Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, especially when it comes to the case of who’s the greatest?
Comedian Katt Williams made a name for himself by creating some of the most iconic comedy material during the early 2000s, but he’s also made himself notorious with his often blunt remarks regarding comedy’s biggest legends, most recently Eddie Murphy.
Earlier this week, Williams was reported saying that Eddie Murphy should not be considered “anyone’s favorite comedian.”
In fact, Katt strongly believes that at this point of his career, he should be named nest comedian alive.
Though Murphy is one of his idols, Williams connects the purest form of comedy to stand-up and Murphy hasn’t done stand-up in decades. Instead, after the classic “RAW” special in the mid-1980s, Murphy concentrated solely on creating blockbuster films.
“Don’t tell me Eddie Murphy is your favorite comedian because Eddie Murphy hasn’t done comedy since the 80s. It just doesn’t make sense,” he said, according to Audacy. “It’s about how much [of] the body of work you can put out. So, nobody knows [who] was beefing with Mozart, because the guy beefing with Mozart didn’t put up any material. You know what I mean? That’s why history takes care of all of that.”
Williams said “I’m only the greatest comedian living because I have more female fans than any comics on the globe.” He also said that most people didn’t acknowledge him because they were trying to downplay him.
He said, “Because the guy that you’re saying is crazy and maybe a crackhead has outworked you every second that he has been a peer of yours. You probably have one comedy special; he probably has 10. The greats you talk about probably have two, and he has 10. This is 16, 100-city tours.”
There are two comedians Williams believes are better than him. During an interview with VLAD TV several years ago, Williams named Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock as two stand-ups who had more skills than he does.
