More importantly, though, Kevin Hart would like to remind you that none of this is his business (even if, in a strictly financial sense, it absolutely was his business).
The amount of pearl clutching on Lemmy is WILD. Fucked up jokes can still be funny
Sorry, but are you comparing Charlie Kirk with George Floyd?
they both died and both had jokes during the roast
One was a public provocateur deliberately farming outrage for money and fame, who was murdered by a lone psycho.
One was an private citizen strangled by a cop for nine minutes while onlookers begged for his life, and became the focal point for a national civil rights movement.
But yeah, same-same. 🙄
exactly as you said, same same. also do you need a new pearl necklace after yours snapped from clutching it too hard?
I find it funny that every negative comment about Kevin Hart seems to have a downvote.
Well now I guess we know what he is doing with all that cocaine energy. Neat that he is supporting the smaller social media platforms though.
I used to like Kevin Hart, I haven’t paid much attention to him lately. I suspect that’s why he wanted to do this show, to try to gain some relevancy again, and of course the money.
I didn’t watch, I only skimmed the linked article, but generally, I agree with him. He gave some apparently edgy comics a platform, and they said edgy things that not everyone would find funny. So what? Everyone got what they paid for. Don’t like their jokes, don’t watch the show. End of issue.
More importantly, though, Kevin Hart performed in Saudi Arabia.
Who gives a flying fuck about any of this or any of these people, is the bigger question.
what an unlikable guy. never understood his appeal
Him saying it’s just a job and the job was to create a successful production is exactly the kind of apathy the rich and powerful shouldn’t be allowed to have. The banality of evil and all of that.
Kevin Hart is more than capable of creating an amazing roast without hiring known racists. I think the difference between Shane Gillis and the other comedian (whose name escapes me because he’s not good enough to be on my radar, except for when he says some shitty things) seems to me to be undeniably massive. Shane doesn’t come off as truly hateful, or racist, or misogynist, etc. Maybe I’m speaking from a white, straight, male comedy lovers’ biased perspective but Shane’s jokes feel like jokes where the truly hateful comedians’ “jokes” feel like character revelations.
I think there’s a place in comedy for roasts and I don’t think we need to platform the worst people to make them successful or entertaining.
Well said. Thank you for articulating that.
Who’s Kevin Hart?
i guess hes a comedian or actor or something. hes terrible, always has been. boggles the mind hes so popular
He was the subject of a roast.
See, the joke works like this: Kevin Hart has lost a lot of popularity and apparently gotten desperate to remain relevant (did I hear rumors of porn?), so thus, I pretend to never have heard of him. This is funny because it’s a direct contradiction to what he’s trying to do. The end.
Ah, I get it now. Totallyed whooshed, my bad.
Some people used to find him funny a long time ago
He had some good comedy. When he was considered a comedian. Thats long past.
Bret Hart’s non-wrestling adopted black brother.
He also goes by Mark Normand.
As a guy from ourside US the whole roast thing is baffling to me I know is a culture thing but the Fat guy bombed like 10 jokes outright and the Rock coming to hit on his wife was more sad rather than funny. There where some good ones but well still the question that got lodged in my head is why the fuck the fixation with “anything goes comedy” why you have to let anyone pick onto your worst because is comedy? I tought I would see something like Smosh’s funerary roast but not even.
I’m from the US and if comedy roasts are a cultural phenomenon then I wasn’t aware of it.
Yeah, I don’t get them either. Best case scenario you can have a mild chuckle at the people you consider friends who know you the best exposing how they really see you after being given an invitation to do so and then living with that knowledge for the rest of your life. Worst case scenario all of the above, minus any lighthearted levity, but add in deep-seated insecurities causing you to become defensive and driving a wedge between you and your loved ones permanently.
Roasts are intended to be good natured. Insults from friends who actually like you a lot. They aren’t meant to be taken seriously. And it’s done with the consent of the roastee. Not everyone has skin thick enough for it.
At least, I think that’s what you are confused about.
Yeah but some go like “anything goes” and that’s just mean instead of comedy. Smosh’s funerary roasts where much better they didn’t seemed to go overboard.
Its a roast, so it isn’t gonna be funny to begin with
if you don’t like offensive jokes, don’t watch a roast
Jesus, people are stupid
This wasn’t a roast of George Floyd. No reason for a fucking dead man who was murdered by police to be catching strays there.
Fuck Kevin Hart for going along with this shit, fuck whoever booked that Nazi bastard for the show (who was probably executive producer Kevin Hart), and of course, fuck the Nazi bastard.
life’s too short to be mad at jokes, or anything for that matter.
you go ahead and stay angry. I’ll keep enjoying my life
you cant be serious
For someone who’s so above this and going to keep enjoying your life, you’re sure spending a lot of time in this thread whining about what other people have to say about it.
I enjoy debate.
like charlie kirk or ben shapiro.
…well…just ben shapiro now…but you know what i mean.
or medhi hasan, or professor Dave
Ngl I had to look them up, but sure, that tracks
That’s basically what Kevin said, but the article is pointing out that he was executive producer and could have just not booked the racist Kill Tony guy, or set guardrails up before hand (which they do for roasts).
Why would you hire the guy who performed at a Trump rally where he called Puerto Rico an Island Of Garbage? Why would you ever give that guy a single dime or second of screen time in general, let alone on a show you are producing, featuring yourself, with you name on that, to be forever associated with you? Kevin didn’t say the words, and almost certainly didn’t personally approve the joke ahead of time, if only because that’s how roasts work. But he knew, or should have known, exactly who he booked and what that entailed.
You don’t get to say, “Yeah, I invited a controversial comedian whose primary claim to fame was performing at a rally for the far right candidate, now president, where he made blatant anti-immigrant and racist remarks about Latino, black and Jewish people, but how can I be held responsible when that guy said similar racist stuff at my event!?” Like inviting Jeffrey Dahmer to the potluck and being shocked at the dish he brings. Kevin, you’re either a complete moron, or wanted the controversy. So actually, you’re a moron either way.
then whoever wrote the article shouldn’t watch roasts.
Not the point of the article. If you want to be “of the culture” like Kevin says he is, then you don’t invite a klansman to the cookout.
Also, if it was about jokes, why didn’t Kevin call out Tony for being a sad racist hack who moved to Austin so he could get more of Rogan’s fungal dick?
https://slate.com/culture/2025/08/kill-tony-hinchcliffe-austin-texas-comedy-trump.html
I think Tony being Rogan’s cabin boy was the subject of a few jokes aimed his way by the other performers.
Key issue I have is that it was the “other” comedians. What Tony said required a response and what he said on The Breakfast Club was not it.
Asked about an interview in which [George] Floyd’s brother expressed his disappointment that Hart hadn’t vocalized some kind of protest in response to Hinchcliffe’s joke, Hart seemed baffled at the idea he might disrupt "the production"in order to lodge a protest.
Pretty sure that George Floyd’s brother didn’t have to watch the roast to be effected by it. But fuck him, I guess. ¯\(ツ)/¯
You’re the type of guy to applaud alone in your appartment when you hear Musk say “we’re going to make comedy legal again”.
nah I don’t applaud anything that man says or does
They were barely jokes and not funny.
I’m sorry you felt that way
I’m sorry you have poor taste.
don’t be, I’m happy
