Kevin Hart: Don't F**k This Up

- Okay. We gotta talk about Upside. - Okay.

Have you talked to Bryan Cranston,

- or Adam from STX? Okay. - No.

They're pulling him, so he's no longer doing GMA with you.

Got you.

They feel like he shouldn't have to speak to

- what happened to you. - Mm-hmm.

He's also on Broadway, which is a very large...

You know, that's very LGBTQ-heavy in ticket sales.

- Okay. - So we lost Bryan.

Got you. Yeah, that's fine.

But there comes the question of,

you're gonna have to go on an apology tour that week.

I've talked to everybody, all offers we had.

Everybody kinda needs to address it.

The... The tour's gonna be very simple.

"I addressed it on Ellen."

You just have to know that the question is coming.

That's fine, but the answer's gonna be very simple.

It's not even "I addressed it on Ellen,"

- as I've addressed it several times. - No, you can't do that.

I have after Ellen.

- I know, but you're gonna to say... - I don't 'cause they saw it.

I'm telling you, the easier answer is to say,

"I just addressed it on Ellen this week."

- I have talked about this. - I know, but if you go back to that...

That means that nobody watched the time that I did it.

- It's going back to my point. - Just say you talked about it on Ellen.

I got a lot of fears, man.

I got a lot of fears as a parent.

Let me tell you guys, one of my biggest fears

is my son growing up and being gay.

Just two days after being tapped to host the Oscars,

comedian Kevin Hart is under fire for old tweets and jokes

that target the gay community.

- What's up with the Oscars, Kev? - I got y'all on the way out.

Kevin Hart is damn near perfect.

As close to perfect as anybody I've ever seen.

In fact, Kevin is precisely four tweets shy of being perfect.

I'm gonna put the tweet right here.

"Yo, if my son comes home and tries to play with my daughter's doll house,

I'm going to break it over his head

and say in my voice, 'Stop. That's gay.'"

I've said where the rights and wrongs were.

I've said who I am now versus who I was then.

I've done it. I've done it!

He has somehow turned himself into a victim

instead of acknowledging the real victims

of violent and sometimes deadly homophobia.

- Kevin! - No comment.

He feels like he's being attacked, but the truth is, he's not.

You have to just acknowledge the pain of other people.

That's all anybody's asking for. That's it.

I got a call from the Academy.

That call basically said, "Kevin, apologize for your tweets of old,

or we're gonna have to move on and find another host."

Talking about the tweets from 2009, 2010.

I chose to pass. I passed on the apology.

Kevin Hart has stepped down from hosting this year's Oscars.

Okay.

Do you wish you had done something differently?

Let's just stop it right here.

Because before people judge and go, "Kevin Hart's a dickhead, an asshole,"

I want you to understand that there's a lot you don't know.

So let's just stop here and then we'll come back to this moment.

Okay.

Crack of dawn.

Early bird gets the worm.

What up, man? Morning, guys. Morning, morning.

This early morning life is two things.

One...

not many do it.

Two, you get an edge. You feel like...

You feel like you're way ahead of everybody else in the world

'cause you're doing shit that nobody else is thinking about doing.

I totally agree with you, and, um,

I think if you shut the fuck up, and let's start.

I started training Kevin,

shit, almost six years ago.

Push-ups.

He wants to do more than most.

He wants to do more than the one that thinks they're doing the most.

- Yes. - And now we go hit the gym.

Get this... What time is it?

- It's 6:45. - Good. We got 30 minutes.

It's this internal thing about greatness that Kev will just... He lives in that.

I don't want all this shit in here. It's the best or nothing else.

That's it.

That's my mindset.

Ten, twenty, thirty.

He doesn't believe his own Kool-Aid.

You know? He doesn't drink his own Kool-Aid.

He's not drinking from the cup of celebrity,

of "I got this. I've achieved this."

He's like, "Fuck, I got a lot of shit more I do and to prove."

So I think that mentality keeps him hungry for more, like, for real.

There you go.

We're talking to Kevin Hart.

One thing that I think does separate you is your hustle.

Like, where did you get your drive?

- 'Cause you work hard. - Thank you, man.

- Who's that little guy? Morning! - What up, Kev?

Morning, morning, morning!

How much time you think we need?

- Hoping an hour and a half, we can get it. - Hour and a half?

- That good? - Done.

I got my headsets on.

You know, I ain't got time to take a poop.

I've gotta do everything at the same time!

Clearly!

Oh, nice!

So, uh, is he ready for preschool?

All right. Glad to be starting on time today.

Oh, Jesus.

Okay, looking at the calendar, there's a lot.

Jumanji 2 and then Uptown.

I just want to go over your schedule

to see which pitches you're gonna go to, which ones you're not.

Okey-dokey, artichokey.

We're here!

Du-du!

What is this?

A giant bottle of 1942, and it says, "Happy birthday, Kevin Hart."

Who the fuck gave me boxing gloves?

Oh, somebody got to go down.

Thirty-nine!

Where does time go?

Wow!

And I'm just getting started.

Hartbeat Productions sits at the top.

I'm developing movies, television...

Welcome to an all-new episode of Straight from the Hart

right here on Laugh Out Loud radio, SiriusXM channel 96.

We're trying to be the opposite

of Comedy Central.

We're trying to be our own lane.

Laugh Out Loud is my digital network.

Welcome to an all-new episode of Cold as Balls.

I, of course, am your host.

I was about to tell you, my name is Kevin Hart.

- How are you, sir? - Wh... Wh... What?

It's so insane

how much I actually do,

that I don't think people would ever understand or really believe it.

It's the world of Tommy John.

The men that wear the Kevin Hart cameo.

The marathon's gonna be in October.

I basically gotta get miles in

just any way, shape, form.

I love you, New York! It's been real!

We love you! We love you!

I mean, look, I think the biggest...

the biggest driving force between...

the ambition...

of Kevin Hart the star

and Kevin Hart the CEO

is that Kevin Hart the star

is so much further than Kevin Hart the CEO.

This is Chadwick Boseman. I gotta take this call.

This is about getting him to do this movie.

Chad.

- Yo. What's good, man? - What up with you, man?

Dude, look, so I got something good for you. I'll keep it...

I'll keep it brief.

Um...

Big, big opportunity for us to fucking jump on a screen together.

So the movie Uptown Saturday Night has been around for the longest.

Everybody's had it. Everybody's tried to do it.

Everybody's fucking failed.

So what I would want to do is just set up a meeting with you

so you can hear the take.

Yeah, I got you. Let's do it.

- All right. - All right. Perfect.

Out.

That was a good... That was a good hiccup. Okay, let's go.

It's been around for a while.

It had so many big pieces of talent.

So many "oh, my Gods," "I can't believes" were in it.

I feel like there's nobody bringing the stars of today together.

It's taking responsibility

of trying to make that happen.

How can I make this generation's version

of what that movie was for them at that time?

So this is when I take my foot, and I put it on the gas,

and I do this right here. See this here?

That's me haul-assing.

You act like I'm late just because.

You don't think I know what I got to do and what I got going on?

- You don't have any sense of time. - What are you talking about?

You've been like this for the nine years that I've known you.

And that's what made you love me!

If I wasn't like this, and I wasn't the crazy man that I am,

that was always not on time and x, y, z,

then you wouldn't... you wouldn't fucking... you wouldn't love me!

You love me because I do so much.

- My husband drives me nuts. That's why. - Oh, geez. Here we go.

This is Becky. Let me call you right back.

See? This is why. Don't call me.

Shit!

God damn! I need gas. Ain't this a bitch?