Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 2, 1975, Katt Micah Williams is an American comedian, rapper and an actor. Son of a former member of the Black Panther Party, he was raised in Dayton, OH and always had dreams of becoming a comedian like his idols Bill Cosby, Darnell Allen and Richard Pryor. For this Katt Williams left home at 13 with his dog, Rasha and moved to Florida. He became a street vendor and crafted his art on the stand-up circuits of Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, New Orleans, and Sacramento in his teen years.



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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 2, 1975, Katt Micah Williams is an American comedian, rapper and an actor. Son of a former member of the Black Panther Party, he was raised in Dayton, OH and always had dreams of becoming a comedian like his idols Bill Cosby, Darnell Allen and Richard Pryor. For this Katt Williams left home at 13 with his dog, Rasha and moved to Florida. He became a street vendor and crafted his art on the stand-up circuits of Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, New Orleans, and Sacramento in his teen years.

His big break came in the summer of 1999 after winning Cedric the Entertainer’s Anheuser-Busch ‘Best Los Angeles Comics’ Award. Katt Williams was now 'Money Mike' in 2002's Friday After Next (a character he went on to play at the start of Lil Kim's video for "Lighters Up" in 2005).

comedian katt williams was chosen as one of the 'New Faces' in the 2001 Montreal Comedy Festival. Katt Williams, later auditioned at Twentieth Century Fox for NYPD Blue and got selected in October 2002. He starred in the Tracy Morgan Pilot in April 2003 but it got cancelled. He voiced ‘A Pimp Named Slickback’ in the popular adult cartoon, Boondocks episode ‘Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner’. Katt Williams has also appeared on My Wife and Kids and Cuts and in Nick Cannon's Wild 'N Out.

katt micah williams appeared in Nick Cannon’s ‘Gigolo’, E40’s 'One Night Stand,' Ludacris' ‘Stand-up’ in 2003. In 2004, we saw him in Outkast’s ‘Roses’, Suga Free’s ‘Thinkin,' and Ludacris' ‘Pimpin All over the World’. katt williams dance is ever present in the music industry and has made his presence in music videos such as Lil' Kim's ‘Lighter's Up’, Paul Wall's ‘Girl’, E40’s ‘U and Dat’, Suga Free's ‘Thinkin', Nick Cannon's ‘Dime Piece’ , Ice Cube's ‘Go To Church’ ,and Lil Scrappy's ‘Money in da Bank’. Katt Williams has rapped on The Game's mix tape ‘Ghost Unit’, with Chamillionaire on his album Mixtape Messiah in the song ‘Roll Call’ and also with Snoop Dogg.

You can find Katt Williamsperforming at the Laugh Factory, located on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California and has also performed on BET's ComicView, and Def Comedy Jam. Warner Music signed up Katt Williams to Dipset, a rap group led by Cam'Ron and he is going by his name ‘Money Mike’. The Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1 is his own new stand-up HBO show that started in 2006 and he hosted first ever BET Hip Hop Awards show on Wednesday November 15, 2006. Katt Williams considers his appearance on The Howard Stern Show, on November 30, 2006, the high point of his career. He also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

katt williams dance talent extends over multiple mediums and he now performs topical sketches, impersonations, parodies in MTV's half-hour improv series 'Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz,' with Nick Cannon, Affion Crockett, Eliza Coupe, Leonard Robinson and Taran Killam. comedian katt williams has been gathering accolades from urban and mainstream community alike for his brilliance and ingenuity on screen and on-stage. Katt Williams has been named 'hottest new comedian' in Rolling Stone Magazine. African American comedic icon, Steve Harvey considers him as one of the hottest comedians in the country. For more information visit: http://www.ticketmayor.com/concert-tickets/Katt-Williams.php