Katt Williams appeared on “Membership Shay Shay” with Shannon Sharpe on Jan. 3, and the comic once more accused Cedric The Entertainer of stealing his finest joke from him for the 2000 comedy particular “The Authentic Kings of Comedy.”
Williams claimed that he was performing the joke at “The Comedy Membership” in 1998 when “The Neighborhood” actor got here in and congratulated him on his efficiency. The 52-year-old comic added that Cedric The Entertainer was performing the identical joke two years later in “The Authentic Kings of Comedy.” Williams first made the accusation publically in 2021 throughout an episode of “The Morning Hustle,” however Cedric denied he’d stolen the joke.

Williams mentioned the alleged stolen joke — which was about white folks touring to house to get away from Black folks — once more throughout the newest episode of “Membership Shay Shay.”
“Cedric informed you, whenever you requested him, ‘Did you steal Katt Williams’ joke?’ He stated, ‘It don’t line up.’ The way it don’t line up? He thought that I used to be only a no-name comic and he may take this joke, and no one would know.”
Williams went on to say he had already carried out the joke on BET’s “ComicView” twice earlier than.
“It had finished so properly on BET’s ‘ComicView’ that they’d made it a part of the industrial,” he continued. “So, a part of the industrial of ‘Be sure you tune into BET’ was you seeing me doing this joke. So, this isn’t only a random joke, that is my perfect joke and it’s my final joke and it’s my closing joke.”
Williams added that Cedric noticed him carry out the joke at The Comedy Retailer in Los Angeles again in 1998 and even congratulated him.
“Cedric involves The Comedy Retailer,” stated Williams. “He watches me within the viewers, he comes backstage, he tells me what an ideal job I did and the way a lot he loves the joke. Two years later, he’s doing that as his final joke on ‘Kings of Comedy’ and he’s doing it verbatim. He’s simply modified my automotive right into a spaceship.”
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Williams added that he’d given “The Soul Man” actor a move “for a decade” after he apologized, however after he denied stealing the joke years later, Williams grew to become offended another time.
“As I stand earlier than you, Shannon, I woulda bust Cedric’s abdomen,” stated WIlliams. “There was nothing that might’ve stored me from one in every of these,” as he made a hitting movement. “Are you kidding me? Why would you downplay me like that? Why did I offer you a move should you had been simply gonna lie?”
Williams went on to joke that Cedric appears to be like like a “walrus” and dragged him for being an “entertainer” who can’t sing or dance. He additionally roasted him for his comedy specials being “so dangerous” that they aren’t even out there on Netflix or Tubi.
Cedric denied the accusations on Instagram again in 2021 and stated the house joke was his.
“Look, I do not know what this brother is speaking about,” he stated. “That joke is over 30 years previous, near 30-something years previous. I did ‘The Kings of Comedy’ in 1999, in all probability had been doing that joke six, seven years earlier than that. I don’t even know if Katt was doing comedy then.”
“So, you recognize, once more, He’s a gifted brother. I do not know what he’s speaking about. I’ve by no means seen Katt do an area shuttle joke,” he claimed. “That could be one thing he believes is true. I’ve written loads of jokes, and I’ve had loads of comedians steal my jokes as properly, so I perceive if he feels slighted by that, however that’s my joke. That’s my joke, canine.”
After catching wind of Katt Williams’ allegations once more, Cedric took to the feedback part of The Shade Room to handle the subject.
“Revisionist Historical past, no matter no matter Katt’s opinion, my profession can’t be diminished to One Joke Katt Williams claims as his. I been [in] over 40 films, my specials and model communicate volumes for[who] I’m. The ppl I’ve placed on together with ‘Katt within the Hat’. On the Gibson Amphitheater,” learn Cedric’s remark. He then went on to say, “And all that robust discuss! Is corny af I’m grown a— man and none of that s—t gonna go such as you suppose. You do you and I obtained this over right here.”