Kat Williams - Thanks For The Money David Chapelle

Comedian Katt Williams is on the verge of sealing a deal with Comedy Central for his own sketch comedy show as well as a special. According to Variety, Williams is close to inking a deal with Comedy Central for a pilot that he will star in and executive produce, along with Jeff Golenbery and Michael Green, anda special for his It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin tour.
The special, which was shot during the Washington, D.C. stop of the tour, is the part-three continuation of Williams’ highly successful Pimp Chronicles franchise. To date, the tour ranks as one of Poll star’s top livec omedy acts of 2008, generating $17 million in ticket sales and half a million ticket-buyers since it launched in January. In 2006, Kat Williams: Pimp Chronicles Part 1 garnered 3.6 million viewers when it aired on HBO, making it the cabler’s top-rated comedy special that year. Part 1 and his American Hustle series have sold a combined 1.2 million DVD’s.
American Hustle, premiered on Comedy Central in January and included combined scripted sequences of the funny man’s 2007 tour footage. Snoop Dogg, Ludacris and Jeremy Piven made appearances in the special. In related news, William’s has been tapped to star in John White sell’s upcoming movie, Mission: Intolerable, a workplace comedy about a temp agency that hires out a “temp from hell.” Williams will play a wanna be CIA agent who starts his own temp agency designed to get unwanted employees to quit their jobs.