purchases his dope from Oakland, California.
What an incredibly ignorant human being.
You could not have summed this up better.
How fitting.
The size of a child and acts like one.
Ok, that is indeed something awful. But Katt has produced some legitimately funny performances, regardless of his set of beliefs. I hope he gets back to producing funny stuff someday... after (if) he recovers from this stress/mental-illness/drug induced series of actions. Dude needs help and some serious recovery time. Edit: grammar
Katt Williams is not fucking funny. He's a fucking rat who gets up on stage and shits from his mouth.
I don't agree. There's this bit he does about shopping with his son that's pretty good. And I enjoyed much of the rest of that show too. I like his delivery and comedic timing. But evaluations of humour have a heavily subjective element, so if nothing he does makes you chuckle then that's fine; I'm certainly not going to make a blanket claim about your sense of humour.
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My (educated) guess is that the beliefs expressed in this quote are legitimately his, but the erratic behaviours are fuelled by drugs and possible issues that would be beneficially treated in terms of mental illness. I hope his son is being sufficiently protected.
Wow, fuck him.
Ever since his little rant about people needing religion, his career has been crumbling away.
gloat
Fuck his sweaty, judgmental ass.
I've also just never been a fan of his style of comedy-- I mean for crying out loud, "fuck" and/or "nigga" make up at least half his show.
I don't mind comedians swearing on stage at all but my issue with it is when "fuck" is the joke. Swearing should enhance a joke, not be the only way to get a laugh. Comedians like Jeremy Hotz and Louis CK do it brilliantly, but Williams does not.
DAE LOUIS CK?! SO BRAVE!
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Billy Connolly.
I love that man.
there is an age issue here. Bruce was dead before most of reddit's parents were in grade school, Hicks has been dead as long as most of reddit has been alive.
CK is a worthy, modern successor to the names you listed and has the advantage of still making new stuff.
tl;dr: Kids today!
What makes him THE successor?
No Richard Pryor? Nigger can't catch a break.
Seriously,it's almost ridiculous to compare a living, touring comedian to Carlin, Pryor, or Bruce. Jon Stewart called them the "Holy Triumvirate of Comedy," saying Louis CK doesn't swear like Carlin is like saying Murray Gell-Mann doesn't do Physics like Einstein.
Yes and Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, and Bill Hicks are such rarer choices. But of course you would, this is Reddit after all.
You've missed the point: by no means am I saying any of those are obscure. They are just better examples of comedians who can enhance humor with raunch and cursing.
Alas, they aren't alive to do AMA's, so they get less love.
I just went to the first comedian that came to mind. Kudos on your taste in comedians.
One of my favorite comics actually who DIDN'T swear was Woody Allen. Have you heard his album from the early 60's? Double album...the name escapes me...
Well put. I wholeheartedly agree.
I agree. I shut off his last special half way through. Don't need religious beliefs shoved down my throat.
same here. it wasn't even funny. it was more angry and dumb.
Good.
yeah! he said something i disagree with! fuck him and his mental well being!
good ol' open minded reddit!
I wish my heart bled like yours. Have fun supporting an angry violent loser.
When was this ?
Kattapcalypse.
Isn't that a normal Katt Williams show?
Someone is high as fuck.
Man, that's a shame. I remember seeing one of his stand up specials some years ago and thought he was hilarious. It's a shame he's become irrelevant and an asshole.
Pulled the same shit in Denver just a few weeks back. Clearly the guy is struggling with an addiction or mental health issues. Hopefully he can pull through it.
drugs.
Yeah. If you personally know Katt Williams then now, right now, is the time to have the talk.
Katt Williams is a piece of trash. His performance is nothing more than black face. "Nigga" this, "Pimp" that, complete with "Y'all mothafuckas need jesus" action.
The worst thing that gets me is the "pimp" persona. Yeah, way to exploit the image of the near-lowest of lowlives for a gimmick.
Proof that minstrel acts are still around and making money. Fuck Katt Williams.
I don't support hecklers. But I don't support Katt Williams either.
For what its worth I was at this show. To say the show ended early is a little bit misleading...the show never started.
Basically the show started an hour late, Williams warmed up the crowd by screaming a bunch of stuff about Oakland and Obama and such. He seemed really fucked up at that point and my girlfriend and I both kind of looked at each other like wtf was that.
They had 5-6 warm up acts that were decent.
Williams finally came on around 10:50pm. He came out, rambled and sort of told a joke. He ran all over the stage, did a bunch of push ups and generally acted like someone high on cocaine. He rips off his shirt and throws the microphone to somone in the crowd who gives a bunch of shoutouts to his random friends. Then Williams tried to get back on stage while talking about his recent arrest (no jokes told) and goes the wrong way....
He finally gets back on stage and says his little end speech and leaves saying thats the show. Music comes back on, followed by lights and people start leaving/booing. He was on stage for all of 15 minutes and didnt tell more than 1-2 quick jokes.
Eventually the shitty DJ's are like woah shows not over just wait....so we wait 10 minutes, here comes Katt just as fucked up as before. He starts rambling on about god knows what not telling a single joke. The promoter tries to tell him to get off and end the show, WIlliams goes crazy and throws punches at him and hits him with the mic. People are booing ect. He eventually starts repeating "if you want a refund then cheer". A bunch of people cheer and he spends the next 5 minutes saying "IF YOU WANT TO LEAVE THEN FUCK YOU AND LEAVE" while no one leaves.
Finally they bring him a chair and he hunches over like hes going to pass out and pulls his beanie over his eyes and just sits there. We left at that point and immediately asked fora refund. Called Livenation the next day and they said we would find out Monday if we would get refunds. They said their phones had been ringing off the hook the entire day about it.
The best part is after we left the video takes place where he tries to fight a fan after rapping for 10 minutes about nothing. The fan basically was just saying fuck you tell jokes! So Williams wasted all our time then ended his show by getting dragged off stages by his body guards.
Crack is whack, cocaine's a hell of a drug.
I originally read this as William Katt... and I thought, "That's an odd turn to his career..."
"He was joking like he does in all four DVDs of his that I own," said Douglas, a magnetic inspector at Pacific Steel in Berkeley.
Someone get this man on Reddit for an AMA
i think this is awesome, famous people have feelings too ya' know. thousands and thousands of people feel fine dumping on him having a meltdown on him and he does it once and there are calls to banish him from earth. great. this just reinforces my suspicion that people are stupid assholes.
This is not an isolated incident of him being a stupid asshole.
Damn man. I liked his bit as the crocodile hunter, the way he incorporated the stool he had on stage with him. Anyone who gives that much into a joke/set has my attention. Hope he figures out whatever the fuck is going on soon.
Every day, he's hustlin'.
Chris Rock's famous controversial classic may have been about this guy. Grand opening. Grand closing.
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ITT: A bunch of le reddit atheist warriors are butthurt that he is religious. Him doing comedy from a christian view is literally no different than Carlin or someone being an atheist. But don't let that stop your jerking.
I take it you didn't read the article because it has nothing to do with him being religious.
It has to do with him literally not doing his show, bottling someone, allegedly beating a woman up, burglary, weapons charges, and false imprisonment charges.
So yeah, totally a real religious guy. Obviously the reason throngs of fans and most of reddit turned on him is because he's religious. ಠ_ಠ
But Carlin was funny and witty about it, Katt not so much.