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Troubled Katt Williams says he's quitting comedy

Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY
Katt Williams in a scene from the 2008 movie 'First Sunday.'

Comedian/actor Katt Williams' problems continue.

Late Monday, he said he was ordered to leave a Seattle hotel, hours after he was released from King County Jail following a dispute at a bar.

According to Seattlepi.com, Williams, who was recently parodied on Saturday Night Live, was ordered to leave a Courtyard Marriott after an unspecified incident that involved a police presence. Williams, 41, wasn't arrested.

Williams didn't say why he was kicked out of the hotel, and neither police nor a hotel manager immediately returned calls from AP.

Williams said in a rambling interview with KOMO TV that his stand-up tour was canceled. Williams is scheduled to play Houston on Friday, New Orleans on Saturday and Mobile, Ala., on Sunday.

"I'm just gonna go ahead and announce my retirement from standup, I'm kinda done," Williams said. "I've discussed it with my kids, I wasn't gonna do in the middle of a Seattle street, I was going to go to Los Angeles and do it in the offices of ICM or LiveNation."

Standing by his luggage, Williams showed that his knuckles were bloody and said his knee was "busted up." He said it was the fourth Seattle hotel that had kicked him out in recent days.

He told a KOMO News photographer he was going to offer $301,000 in cash for the up-for-auction Washington State Ferry Rhododendron as a place to stay.

"I can stay (on the ferry), and my family can be there, and my dogs can be there, and my whole staff can be there, until we get done suing Seattle for this $50 million that I want for crippling my reputation as a father, and a black man, and as a taxpaying citizen, and as a person who is not a convicted felon," he said.

Williams had been released from jail early Monday after police said he argued with a patron at a bar, menaced the manager with a pool cue and refused to leave World Sports Grille on Sunday, reports AP. He was also accused of flicking a cigarette into a woman's face through a car window and throwing a rock at the vehicle.

Police said Williams struggled with officers who arrested him and jailed him for investigation of assault, harassment and obstruction. Williams also was involved in an altercation with three fans Friday evening after they tried to take a photo with him. He said they had forced their way into his dressing room.

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