Patricia Williams

Patricia Williams, who performs as Ms. Pat, built a career in comedy after a caseworker urged her to try it. Born in Atlanta, she gave her first stand-up set there in 2002, and in 2006 she moved to Indianapolis and sharpened her craft at Morty's. She competed on the ninth season of Last Comic Standing in 2015. Her debut album, Rabbit, arrived in 2017, and Netflix cast her in its stand-up series The Degenerates in 2018. In 2022 Netflix released her hour-long special, Ms. Pat: Y'all Wanna Hear Something Crazy? She leads The Ms. Pat Show, a sitcom drawn from her life that BET+ picked up in 2020 and began airing in 2021. She also hosts the BET show Ms. Pat Settles It and the podcast The Patdown with Ms. Pat. She co-wrote a memoir, Rabbit, a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in 2018, and signed an overall deal with BET Studios in 2026.