Joe Rogan Sends Rare Message to Katt Williams

Joe Rogan expressed his admiration for Katt Williams online after the comedian said that Rogan doesn't want him as a guest on his popular podcast.

Williams recently sat down for an interview on Shannon Sharpe's Club Shay Shay podcast, during which he disparaged many of his fellow comedians and claimed that rapper and actor Ludacris' career path was determined by "the Illuminati."

At one point, Williams told former Denver Broncos tight end Sharpe that his penchant for cursing in his stage acts has seen him shut out of "mainstream" comedy conversations. He also said that Rogan would not want him on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, because of this.

"If you were a comedian that cussed, you were ridiculed by the mainstream comedy-geist," Williams explained. "That would be like me being on Joe Rogan. Joe don't want me on there. I need to be on Shannon. Joe's got six comedians that's never been funny [that] he wants to push out. That's really how it is."

A clip of the interview was shared on X, formerly Twitter, where it caught Rogan's attention. Responding to the claims, Rogan countered the idea that he has no interest in Williams, and proceeded to invite him on his podcast.

"I love Katt," Rogan wrote on Thursday. "He's one of my favorite comics and I'd love to have him on. We talk about him all the time. If he's down I'll make it happen."

Rogan, who has more than 12 million followers on X, rarely uses the platform to share any comments or takes outside of promoting his work and sharing posts by others.

As of press time, Rogan's post has been viewed more than 9.5 million times.

Elsewhere during his appearance on Club Shay Shay, Williams claimed that Ludacris landed his role in the Fast & Furious film series by making a clandestine deal.

Williams said that the deal was determined by unnamed members of the Illuminati. Over the years, countless conspiracy theorists have expressed their unfounded beliefs in an Illuminati class of ruling elites who control Hollywood and the world.

"So there was a crossroads where we were both invited to an Illuminati thing," Williams told Sharpe. "And it had to be one or the other of us and decisions had to be made. So it was both of us. We were equal.

"One of us had to cut off all their hair and couldn't do the sideburn thing no more with the points. 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. And that's how the conversation happened."

Clarifying who he claimed took the deal, he went on: "One of those persons turned out to be Ludacris and the other person turned out to be Katt Williams."

Williams said that "one person ended up with a light-skinned ugly face wife," adding that it's "part of what they give you."

"I didn't get it. I'm not mad about it," he said.

Newsweek reached out to a representative of Ludacris via email for comment.

During his almost three-hour chat with Sharpe, Williams also criticized a number of his fellow comedians, including Steve Harvey, Michael Blackson, Rickey Smiley, and Faizon Love.

He accused Cedric the Entertainer of stealing one of his jokes, saying: "He thought that I was just a no-name comedian and that he could take this joke and nobody would know. The issue was that I had already done this particular joke on BET's ComicView twice.

"Cedric comes to The Comedy Store [in Los Angeles], he watches me in the audience, he comes backstage, he tells me what a great job I did and how much he loves the joke. Two years later, he's doing that as his last joke on The [Original] Kings Of Comedy and he's doing it verbatim. He just changed my car into a spaceship."

Shortly after Williams' comments went live, Cedric the Entertainer took to the comments section of Club Shay Shay's Instagram preview, where he called the accusation "revisionist history."

"Regardless of whatever Katt's opinion, My career can't be reduced to One Joke Katt Williams claims as his," he stated. "I been over 40 movies, my specials and brand speaks volumes for I am. The [people] I have put on including 'Katt in the Hat' [Williams] At the Gibson Amphitheater."