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Following Tom Brady’s high-profile roasting in a Netflix comedy special, the streaming giant has now turned its attention to its next celebrity target: Kevin Hart.
Netflix revealed that the “roast master himself” will be on the receiving end of some comedic jabs during a live comedy event at the Netflix Is A Joke Fest in Los Angeles. Shane Gillis is slated to host the night, with a roster of comedians who are yet to be announced.
Titled The Roast of Kevin Hart, this event is scheduled to go live from The Kia Forum on Sunday, May 10 at 8/7c. Hart will join forces with Casey Patterson, Jeff Ross, Amy Zvi, and Dave Becky as executive producers for the roast.
This isn’t Hart’s first roasting experience on the streaming platform.
Back in 2024, Hart was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center. The event, which premiered on Netflix, was part of a long-term collaboration with the Kennedy Center, showcasing a star-studded assembly of celebrities, including Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Regina Hall, Chelsea Handler, and numerous others, all gathered to celebrate Hart’s comedic legacy.
Somehow, the evening turned into a roast of the world-famous comedian, with several of his colleagues taking shots at him throughout the ceremony.
But Hart knows how to take the heat. Puck News reported Netflix was considering Will Smith amongst “a few” celebrities to participate in the next roast. Surprisingly, it was reported Smith was considering the opportunity, however, it looks like the honor will go to Hart instead.
This marks Netflix’s first live roast since Brady’s inaugural special, The Roast of Tom Brady, which did not go as well as Brady might have hoped. The evening featured appearances and jokes from Nikki Glaser, Kim Kardashian and more, who took aim at his storied football career, as well as his divorce from supermodel Gisele Bündchen and the impact their separation had on his family.
But Brady admitted soon after the roast that he “wouldn’t do that again,” adding, “It affected actually the people that I care about the most in the world.”
“I liked when the jokes were about me. I thought they were so fun,” he said at the time. “I didn’t like the way they affected my kids.”
According to Netflix, The Roast of Tom Brady earned 26 million views to date and spent three weeks in the Global Top 10 after it aired in 2024.