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Oop! Kevin Hart Responds To Katt Williams Calling Him An Industry Plant

<p><strong>Katt Williams<&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi; recent remarks about his comedic peers set the internet ablaze on Wednesday &lpar;January 3&rpar;&period; And now&comma; <strong>Kevin Hart<&sol;strong> is speaking out after Williams&&num;8217&semi; not-so-nice comments about him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As previously reported&comma; Williams sat down for a candid chat on <strong>Shannon Sharpe<&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi;s &&num;8216&semi;Club Shay Shay&&num;8217&semi; podcast&period; During their conversation&comma; they brought up Hart&&num;8217&semi;s name&comma; but it seemed Williams didn&&num;8217&semi;t have much fondness for the &&num;8216&semi;Jumanji&&num;8217&semi; star&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Katt Williams Shared His Thoughts On Kevin Hart<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The 52-year-old didn&&num;8217&semi;t hold back either&comma; asserting that Hart is a Hollywood puppet&comma; whose career statistics were overly inflated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Williams further claimed that several movies that Hart had appeared in were projects that were initially offered to Williams&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"C1sE2yjOlyD" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But when he requested to have the scripts revised so they weren&&num;8217&semi;t &&num;8220&semi;overtly homosexual&comma;&&num;8221&semi; they passed the roles down to Hart instead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<strong>And me saying that and them going&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Oh yeah&comma; no problem&comma;’ and then going to give it to this other guy and having him doing it just like it was and acting like I’m a bad person ’cause I keep standing on my standard&comma;<&sol;strong>&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Williams also commented that none of Hart&&num;8217&semi;s supposed lackluster comedy shows have made enough impact on his fans to receive a standing ovation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He claimed that his rival hadn&&num;8217&semi;t sold out a single show&comma; even though Hart and Chris Rock embarked on a four-date tour just last year for their &&num;8216&semi;Headliners Only&&num;8217&semi; special on Netflix&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thewrap&period;com&sol;chris-rock-kevin-hart-tour-documentary-netflix&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">The Wrap<&sol;a> reports that they sold out every comedy gig&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<strong>In 15 years in Hollywood&comma; no one in Hollywood has a memory of a sold-out Kevin Hart show&comma; there being a line for him&comma; ever getting a standing ovation at any comedy club&comma;<&sol;strong>&&num;8221&semi; he said&comma; per <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vulture&period;com&sol;article&sol;katt-williams-club-shay-shay-interview&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Vulture<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<strong>For a five-year period&comma; every single movie that Kevin Hart did was a movie that had been on my desk&period; All I had said was &OpenCurlyQuote;Can we take some of this Stepin Fetchit sh&ast;t out and then I can do it&quest; It don’t need to be overtly homosexual ’cause I’m not homosexual&period;<&sol;strong>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Kevin Hart Responds To Katt Williams<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>While <strong>Michael Blackson<&sol;strong> and <strong>Cedric The Entertainer<&sol;strong> both <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;michael-blackson-reacts-katt-williams-liar-columbus-short-cedric-the-entertainer&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">addressed comments made by Williams<&sol;a> in the interview with lengthy responses on social media&comma; Hart decided to keep things classy and cute&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He hopped on X on Thursday &lpar;January 4&rpar; and tweeted&comma; &&num;8220&semi;<strong>Gotta get that anger up outcha champ…&period;It’s honestly sad&period;<&sol;strong>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He made sure to plug his upcoming movie in the tweet&comma; which could be interpreted as Hart seemingly letting Williams know he was still booked and busy regardless of his thoughts about him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hart&&num;8217&semi;s response comes five years after his previous feud with Williams which stemmed over the latter calling out Tiffany Haddish&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During an appearance on &&num;8216&semi;Frank and Wanda In the Morning&&num;8217&semi; in 2018&comma; Katt shared his brutally honest thoughts about Haddish&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He asserted that she &&num;8220&semi;<strong><em>has not proven her ability to tell jokes<&sol;em><&sol;strong>&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center"><strong>RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;cedric-the-entertainer-reacts-katt-williams-allege-stole-his-joke-video-watch&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Oop&excl; Cedric The Entertainer Responds After Katt Williams Continues To Accuse Him Of Stealing His Joke &lpar;Video&rpar;<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Kevin Hart And Katt Williams Have Been At Odds For Years<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Williams specifically criticized people for praising the &&num;8216&semi;Bad Trip&&num;8217&semi; actress&period; Despite her status as one of the most sought-after female comedians at the time&comma; Williams believed she had not achieved anything in her career that warranted such success&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<strong>&lbrack;Haddish has&rsqb; been doing comedy since she was 16&period; You can’t tell me your favorite Tiffany Haddish joke&period; Why&quest; Because she ain’t done a tour yet<&sol;strong>&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he told the radio station&comma; per <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;complex&period;com&sol;pop-culture&sol;a&sol;cmplxjoshua-espinoza&sol;katt-williams-blasts-tiffany-haddish-kevin-hart-other-comedians">Complex<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"C1sL-LKuvhZ" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<strong>She ain’t done a special&period; She has not proven the ability to tell jokes&comma; back to back for an hour&comma;” he said &lpar;6&colon;28&rpar;&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&lbrack;…&rsqb; They all ready to down Mo’Nique and up somebody who has showed them Girls Trip&period; Did you think she wrote Girls Trip&comma; goofball&quest;<&sol;strong>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Contrasting his short response to Williams regarding his recent interview&comma; Hart spent 10 minutes on &&num;8216&semi;The Breakfast Club&&num;8217&semi; discussing his disapproval of the hatred targeted at Haddish&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<strong>My frustrations with Katt Williams come from&comma; you keep pointing at Hollywood&period; Hollywood this&period; The white man&comma;” he expressed&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This&comma; this&comma; and this&period; When do you take responsibility for your actions&quest;<&sol;strong>”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You had the shot&excl;” Hart said passionately while defending Haddish&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You were the guy&excl; You were set up to be the star&period; You didn’t show up to work&excl; You f—– off promo shoots&excl; You f—– off your promo trips&period; You became a risk to the studios&comma; which is why the studios stopped f—- with you&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; 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