Katt Williams Graduates From Brawl Participant to Brawl Bystander at Cut-Short Show
On Saturday night, the organizers of a Katt Williams comedy show at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis cut the evening short when a massive, bloody brawl broke out. The next day, TMZ released their shocking revelation that nobody involved in the violence was Katt Williams.
While the instigation of the brawl in the upper bowl of the arena is unclear, the aftermath is appropriately messy for any story involving caustic comedy legend. Several Williams fans who were abruptly evacuated from the stadium that once hosted the Indiana Pacers posted blurry footage of many men being pulled off of one another by Coliseum security, with at least one person bleeding profusely from his head. Reportedly, the house lights came on when event staff were alerted to the skirmish, and they ended the show early to deal with the participants. Williams’ representatives told TMZ that he only had about five minutes of material left in the stand-up set, so disappointed fans didn’t miss out on too much.
Given Williams’ history of going after unruly audience members from behind the microphone — and, sometimes, with the microphone — the fact that one of his shows was cut short by a fight that didn’t involve him at all might show that the 52-year-old stand-up giant could be maturing. Or, on the other hand, maybe Williams just looked into the flurry of flailing fists and didn’t see a seventh grader he thought he could take.
The caustic comedy legend started his 2024 in the headlines when he hopped on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast Club Shay Shay and spouted a slew of comedic rants criticizing Kevin Hart, Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Tucker, Steve Harvey and several other comics who probably didn’t plan on ringing in the New Year by beefing with Williams. However, considering Williams’ history of letting his fists do the talking, the fact that he only attacked every one of his contemporaries with his words was a welcome change of pace for the perpetually embattled stand-up superstar.
In that same Club Shay Shay interview, Williams claimed that he’s been to jail roughly 30 times in his life — his rap sheet is littered with battery and assault charges, often against women and sometimes in extremely unsettling circumstances. For instance, he was once accused by a young actress whom he had invited to his home of imprisoning and torturing her for hours while he baked cookies.
With Williams’ violent past, individuals in his loyal and sizable fanbase are likely to feel their hearts sink every time his name pops up in a headline that includes the words “bloody brawl,” but, today, they can breathe easy — unlike Williams when he picked the wrong 13 year old to sucker punch.
