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On Saturday night, Katt Williams arrived onstage to star in a live comedy special as part of the Netflix Is a Joke Festival. The expectation was that now, live, with no one around to stop him from saying anything he wants onstage, Williams could truly unleash all his darkest secrets and most dangerous opinions about Hollywood. Williams’s viral January appearance on the Club Shay Shay podcast, followed by a similarly headline-grabbing March appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, led to an assumption that this special would be the apex of Williams as truth-teller. He named the special Woke Foke, which is like putting out a billboard that says, “This is going to be controversial.” But by Monday morning,…
