As we await who would be the subsequent SNL hosts when the sketch comedy present’s fiftieth season picks again up within the 2025 TV premiere schedule, it feels like comic and rapper Katt Williams isn’t anticipating a name from NBC. After he was the topic of quite a few skits over time, he shared his ideas on the impressions of him and the one criticism he has about being parodied.
Forged members like Jay Pharoah and Ego Nwodim have portrayed the character, who has his identify on one of many nice comedy specials we’ve ever seen. Drake, one of many former Saturday Evening Reside visitor hosts, additionally did his personal tackle the identify. Try what Katt Williams needed to say about being highlighted on the present:
There has by no means been an individual that has been parodied 9 occasions on Saturday Evening Reside and but by no means been invited aside from me. So I, at this level, take it as a badge of honor that they don’t fuck with me.
Katt Williams shared his blunt ideas whereas chatting with Vulture on the publication’s personal competition. When requested additional about his ideas on the heightened variations of him introduced on the sketch present, he mentioned this:
A whole lot of occasions when individuals are doing an impression of you, they’re actually displaying you the way they really feel about you. You understand what I imply? So, for Saturday Evening Reside to have an impression of me and have a girl try this, means they suppose I’m a bitch. And I perceive that that’s what they’re saying after they try this. It doesn’t trouble me in any respect. I perceive how the sport goes, and I perceive that in the event you love me you already know why you do. And, in the event you don’t fuck with me, I perceive why. My job is to be worthy.
In lots of cases, after an impression of a celeb blows up on Saturday Evening Reside, the individual being parodied typically comes on. For instance, keep in mind when Nic Cage confirmed up on Weekend Replace with Andy Samberg to do the “Get In The Cage With Nicolas Cage?” In relation to Katt Williams, the comic spoke to being the topic of quite a few sketches however by no means truly being invited on the present. He has taken it because the creatives not eager to “fuck with” him.
Whereas it’s taken Williams a 12 months to touch upon the SNL parody after the Membership Shay Shay skit got here out, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Shannon Sharpe had one thing to say about his interview being parodied. The previous NFL participant was sport, commenting on how on level the costuming was and the way he positive hoped his “sister watched this reside.”
Williams, who would not thoughts taking photographs at fashionable tradition akin to with his feedback in regards to the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul combat, took considerably of a difficulty with Ego Nwodim portraying him on final January’s Membership Shay Shay parody. When SNL did the skit primarily based on his Membership Shay Shay interview with Shannon Sharpe, Williams thought selecting a girl for the function was an indication that the writers suppose he’s a “bitch.” That’s after all his personal interpretation, and Nwodim merely could have been the very best at taking part in him for the skit.
It’s after all by no means too late for Saturday Evening Reside to convey Katt Williams on the present. The present is about to have a three-hour primetime particular aptly referred to as the Saturday Evening Reside fiftieth Anniversary Particular, on February 16.