wearing a black, floor-length, hooded fur coat to Schoolboy Q's Man of the Year. "But when his part comes on this song, he was right there dancing with his arm up." He got caught with 67 M-16s on some thug s-," Grant joked. Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines became a running gag because of the effect it has on men of all walks, removing their ability to look cool. "If he gets a new rington I'm taking him to court to get more child support."īET Comic View regular Red Grant used current music to bolster his jokes, working in concert with a DJ to rile up the crowd and build up the party atmosphere before Williams' set. "My baby's father can't even buy a new ringtone around me," she quipped. Her best work concerned her 5-year-old son's father, and the responsibility she feels toward him as a former lover. New face Ashima Franklin, a Mobile, Ala.-reared, self-professed baby mama, dove right into the deep end of vulgarity, finding laughs in penis comparisons and sexual humor that elicited claps of glee. Twenty minutes late, emcee and comedian Richie Redding took the stage and warmed the crowd up for Williams' two opening acts. As the DJ set rolled on and on, nervous glances were exchanged. “Growth is part of being an adult.Then the show, which was supposed to begin at 8:30 p.m. “If these are the confines that keep you from doing the craft god put you to, then it probably ain’t for you,” Williams said. He then concluded that if comics feel uncomfortable with cancel culture, they may want to reconsider their career path. So if you wanna offend somebody, nobody took those words away from you… But don’t call somebody this word when you know it affects all of these people.” “If all that’s going to happen is that we have to be more sensitive in the way that we talk, isn’t that what we want anyway? I’m saying, your job as a comedian is to please the most amount of people with your art. Who are they? It’s done for the reasons it’s done for and it helped who it helped,” Williams said.
“I don’t know what people got cancelled that we wish we had back.
Williams then continued to elaborate on his point, arguing that changing one’s language to be more sensitive won’t hurt any comedians’ careers. Cancellation doesn’t have its own culture.” At the end of the day, there’s no cancel culture. “My point is, weren’t all that extremely funny back when they could say whatever they wanted to say. Nobody likes the shoulder of the road, but it’s there for a reason,” Williams said.
Nobody likes the speed limit, but it’s necessary. “Some of these things are for the benefit of everything. “Where do you stand on comics’ ability to be comics without judgement and repercussions from cancel culture?” Budden asked Williams, who replied with several fitting analogies. Will Smith, LeBron James, Jon Stewart Join Dave Chappelle for All-Star Stand-Up ShowĮmmys Make History as Black Actors Sweep Four Guest Categories Katt Williams Slams Trump, Urges People to Vote and Support Black Lives Matter in Supreme Ad On an episode of the Joe Budden Podcast that released on June 4, Williams discussed his upcoming film, “The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2,” and the conversation soon turned to comedy in the age of the internet.
Comedian Katt Williams has thrown his take on cancel culture into the ring - and he doesn’t think it’s all that bad.