![]() ![]() Hart wasn’t just genuinely charismatic, with a magnetic smile and an infectious laugh he was a walking meme, as quotable as any Drake hook. Seriously Funny in 2010, and Laugh at My Pain in 2011 made “alright, alright, alright” and “night night” (not to mention the bit about cursing out his teacher) part of the Black everyday discourse. For the most part, we assumed Hart would just be a comedian we’d laugh at when we saw him, and eventually wonder where he’d went when his career inevitably petered off. We saw him do stand-up in dingy bars with grainy video quality and spotty audio. We’d seen him steal a scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and become one of those “isn’t that the guy from…” bit players, racking up low-budget, straight-to-TV movies, hidden Netflix duds, and Soul Plane. He had a relatively unanimous approval rating (more on that later) because we’d seen him grind from the beginning. There was a time when Hart was one of the most likable men in Hollywood. The incident, which trended on Twitter, was just the latest in a seemingly nonstop barrage of avoidable poor public relations decisions from one of the world’s biggest stars. ![]() The room turned toxic Black women were silenced. That wasn’t the end of the Kevin Hart Self-Defense Tour: Days later, he hopped on the social media app Clubhouse to debate fans who were discussing Hart’s comedic merits in a room called “Is Kevin Hart Funny?” What could have been a moment of game-changing celebrity-fan engagement turned into yet another example of Hart’s inability to reckon with himself and insistence on addressing criticism in the worst ways possible. Twenty-three times he reminded us - 23 times in 88 seconds, every one of them claiming not to care that his disjointed, bland, hour-long attempt at comedy had gotten a lukewarm response. A few days after Kevin Hart released his latest Netflix special, Zero F**ks Given, he was back in front of the camera, this time with an Instagram video reminding the world exactly how many fucks he gave. ![]()
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