"Kevin Hart: LIVE in Los Angeles"
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I'm going in the far side. Yeah. You're in the middle. No. You're in the middle. No, we go how we're going to... No, you're in the middle because it's your guest. Oh, and we're talking couches. Yes. Yes. No, when we go out for the thing. What does that mean? We just get messy. When we walk out. Yeah.

- I'm gonna go far. - I'm gonna sit on the couch, 'cause it's my guest. - Well, we can sit wherever you want. - Except don't sit on the couch, 'cause it's my guest. - No, we can sit, it doesn't matter. - I've sat on the far side way too many times. - Well, no, I'm sitting on the far side now, and you're gonna be sitting on the near side. - By the way, I had a Thai iced tea, and it is not settling. - But is the tea, is the caffeine giving you energy? 'Cause I feel like I need a little bit of energy. You know what worked out well for me in Boston? - Slapping? - The slapping. - That worked. - I'm gonna show you how hard I want you to slap me, okay? - Okay, but don't, okay.

- That hard. That hard. That hard. - That was for real hard. - Let me lock my jaw. - Okay, here we go. I missed it entirely. - Can you do the other side? - Okay, hit it one more time. - Oh! Okay, here we go. - All right, here we go. Welcome to here and it's an all new, it's Smartless! - A half a standing ovation. It's the greatest. - I know. I know.

- Look at Pete Giles. - Pete Giles, sweet Pete Giles, and Rob Meador? - And Meat Sauce. - Meat Sauce, right there. - So Will's best friends get the best seat in the house. That's great. Probably didn't pay a dollar either. - This is a very L.A. crowd because we have the four best seats right here just empty. - Just empty, yeah. - Hello, Los Angeles! - Hey!

- We, uh... - Thank you for coming. We finally made it home. We made it home. We've been on the road. We've taken this stupid-ass, incredibly underwhelming night that you guys are about to see on the road for a week. And we had a really, really good time. We want to keep setting the bar as low as possible for you all. - So... - It's gonna be fun. - Should we sit? Let's sit. - Yeah, let's sit. - Let's sit down. - All right. - So I'm on this side. - You're there. - You're on that side.

We did. You got applause for sitting. Applause for sitting. We legit slapped each other backstage, and that was not rehearsed, and it actually hurt. Yeah. It put a little color in my face, though. I missed your face completely. But, Sean, you got a heart out tonight, right? Because you got to get back to camp? Yeah, because you're dressed like a... He's got his whistle in his pocket. Yeah. And the other one is giving a high five. Oh, my God.

You look very, very cute. -I look a little childlike, which is very scary for a 51-year-old. -Yeah. No, you look -- This looks like Sunday afternoon at your house. -Well, it's -- -What we all do, kind of, actually. -Oh, by the way, I'm chewing gum. I'm sorry. By the way, have you ever put gum in water and it flavors the water? -Wow. -But how do you guys feel? Are you guys tired from the tour? -I'm very tired. -Are you pumped? -I'm -- Well, you guys give us energy, which is great.

We legit can't believe that you guys listened to the podcast. That's a true story. That's really been a mind-blower. So, first of all, thank you for doing that because all we're doing, as you can tell, we just talk to each other. The fact that people are somewhat interested in listening to that is a mind-blower.

We do feel like, since you can fast forward all the crap parts or just go to a different episode, when you're listening to the podcast, here you're trapped. So we feel like we do have to juice it a little bit. Do you feel like people maybe double time, like double speed your questions? They have to. Because that's a great...

That's a really good smartless hack. I'm going to give you guys a lot of smartless hacks. They did laugh and applaud like they know exactly what you're talking about. I was trying to think of a good L.A. story, like when I first moved here. Oh, settle in, everybody. Somebody's prepped a little bit. Let's have it. I was, just before I said that. Does it involve the 101? Boy, traffic is terrible. Oh, God.

No, no. Let's just single up a spot on Sean and take front seat. No, I may have said this story before, but when I first moved here and I got Will & Grace, I went to a... Hold for applause. No, I didn't...

I didn't have two nickels to rub together. I had no money. And the cast and the producers invited us out to a dinner. So I drove my Toyota Corolla, which had a hubcap missing and a window out with the... Plastic? Yeah, plastic. And duct tape? Yes, absolutely, 100%. Come on. I swear to God. Is that the car you drove from Chicago? Yes, yes. It is? Yes, and it broke down in Colorado, and I...

I paid some guy I don't even know money to fix it. And it was still broke down. A mechanic, hopefully. I don't know. Not just some guy on the road. So I'm driving. I'm sorry. So I get to the restaurant extra early because I'm so nervous about them seeing my car and I'm like, God, I'm broke. Oh, you were embarrassed about it. I was embarrassed about my car because it was pieced together with scrap metal.

with scotch tape. So I got there, I went in, and then before the dinner was over, I kind of left early so that I could get my car from the valet and leave before they could see me. So I'm like, bye everybody, oh my God, I'm so excited. I come out to the valet, and I'm standing there, and then Jimmy Burrows, Debra, Megan, Eric, the producers, a couple of writers, and now we're all standing there. I'm like, oh my God.

And so he pulls the car up and I was like, and it's like, you know, barely getting there. The last hubcap rolls off. Right. And I said to everybody, I said to the valet, I go, what did you do to my car? Oh my God.

First of all, it was a Porsche. Now it's not a Porsche anymore. Now, ironically, you did end up getting a Porsche when the show performed. You gave everybody a Porsche on the show, right? Right, which is also embarrassing, but I also didn't have money when they gave me a Porsche, so I'm like, give me the fucking money. What do I need another car for? But it was very, very kind of them, but when you're a struggling actor... So you sold it, right? I sold it right away, yeah. I had to pay my rent. Relax, it was a Boxster, but the point is...

- It's true. - Yeah. Wait, did you drive it or did you see it? No, I just read the details on that story years ago. And that always stuck with me. I was like, "Oh, they give them Porsches." "Oh, did they?" I know it seems snobby, but it's kind of true. - Yeah. - Uh... - Anyway, so that's my-- - What about your first time out here? Do you remember when you first came out to L.A.? Yeah, I was talking about today. I drove out here as well. I drove-- I had an old-- Did they not have planes back then?

-No. -That's so funny. And from Toronto, you couldn't have a longer drive. No, no, no. I drove from New York, 'cause I was living in New York. Oh, New York is much closer. Yeah, so it's much-- In fact, it's further away. -It is. That's true. -But, yeah, I drove. I had this old Volvo station wagon, and we drove out here. I don't know why. We made a trip-- I love a Volvo station wagon. Yeah. I-- Right? Oh, so good. It was a real piece of shit, and it had-- It had-- It had rusted through on the bottom, and you could see

the road underneath. Like Fred Flintstone. Yeah, like Fred Flintstone. It was that bad, but it was a ton of fun. And then I drove back. I ended up driving back to New York a couple months later. Same car. Same car in like 40 hours straight. That's the way to do it. To stop is like, no, you're bleary-eyed. You've got to keep going.

-No, and then I had somebody else with me, and I would sleep in the back, and he would drive, and then we would flip like this. -And my car was packed to the end, and I would get into the passenger seat, and I would go down in the bucket, and I would sleep on the thing because there was no room. There was no room. -Show us how you sleep again real quick. -Yeah, sure. Just like this. -What? Hang on.

What? Wait. You sleep more comfortably in a car if you get down into the footwell? Yes! Yes, because you can't sleep like, you know, a perp like this. Sure you can. Yeah, you... I'm not a cow. How do you do it on a plane, guy? I go back, dude. You don't get on the floor on the plane? That would be so great if you got on the floor on a plane.

I mean, it's not Justin Theroux eccentric on a plane. Did you guys hear this story on the podcast? We've got to do it for a second. For those who haven't. They already know it. They already know it. They already know it? Yeah, but let's embarrass him further. I mean, no. No, no, no. He deserves to be embarrassed about this. Yeah, I agree.

Justin Theroux can't sleep with a shirt on, right? I mean, I'm sure a lot of people... I'm sure a lot of people sleep without their shirt on, right? And he can't sleep without a shirt on, and he also can't sleep without doing crunches before he goes to sleep. Right, right. I don't know this story. I don't know this story. Okay, so we're flying to England, I think, or something. So it's going to be topless for quite a stretch. Yeah.

And he's all tatted up and he's up front and everything. People are wearing ties and stuff. And he just pops his shirt off. He does a perfunctory cover with a little tiny blanket or whatever. But five minutes into that, that's gone. And it's just some tatted up freak who looks like Iggy Pop just passed out in the front.

It's like... Like, really? I'm afraid. I need to, like, wipe everything down. I could never sleep with my shirt off. It's disgusting. But he's got enough. He's got a layer to protect him from the germs. He's got a layer of spray tan that actually keeps... that keeps the germs... But you will get down on the floor well of a car and sleep. Absolutely. Those germs are okay. Absolutely. At 24 years old? Yeah. Oh, my God. Wow. Let's get a guest out here. All right, let's get a guest out here. All right.

It's Jason's guest, so we don't know who it is. By the way, just in case people don't know, and we say it all the time, we legitimately don't know who the other person's guests are. So we've had to jump through a lot of hoops on this tour to not cross paths with the guests. Yeah, we had a great one. Never mind. Okay, go ahead. Oh, no, Jason, it's okay. But I have not learned my lesson, because when's the last time you guys met a real bullfighter?

- Oh, my God. - No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. - By the way... - Could you imagine? - That could have been so real. - By the way, I would love that. I would love that. - I would love it, too. - I would have a thousand questions for that person. - I would love it, too, if we were gonna cover this, but they don't want that shit. - Oh, shit. Till we're backstage, you'd love it. Here we come. Our guest tonight is a force, a comedic fire hose, right? That's a good start, right? Not a bullfighter. - Very--no, very good.

This man can't be contained. His energy and positivity is infectious, y'all. Philadelphia couldn't hold him. New York seasoned him. And now, lucky for us, he's planted out here in L.A., pumping out project after project for all of us to gobble up. He's done tons of movies, TV shows, released multiple comedy albums and specials. He's got 45 nominations from everything from Emmys to Grammys. He's got a frickin' video game, I think. Somehow, though, he's been nice enough to pull it over to the side, give us a little time for a chat and giggle here on the Smart List couch.

- Gang, buckle up, it's the one and only Kevin Hart. - How are you? - Will! - Hey man, hey buddy. - Man, I can't wait, he owes me a movie. - Wait! - Hello, hello, hello. - Kevin Hart!

- Check, check. - Am I on? - By the way-- - Redemption. You know what that is? That's redemption. - That is redemption? - That is redemption. - That is an over-deliver. - Yeah, over-deliver. - Check, check. Can you hear me? - Yeah. - Yeah, we got you. - We got you. - All right. - Wait. - Well, before you-- What I-- I just want you-- I want you guys to lower your expectations because I've been drinking. So let's just--

Lower them. Lower them down. That's fair. Fair warning. It's tequila. Whoa. Wow. Is it really? Good for you. That smells pretty good, actually. It's Super Bowl weekend. Super Bowl weekend. Smells real good. Super Bowl weekend. And then behind there is just a chest full of weed, right? It's some shit. It's some shit here. Good for you. We're not paying him for this. He can be high as he wants. Sit back. Yes, sir. Back to the couch.

Here we go. No, he's not. What's your fucking problem? Yeah! What's your fucking problem? This is his fourth gig today. He's in the bag. Sean's in charge of blocking. Yeah, he's just...

He really just pushed me back. Get the fuck back, man. All right. By the way, I'm such a huge fan. You've been on my list to come on as well, but I can't believe Jason Abjab. I'm a massive fan. Did he turn you down? Absolutely. I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of Bateman. You know what...

It doesn't tell you what to do. I bum-rushed Kevin when we were doing... We did Different Stroke. Oh, no, not... You were doing Different Stroke. I did Different Stroke. You did Facts of Life. Oh, that's right. For our buddy Jimmy Kimmel does this...

-We do live sitcoms. -You don't know what he does? -Whatever the hell it is. -You don't know what he does? We did it. He does a pretty handsome talk show, but he did it-- We do re-dos of episodes of sitcoms. We did "Facts of Life." You played Arnold on "Different Strokes." -It was so-- -Killed it. -Yes. -And so I-- So I cornered him, and you really didn't have a chance to say no. -I apologize for that. -No, you didn't corner me. Look, you're in a group of guys that don't ask for shit. I feel like there's a certain amount of people in our business that don't ask, that when they do ask,

It's like, yeah, I'll do it because they don't ask. So those people that don't ask normally have something that's good when they do ask. So Bateman asked...

And I'll be honest, I'll be honest, and this is only for you guys, I thought it was Ozark. I thought I was... I did. I swear to God. I swear to God, I thought it was a scene in Ozark. -You know what? Kevin, you know what we can do is we can make the light blue if you'd like. -No, no, it's okay.

I just found out just now this isn't Ozark when it was alive. It would be a very special dream sequence. Let's call him Marty for the rest, all right? Let's just keep calling him Marty. Payback is going to be tough, isn't it? What are you going to ask me to do? I don't know, Jason. Here's the weird thing, man. You don't want me to do anything. You're one of those guys that's talented, but then you're like...

Like, you know, what do you... It's like, what do you... That's so cute. What do you really want from him, right? No, on a serious note, Jason Bateman, to me, is Hollywood royalty. Let him finish. By the way... Yes, I agree. By the way, here's what I mean when I say that. Hollywood royalty is the definition. Will falls in his category, too. Sean. Well, I don't...

Sean, I'm not sure what you... Shouldn't have pushed him, Sean. I know. Shouldn't have pushed him. Sean, if you didn't push me, I would have done my research. But... All right. Hollywood royalty to me is people that work consistently. Consistently without an agenda. People that do what they want and have a good time in doing it. Royalty. Royalty. That's fucking royal. No, you're royalty. Yes, but I'm saying, like, that's why I respect that. Thank you. Congratulations, you guys. Thank you. Thank you.

Hey, hey, he got, you got nominated for an interviewer of the year. That should be good enough. No, you guys, you guys, wait, you guys, you guys are the royalty and I'm the jester. You are the best camp counselor out of all four of us. So he's not the guy responsible for blocking? No. All right, well, pound to you, buddy. I know what you do now. Fuck yeah. Do it right. Thanks.

All right. Now, so this is very foreign to us, but you spent a lot of time in front of audiences doing stand-up, doing specials. Yeah. You played in front of 55,000 people in Philadelphia for your last special? Hey, guys, this is intimate. This is nice. Yeah.

It's a very nice, intimate crowd, man. This is what it's about. It's about connecting with the people. Here's what blows my mind. By the way, I'm a huge Shark Tank fan, and I saw you on Shark Tank, and I was blown away. Thank you, man. Like, I had no idea. I mean, I knew you had a lot of... Because I'm black? What the fuck are you saying?

What are you saying? Yes, what were you on Shark Tank for? Were you pitching something or judging? No, no. What the fuck is that? I've not seen the show. No, but I have a basic understanding. He was a shark. He was a guest shark. So you weren't pitching like, I got an idea? I don't know. No, no, no. No, Jake, he was like Mark Cuban, but a guest. Okay. But I thought that...

- Am I pitching an idea? - But hang on. If I've got some great idea for the new Swifter or something, I don't want to fund that. I want Mark Cuban to fund that. So I'm gonna go on the show, I'm gonna pitch him. Regardless of what I got in the bank, he's got more. - That's stupid 'cause you could just call Mark Cuban. If you go on national television,

If you own a massive television, you have to decline. - That's stupid. - But I always knew you were, you had all these things going on, but I just didn't know at that extent. I mean, you have this huge successful company that makes all of these projects and these things come to life. I just had no idea. And on top of that, you invest in tons of things.

Some of them I do too, so we're kind of matched that way. It's a secret to the success, but I think building up a...

Building up a platform and infrastructure with people that are so talented, so amazing, to help me execute things that I have a vision for, uh, have become my priority in the business, you know? And also identifying people maybe that might need a little help for access, and you kind of grandfather that maybe a little bit. You bring people into your company. I do. You know, I really do. I think, um, it's no longer about me. It's not about my star. It's not about where I am. It's now about helping others. And the-the real-- the real benefit-- It's true. It's true.

That's why I do this podcast, to help these guys out. Good for you. Good for you, Will. Now, with all of that work, though, are you good about taking breaks? Whether it be at home or, like, fun vacations? This is a break. I'm taking a break now. As I said, I don't want to do something good.

Right? Let me come. Yeah, yeah. There's a compliment in here. I think there's a compliment. No, I'm joking. On some real shit, I have a tough time doing that. I have a tough time taking breaks. I have a tough time really taking time to myself, and that's what I'm working on. So if I had to say a flaw, a flaw is realizing that I need downtime. Like just to take your foot off the gas a little bit. Yeah, yeah. And so, Kevin, we first met over 20 years ago. Here we go. You were a stand-up. What? It's the truth. It's true. Do you have an apology to make?

- It was true. And you were a stand-up, but you were just breaking through. Like, obviously you didn't have the success that you have now.

Walk us through a little bit those first-- 'cause I remember those first couple years. You did that pilot with a bunch of our friends. - Yes. - And then that pilot didn't get picked up. And then you seemed like you did a pilot every year. You'd always be at the upfronts, which is where they sell the ads for new shows. - For Tracy, yeah. - You were always like-- Yeah, for Tracy. By the way, we had Tracy, Shawn's sister.

We went to Wisconsin and she came on stage and it was fucking... A whole front row of t-shirts that said, I know Tracy. It was fucking rad, man. It was so rad. Because we thought she was fake. But anyway... And by the way, it didn't look half as dumb as Sean makes her sound. Like, what are you doing? She was kind of more with it than you, dude. Yeah, yeah. I get it. And we will be right back. And now, back to the show.

Kevin, like, you-- What was that-- What was that like, those first, I don't know, 10 years? 'Cause you were just-- You never stopped working and trying and doing shit and, like, going after it. I'll summarize it. I'll summarize it so that it doesn't take too long. Yeah, 'cause we have got to go.

Well, I know. I know, Sean. I want to get you-- I don't want to hold you up too long. You know, everybody asks about the ambition of a guy that comes from nothing. And what you got to understand is if you come from nothing, then nothing is exactly that. So anything that adds up to something is a benefit.

So when you keep getting a little bit of something, your ambition grows. When I got a little piece of Hollywood and I got a little piece of success, and a little piece of success was actually getting a flight landing and the room being there for me. That's a piece. I kept adding those pieces together. And what you realize is that, oh, God, it's so much better than what I had.

And if it ultimately goes back to where I was, well, I was already there. There is no loss. I think about that all the time. You already know what the result is from growing up, so why not try something and fail and learn from it because the fallback is already familiar to you. You're 1,000% correct.

I kind of just repeated what you said. Well, you did. You actually did. They do it to me all the time. They cut what I say from five minutes down to about 30 seconds. It's helpful for people. Take it as a compliment. But for Will, you know me. You saw the real younger me. And when you talk about that environment that we were in...

I mean, I was a kid. I was a kid and I knew nothing at all. So you guys honestly acted as examples of what to do, what not to do, where to go, where not to go within that world of early entertainment. I got this great... We talked about it when I saw you back in December. I've got this great photo that's now at my house of, like, Kevin, Seth Rogen, me...

Amy, my ex, um, January Jones, uh, Jason Segel, Nick Stoller, Judd Apatow, and, like, January 2001. We were just hanging out 'cause we had nowhere else to be. -Hanging out. -And it was so crazy. Hanging out. And guess who I was. -Guess. -No. -Guess. -I'm not gonna do it. -Take a guess. -You're not gonna get me canceled tonight. -Say it. Say it. -Nope. Gonna make it one more day.

I've got questions I've gone over here that are cancel proof. All right, you passed that test. All right. Can I guess? You were the black one. There you go. There you go. Yes. Yes. By the way, you're done, buddy. You're done. That's right. Now, do your...

Do your kids recognize and appreciate how hard you work? Are they... Do they give it up? Or are they just like, Dad, like...

Do they have notes on your game? No. My kids don't give a fuck about me, man. My kids are the best kids with no knowledge of-- My kids truly, and this is said humbly, my kids have no idea how successful I am. They don't get it. Like, I'm dead. I've seen my kids cry over some people, and it's really made me angry. Like, they've met YouTube stars and TikTokers. Full tears. Oh, my God.

Oh my God, Dad, do you know who that is off of TikTok? And I was like, TikTok? I was like, punch to the ribs. Well, what happens like you're driving down the street and you're driving by a big billboard with your face? They don't care. They say, Dad, you can take a better picture than that? No, my kids are, I make sure my kids are grounded and understanding that that's my job.

So when I'm working, my kids come to my job. I make my kids work on my job. My kids act as PAs. They act as set assistants. They act as DA assistants. That's so good. Lower-end craft services. So I make them work. My kids are here tonight. Get me some coffee, would you? Exactly.

I make it work. Are they, with the exposure to the business and all that stuff, are they finding stuff on set that they're really interested in? Do they have the bug? Do they want to do it? My daughter has the bug. She definitely wants to, but I'm an advocate of be a kid, finish being a kid, and then let's pursue the adult dream. And that's not to say that that's for everybody. That's for me and my household.

And my daughter loves that idea. And, you know, because of what we've agreed to, when she's done with school, you get the full support and backing of what you took the time to learn. I don't want to embed them in something at a young age and prohibit them from getting the full extent of that life, like, as a child, especially where we are, where we live. It's not the same as when I came up.

So they understand that. And I think my daughter wants to do it bad. My daughter wants to be-- - What part? She wants to act? - She wants to act. My daughter wants to act bad. - How old is she? - My daughter's 16. - Oh, great. - 16 years old. - Sean wants to act too. - Do you, Sean? Do you? Good for you. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.

It's gonna be tough after this canceling, 'cause you got one coming. - You gotta get back up. - You think I forgot about that black comment. - I hope that Toyota still works. - Yeah, exactly. - My son wants to be a stuntman. - Really? - That's weird. - Oh, that's cool. - He wants to be a stuntman. - Okay, now I hear that and I immediately think that he's got like, he's strapped like you. That he's like got snakes under his shirt just like you. Are you guys working out together? - Yeah, no, he doesn't have that.

So I want to tell you that you're wrong with that assessment. So, like, what's... Not to be creepy, but if you took all your clothes off right now, are we looking at... Again...

Again, not to be creepy. Not to be creepy. You're basically in bodybuilder shape. That's admirable. That takes a lot of discipline. You've got a great routine, I'm assuming. Here's the thing, man. It's all about the walk away to the bathroom. If you're married, every morning you get up

and you go to the bathroom, sometimes naked, sometimes with a shirt on, sometimes with a knot. But that bathroom walkaway is always viewed by your partner. -Right. -And my mind... You're working out a lot on the back of yourself. I'm working on just in general. It's all calves, buttocks, and lats. Calves, buttocks, back.

-Yeah. -That's a fucking-- -Hey, let him finish, man. -All right. You want to know where the fuck your life's up? If you walk to the bathroom and you hear suddenly, "Ugh," it will destroy you. So in the back of my mind, I don't ever want to hear that. So when I walk away, I tiptoe and I make sure that I don't hear my wife go,

That means that she's no longer happy with that. So it's all about keeping it in shape. When I walk away, I need you to know that's what you just fucked. Like, that's... That's...

That's my... Okay. Yeah, that's my takeaway. They understand it. So now, I'm just doing the math here. So you're walking away from, she's looking at your rear and she's saying, I just fucked that. Take that in. I'm just doing the math. Wait a minute. Hold on. Exactly. Let's go back. Still rolling. Let me switch it up. My husband understands that. Good luck. Good luck. Oh, shit! All right. Oh! Oh!

I love the canceled checkmate. All right. By the way, he's off the... He's no longer on the canceled meter. As black people, we've given him a pass. All right. What a checkmate. We've stumbled into a little bit of a segue to... I want...

I want to ask about this nickname, "Chocolate Droppa." Yes. Right? That's a little bit of a segue to that, right? Well, I don't understand how Sean's sex life is really-- No, no, no, no. You walking away. Okay, now-- By the way, the walking away thing I love, 'cause you don't ever look behind you. You just walk away. You just gotta walk away. Yeah, you don't have to look. You don't have to be like-- If you ever look back, that's a sign of insecurity. That's right. Yeah, you don't want to look back. How do you feel, Jason? How do you feel about Amanda's view when you walk away? He looks back all the time.

First of all, do you walk backwards out? I move a little bit more of a moonwalk to the bathroom, so... But do you walk backwards, just T-shirt, and then your shirt cocking? I don't think Jason wears drawers. I think it's just a T-shirt kicking ass out. Yeah, it's just like...

That's how I picture it too. This body showers with a t-shirt on. Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh is what I picture you as. Just like in his hat and the honey. But that's called shirt cocking when it's just a t-shirt. Wait, does anybody sleep naked? I'm a naked sleeper. Fuck yeah. Would you keep all this in clothes? Hell no.

Are we looking at your sleep outfit right now? Absolutely. 100%. Absolutely. I'm going night-night in between shows in this. By the way, do us a favor. Don't say night-night. What do you... What do you... Sean, what do you wear? Always the same thing. I wear shorts and a long-sleeve, like, loose shirt because Scotty leaves the air conditioning on at, like, you know, 20 below. Okay. And what kind of shorts? What? Shorts. I know. I know. I know.

Yeah, because if you wear sweat when the air conditioning's on and you wear sweats and then the comforter, it's too hot. So I wear shorts with one leg in, one leg out. Yeah. And then a long sleeve so you don't have to have the cover on you. It acts as the cover. Is the one leg out to balance the spinning? Absolutely. What kind of shorts? Are we talking like a thick short? Yeah, like a flannel short just because to really maximize...

Don't look at me like that. Yeah, what do you mean? What? What do you mean? In the one area where your ass needs to be clean, you sweating it out. You got a flannel short. It's too cold to sweat anywhere. Bullshit! That's a flannel short under a fucking duvet with a cover? You stink! You fucking stink! You know what? No! You stain your sheets sleeping naked! By the way... By the way...

Good point, which is why we go black. Black sheets. I thought about that, Sean. I thought about that, Sean. You just got re-canceled, Sean. Re-canceled. I'm back on top, bitch.

Anybody who sleeps naked, you're staining your sheets from getting up in the middle of the night and going pee. That thing's the only-- - Only if you don't shower before. - There's a couple drops there, so you're gonna have to change your sheets more often. Next question. Chocolate drops. - Wait a second. - Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. - Who's staining their sheets? - Who's dropping what? - I'm saying-- - Do you pee blood? - No, no. - Whose-- - No, no, no, no, he's talking urine. - Whose dick is still dripping when they get back in the bed? - What are you doing? - I'm saying if you don't shake it off enough-- - Oh my God! - But I don't have to worry about that because I wear shorts.

So, wait, Kevin, I don't know if you know this. JIC, JIC, just in case. Jason, back in the day, he would do this thing for a while where he wasn't wearing underwear. When we were years ago shooting Arrested Development, this is... I think we've told this... I went, I went, I went, I went through a three... I went through a three... I had a three-year window where I went commando for some weird reason. So... And it happened...

It happened... It's not that great. And I... And I... And it happened to be while I was working on a show where I wore nothing but khaki pants. Right. So... So he would go to the bathroom and then what he would do is he's worried about drippage. Oh, God. So...

Because we're going to go to the bathroom, we're ready to shoot, but I'm peeing, and so the cameras are going to be rolling. So guess what happens? I asked before I came here. I said, is this going to be some white boy shit? They said no. I asked. I fucking asked. I asked. So he goes, so one day, one day we're on set...

And Jason goes up by one of those huge garbage cans, and he's standing there, and he takes paper, like toilet paper, out of his pants. I go, what are you doing? He goes, I got to put it in there to blot it for like 20 minutes. I got to wrap it. He wraps it. And then he takes it out in the middle of the set. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking? That's what serial killers do. I want to ask...

I want to ask an honest question. I want to ask an honest question because I understand the world of producing. I'm going to get back to your original question. So you got an edit point. But before I get there... Before I get there...

What? Is there ever a good reaction, like, from the guy that doesn't wear drawers? Like, what? Like, the man that doesn't wear underwear, he pulls out an underwear. Has a woman ever said, oh, no. I don't. Oh, no underwear. Ugh. Like, what do you think that did? I don't remember what prompted the. How lazy are you? Like.

To not go there? By the way, it's horrible. It's horrible wearing no underwear. It's horrible wearing boxers. I think boxers, like, they don't bend. They don't stretch. So I found boxer briefs. Have you guys heard about these boxers? Yes. I don't know. Fantastic. They're incredible. Now, what do you say you sleep naked? Yeah. And you got the onesie. Yeah. Right? You're naked. But bald.

Butt bald naked. Butt bald. Are you? How do you, how do you, we're gonna wrap up all this crap talk, but. I gave you a cut point. Do you, do you pee sitting down? I almost punched you in the fucking face just then. I do. Do you pee sitting down, right? Yeah, I do. You're not, see, you're not old enough yet. How old, how old are you? I'm 42. Okay, you're not old enough yet. You, you pee sitting down, right?

-Will, you better not. -No, I don't. -You stuttered. You fucking stuttered. -No. -You stuttered. -You pee sitting down? -I've been through this with him. I pee sitting down for years because I think it's rude when, like, somebody comes over here, like, guys come over here, whatever, and they pee and it splashes and they don't clean it up. So, you know what, guys? Just sit down. It takes care of all the splashing. -There he is. -Uh-oh. And it stretches out your back.

Your back's gonna start getting tight on you at about 50. Sean, did you just say... I just wanna make sure I heard it. You misheard me. No, I fucking heard you. I fucking heard you. You just said so it doesn't splash all around. Just sit down. Yeah, 'cause a lot of guys are like, "I don't fucking care." And then it's just like... And then they walk away. So, you know, whoever comes over to my house, I always say, "Hey, please be neat and wipe the seat." Wait, is there a sign? Do you have a sign? No, but that's a good idea.

All right, come on. All right, so we're out of the bathroom. We're out of the bedroom. Hang on. All right, let's get out of the bathroom, out of the bedroom. Let's get to the shoe store. Shoe salesman. Take me to the shoe salesman days. Oh, back on. Now I'm really going to get my ass kicked now. He's traumatized. He's traumatized because he said... Wait, what about...

I'll let it go. I'll let it fucking go, but I don't like you saying that we're all nasty and pee on the seat. I've never peed on the fucking seat. He's got good ass. I'm not saying all of them. He's got better ass. It was very racist what he said. He suggested that black people...

Whatever. All right, let's go. So, Will's had some interesting jobs. Sean's had some interesting jobs. I hear shoe salesmen is in your quiver. Shoe salesman is definitely what I was, who I used to be. How long? I was a shoe salesman for probably two years. Yeah. I'm very good. What were we doing? Were we selling sneakers? Were we selling dress shoes? I sold everything, Jason. Did that experience make you in your...

all your tentacles and your business want to do something with shoes? Well, Sean, what I want you to understand, Sean, what was that question? Did you say tentacles what? No, like, with all your businesses going on, you may already have this. You're on thin fucking ice, Sean. It's going to be tonight, and it's going to be, Dear Diary, Kevin Hart scares the shit out of me.

Um... No, do you want to know if he's got a desire to make shoes? You want to know if I got tentacles? What are you saying, sir? No, I meant, like, all your business tentacles, all the businesses that you have going. Yeah. Did your experience being a shoe salesman... Yeah. ...want to start your own line of shoes? Oh, so you...

He's yes-handing. You want to know if all my success within business and endeavors, at some point, if I was like, this should be shoes. He's going to beat your ass. Yeah. Like Kevin Hart shoes. Yeah, got it. That you can pee on. Got it. Got it. Maybe the rubber boots. By the way, by the way.

- I--Shawna is growing on me more and more. - I know. I know. Uh, here's what shoe salesmen did for me. Shoe salesmen showed me, uh, the importance of, like, um, charisma, charm, right? And in the world of selling shoes,

You got a commission off of what you sold. I made money off of being personable and getting people to come back. Oh, God, I can do this. And by the way, I did it because I really learned about it. So I didn't half-ass it. I didn't bullshit it. But I can tell you anything you want to know about a sneaker. Sean, you got a flat foot. That's a flat sneaker. By the way, no polythene or... No, actually...

Actually, you do. There's a Louis... Yeah, actually, you do. Here. You have a flat foot, but inside, you made pronated subonates. I can't tell. Those are like $2,000 sneakers, though, aren't they, Sean? Yes, I know they are, and that's why I had to fucking look differently. Yeah, right? Because I saw what they were. Pronated subonate. I didn't know what way your foot rolls, Jason. I'm just qualifying. But, yeah, I got it right. Old...

Granddad's got orthotics in here. Don't worry about that. Your foot's dead. I do too. That's a dead foot. That's a dead foot. My left toe's been numb for years. But you're saying something there, which there was a challenge to figure out the customer to see who you needed to be to get the commission that you wanted. It's kind of like acting, kind of changing into the

That job made me realize, oh God, there's something about me that gets people to do the thing that I want. Right. And when I decided to leave that job and pursue the thing that I wanted to do, the person that I had to get to do the things that my customers were doing was my mom.

How do I get my mom to believe in the thing that I want to do? So the same way I got the customers to believe that this is the shoe for them, I had to take that same cadence, that same quality, give it to my mom. Once I got my mom to believe that thing, oh my God, I'm winning. Half the battle is done. My mom believes in me. She supports me. But now how do I make money?

Now I had to convince the comedy clubs that I can do the thing that I said I would do. Was she-- when you said you wanted to be a comic, was she-- am I understanding you correctly? She was like, "Wait, come on, Kevin, really?" I mean, no parent out the gate is supportive of the-- Of the-- -Goodie, you want to be a stand-up? -Yeah. You know, like, not when you have a different lane that's laid out for you. So it was one of convincing. Were you writing jokes? Like, when you start-- when you were selling shoes, were you like,

Like, already thinking about you wanted to get into comedy, you wanted to be a stand-up. Were you writing jokes? Were you thinking in that way already? I have never written a joke in my life. I've never written a joke word for word. Wow. At that point, I had funny stuff that I wanted to talk about. Stories that you could shape. I had stuff. I'm a person that shapes and molds stuff.

Who made you laugh the hardest growing up that you're like, oh, that's so funny? In your family. Was it your mom? I was going to say, it's not a comic. My dad. Yeah? My dad. Not because he was funny, but because he was so ignorant to what he was doing. My dad had no idea the damage that he caused by being himself.

But it made you laugh like hell. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. Look at this stupid motherfucker. No, you didn't think he was stupid. He was just like, I can't believe you said that. Like, my dad, there was a relative that died. My mom's sister, and this is dark, but I'm going to tell you anyway. My mom's sister died, and we go to the funeral. My dad comes to the funeral, and it's myself and my...

uh, mom's other sisters in a circle. My dad comes up, and his first words, he was like, "We dropping like flies, ain't we?" And... and every... everybody looked around. He was like, "Shit, I just hope I ain't next. Goddamn." And nobody could say anything, but it was so bad because they didn't even like him. Like, they didn't like my dad. But he suggested the information as if he was a fan favorite. And...

He had on like-- And it was a funeral. My dad showed up in like white linen at a funeral. He's one of a kind, but I can say for me, that guy, he made me understand humor. Humor sometimes is subjective. My dad has always been subjective. Nobody's ever really liked his approach, but that's the side that I gravitated towards, and that's what's in me. We'll be right back. And back to the show.

What was that first time you went on stage and did stand-up? What was the venue? Do you remember that, like... - Laugh House Comedy Club. Six people. - Six? - Six. - Wait, what? Laugh House Comedy Club. Sean, you fucking heard me. Laugh House Comedy Club. Laugh House Comedy Club.

Six people. Six people at the goddamn comedy club. I go up. I do jokes. They're not laughing, but they're listening. But what I fell in love with was not the people and not the response, but the light, the

The light didn't deter me. And that's what people buckle. People buckle at the light. You're talking about the spot? Literally. No, Jason, I'm talking about the fucking light bulb on the top. Yeah, the spotlight. Yes. The spotlight. God damn it. That is my kryptonite. Show business. This is nerve wracking. Being on a stage with a spotlight, thank God there isn't one on us, makes me... I just freeze. No, that's...

This is a spotlight, Jason. No, that's an egg crate. It's a 15 by 15 frame. No, it's a modern day spotlight. What are you talking about? This is a spotlight. Microphone in a spotlight. I can't do it. You guys got up and you said something right now. Everybody's going to get quiet. They're going to listen. Some people freeze. Some people don't. Those that don't win. I did not freeze. And granted, I did not get a laugh that night.

I kept going. And that's what was, that was the thing for me. That was the bug that bit me. And I was like, this is what I want to do. Did you ever have just a wipeout, like a terrible stand-up night that almost got you to say maybe not? Absolutely. Famous story. I've told it several times, but I'll tell it again. New to us. Well, it's new to you. That's why I said I'll tell it again. Thank you, my friend.

I'm in Atlantic City, I'm doing a joke, and I remember doing a joke and the guy stood up and he was like, "That's enough, shut the fuck up." Threw a buffalo wing at me. - Oh my God. - By the way, I've never seen accuracy like this in my life. Buffalo wing, hits me.

Hits me right in the face. A little bit of sauce gets in my eye. Not a lot, enough to give me a problem where I can't see. I'm like, "All right, that's enough. I'm a man first. Don't disrespect me." He's like, "That's enough. We had enough of you. Get off the stage. Get the fuck off the stage." I'm like, "No, I'm gonna finish my jokes." And I go to finish my jokes, and the whole crowd's like, "Oh, no, we don't want you to finish." They were like, "Boo, boo, boo."

Got booed some other comics were back there. They shook my hand like yo, you gonna be alright I was like, yeah, I'll be back next week. They'd always playing I came back next week same crowd I tried to revamp my set the best that I could I go up I perform I didn't get booed I didn't necessarily get big laughs But I survived this set and that was the biggest win for me in my life because I came back to the place that destroyed me so all of my wins are

All of my wins in the beginning, I don't have hero stories. I don't have, oh, my God, and they stood up and carried me out. I don't have those stories. All of my wins were mental wins, and the mental wins came from where I come from. Where I come from, we beat each other up. We tear each other down, and, you know, we destroy the confidence that some don't have. So to survive that will put you in a place of fucking good. Being that I got out of that, I was able to truly grow and realize

really fall into a place where my talent got to blossom. And comedy became realistic because I made my city give me a chance. They didn't give it to me. I made them give it to me. Is there something that legitimately gives you fear? Is it like, you know, the health of your family or mortality or, for me, it's bees. Um...

I mean, like, is there something that you're just like, that's always going to be a pet fear of mine that's actually beneficial to you, that keeps you doing what you're doing and doing it well? Yeah, I think the real fear right now is fucking up what's...

What's close to being real? You know, I got an opportunity to create generational wealth. I got an opportunity to create and break ground that has yet to be broken for me and mines. For where I come from, you're part of a story that can amplify and propel different types of, I guess you can say, like...

want and realistic approach to what a dream can really become. I'm a part of that. So not accomplishing said goals or not finishing the story, it's not about me, it's about the people that now are looking at me and, oh my God, that's how you do it. So if I don't finish the thing that people are watching that I know I can do,

I leave a story incomplete. And success to some is not success to me. It's really giving a true, clear visual into what wealth can be.

for where I come from, and it doesn't exist. So the fear is that. The fear is not completing that task. Well, and I will say, and I don't mean to embarrass you, but you seem to be doing it in such a graceful, classy, kind way. You have a quality that is so infectious with your...

it's not vulnerability or humanity, but like you're not afraid to make a jackass out of yourself. You're never posturing, you're never playing cool, you're not afraid to be the butt of a joke, and it's so winning and it's so fun to follow and get behind and it's like, I mean, I'd watch you read the phone book. - Thank you, man. - Yeah. - I appreciate it. I appreciate it.

I think the dope thing about where we are, and I do say we. Well. Well, kind of, right? Oh, thank you. Come on, man. Thank you. Right? Yeah. Me and you. You already know where we sit. That's right. I didn't cancel you. You didn't cancel me. All right? We're back on track. I think the dope thing about where we sit is, you know, in this business, we've been...

We've been put in a position for a long time to believe that we will work for hire. And those that have hired us, as amazing and dope as those opportunities are and will continue to be, that's all we knew that exists. And now, you know, you're looking at a new era where we can control, we can create, we can do. It's different. It's a different agenda. And we're supposed to progress. We're supposed to grow. And the relationships between us and our partners are supposed to become exactly that, partnerships.

And when you see that happening, it's, well, how do you become a part of the thing that's the biggest picture? How do you do that? And creating opportunities for the people too. Yeah, it's like a springboard. So that's the priority for me. It's no longer about me. I'm not going to be a biggest star. And I know it sounds like... You're not a what? Be a biggest star. I'm not. No, you're at the top of the mountain. Yes, it is. It's what it is. So for me, it's how do I... And I say that humbly, by the way. I'm not.

I said, how do I fucking create the opportunity for the next versions to be bigger, to be better? That's the new priority. And if you don't find energy in the new thing, then you sit in the old thing. You get tired in the old thing. You get lazy in the old thing. I don't want the old thing. Do you see, like, is there a moment for you in the future where you see that you've reached...

enough success or a certain goal where you're like, you know what, I'm good now, I can kind of slow down. And we talked, we touched on that before, but is there something, is there a goal in mind where you're like, if I can reach that, I can maybe settle down and calm down a little bit? - I think that there definitely is, but I think that for me, that would be very selfish knowing my background. If I go, I'm done, I tap out and I'm just gonna ride out and be good,

when I have the opportunity to create other opportunities, then I think I'm doing a disservice to those that need a service. So I would much rather-- That's great. I would much rather--

Provide the olive branch where I can. And look, if it happens and that olive branch is great and people come and they go through, then good, I did some dope shit. If they don't, at least I tried and I can say that I gave an opportunity for a bigger conversation to be attached to the success outside of me. And that's what you start to struggle with, right? Like, you make money, you get big, you get grown, then you get to going, wait, well, what else?

What else is important? Because it can't just be fame. Is there somebody that inspired you to think this way? My mom. Your mom. Rest in peace. My mom. Yeah. My mom was always, my mom is a, you second those first. My mom was always a, it's so sad when you look at the people around a person that's happy and those people are unhappy. They're unhappy because a person's happiness is

is solo right how does your happiness how do you spread it out like what are you doing to to to give that thing out where's your energy go how are you how are you truly implementing into the lives of others and this is a conversation that we don't have enough right as people we're very selfish we're very selfish at times within what we have and what we want to give

I don't think that that's right. I think that if I have a high level of happy, if I have a high level of good or information, it's my fucking job to try to give to those that can benefit off of it. That's my job. Right? I think that people don't key in on that enough, that they don't know that actually that is the key to happiness, is giving it away. And I don't...

Monetarily, sure. But your energy and whatever that is that you have, whatever you put out is what you're going to get back. And that may seem like, well, that's not altruistic because you're just doing it to get a result. But you will get such joy if you constantly put that out to other people and make people feel good. You'll end up feeling... And that's something that I think that people really sleep on. They're not only sleeping on it, but if you really go and look at some of the... If you go and look at some of the most...

celebrated, the most celebrated and happiest people, right, of our time or before our time. You'll look at their life, and they struggled a lot.

The things you think they had, they didn't have. But what they found joy in was providing. Providing it for others. People find joy in seeing other people fucking glow. And what we've lost, we've lost that. So if you look at where we are now, this is where we battle amongst people because we're trying to control one another. We're not allowing each other to fucking flourish and benefit and be who you are. We're trying to make you what we want you to be, who we want you to be.

I'm a fan of joy. I'm a fan of smile. I'm a fan of happy. I'm a fan of love. I always have been. That's what I'm a fan of. So if it's not that, for me, it doesn't work. It's that simple. I tried stand-up once. How did that go, Sean? Thank you, thank you. How did that go? Thank you for asking. And my opening line was, I think I said this on the podcast, my opening joke was, you know, they say ballet is one of the most difficult things you can do, so I say don't do it. Well, what did we just learn? Wow.

What did we just learn? We just learned sometimes careers can last one joke. Well, I was going to say that. I mean, if we're being real, I'm still waiting for the joke. Well, Sean just showed us why he didn't make it. Now, there's a lot of different things. Yeah, this is why I'm at royalty. Yeah.

So you say you're not gonna pack up and retire anytime soon. Does some-- I'm not retiring. Not before I'm 50. Not before you're 50? No. Okay, are you gonna squeeze in any more of these great movies with Dwayne Johnson before then? Yes. 'Cause it's been really awesome. Now, are you guys as close as it seems? 'Cause the chemistry is just awesome. You guys think this relationship is so great. My back hurts.

Carrying that guy is tough. Carrying that big motherfucker to the finish line is tough. I can be honest with you, DJ and I are very close. That's a really good friend of mine. And our chemistry on screen is the same as off screen. And that's why we've won. We don't go into our trailers in between shots.

When we're on set, we're on set. And when we work together, we truly do work together. And I love the fact that it's been...

far few in between, because we got something. And we saw each other. We just did a-- we got an animation movie coming out with the DC. It's the Super Pets. And-- Wait, are you-- is Snowball in that? No, that's not Snowball. By the way-- Can I have some more Snowball, please? By the way, Snowball's coming, but this is a different pet. I don't want to talk about Snowball now, 'cause I got to talk about the other pet. By the way, maybe the same voice. I'm not confident. All right. So...

What I love, though, is that we got together and we talked, man, and we were like, we just got to figure out the next one. But we both know it's never going to be duplicated. You don't get that thing a lot. And we're very fortunate to have had the opportunity to make the movies that we have. And, you know, it's dope. It must be nice that you've got somebody you're so close with that your escalation in your careers have been very, very, very similar. And you have someone to talk to about...

What's great about it? What's challenging about it? What's how you're adjusting mentally, spiritually, all of that stuff. I'll tell you what, though. He's a lot more... DJ's much more grounded. And he's more concrete than I am. How so? Well, because I'm into shit.

I'm in the shit. - What? Are we in the shit, no? - I'm in the shit, man. - What does that mean? - Well, I'm touring. I'm out all the time. I'm on the road, off the road. I got the people. I'm dealing with-- - You're saying he's soft. You're saying he's a diva. - No, I'm saying-- - We got it. - No, I'm not saying he's a diva. I'm saying I'm more hands-on into the world and more interactive with people on the everyday.

He is, from his company side and all of his ventures, but the live entertainment aspect, he's removed from. So remember the world when he was in wrestling and live performing, that's a different energy. You're giving a different energy to people every day. You got to be on.

You gotta be fucking on. He would get off of a wrestling match and then, Rock, do the thing. He's gotta do the eyebrow. He's gotta take a picture. Right? Like, for me, that's me getting on stage. And then he's gotta eat, doesn't he eat like 40 chickens a day or some shit? Who knows? It's like, oh,

It was like, "And The Rock's new menu." And I'm like, "Okay, let's hear it." You know? And he's like, "30 steaks!" - I think he's done a great job. He's done a great job at like, you know, cutting that side off, venturing into his new side. And DJ the Business Guy is a good dude. And that dude is flourishing. I'm still all over him. - He's a sweet guy too. He's such a sweet guy. - He really is. - No, he's a dickhead. He's a dickhead. He's a dickhead. He's not who you think he is.

I just want to be on the right. I want him to know that I said he was a sweet guy because, you know, he's a big dude as we know. I love it. Now, you're doing something like we're doing here. You got a podcast, Comedy Goldmines, as well? Yes. Yeah? Now, is it like a...

Like a chat show about with comics and talking about comedy and stand-up? I do all organic, authentic conversation, right? No preservatives whatsoever. But I challenge Jason, and I challenge you to do the same thing, too.

- Um, you know, when you have these people on-- - I was gonna say, just like us. - Right? When you have these people on-- - You don't need these, do you? - Well, no. You shouldn't have those, right? Because there's a beauty in the unknown. - It's mostly just a bounce from my bags. - Right. Well, I get it. I get it. Whether you need 'em,

Whether you need them or not. Whether you need them or not. What I love to do, I love to actually discover. Like, I like the fact that I don't know. And when I don't know, I'm going to ask. And the person has to answer the questions. So as comedians, comedians are dark. Some aren't. Some really have other issues. But you've never heard it. And the people that you think you love, you really don't know. So on Comedy Goldmines, you got an opportunity to dive into the minds of some of your favorite humorous fucking individuals.

and they say shit that you never thought they would say. Why? Because we have talks and conversations that takes them in the directions that you never thought that we would go. And conversations in general, that's what we're missing. So organic, real, driven transparency, I think that's what people need to see. You need to get back to seeing people be humans and not be programmed. So on Comedy Goldmines, comedians are actually fucking humans. How often are you doing it?

I'll be honest with you, Jason, whenever I have time. I'm pretty fucking busy, man. You know, the schedule keeps changing, buddy. We got nothing. We're doing this all the time. You know what? We haven't traveled with it. Kevin, you know what I love, though? You know what I love about you? You talk about you doing all these things, but at the root of it, you're still the same guy that

Absolutely. 20 years ago. You have not changed. You're busier. You got more stuff. You had a lot more free time back then, but you're the same dude and you have that same perspective. That's so, so refreshing. That's gotta be the biggest win for you. I think so. And I hope that people that know me, uh,

Well, I want to say I hope. I know people that know me know that. I think from the outside, the perception is always going to be different. Like, for example, I got fucking glasses on now. And I'm going to be honest with you, I know I look like a dick, but if I take these off...

It's been a couple long days. It's been some long days, and I know these eyes are dripping as I'm talking. That's why I'm blocking them. But I think the most important thing for me is I'm so fucking genuine. Like, I'm so good to the people that know me. I really am who I say I am. And when I tell you, like, Jason, when he said, Kev, you want to do it? I said, absolutely.

It was very fast. It was very fast. I didn't even vet it out. By the way, this could have been some freaky shit. I didn't know what to tell. But I didn't vet it out because I'm like, I like the dude. I know where he comes from. I remember when we did X, Y, and Z together on Simpson's Intelligence. We talked. JC, you never asked me for nothing. I'm there. That's truly who I am. But it's one. It's just one favor. That's it. No.

No, no, no, 'cause this wasn't a bad one. Like, you guys got a good thing going here. You got a great thing. Actually, you have a fantastic thing. You got a fucking crowd full of people that support you guys. Well, you made it-- you made it real, real good tonight, and we cannot thank you enough, buddy. -Thank you, Kev. -It was really cool. -This is dope. -This is awesome. -This is so good. -Give it up! Thank you, pal. Buddy, thank you, my friend. Thank you, pal. -Sharon. -Oh, my God! - -

Wow. He did not look back as he was walking away. No, I know. He did not look back. He's confident. Yeah, he's really confident. That was a confident walk away. By the way, great get. Great get. I'm a huge fan. How great was Kevin? You guys got Kevin Hart? Yeah. I meant that what I said, a lot of people get into, a lot of actors are like, oh, how do I? They love you. We love him too. What about these guys? No, it's okay. Rude. It's okay. Yeah.

I like, you know, a lot of... We don't need love. A lot of actors... It's my mother and my sister. Say, stand up. A lot of actors, you know, try... There it is. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Yeah. I love you, too.

All right, so Kevin Hart. So, you know, a lot of actors, you know, try to get it... A lot of actors try to get into other facets of the business because you realize you have to diversify. And he's such a huge inspiration to so many people who are just, like, maybe stuck just doing one thing as an actor. Like, how can I...

Follow Kevin Hart, man. Everything, read up on him. How he did it is just so inspiring. It's amazing to me. Yeah, it's incredible. And I meant it, that he is quite literally just the same dude. He's got his feet on the ground, and he's, of course, he's just flying at such a different altitude now. But maintaining that same sense of himself is pretty rad. And he does all that work. He's still got time to work out. I mean, he's huge. He's almost like he's biomic! Woo! Woo!

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