
He gained notoriety on Wild 'n Out, in which he appeared for several seasons. In 2002, Williams made his acting debut on NYPD Blue. In 2018, Katt Williams released a new stand up special on Netflix, shot in Jacksonville, Florida, titled Great America. This is the open discussion that we've had since 2003. Part of my guarantee in my ticket price is that I'm going to be talking about what we are talking about now, and discussing from now to the next time we see again. I am one of the rare urban public officials. This is probably going to go down as one of my finest works, just because it's a collection of forbidden topics that we can't seem to get answered. We all, at some point, if we're are at a certain age, we grew up thinking Pluto was a planet. That's the basis for all conspiracy theories: the fact that there is hidden information out there, and how our process changes about things that we thought we used to know. We know that there are conspiracies out there, but this is a conversation that encompasses a lot of things that aren't being discussed other places. The conspiracy conversation is a conversation that we are all familiar with. On September 3, 2015, during an interview, Williams announced and described his upcoming tour entitled "Conspiracy Theory" stating, On August 16, 2014, Williams returned with a new HBO special titled Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife, which was directed by Spike Lee. However, just 3 days later, Williams announced he was coming out of retirement.ĭuring late 2013, Williams was on his "Growth Spurt" Tour. On December 3, 2012, Williams announced the end of his stand-up comedy career, a day after a bizarre incident in Seattle, Washington that landed him in jail. In 2012, after a four-year hiatus, Williams returned to stand up in his third HBO comedy special, entitled Kattpacalypse. Keeping busy releasing comedy DVDs and touring, Williams had a comedy tour that was named the best of 2008 by Billboard. In 2008 Williams released his second HBO comedy special entitled It's Pimpin' Pimpin', with Williams doing more political standup. The film had critical success and established Williams as a mainstream comedian. In 2006 Williams was offered a movie/standup which he entitled American Hustle. His second & first HBO stand-up special was 2005's The Pimp Chronicles, Pt. Williams starred in his first comedy special in 2005 entitled Katt Williams: Live: Let a Playa Play. Most notably he appeared on BET's Comic View as Katt "In the Hat" Williams. By 1999, Katt had become an established comic, appearing on stage at the likes of The Improv, The Comedy Club, The Ice House, and The Hollywood Park Casino.

Williams honed his comic delivery by performing his routine in clubs nationwide, from Oklahoma to Oakland. Williams started performing comedy in his Cincinnati neighborhood, Evanston. Williams emancipated himself from his parents at the age of 13, moved to Florida, and supported himself as a street vendor.

Williams was born Micah Sierra Williams on Septemin Cincinnati, Ohio.
