When Katt WIlliams sat down with Shannon Sharpe at the beginning of 2024 for his now-infamous Club Shay Shay interview , one of the many things he made clear is that, whenever he sits down for an interview, it is appointment viewing. On November 16, the legendary comedian brought this same energy to Vulture Festival, during a wide-ranging conversation about his career, notable past jokes, his upcoming tour “Heaven on Earth,” presidential politics, current events, and, yes, his Club Shay Shay interview . Of the latter, Williams says that, for all of the hooplah that was made about his scathing critiques of other comedians at the time, things could have been so much worse for them.
“I [set] out to kill the careers of the people I was talking about,” he said. “But it was so vicious that I erased all of the knockout blows and just left the jabs, so that the comic I’m talking about knows, ‘I know your real story, motherfucker.’” One person Williams didn’t hold back on during his Club Shay Shay appearance was Diddy, who he correctly prophesized at the time would “catch hell in 2024” because “all lies will be exposed.
” The comedian touched on the subject of Diddy only briefly, though he did reference the disgraced mogul in a joke about how he, personally, maintains his “underground” status when he’s now frequently platformed by mainstream outlets like Netflix. “I’m anti-establishment, so I can never be the establishment,” he said. “Even if I.