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Kevin Hart Leads the Roastiest Mark Twain Prize Ceremony Ever
With some help from Jerry Seinfeld, J.B. Smoove, Jimmy Fallon, and more.
Okay, yes: His ass was roasted with love by fellow comedians who know and/or have worked with him, including Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Tiffany Haddish, and his frequent co-star Regina Hall. “I also remember how, after I would leave the club to head back to New York City, I wouldn’t even make it over the Ben Franklin Bridge before I would get a page causing me to pull over and find a damn pay phone and call my answering service so the operator could relay the message that Kevin was onstage stealing my shit again!” Smoove later added that he could have handled the matter one of two ways: by “going on Club Shay Shay,” a reference to Katt Williams’s January appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast when he accused Hart of being an industry plant, or by airing his grievances “right here at the Kennedy Center at the Mark Twain Prize. After explaining how Hart had promised to help her cross the border into Canada during COVID by giving her a job on a film he was shooting, Handler dryly said, “That’s when I learned that if you ask Kevin for a favor, you can always count on hearing these three words: I’ve got you.
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