It’s a conversation with 10,000 people and we’re all on the same page. The reason it keeps being successful is because of the conversation that we’re having. That’s why they keep coming and why I keep coming. It’s a conversation that evolves because this is a group of friends having a conversation. Once you’ve done that, you get to the A-list places and you’re coming back on a yearly basis and having this conversation. I was doing show, after show, after show, all over America in the C-list places, hoping to be able to get to the B-list places. This is a conversation I started when I could really only guarantee about 30 or 40 people a show. I’m in a business relationship with Katt Williams, so I don’t always agree with how he’s doing it, but I’m always trying to get him better than he was in his last presentation.Ībout the duality of the performer versus the real you, or as you put it, the business guy…when people see you onstage, how much of that is the you that people get to experience when they hang out with you one-on-one?
KATT WILLIAMS JACKSONVILLE MOVIE
How much nitpicking can I do? I just wait until it’s out and see it like everybody else.ĭo you find it hard to watch yourself, whether it’s standup, a movie role, TV? I talked to him the morning Great America premiered about his dual personalities, the importance of intimacy, and how he just wants the work to speak for itself. You get the sense that everyone is rooting for Williams, including himself. In the special, he makes reference to jail time and says he’s now committed to staying out of trouble. It’s about who believed it was going to get better.” This outlook obviously resonates with Williams’s personal life, which has included some odd and embarrassing public dust-ups in recent years. It’s only going get so bad and then it’s going to get better. The city and the people of it who filled the seats of the Florida Theatre represent America: a diverse region going through a rough patch, but headed for greatness. It may seem like an unusual move to devote nearly 20% of your special to local references, but for Williams, Jacksonville represents something much larger.
KATT WILLIAMS JACKSONVILLE FULL
In his new special Great America, which just dropped on Netflix, he opens with a masterful display of his particular art of conversation by engaging a theater full of his “friends” in an 11-minute discussion on Jacksonville, Florida. Katt Williams views his live show as a conversation between himself and a room full of his friends, friends he’s made by touring the country and returning to cities again and again.
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