Name: Katt Williams | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #558
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Katt Williams | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #558

today's guest is uh well he's the goat he is an iconic comedian he has a new
tour going on right
now called the heaven on earth tour he is labeled by many as an oracle as the
black crystal ball
i've heard him called i'm thankful that he came down from the clouds today to
spend time with us
today's guest is mr kett williams
what's up man what's up man it's time it's good to see good old theo vine it's
an honor the world loves
you you know well that's nice you to say i feel uh i feel like i can't believe
i'm around you i think
you know i feel like you seem like a um mythical figure right well you know
like uh um
sasquatch or uh like a unicorn or something like that yeah you'll still feel
that way at by the end
like i won't ruin that yeah okay yeah that's that's the uh good thing about
people like you and i
like if somebody thinks that they like us and they think they've made a
connection with this person on
the screen um when they're around us it's legitimate because it was legitimate
you know what i mean like
like um if theo vine wasn't successful he doesn't have a different story right
right you know what i
mean it's the same story he lived that story and um that's that's why people
gravitate to you because
there's nobody like you well thanks man i feel the same uh about you i feel
like everybody does
um and you have a statue of me at your house so you know so yeah thank you man
yeah thank you for
letting them even do that statue what was that whole deal like with them with
michael's that's where i
got mine that was at michael's right yeah did you do it wasn't a collab or what
was it no no they just
robbed my image and likeness because they could
because they were doing it for religious purposes oh yeah i allowed it well
thank you we wish you a black
christmas look i'd be honored to have one i'd be honored to have one yeah man i
because yeah when i
met that guy there he said we got two left man you know and there was two
hundred and one of them was
marked down because i had a chip in uh but um it's still man it's an honor i
keep it up in my house
year round and people walk in and they're like no way that's cat william right
there it is and it's
beautiful man thank you yeah um you have a new you have a new tour man i and i
you know i know people
talk about touring and comedy a lot and i want to know what kind of keeps you
still doing comedy
like did you like because i think when we start out maybe it's to be funny and
then
some people get to this place where they want to have a message
do you notice that kind of tone shift in your like desire to do it over time
i don't i don't think so like i i um
i always try to have a message just because i i enjoy the fact that while
laughing and joking you might
learn something you didn't know and i have gotten it from a comedian and uh i
kind of dig that but
everything else is just continuing this conversation with my fan base like
these are my friends that i
haven't seen since the last time i was here and um here's our discussion
furthering our relationship so
um it hasn't felt much like work
and it's the heaven on earth tour do you um do you believe in heaven absolutely
and earth yeah okay all right fair touché man yeah dude i remember when i
first because like
when i was growing up we just had uh you know you learned about heaven and
stuff but all the pamphlets
or whatever i'd seen at church or anything it always had uh it was mostly white
folks on it right
right and then i went to a black church one time yeah it was um i think it's
called greater starlight
baptist church that was in our town and shout out to greater starlight perhaps
oh yeah it was nice in
there this was in uh covington louisiana but um but yet they had about 13 miles
from slidell yeah there you
go
wow map williams in the building baby um right but and that's when i realized
oh don't let me go gert
that's when i realized oh everybody's going to be in heaven that was the first
time that i realized
heaven was going to be very diverse i'd never thought about it right and it was
right it blew my
mind i was like oh wow they're gonna have black folks in heaven asian folks um
all types of folks
are gonna be there you know it's truly the only place that white people are a
minority yeah huh is in
heaven just because thousands of years went with nobody getting to go yeah just
because of
fuck shit that they might not have even been involved in you know what i mean
yeah yeah i guess
i'm kind of i don't know if i'm starting to look forward to it i am excited
about it yeah but i yeah
i guess i get caught up in like a lot of worldly stuff you know like there's
still things i want
to do here that type of thing you know really yeah you still got stuff you
haven't done yeah man i got
some things yeah some different things i would like to write a book i think don't
don't say what they
are but i'm saying just the fact that you got things that you're excited about
doing that's the
that's the joy of life that's when you're living is um so many that's why it's
so difficult for these
super wealthy people to be happy like they can do everything else but they can't
be happy
because they've lived all their dreams they got everything they were trying to
get they they wake
up and they can't score a touchdown no matter what they are yeah it's a
terrible life but guys like you
and i that still got stuff to try and taste and you know things to feel and
people to be around like
it gives life a a wonderful meaning yeah yeah i think that is something that
like if i stay kind
of motivated and i have a plan a little bit that keeps me a lot more like okay
i want to do this i
still want to try that yeah and i start to think man i'm running out of time
too you know if you really
like to taste different things and smell different flowers and you know and see
what's on in different
gardens and stuff then you start to run out of time no you don't think no
because um you had to be in
the position that you're in now for um you to be able to make some of these
things happen couldn't
have done them at 34 24 or 14 because circumstantially you weren't ready you
weren't ready financially you
didn't have the time you didn't know that's what you wanted to do now at this
place is when you can
make those things happen like you can do everything on that list of yours in
2025 with
no fucking sweat and your biggest problem in 26 is i gotta have a new list
yeah time is time is one of the main things that's made up yeah you think i
know so it's just used as
like a mechanism to what limit our thinking well don't say limit you said that
you like this
thing because it gives control and it and it puts things in its place and that's
what time does for us so
that we're able to keep track you know but but the less you deal with time you
realize you have the
right amount of time to do everything you gotta do every day 24 hours and you
could make it an adventure
every fucking day like hey i could die tomorrow what would that mean i would
need to be doing today
how do i you see what i'm saying like not looking at it like oh i'm running out
of time
no no no no dead people ran out of time yeah everybody else alive
you got 30 swim trunks do that for me
you know how you gonna say you got 30 swim trunks but you ain't never been in
the ocean joe rogan
thank you for having a good sense of humor man that's what i am i am a good
sense of humor
yeah sometimes we forget about that along the way man you are right how long
you want to live
for it then you think cat you gotta check out you gotta when you ever think
about it
um i was promised that i won't have to deal with that so i don't um
i don't consider it um i do know that
yeah i i don't uh i don't have any things that i have to do in order to go out
the way i would like
so that's a blessing and uh about one of the best you can get you know is um
being okay with
the body of work and the legacy and feelings and the emotions that you left you
know and um
and i still haven't done my best like comedically like i'm still not really my
funniest like i'm still
not working hard enough like i'm still not um i still haven't made a complete
package of myself yet
so do you think some comedians start to feel like they have and that that's a
trap most comedians have
though uh yeah i'm saying that becomes part of the career is the fact that a
lot of guys that are doing
comedy right now were funny from 1995 to 2004. they're still working yeah they're
still generating income
they're still but um their best comedy is long behind them they're not that
comedian that was
thinking something was funny and writing it down and figuring a way to get this
to the people and
so yeah it happens what sidetracks can be is i guess it could be all types of
things huh
what sidetracks them from maybe fulfilling their their excellence is difficult
but to be mediocre it's no pressure like you know what i mean oh yeah like if
you don't feel like you
have to be the funniest person that this crowd has seen tonight then you don't
and there's nothing
wrong with that nobody's gonna jam you up about it they'll go you were funny
and for a lot of people
that's enough how do you pick up you've had a lot of openers like i've met a
lot of your openers over
the years here and there um how do you choose them man how do you choose these
guys or women
um you need a lighter whether you're oh no no i have no needs i apologize um
what i choose them based
upon whether whether the um whether their point of view is unique to them like
i don't care what a
comedian's talking about that's your business i don't i don't care what jokes
you're making or how your set
flows um but are you telling a story about you can people see this eight
minutes 12 minutes you're
gonna do and know you and have a chance to like you um if you do that then i
you can open for me
because my allegiance is to the people out there in those seats and i want them
to see the very best
comedians that i can possibly bring somebody they'll enjoy whether they're male
or female or white or
black just do are do they come to work do they have a show for you you see yeah
yeah that's what i care
about yeah i think when i was getting into comedy in the beginning i didn't i
wanted people to know me
right like i never i like the jokes and i want them to i want them to laugh and
feel good and see different
ways that maybe i think and stuff but i wanted to sell myself that's what i
always thought i think
yeah when i first started i didn't think i i don't want you to remember one
joke i want you to remember
me right like i felt like this desperate that's a star though see you knew that
you would be a star that's different than a performer
a performer is based upon the act what i'm saying is magicians ain't unless
they doing magic yeah
right oh oh if i see them bitches yeah i feel right bro right yeah but a true
comedian is above
the comedy material the jokes are secondary we we like this guy and we want to
hear what this guy
has chosen to say to us about the topics of his choosing that's who you are you
know what i mean
that's who you are that's who you work at yeah well takes one another one um
yeah you grew up in ohio huh yes yeah did you grow up by dave chappelle you
guys grew up near each
other dave chappelle's not even from ohio isn't he i thought he's from dayton i'm
from dayton are
you really yeah chappelle's from dc oh damn my bad sorry no so but he lives in
date now though
he yeah he has a lot of he owns probably five million dollars worth of property
out there dang he's
done really well for our dayton ohio they got a beautiful museum out there i
went to
dayton's a wonderful place um they have the air force museum i think it is out
there yeah
because we have wright patterson air force base that we're very very proud of
and it's awesome yeah
they have um i think fat man and little boy are in there is it the or the plane
that dropped
there's a planes that dropped the bombs on i want to sa