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Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’ (variety.com)
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[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (23 children)

Having seen Kevin Hart live, I'm not surprised.

It was incredibly depressing that his openers (his "Solo cup boys") made homophobic jokes. One in particular was about how the comedian would be disappointed if his son was gay because he couldn't take him to the strip club with him.

Sorry that people aren't receptive to shitty, bigoted jokes any more Kevin. Maybe you and Dave Chappelle can get together and make jokes about trans/gay people to empty audiences.

Or in terms that you're more familiar with, "you 'gon learn today!'

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 24 points 10 months ago (9 children)

One in particular was about how the comedian would be disappointed if his son was gay because he couldn’t take him to the strip club with him.

The premise could have worked if he switched it around and said that he was going to have to go to gay strip club or Chippendale's or something instead of being a complaint about not being able to go to his usual clubs. That would have made it supportive and accepting of his son while also highlighting his personal hangups.

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The idea of going to a strip club is repulsive to me, going with my dad is even worse... Wtf kind of joke is that even

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A joke about taking your adult children to a strip club is funny because of how weird it would be. Hart flubbed it by making his son's sexuality the punchline.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The original comment was talking about the openers for Kevin Hart, not Kevin Hart himself. So the punchline shouldn't have been made by Hart or about Hart's son.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh damn, I must have mixed that up because of Hart's bits about not wanting to have a gay son.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

kevin hart was originally going to be in tropic thunder but he refused to play a gay character so he was dropped

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