“And we’ve become more and more segregated as time has gone on. Far from diving them, it unites them, Williams says, both in a national willingness to get together and have these conversations, and-let’s face it-in appreciation of Williams himself. Later, Williams again goes beyond the usual “clap if you’re _” schtick and effectively breaks down the demographics of the entire audience piece by piece. Not perfect people, not people that look a certain way. “It’s really a place where the more times you meet the people that you thought you didn’t like, the more you understand their position, and the more you feel empathy for them… The reason this country is great is because it has a lot of great people in it. “It’s really a great country,” says Williams. In fact, the first sixth of the special is exclusively Jacksonville-centric material, much to the delight of the crowd, and telling of Williams’s effort to go above and beyond your average comedian’s “just learn the name of the mayor and the football team two seconds before going on stage” school of comedy. Acting like people’s concerns aren’t valid has never gotten us anywhere.” And while it does call out the demographic that elected Trump, Great America is, on the whole, a special focused mostly towards developing a sense of unity within the “real America.” Williams is quick to point out that he’s seen a great deal of the countryĭuring “fifteen consecutive one-hundred city tours” of it, and he shows off that experience with the Jacksonville audience. “The issue is…” says Williams, “Trump supporters had concerns, and their concerns needed to be addressed, like everybody’s concerns needed to be addressed. Not that Williams doesn’t feel sympathy for Trump voters. “Y’all can’t fuck shit up because ya’ll own the shit.” They can’t even riot correctly, says Williams at one point. Our government is being run from southern Florida.” The rest of the damage, in a move most other comedians with Trump material in their specials have danced around so far this year, is directed at the white voters who made Trump possible. Our president is staying in a country club, dude. “Our president doesn’t want to stay in the White House all our presidents stayed at, “ says Williams.
Then again, no one else seems to be using it. Much of that damage is directed at Trump, with Williams performing the entire special on the set of a decked out Oval Office complete with presidential portrait of Williams himself. I’m trying to do actual damage with the collection of jokes.” “So, progressively as my comedy is aging, I’m more cognizant of putting more things in it that aren’t fluff. “A lot of getting older is the process of working smarter and not harder,” says Williams. But at 46, he’s openly trying to trim the fat with his new special Great America, an hour devoted as much to the realities of getting older-and what that does to your comedy as well as your body-as it does to the state of the nation as suggested by the title. A contentious, often fraught life, to be sure. You can’t say Katt Williams hasn’t lived a life.
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