“Some of us know how the fuck that feels,” Williams shouts. In his bit about the attack, Williams adopts the tiger Tatiana’s perspective, getting down on his belly, and crawling through the motions of assertion, self-doubt, and then rebellion. Such empathy resounds in one of Williams’ more famous bits-from his 2009 stand-up comedy special, It's Pimpin' Pimpin'-about a famous, fatal tiger rampage at the San Francisco zoo. “I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.” “I go where people are hurting,” Williams said. Three years later, with the boycott still on, Williams had scheduled a September 2004 performance in Cincinnati, his hometown. In a radio interview that he later incorporated as footage in Live, Williams defended his tour date, and his profession, as civic obligation. Cincinnati's history created a volatile atmosphere, and Timothy Thomas’ death set off three days of civil unrest.”įollowing Thomas’ death, the local Black United Front declared an indefinite boycott of the city’s live entertainment venues. “On April, 7, 2001,” the white text reads, “a Cincinnati police officer shot and killed an unarmed 19 year old African American in the Over-the Rhine District. Katt Williams' debut stand-up comedy special, Live, released in 2006, opens with black, silent acknowledgement of a young man’s death. “There’s always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. Williams, 44, says golf is his timeless, standard excuse to assemble his closest confidants. “Golf is a game with morals,” he says. On stage, and here at Gaylord Springs, Williams comes accompanied by several friends and peers, including the comedians Red Grant, Ashima Franklin, and Curry, who, tonight, will open for Williams’ headline set. In Nashville, Williams is on the tenth stop of a hundred-city tour for his latest stand-up comedy special, Conspiracy Theory. Lena Smith warns our photographer: “You never seen black people on a golf course before.” Until a young woman named Lena Smith-Katt Williams’ longtime stylist-blasts into the apparel shop and starts causing happy commotion. She's snatching golf shoes from the walls and jackets from the racks. Even the comedian Mark Curry, the earliest riser among us, is just now renting his clubs for the day. At the Gaylord Springs Golf Links in Nashville, Tennessee, the comedian Katt Williams is three hours late to his 10 a.m.
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