Cedric the Entertainer is addressing Katt Williams’ claims that he stole one of his jokes.
“It’s an interesting time now,” Cedric told ET during his Golden Globe Awards appearance. “People get on these blogs and they just start spewing off stuff that’s not even factual. I let the fodder just go out there until I’m ready to respond to it. I am who I am. I stand on that for sure.”
Last week, Williams brought up the allegation during an appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, which Cedric has previously denied.
“He thought that I was just a no-name comedian and that he could take this joke and nobody would know. The issue was that I had already done this particular joke on BET’s ComicView twice. It had done so well on BET’s ComicView that they made it part of the commercial,” Williams claimed. “This is not just a random joke — this is my very best joke, and it’s my last joke, and it’s my closing joke.”
“[In] 1998 I’m doing this joke; it’s on ComicView. Cedric comes to The Comedy Store. He watches me in the audience, he comes backstage. He tells me what a great job I did and how much he loves the joke,” he continued. “Two years later, he’s doing that as his last joke on the [Original] Kings of Comedy and he’s doing it verbatim, he’s just changed my car into a spaceship.”
Williams claimed that Cedric eventually apologized for using his material.
“Him and Steve [Harvey] had already apologized for me so I gave him a pass for a decade,” he said. “Are you kidding me? Why would you downplay me like that? Why did I give you a pass if you were just going to lie?”
However, on Instagram, Cedric dismissed Williams’ version of events as “revisionist history” last week.
