Ms. Pat won't hold back on telling jokes that hit hard and come from experience
The words raw and uncut fail to encapsulate the audacity of comedian Ms. Pat's brand of humor.
Her Emmy-nominated series "The Ms. Pat Show" — a multigenerational family comedy not unlike "Roseanne" but with much sharper language — deals with issues like abortion, addiction and abuse. The third season of the multi-cam sitcom premiered on BET last week.
In her 2022 Netflix comedy special, "Ya'll Wanna Hear Something Crazy," the comedian, born Patricia Williams, touches on various episodes of personal trauma — from being groomed by a married man at 12 and bearing his child at 14 to having to "prepare" her disabled Uncle Cecil for appointments with a sex worker. Both are true stories.
She closed the special by saying: "If you don't take s— away from this show, I hope you take one thing: Learn how to take the darkest s— in your life and turn that s— into laughter. Cause when you can laugh at it, that means you got control of it."
The Times caught up with Ms. Pat to discuss her favorite joke, cancel and "macaroni" cultures, and her
