Kevin Hart has issued a lengthy response to the 'racist' jokes made during his Netflix roast, distancing himself from the remarks and defending the comedians who made them. He also spoke about his conversation with Stephen Jackson, a childhood friend of George Floyd, after the controversial event.
After weeks of backlash, Kevin Hart has finally broken his silence on the 'racist' jokes told during Netflix's roast in his honor. The actor and comedian appeared to distance himself from the remarks made at the production, issuing a lengthy response on May 10, which has remained on the cultural radar after certain participants made race-related jokes .
MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe and Shane Gillis have each come under fire for their remarks. In history, Hinchcliffe used the Minnesota man's dying words in a joke against Hart: 'The Black community is so proud of you... right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can't breathe.
' Asked about Hinchcliffe's remarks, Hart responded, shrugging, 'It's Tony Hinchcliffe. I don't expect less. I don't expect more.
' 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.
' To Hinchcliffe's joke in particular, saying there was very little he could do and that he would not 'compromise' his production. 'It's my production. We're live. 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? Like, Tony told a joke. It wasn't a tasteful joke to us. We didn't like it.
OK.
'Hey, man, f--- that joke. ' We move on. I don't understand why we stand on a hill, and it becomes like this big thing of like, 'Oh, man, the motherf---ers, they do this, and they're attacking the culture.
' It doesn't have to be that. It literally is either you're a fan of this level of content, or you're not. And if you're not a fan, then you don't watch it. Whatever the headlines or whatever the dialogue is, my rebuttal is simplicity: Remove me from it.
I didn't say it.
' Tom Brady made a surprise appearance at the roast, but his cameo has been largely overshadowed by controversies about comedians who performed at the event. I'm not compromising the live production for a reaction of what? What do you want me to do? You want me to fight afterwards?
That's not what I agreed to do. That's not the job at hand. The job at hand was to produce a successful roast, which I did. Kevin Hart has called on both Netflix and Hart to pay reparations to a racial justice nonprofit established by the family after Floyd's death.
He further revealed that he spoke to former NBA player Stephen Jackson, a childhood friend of Floyd, after the controversial event, saying they had a 'great conversation.
' Hosts told Hart he should have led with that anecdote, resulting in a heated exchange between the star and the anchors. Kevin Hart concluded that it is not his responsibility to control the words of other comedians on stage. He also suggested that any consequences for Hinchcliffe are squarely on him. We are not in charge of the dialogue from anybody on that stage.
If Tony calls you right now and says, 'Man, Kevin, I was out at a comedy club, man. And man, this dude, man, said he was George Floyd's brother, smacked the s--t out of me.
' You got to deal with that. Yeah. What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? That's the consequences of the s--t. There you go
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