Shannon Sharpe is talking out over his viral interview with Katt Williams.
As beforehand reported, Sharpe sat down for an interview with Williams on his ‘Club Shay Shay’ podcast. It was launched on Wednesday (January 3). Since then, social media customers and celebrities he name-dropped haven’t stopped speaking about their dialog.
Shannon Sharpe Responds To Criticism Over His Katt Williams Interview
During the three-hour-long interview, the 52-year-old didn’t maintain again as he referred to as out a number of comedians. His checklist included Kevin Hart, Cedric The Entertainer, and Tiffany Haddish, to call a number of.
Williams was positive to talk his thoughts, from claiming comedians stole his jokes to alleging the business puppeteered Hart. He additionally extremely inflated his profession statistics.
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On Thursday (December 4), Sharpe weighed in on the social media response. He spoke on the matter throughout his YouTube present, ‘Nightcap,’ with co-host Chad Ochocinco.
The former NFL participant appeared to take concern with feedback about his lack of follow-up on issues mentioned by Wiliams.
“You decide — who do you agree with? It’s not my decision to make! I never said I was a journalist!” Sharpe mentioned. “I never professed to be a journalist! I’m an entertainer. If you want hard-hitting questions, ’60 Minutes’ is the platform for you. ‘Dateline.’ ’48 Hours.’ Go to Lester Holt. Go to someone that does that.”
Shannon Addresses His Conduct In The Episode
The 55-year-old claimed his interview type has by no means been trashed previously regardless of having numerous celebrities on his podcast since its 2020 launch.
Sharpe has sat down with all people from Steve Harvey to Ricky Smiley and Chris Brown. But after his episode with ‘The Pimp Chronicles’ star dropped, it was the primary time he mentioned he had discovered himself in sizzling waters with viewers.
However, the previous athlete believed that his demeanor didn’t set off the damaging feedback as a lot because the controversial nature of the matters.
Sharpe added that he couldn’t quiz somebody about an incident if he weren’t there. Instead, he mentioned, he allowed his visitor to talk freely. And Williams clearly had loads to get off his chest!
“I’m assuming, [that] when someone comes on my show, and they’re telling me something that no one else has heard… I’m assuming they’re telling me the truth because only said individual was there would know. You’re asking me, ‘Well, why didn’t you correct this?’ Hell, I wasn’t on the set so I couldn’t!”
Sharpe added that he wasn’t going to “pick a side” between his visitor and the comedians talked about within the interview as a result of he additionally shares a relationship with a few of the folks Williams introduced up.
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Regardless of how folks felt concerning the interview, which presently stands at 17 million on YouTube, Sharpe thanked Williams for stopping by his present.
“So I have a personal relationship, I’m not saying we boys, but we have a friendly relationship. We cool. So my thing is like, that’s the hardest part. Because he’s saying things about people, and I’m like, ‘Man.’ The best thing for me is just to be Switzerland, stay neutral, ask the questions, and then I’m gonna let the viewing audience take their side.”
He mentioned the interview had been within the works for effectively over a yr.
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