That Mother F**ker Got Killed By A Tiger

Katt Williams’ performance about the teenage boy who was killed by a tiger in the San Francisco Zoo is one of my absolute favorite stand-up bits because of the way he interprets the actions and the reasoning of the tiger and the reactions and ideas of the public. Like with the Crocodile Hunter bit we watched in class, Katt Williams is taking a sensitive issue and turning it into a successful stand up routine. The points he makes while talking about the tiger attack are completely logical. Why should we feel bad for a teenager who knowingly climbed into a zoo exhibit where there was a real live tiger? How many times are we told throughout our lives that a wild animal will always be a wild animal no matter how tame it seems? Katt appeals to our logic when he asks why he should be sad that the tiger did what tigers are supposed to do. He says that, “If you raise a child at any age who is dumb enough to climb into a tiger’s cage then you ought to tell them the rest of the story… then the tiger eat your asshole out baby, that’s what supposed to happen, that’s the end.” He is sympathizing with the tiger for the rest of the bit which really makes the audience see that the tiger was just reacting naturally. Katt is able to make us look at the situation from the tiger’s point of view. He utilizes the ludicrousness of the entire situation of the fact that someone actually climbed into the tiger exhibit in the zoo and makes us laugh at it because we can see that the real individual who is crazy is the person who went into the cage, not the tiger. The way Katt makes people laugh at such a gruesome instance is what makes this particular bit my favorite.