To the surprise of no one, The Roast of Kevin Hart has remained a topic of conversation for weeks after it first hit streaming (via Netflix subscription), from reactions to Hart’s beef-quashing with Katt Williams to comics who’ve feuded in the aftermath. Unfortunately, a backlash quickly surfaced in response to polarizing roaster Tony Hinchcliffe making an insensitive joke about George Floyd six years after his controversial death. Hart finally shared his thoughts about the public reaction, and he wants people to calm down.
Hart stopped by The Breakfast Club, where co-host Charlamagne Tha God famously suffers no fools and rarely sidesteps potentially uncomfortable topics. So naturally the streaming Roast earned quite a bit of discussion, with the George Floyd reference coming up early on. Hart made it clear in a YouTube clip from the episode that he hasn’t partaken in the outrage against Hinchcliffe, despite knowing that the jokey reference wasn’t viewed positively by the Black community at large. As he put it:
