Chapter 1: What controversy did Kevin Hart face regarding his George Floyd jokes?
You know the comedian Kevin Hart, he's now having to defend comedy. Let's talk about it.
we get into today's video please like and subscribe today we're going to be talking about kevin hart and a show i never like to go and see or watch that is the breakfast club oh my gosh do these people love to complain but as you all know kevin hart recently had a roast this roast was featured on netflix i believe it was a live production and in this roast
believe it or not offensive jokes were told offensive jokes were told about kevin hart because he was black people made jokes about his dead mother they made jokes about george floyd they made jokes about charlie kirk i mean there was no stone left unturned during this roast but now a lot of the black jokes the george floyd jokes are sort of entering a new space of offending people and people have been calling out kevin hart for not doing something about the offensive racist jokes told at his own
Roast, mind you. Okay. Now we're going to get into this clip from The Breakfast Club where Kevin addresses it and has to defend the existence of comedy.
Yeah, the George Floyd joke, it wasn't a tasteful joke to our culture, to our audience. But our audience that's watching the roast, if you're watching the roast, you get why they're doing it. You get why the racial humor is on the table. Like, it's not... I wasn't shocked. That's what they do. Go look at the Tom Brady one. That's what they do.
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Chapter 2: How did Kevin Hart defend his comedy style during the roast?
It happens every year when they do a roast. It's not new. This isn't a new agenda. It's not a new approach to comedy.
Do you feel like Tony Hinchcliffe went too far when he made that joke about George Floyd?
It's Tony Hinchcliffe. I don't expect less. I don't expect more.
and that's what's right about this. Have you guys ever watched a roast? I don't know, like, are we all new here? Are we new to this earth? Were we all born yesterday? I don't get it. And I say this in every single comedy video that I make. If you are offended by particular jokes, if you think particular jokes should not be made, certainly do not go to a comedy show.
Or if you like a specific comedian and you think that one guy's funny and you're gonna be offended by everybody else who hops on stage, go see that one comedian and nobody else. Certainly do not go and watch a roast. Don't put on Netflix and say, ha ha ha, I'm gonna watch the roast of Kevin Hart and then be offended by black jokes because there's gonna be black jokes at the roast of Kevin Hart.
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Chapter 3: What was the audience's reaction to the offensive jokes made at the roast?
It has always existed. throughout the entire existence of comedy itself. And he brings up the Tom Brady roast. How many white jokes were made about Tom Brady? How many offensive jokes were made about his wife and her leaving him, what, for a jujitsu instructor or this, that, and the third?
A roast is made so that people can essentially go after you and your vulnerabilities and the stuff that people know about you and the gossip that exists about you online. And I say that as somebody who admires a roast for the sheer wittiness of it, for what people can come up with. And I don't necessarily like the moon-spirited nature of the comedy. Is that going to make me offended by it?
No, no. If it's something you don't wanna watch, you don't watch it. And I'll always say this, comedy is the final frontier of free speech. It is truly something where anything goes. That includes George Floyd jokes, Charlie Kirk jokes, race jokes, both white, black, Asian, Hispanic, it doesn't matter. All is fair under the umbrella of comedy.
And if that's not for you, then comedy is not for you.
I feel like you're saying going too far is the point. I don't know if a word.
Yes. I mean, that's why you're there. And I hate to say this, but I'm going to because we're being honest. People are talking about that joke. Talk about a set. Tony Hinchcliffe arguably had the best set or one of the best sets between Tony and Cheryl. And I would say. Naeem had a really strong set.
Naeem had a very strong set. I was laughing out loud at Tony until that joke. But not even just that joke. I don't like when people joke about violent, tragic death. I liked Pete's set, and then I was like, why you have to say that about Charlie Kirk?
Pete had a great set, too.
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Chapter 4: Do comedians have a responsibility to address offensive jokes?
Pete had a Charlie Kirk joke in there. Would I tell those jokes? No. But do I get why they're being told? Yes. I'm not looking at Pete crazy. I'm not looking at Tony crazy.
And I love that response. Okay, is that something I would do? No. Is that something I find funny? No, and that's okay. Not everything is going to be catered to our individual needs. In fact, if something like comedy was catered to all of our individual needs, do you know what a comedian would do as soon as he walked up on stage? He would shut the up.
he would not say a single joke because there is not a single joke in the world that wouldn't get a hand raised in this what about me-ism culture that we're living in right now, where somebody would go, actually, as somebody who broke my left toe when I was four years old, I don't find that joke particularly funny. We cannot have everything catered to us all the time.
There has got to be space for people to make jokes that we don't like, to say things that we don't like, to express thoughts, opinions, feelings, political takes that we don't like. And I think it shows how rotted our society is that something as free-flowing as a roast is getting this much attention. This is somebody consensually saying,
signing up to have their name drug through the dirt, to have very offensive things said about them and about their community and others or things that they care about. And even still, this is creating offense in the general public and creating an uproar of criticism.
Where are we right now? I know what you're going to do. I know your style of comedy.
Did you see the interview that I did with Terrence Floyd, George Floyd's brother?
No.
So he said- No shot to you. No, no, that's- I'm never watching it. That's fine.
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Chapter 5: What examples does Kevin Hart give about the nature of roasts?
Okay, go ahead.
I just asked because he's a fan of you. He saw the joke, and it picked up pretty big, so I didn't know if you saw it, but he basically said, like, as a fan of you and knowing that you came to the funeral to support his family, Even though it's a roast and Tony, that's what he does.
They expected you to kind of be the person that would like stop it right in the moment or just not allow for certain things to happen.
And he also said he wanted you to come harder. He said, if they're going to joke, why you ain't come harder with your own jokes?
How about they get up and grab the mic and do their own damn thing? Oh, wait, you're not Kevin Hart. I'm so sorry. What are we talking about? Now everybody's meant to be the representative of every community that they're a part of at all times, even in places where you're explicitly signing up to not be that.
That is actually within the contract of the roast that we're going to allow people to very free flowingly make these jokes and say what they want to say. And then when we get our turn, we get our turn. Imagine if Kevin Hart stood up in the middle of his own roast and said that joke was too offensive. You went too far, huh? What are we doing here? What are you asking for?
This is actually a good thing to give a rebuttal to. They talked about mine. They talked about my dead mom and my dead dad. said that they were running a train on my mom. That was hilarious.
That was crazy. Regina killed that. And then he just interjected Charlamagne the guy. He just interjected and said, oh, that was funny. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for your two cents, your individual opinion on whether or not a joke was funny. Can we move on?
The jokes about Kevin was on a slave ship in a bottle with the ship in the bottle. I'm going to appreciate humor. I don't get affected by the attempt of humor. I get it, right? In this case, like, do more. It's my production. We're live. The more is what? Like, what is it that you expect me... You want me to take a live production and stand up and fight Tony or have a reaction?
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Chapter 6: How does Kevin Hart view the role of comedy in free speech?
And it's because now we're equating people's silence to. violence. We're equating their reaction to hearing a certain thing is them saying a certain thing or them agreeing with a certain thing.
And now if you don't stand on 10 toes and call somebody out in the moment for a joke that they made that you found offensive, you are now also responsible for that moment taking place and everybody's reaction to it. And that's not the way the world works. We are only responsible for our own actions, our own words.
And in the realm of comedy, we actually enter a different space where our actions and our words are viewed through the context of them being in a comedy show. Meaning if I make a racist joke, that doesn't necessarily make me a racist. If I make a joke about... Hitler or the Unabomber or Muslims or George Floyd or Charlie Kirk.
That doesn't make me somebody who is filled with hatred or adjacent to these people or who is them. It's a joke. All this to say is just a joke. Let's continue watching the clip.
Hey, Tony, Tony threw one out there. It's this and this, but you do know that that's what this shit is. It's a roast, but I just want you to know from my side, that man is on his own.
No he doesn't.
You do not need to prove to anybody that you give a fuck about anything. And you know what? These people don't even care that you care. They just want to malign you and push you into making a statement so they can go, oh, that's good. Okay, well, we know we're capable of doing that with that person. We know we're capable with pushing that person into submission.
And that's the extent of the commentary that Kevin is getting on this. It's just like a ton of black people and a ton of leftists who are offended and going, Kevin, you don't truly care about this left leaning cause or you don't truly care about black people. And all they want to hear is Kevin Hart come forward and say, I do care about black people. And that joke was offensive. Okay.
go on about my day, or I still hate you because you didn't do it in the moment. There's no satisfying these people because they're not actually looking for anything they say they're looking for.
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