{"id":70270,"date":"2024-01-22T00:57:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/shannon-sharpe-reacts-to-snl-spoof-of-his-katt-williams-interview\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T00:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:57:54","slug":"shannon-sharpe-reacts-to-snl-spoof-of-his-katt-williams-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/shannon-sharpe-reacts-to-snl-spoof-of-his-katt-williams-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Sharpe Reacts to &#8216;SNL&#8217; Spoof of His Katt Williams Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/shannon-sharpe\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shannon Sharpe<\/a><span> is taking <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/saturday-night-live\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>&#8216;s<\/a><span> gentle ribbing in stride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Sunday, the former NFL star and broadcaster, 55, took to his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sz-pH6VcAQs&amp;ab_channel=Nightcap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nightcap YouTube channel<\/a><span>\u00a0to speak with co-host Chad &#8220;Ochocinco&#8221; Johnson about <\/span><em><span>SNL<\/span><\/em><span>&#8216;s roasting of his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/katt-williams-podcast-claims-kevin-hart-ludacris-cedric-the-entertainer-and-more-fire-back-217326\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">infamous recent interview with Katt Williams.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe <\/span><em><span>Saturday Night Live<\/span><\/em><span> fooled ya boy, Ocho,&#8221; Sharpe said with a laugh. &#8220;The dude had a brown tracksuit on just like I had!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ochocinco said that getting mocked by <\/span><em><span>SNL<\/span><\/em><span> was the first sign of truly being famous and that he might now get some bigger TV opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You know what&#8217;s the next step after <\/span><em><span>Saturday Night Live<\/span><\/em><span>? You might be hosting the Oscars,&#8221; Ochocinco quipped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The conversation came the morning after <\/span><em><span>SNL<\/span><\/em><span> poked fun at Sharpe&#8217;s sit-down with Williams during an episode of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/ice-cube-responds-to-katt-williams-claim-comedian-pushed-to-remove-rape-scene-in-friday-after-next\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his\u00a0<em>Club Shay Shay<\/em> interview earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span>SNL<\/span><\/em><span>&#8216;s Devon Walker portrayed Sharpe in the pre-taped sketch, while Ego Nwodim played Williams and brought some hilariously manic energy to the sketch that made it memorable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Three things are true about me: I am 5\u20193, I have never told a lie, and I am 6\u20193,&#8221; Nwodim&#8217;s Williams declares before taking swipes at Kevin Hart for being &#8220;made in the same factory where they make Teddy Grahams.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Williams&#8217; real interview premiered on Jan. 3, and throughout the nearly three-hour video &#8212; reportedly the longest in\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Club Shay Shay<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0history &#8212; the 52-year-old comedian took shots at several of his big-name peers, including Hart, Cedric the Entertainer, and Steve Harvey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>SNL<\/span><\/em><span>&#8216;s sketch poked fun at real claims Williams made about Hart, including that Hart is an industry plant &#8212; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nh8sT5dYFvw&amp;ab_channel=JUSTBECAUSENEWS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thus reigniting their years-long feud<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;In 15 years in Hollywood, no one in Hollywood has a memory of going to a sold-out Kevin Hart show, there being a line for him, ever getting a standing ovation at any comedy club,&#8221; Williams said.\u00a0&#8220;He already had his deals when he got here&#8230;what do you think a plant is?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A surprising target of Williams&#8217; comments was rapper and actor Ludacris, whom the comic accused of being part of the Illuminati and joining in exchange for movie success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We were both invited to an Illuminati thing,&#8221; Williams said, claiming that both he and Ludacris were up for a role in the late John Singleton&#8217;s <\/span><em><span>2 Fast 2 Furious<\/span><\/em><span>. &#8220;It had to be one or the other of us and decisions had to be made.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;One of us had to cut off all their hair and couldn&#8217;t do the sideburn thing no more with the points,&#8221; he alleged. &#8220;And the next person, they said, was going to get $200 million because they were going to pay him 10 million a movie to do 20 movies. One of those persons turned out to be Ludacris, and the other person turned out to be Katt Williams.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Watch Williams&#8217; full interview on\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Club Shay Shay<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/shannon-sharpe-reacts-to-snl-spoof-of-his-katt-williams-club-shay-shay-interview-218348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Sharpe is taking Saturday Night Live&#8216;s gentle ribbing in stride. On Sunday, the former NFL star and broadcaster, 55, took to his Nightcap YouTube channel\u00a0to speak with co-host Chad &#8220;Ochocinco&#8221; Johnson about SNL&#8216;s roasting of his infamous recent interview with Katt Williams. &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe Saturday Night Live fooled ya boy, Ocho,&#8221; Sharpe said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[174,5834,20,26,6081,4329,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-70270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-entertainment-tonight","9":"tag-katt-williams","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-saturday-night-live","12":"tag-shannon-sharpe","13":"tag-snl","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}