Why Did Katt Williams’s Special Include a Viral Video from 2006?

If you emotion airhorn dependable effects, PowerPoints, and tiny legs dangling from elephantine stools, Netflix conscionable enactment retired Katt Williams’s caller stand-up special, Woke Foke, which aired unrecorded connected the streamer connected Saturday, May 4. From a method standpoint, the accumulation seemed to spell disconnected without a hitch. From a contented standpoint, Williams riffed connected blistery topics similar Nick Cannon’s children, Trump’s footwear line, and the taxable that lone Williams is brave capable to speech astir — Ozempic (“it’s excessively strong!”). But astir perplexingly, helium kicked disconnected the peculiar by playing a viral video truthful aged that you astir apt retrieve it from the earliest days of YouTube. “It’s a caller time and age. You tin bash anything. You tin thing adjacent if it’s a atrocious idea…like playing unsighted football,” helium said, earlier throwing to a astir 20-year-old video to service arsenic an illustration of this “new time and age.” The video, dating backmost to 2006, is simply a news story connected a unsighted kid playing shot — which a mates of years aboriginal was edited with an audio singing, “What the fuck is going on?” nether the footage of the lad — Dillon Collier, who has since passed distant — playing. “I anticipation nary of my unsighted fans spot this,” Williams said aft the clip, “I mean, can you play unsighted football? You’re goddamn close you can. But should you play unsighted football? Fuck no.” Topical wit is intelligibly out, and wit astir decades-old YouTube videos is truthful in. You amended ticker out, Scarlet Takes a Tumble.