What did Katt Williams say about Steve Harvey? Latter goes off on comedians who tear down each other
In January 2024, stand-up comedian and actor Katt Williams slammed several fellow comics, including Steve Harvey, during his appearance on the Club Shay Shay podcast. At the time, Katt called Steve a “country-bumpkin Black dude that can’t talk good... and look like Mr. Potato Head.”
“Steve told you that he stopped doing stand-up because he has seven TV shows. The only problem is when he stopped stand-up, he didn’t have those seven TV shows,” Williams said.
Katt Williams further claimed that Steve Harvey was no longer doing stand-up shows because the latter “lost” to him during a comedy battle in front of a live audience in Detroit, Michigan.
Now, several months later, Steve Harvey appeared on the VICE TV 10-part docuseries Black Comedy In America with fellow comedians Cedric The Entertainer, D.L. Hughley, and host Chris Spencer, uploaded on YouTube on October 22.
Without naming anyone, Steve said how he knew when some fellow comic was “lying” about him “online,” adding, “I know that podcast is bullsh*t.”
“Just because you can talk smooth without saying, ‘uh, uh, uh,’ it don’t mean you ain’t lying. I be sitting up here looking at these podcasts of these other comedians that’s going on talking about other comedians. Hold up, dog. Where did that sh*t come from?” Harvey said.
The Family Feud host further claimed that, unlike some people, he has never made any “disparaging” comment about other comics in public.
Exploring what Katt Williams said about Steve Harvey and the latter’s recent response to "haters"
At the start of this year, Katt Williams sat down with Shannon Sharpe for the latter’s Club Shay Shay podcast and called out several other comedians, including Steve Harvey. Katt spoke about why the Lil Big Shots host stopped doing stand-up shows and alleged it wasn’t because he had multiple TV shows, as he claimed.
“He stopped stand-up because he got in a comedy battle called The Championship of Stand-up Comedy with one Katt Williams in Detroit in front of 10,000 people and lost. Because Katt Williams said he was actually bald and that was a wig. And I went in, and that’s why he couldn’t do stand-up anymore,” Williams claimed.
The former Wild ‘n Out guest also accused Steve Harvey of stealing the idea of his 1990s eponymous sitcom from Mark Curry’s Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper and criticized Harvey’s acting skills.
“The same Steve that went to go watch Mark Curry do his whole sitcom and then stole everything Mark Curry had… Now Steve got a sitcom where he’s the principal and he wears a suit,” Williams alleged.
Meanwhile, the 67-year-old Welch native spoke about comedians trying to tear each other down during his latest appearance on the Black Comedy In America docuseries.
“You ain’t never heard me say not a disparaging remark against another comedian, nowhere… We ain’t cut from that cloth,” he stated.
He further asked what was the “motive” behind people trying to “tear me down,” adding that he had a radio show with 9.5 million daily listeners, and if he wanted, he could “cut that mic off and let him have it” and “fix your career on a permanent basis.”
Steve Harvey explained that he would never do these as he had no “minutes” to spare for his “haters” and was not part of the “tear-down business.” Instead, if he had a problem with a colleague, he would call them up and try and sort them out one-on-one.
The Celebrity Family Feud host quipped how he had to “develop an alligator skin” because he had become an “internet sensation” out of nowhere and was being accused of things half of which he has never done. He further claimed that “None of your haters are doing better than you,” but rather, they were trying to “throw you off track” and “distract.”
However, Steve Harvey shared that he wasn’t so easily distracted and was always up and running as he had a lot of things to do and a lot of responsibilities to fulfill.
“I’m gonna get up because it ain’t about you. Haters are not decision makers, power brokers, shakers, or movers. They’re just haters, man... They got one job, to rob you off your destiny. And if you let them… I am not coming down… I am on the wall. I am not coming down to your level to address you. You take that monkey sh*t somewhere else, cause I’m on a different level,” he added.
In brief, looking at Steve Harvey’s past statements about haters
Following Katt Williams’ now-viral remarks against him on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast in January, Steve Harvey spoke about his haters on his Family Feud show that same month. Back then, he said:
“No, you ain’t gotta tell nobody nothing. All you got to do is be it. You don’t have to open your mouth… All my haters? I ain’t gotta say nothing to them. They got TV. They can cut they TV on seven days a week. All that hate? Man, he on there.”
Later, during the Invest Fest in August 2024, he told his audience not to entertain “haters” and critics.
“You’ll never have a hater that’s doing better than you, always know that. Don’t get off the wall to address some petty-a*s boy who ain’t got sh*t going for himself, stop your climb on up the wall so you can come down here and talk to his little punk a**. Don’t do that, man! I stay away from it,” he shared.
The 7-time Daytime Emmy winner continued:
“Do I want to [confront them]? Yes, because I’m a human being. And I’m hood. I used to be a fighter, and I still got hands. They slow, but if you get up on me real close, I can still knock yo’ monkey a*s out. I just don’t have the quickness I had, but I can still turn my hip and shift that weight, and I’d knock yo’ short a*s out. I’d shoot yo’ perm straight out yo’ head.”
Notably, besides Steve Harvey, Katt Williams also called out other comedians, including Cedric The Entertainer, Michael Blackson, Kevin Hart, Chris Tucker, Rickey Smiley, and Tiffany Haddish, among others.