Shannon Sharpe reacts to Katt Williams interview on Club Shay Shay going viral | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe talks to Gilbert Arenas about his viral interview with legendary comedian Katt Williams on Club Shay Shay. Katt made waves with the comments he made about Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, Tyler Perry, Michael Blackson, and many other high-profile celebrities. Unc takes Gil behind the scenes of the interview, saying that Katt was on a mission from the moment he stepped through the door.

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Gil we got to dress this elephant in the room I don’t know if you saw it today but I how is elephant he ginormous and he he he been causing the stir since uh I had Cat Williams on my podcast oh man man Gil and the thing is

Is that when he C I had reached out to Cat last year and uh he says he’s gonna get to him and so I just but in the meantime I’ve had Steve Harvey on the Pod I’ve had CED daino on the Pod I’ve had Michael Michael blackton on the Pod

Uh who uh Ricky Smiley on the Pod and so everybody’s kind with the exception of Steve Steve didn’t really tell any stories uh uh about the comedy thing he just told how how he started out in comedy and ended up BR you know Steve is is really positive now no matter what

You think of I like Steve I talk to Steve from time to time he’s been great he’s been great to to me and I can only judge someone by the experience that I have dealing with said person um but when when so you know we make a little small chitchat we’re both getting

Miked up and so I’m thinking to myself you know I got questions I always set questions so I set questions for anywhere between three hours I say three hours if they got that kind of time good but I’m thinking Cat Williams Ain’t Gonna you know because he don’t really

Do a whole lot he don’t do a whole lot of posting and doesn’t do a whole lot of sit down and like he said uh you know I got to feel like I want to I ain’t ping a product I’m not selling a book I don’t

I don’t promote my shows I gotta feel like I want to come talk to set individual individual even though I’m not selling anything and he told me he said now you got a great platform he said I love how you let the uh uh the guest talk let them share their story

You don’t interrupt blah blah blah so I’m like okay cool you know well actually I said to interview for about hour and a half that’s what I go but I always have a couple of cars that if we need to go a little longer I can get some stuff in so the the

Interview goes 246 now mind you I got another I still got questions for another 20 30 minutes so we really could have gone over three hours but at that point in time I’m exhausted uhuh so you know I do my interview hey welcome to another edition of Club sh Shay I’m your host

Also proprietor blah blah blah and then I read around his accolades what he or she has done and so we take I say when you come on we take he took a shot Gil before I ask one question he went 30 minutes so now as the interview e interview excuse

Me as the interview ER I’m going in my head do I cut him off and get to the line of questioning or do I let him go you let him go I said God you in control Take the Wheel yeah yeah yeah and he went I heard I see he he went

That little [ __ ] hit his body no but but like he said like he said he said I don’t need to be motivated the truth doesn’t moot he says I just I’m gonna tell the truth I’m gonna set the record straight and he’s asking me said well

Why didn’t you I say cat I’m assuming when someone comes on my show and they’re telling me something that no one else has heard I’m assuming they’re telling me the truth because only said individual was there with no yeah so you’re asking me well why didn’t you

Correct this hell I wasn’t on the set so I couldn’t you know I’m saying I can’t correct it this is your opportunity to set the record straight man what’s so funny that that happens in a lot of interviewers when they say you know why didn’t you ask them this how the [ __ ] I

Supposed to know exactly like you should have called in and and you know rebutted but you know um and I’ve done as much research as I possibly can we do I do due diligence we make sure we find as much as we possibly can and sometime we’re able to find

Nuggets and they ask like who told you this how did you find this because we do a deep dive and so my team CJ we mainly CJ he does he does as great a job as he possibly can and I was like well CJ did you hear about this and there are some

Things that I’ve heard over the years that we we ask and and people they ask they’re like well how did you hear this where did where did you get this from I said I got my sources too so we try to make sure that we cover everything and

We as thorough as possible but my thing is Gil is that look you come to my platform you talk I’m not trying to you know trying to I’m not trying to be no I I had no idea where C was gonna go I had some the only thing that I really that

He like I said he went 30 minutes and I didn’t even get a question in I didn’t ask man where he was from how old he was how many brothers and sisters he had I ain’t ask him anything he just says this is what I this what’s on my mind yeah

But that’s what makes for a great interview sometimes you know what I mean because you know he probably listened to that interview in and felt some type of way obviously did but you know it it’s you you have it’s like having you you have the ball in your hand yes right

Yes he had the ball in his hand yes right he’s making the call they’re coming to him like he said I’m getting all these yeah these things and I’m I’m trying to change it I’m saying I’m not going to do this I don’t want this I don’t want that

Well how long before they stop asking you to do stuff if you’re going to keep denying and trying to change something right right before they just move on so I think the problem is is the balls you didn’t want someone else picked them up and became a star with it right right

Now you want to try to diminish the person start him right he’s a plant no he probably was a plant now he’s a [ __ ] tree he’s a tree now right he’s done got his roots into these ground and he’s stabilized right right and and and I think that’s the problem when he had

The ball I don’t think he capitalized the way he wanted to genius what he does is great yeah his movie roles excellent he plays the hell out of them yeah you know some of the roles he he he dodged that he he rightfully so some movie roles he should have took right right

But but that’s his decision he made the decision somebody else said I’ll do it right and they they took off you Can’t Blame A man for for taking a job that you didn’t want to take no absolutely not and I think the thing is that when I

Told people I was like look I out the gting 24 I said I’m we’re gonna break the internet I said the guy that I that I got like I said the person that I got teed up I Gil you know like a lot of times and I’ve done over a hundred of

These just for Club sh Shay much more because I used to do a lot of interviews when I was CBS and so um and you’re like like I think this is gonna be really really really good but you don’t know because there have been some that I

Thought I did an excellent job and it didn’t get the the views the likes the mention and didn’t go viral like I thought it would and I did some I thought it did was okay but it just took off but this one I had a sense and I

Remember I remember asking you know talking to Jordan and talking to CJ and and and and the makeup and it’s like what you think and everybody was just they was just shaking their head I was like what they like you don’t get she they’re like Shannon this is

Gonna go crazy yeah I see I don’t know cuz you know I’m I’m trying to stay in my role as the interviewer and not pick a side you know I’m G you know he say something funny I’m going to laugh but I’m trying to stay as straight and narrow as I

Possibly can I just I’m not trying to push him in any direction you just go you just do you hey and I’m gonna try to follow you wherever you go and but I’m G you know if there’s something that I think that the audience is gonna want to follow up

To I’m gonna try to get that in there yeah uh but Gil I mean I remember walking out and CJ the uh the producer of the show he called like Shannon this is going to blow up the internet I said you think so I said I think it was good

He’s like no you haven’t done anything like this and it’s go it’s go crazy it’s because you have because there’s a history and the guest you had already laid The Dominoes up for someone who’s saying wait hold on I got the ace cards on all y’all hold on

Uhuh that’s not how this play La out and he he gets to show his Trump yeah and that’s what that was um you know there was some episodes that I did and not like this one where someone is getting to Trump and make himself like no that’s

Not that’s not what happened that’s not what happened but I had some that after we finished I said yo we’re gonna we’re gonna blow but how does he look at me after this right because sometimes when you’re doing an interview and the guy gets so comfortable he starts saying some things

Right he and that’s the thing Gil I’m cool with Steve Harvey I’m cool with Ricky Smiley I’m cool with said Entertainer I’m cool with with Kevin Hart I know Michael blackon a little bit but I I don’t know him I don’t have his number but I’m a lot of the people that

He earthquake earthquake my dog I told that Quake all the time yeah yeah now he’s the guy that I talk to more than any of those guys but do I have conversations with with Steve Harvey absolutely have I talked to Kevin Hart yeah been to Kevin’s house checked his

Car collection and just saw him at an event the other night so I have a a a personable relationship I’m not saying we boys they come to my house and I go to their house but we have a a a a a friendly uh relationship that we cool

And so my thing is I’m like well that’s the hardest part because he’s talking he’s saying things about people and I’m like man I say the best thing for me is just to be Switzerland stay neutral ask the questions and then I’m Gonna Let The View viewing audience I’m not taking

Aide I’m gonna let the viewing audience take their side uh Cedric has already responded Michael blackon has responded uh I don’t think I don’t think I don’t know if cat’s going to respond um but it wasn’t that Faith one of our faith folks said that Dam la porer true

Serum cat took one Sip n no actually we got Jordan can tell you we could have should have had the cameras rolling when he walked in oh he was gone already and and and but but you know we and and I don’t think a lot of people really understand

Like when you’re when you’re coming from the athletic side you have more Integrity right than just beat Rider right who’s trying make their name off of interviews right right there’s somewh I had to erase whole 20 30 minutes of rants right I’m like oh no like if you

Want to do this on your own right do this on your own but I’m not GNA put this out and then you look at me in like why didn’t you protect me why didn’t you protect me yes right yeah and that’s the thing I’m

Like wow and so I just hope and from the from the looks of it fans have have really liked um that was our our goal was to try look my goal is always the same Gil I try to do the best content I possibly can I try

To get people that I believe people that subscribe listen view watch download Club Shay want to hear from and for the most part I can get one or two stories that they haven’t told or they haven’t told in a long time and if they have told people don’t

Remember um and so what cat did I mean he did he did me a solid I mean cuz you know I didn’t think he was I was going to be able to get him as soon as I I did I didn’t and and at the end of the

Day and what I’ve decided to do I’m still Club Shay’s best booking agent yes I have a company I got two companies that help but I’m the best booking agent so I’m just gonna go back to you know hey get on my phone hey bro hey or go to

People’s DMS yeah now listen it was a good it was a good interview I mean there’s nothing there’s you know you know this is between them they all said their peace and he got to say his right that’s how this was this he just having

To be last you know the man just having to be last the the person that laughed the loudest laugh last that’s the last laugh that you heard yeah so right and and and and and and because I follow because I follow comedy so much I know all these guys joke I know their

Material I know like ah I sound like this guys right you know I used to bet oh yeah Comic View and death comedy jaam absolutely at Apollo yeah that’s all that’s why my humor sounds like the 90s yeah right it sounds like the 90s that rough rugged Cory hul straight at you

Type of type of humor you you know what I mean so where I like man you should have blow what happened right um you know so this has been a war for a long time yeah with this group right with this group um so it it’s one of those things where because there’s

Only allowed right now only a few comedians that can be at the top when you get that spot the only thing you really can do is try to give parts to to everyone else yes and I think where Kevin has thrived for himself is when he can’t

Do something he puts someone else on yeah right if he can’t do something he puts someone else on right and when you was in that position if you didn’t think of that you can’t get mad that he’s doing it right right you just gotta you know what I mean because him

You know cat and um um Mike Mike ABS they both got the same they both beefing with the same person you know he’s just a man on the top and he you know he’s smart enough not to let it go now yeah that’s that’s how I am with my podcast

Is that I’m in a position now having a media company and I get an opportunity to try to help someone that want to help themselves that that want to work because my whole thing is predicated on hard work and discipline now if you don’t bring those things to the table

It’s not going to work for you and I so let’s not waste any you know let’s not waste your time and more importantly not let’s not waste mind if you want to work if you’re disciplined if you want to grow this thing yes I’m probably a guy

That can help you yeah and if I can’t hey I’ll point you in a different direction maybe we want different things maybe you want X and I can only give you te but that’s okay but uh it was a great interview I’m glad you guys have received it very very well it’s doing

Very very very very well on social media so thank you guys I want to get that out because you guys were you guys were uh was blowing the chat Up