Katt Williams: They Were Funnier Than Me, So I Studied This To Become The Best!

He describes being beaten regularly between ages five and twelve, including being tied to a pole in the basement for hours, and says he understood even then that it was abuse. He also frames discussing it as unpleasant but “a critical part of the story.”

He says he distinguished early between a personal relationship with God and participation in organized religion, arguing religions largely aim to make followers better people. He states he is not part of a religion, but maintains faith and says he sees evidence of answered prayers in his life.

He recounts leaving home after school administrators noticed injuries, police documented wounds, and he feared intervention would separate his younger brothers in the system. He says he left without a plan, traveled to Miami, and didn’t experience it as “homelessness” but as freedom from being a victim of circumstances.

He describes comedy first as something he used privately to change how he felt, calling it “medicine” that reliably shifted his mood. Only later did he consider performing, after a 16-year-old entry into a comedy competition by claiming to be a comedian to get past the bouncer.

He says he wrote down 300 working comedians (not already-famous names) and studied them because they were funnier than he was. He describes counting audience laughs per set and treating improvement like measurable output, alongside working eight hours a day.