Shannon Sharpe reacts to criticism of Katt Williams interview on Club Shay Shay | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson react to the online response to Unc’s interview with Katt Williams on Club Shay Shay. Unc has a lot to say to those that think he should have pushed back more when Katt called out comedy legends like Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kevin Hart, and more.

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Oh you remember a couple of days ago I think it’s like Saturday or Sunday I said I just sat down I have an interview yeah and I said it’s going to be the interview of 24 oh yeah I said he’s gonna break the internet and people like

Well who is they’re trying to who is it gonna be is it gonna be LeBron is it gonna be President Obama right um I said but this guy and what he said I said it’s gonna it’s gonna it’s gonna surprise a lot of people yeah and the

And the interview that I’m talking about is everybody’s talking about it is the Cat Williams oh yeah um I’ve been trying to line this interview up since about the end of 2022 yes sir and he’s like I don’t know when I’m gonna be on your

Side of town yeah but I I I I’ll keep that I’ll keep that in mind wait so you had you had this Brewing you had this brein since 2022 I’ve been trying to set it up so all the TW so basically all the 20 I I ended up getting this interview

The very tail end of n of 23 so I’m sitting on I like man and uh and I’m and and I’m telling CJ CJ and I was talking he’s like what do you think he’s think it’s going to happen I like I don’t know I said all I can do is reach

Out I can ask right and he hit me back let’s do it and I remember telling I said CJ Cat Williams people hit me up and say they want to do it he’s like for real I was like yeah for real I said uh whatever we got so whatever we have

Playing I don’t like them I said let’s just clear it out know what day it might be a Tuesday it might be a Wednesday it might be a Thursday it might be a Friday but clear it out because whenever the guest is available let’s do it I did

Chris Brown’s interview at about 8 o’clock nine o’clock at night at his place so there’s not a time that in which if I’m not working at first tape that I’m not available right so if you want to do it at midnight we’ll have a team there to shoot that shoot that

Footage at midnight that’s live so he comes in so I get that try to get there a little bit before the guest CJ might have we might have some last minute okay CJ okay I I kind of got a a feeling of kind of how I want to go I’ve moved some

Things around from the questioning the questions that you came up with and I came up with but I’ve moved some of the stuff around because I think it just feels better when I was going over this last night it just felt better to go in this sequence he’s like okay hey I trust

You you trust me just go what you feel yeah so I get there I’m getting miked up and I’m just talking and he comes in so he’s already on one he and he says I’ve been waiting a whole year right to to say my peace the right the right space

And platform to say his peace yes yes yes yes now a lot of people have said Oh Shannon left so much on the table Shannon is not a journalist I never said I was a journalist right if you listen in my intro I said I normally what I say the

Person that’s coming by for a conversation and a drink I’m a conversationalist not an interviewer it’s a different space he said you’ve allowed other people a very safe place that’s why we like coming key word safe safe place safe place I’ve also said on numerous occasions if you want 60 minutes if you

Want dat line if you want uh 48 hours I’m not the place for you go to those places and get those type of interviews go to Lester Hulk go to Nora oddon go to I’m not Mike Wallace rest his soul I’m not Ed Bradley rest his soul or Dan

Rather or Walter kronite rest their soul Tom broka that’s not who I am right so if you want those type of interviews you need to go to places that have those type of interviews right right right now the problem is Cat Williams was my 102nd interview convers

On Club sh he was the 10 102nd nobody said anything oh Shannon you left this on the bone I’ve had Magic Johnson I’ve had uh uh Steve Harvey I’ve had Michael blackon I’ve had Cedric the Entertainer I’ve had uh uh DC Young Fly I’ve had a lot of people nobody said

Anything about push back and follow up questions until I got Cat Williams on yeah and this thing went took off like wildfire and people that’s commenting is like you got 200 followers you can’t be a journalist with 200 followers right because even even people that don’t know

The journalist they got at least four or five th000 right you’re upset that he said everything that he said and he said it on my platform right and now it’s bringing attention to my platform just like I’ve had Ricky Smiley on I’ve had Steve Harvey you didn’t say anything I

Didn’t push back about Steve when he said things about in his marriage you didn’t say a word when he spoke about his daughter you didn’t say a word right I asked Cedric about did he steal Cat Williams joke you didn’t say Shannon you didn’t follow it up I’ve asked Ricky

Smiley volunteered he said I didn’t ask him he said that he was originally supposed to play Money Mike and cat was supposed to play Santa Claus right he said that you never said a word about followup questions and I left so much on the bone it wasn’t until this video

Which is almost at about 11 million View in in less than 48 yes now mind you now mind you oo Steve Harvey’s done n million views yeah uh um who else uh DC youngfly is at four million Ricky Smiley over three million um Magic Johnson over

Two million I mean a lot of these videos have gone has gone viral and had viral moments nothing is CAU by like this right right right this is what’s upsetting them because had first of all he wasn’t going to go on it because they don’t know he doesn’t want to be he

Wants to have a conversation he says you’ve allowed everybody else to come up here and say their peace yeah the hardest thing for me oo as the interviewer was the way he started my thing was do I interrupt him and get this thing back on track or do I

Let him go see uh when you’re interviewing somebody like that and with the safe place that you do call it the fact that it’s cat will or seg Entertainer any of these polarizing iconic figures you have to let them get pece and say what they need

To say that’s the whole point of you having a platform and him willing to come on your platform to be able to do an interview and tell his truth is you got to let him go yeah you got you can’t steer it you can’t steer this one and

And so he did he did 30 minutes before I asked anything where you’re from how this your dad your mom brothers and sisters but he wanted to get that get that off his chest and people say no no he says the truth doesn’t need motivation oh no that’s what he said he

Said the truth doesn’t need motivation he said there’s there’s God’s way and there’s that and if it’s not God it’s the wrong way way yeah so while all you guys say well Shannon you needed followup question with what I said I didn’t ask no followup question when

When when said said he didn’t steal the joke right that’s not for me decide you decide you decide who do you agree with that’s not my decision to make right I told you when I first started this my very first interview was my brother I

Said my job I’m GNA try you try to bring you some of the biggest CBS entertainers and athletes right that I can possibly bring and I’m GNA allow them to have a conversation and maybe tell you something or share something with you oo that they’ve never said right or they’ve

Said it such a long time ago you don’t remember it but I want that that Entertainer that cele or that athlete to share some things with you and give you a different glimpse of who or she or who they are he or she that was it I never

Said I was a journalist I never professed to be a journalist I’m an Entertainer yeah I have entertainers and again if you want hard-hitting questions yeah 60 Minutes is the platform from you right dat line 48 Hours go to leester Ho go to somebody that does this you got to

Understand those aren’t safe places those aren’t places where you can get what you want to say off right they dictate they dictate everything yes so when you go that route oo you make a great point so let me ask you this you think Cat Williams was going to open up

As much as he did on any other platform absolutely not if you go back what’s the longest I mean when we when we look at it what’s the longest the longest interview he had done cat now mind you I haven’t seen anything he posted on his social media page since 2020 since 2020

Right that’s four years ago no post uhuh yeah no no no nobody nobody else I mean the whole point is is almost like barers shop talk being able to sit down with you listen I sat down with you and we talk you had to kick me you had to

Kick me out yeah you had to kick me out when I did Club sh Shay because I was I was in such a like we done yeah yeah I was ready to go now I had you on ain’t nobody say well why didn’t you ask him about that

Situation that happened in Miami why didn’t you ask him about this ain’t nobody said anything you’ve almost said six million with Coach Prime well you’ve been married this many times nobody said a word it wasn’t until I got cat William it wasn’t until this thing took off like

Wildfire it it’s all across the internet and and is more so about not only the traction but it’s what he said and the controversy that is stirred up so now everybody has questions their truths their facts we that that [ __ ] was awesome that [ __ ] that [ __ ] was awesome I I enjoyed it I

Enjoyed it obviously me kn I I know Cedric I know Steve I knew Bernie Mack back you know when back when Mac was alive goddamn I’m I got some stories about cat I’mma tell you that a lot of people in the chat watching a lot of stuff that you

Probably didn’t even know yourself but we we’ll get to that later on when we when we get into it and it’s look I’m not saying we the best of friends but I talk to Steve Harvey right right right I got Steve Harvey number in my phone I

Got Cedric number in my phone I got Kevin Hart’s number in my phone yeah earthquake and I we talk the most I can look I’m friendly uh cordial I’ve been to Kevin Hart’s house been through his house met his wife just saw him the other night at another function show me

His cars had had conversation with him yeah we’re friendly yeah earthquake and I I met earthquake about six seven years ago we’ve been cool ever since he call sometimes earthquake will just text me brother I just called say I love you keep doing your thing shine shine King

Shine Big Shine black man stuff like that hey I got this thing I got this uh uh I got I’m at this comedy hey swing through if you get a chance to right so he and I have a different type of relationship than than the other guys

But do I talk to Steve Harvey absolutely has he invited me to his farm in Atlanta yes he invited me to I think it’s uh uh Dubai he has a golf tournament Thanksgiving hey I you I want you to come so I I have a great relationship so

It’s hard on me yeah yeah yeah listen I I understand I totally understand where you’re coming from but obviously when truth is being told you just the moderator in between giving the individual the space to to tell their truth that’s it there’s no hard feeling towards those that you already know

Whether you know them personally or you just know them as Associates and I really enjoyed it and the fact that you give us a space to be able to tell our truth on your platform it’s not a bad thing it’s a good thing and there there

Was no space for us to be able to do that right and the fact that now we at we we do have one and this is going to be a trickle effect it we not only did you have Cat Williams but it’s going to be somebody else after that it’s goingon to be

And continue to have that where you know what I have things I need to get off my chest what what better place to do it get on Club Shake platform who’s not gonna judge you no G he’s gonna ask the questions he need to ask and allow you

To say what you need to say that’s it it’s simple and the thing was and Cat asked me he’s like well why didn’t you a why didn’t you ask Ricky this I said cat normally when people are giving you information right that you’ve never heard or no one else has ever spoken you

Feel that he was in that situation he’s giv you pertinent information I have no reason to believe Ricky Smiley is lying to me right just like when you say something I when you telling me this this and this now I knew that he was homeless because I talked to Terry

Cruz I’ve known Ted Cruz Ted Cruz was on the team with my brother in 19 when I uh back at 90 91 right so I know T Cruz right and he was on the movie he was a fill in in Training Day his actual act role was if I’m not mistaken was next

Friday so I have a relationship with I have a relationship with t Cruz and so for me that was the hardest part is to hear things but I said you know what I didn’t expect you know what I knew it was a good in I knew oh yeah oh yeah I

Kind of knew but I didn’t know listen now there Cat Williams now there’s certain people that you can get that GNA move the needle now there are people you can get that gonna move the needle and move it big oo this thing is doing about 500,000 views an

Hour I I knew I I thought it would I thought we I CJ told me it’s gonna be bigger than Steve Harvey at the time Steve Harvey was about eight 8.8 million so right where was I at you uh you behind time you and time of TI at 5.8

Million okay I’m coming back I’m coming back on Club sh I got some controversy to talk about yeah I’m I’m G outo cat [ __ ] this [Laughter] unless you unless you short up butt naked I don’t know if you could do I don’t know if you can beat cat because

Cat’s almost at 11 million and we’re not even 48 hours in and so yeah I remember rapping the interview uhuh now mind you oo I still got 20 to 30 minutes worth of questions left right the the interview is two hours 46 minutes and 5 Seconds and we didn’t cut anything

Right and and I remember finishing up and I look back CJ is always sitting behind me and I remember looking at CJ and he shaking his head and he and I’m like what he’s like Shannon this gonna break the internet I see you think so he’s like Shannon he’s

Like Shannon yeah so Jordan is like Jordan shaking his head he’s looking at me like everybody the makeup everybody’s looking like right I was like man okay they say it’s gonna is that good okay I’mma take because when you end it oo you in it you don’t I mean and so bro

And so he it we drive says okay when we going I say CJ we’re gonna drop it in the new year that’s why I start so I’m say okay I’m gonna tease it I’m gonna say I’m dropping one on Club Shay right I promise you it’s G for someone to be

Better than this and to be bigger than this President Obama is going to have to come on your come on your podcast yeah and says I’m running for a third turn that’s the only thing that’s possibly be bigger and he gonna come on mine and say that so that’s that’s that’s that right

Yeah when we dropped it we got 121,000 people watching it live in the chat oo so I’m like okay this thing might do a million might do I say it’s gonna be and I told I remember calling CJ I say it’s gonna probably do 2.5 right oo I wake up this morning uhhuh

We at 5.2 come on now I was like what the hell I so I I say now I gotta refigure I say okay it’s gonna lose some steam no no no no no Oo we probably you gotta make it around the block first gotta make it around the block first now I’m

Thinking this thing might do about next Wednesday this thing might do 20 million views yeah most definitely might do 20 million Views