Mo’Nique took the time to give her thoughts on Steve Harvey after Katt Williams’ viral interview with Shannon Sharpe. In an exclusive interview with @jamesrsanders, Mo’Nique explained how things went left in her friendship with Harvey once she made an appearance on the “Steve Harvey” talk show in 2020.
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“When Steve Harvey sat on that show, and he said, ‘Mo, your husband can’t be out here flexing like he do. He can’t be who he is when he come out here.’ Let me tell you what that meant,” she shared. During that Mo’Nique says she and her husband/manager Sidney Hicks were working on landing her a potential deal for talk show that was going to have the same producers as “The Steve Harvey Show.” She went on to explain that during a meeting the producers was telling Harvey’s business and shared to him how much he was getting paid which was a major turn off for them. “My husband said, ‘Number one, my wife considers that man her brother, and number two, he’s my frat brother and we don’t play like that,’” Mo’Nique said. “’Please don’t share that man’s business with us because if you share his business with us, you’ll share our business with someone else.’”
Mo’Nique continued to explain that they told Harvey about the incident and allegedly went back to producers and said “‘Man sometimes my frat brothers can be a little fanatical man, that ain’t nothing, I’ll take care of it.’” One shocking detail in the conversation is when Mo’Nique’s husband claimed monitored the number of black people in his show because Harvey was scared that too many black people on camera could mess up his sponsors. “I’m not going to let these n****s mess it up for me,” Hicks said Harvey told him.
All of these conversations started once Katt Williams accused Harvey of copying elements of Mark Curry’s sitcom “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper,” while developing “The Steve Harvey Show.”
“The same Steve that went to go watch Mark Curry do his whole sitcom and then stole everything Mark Curry had,” Williams said. Cooper’s sitcom ran for five seasons on ABC from 1992 to 1997. Harvey’s eponymous sitcom aired between 1996 and 2002 on the now defunct WB network.
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During that same interview with Shannon Sharpe, Williams also stated that Steve Harvey wasn’t talented enough to be a movie star.
“You couldn’t be a movie star,” the actor/comedian said. “There are 30,000 new scripts in Hollywood every year. Not one of them asked for a country-bumpkin Black dude that can’t talk good and look like Mr. Potato Head.”
