Kevin Hart Will Be Netflix’s Next Roast Victim In ‘The Roast Of Kevin Hart’

After Tom Brady was brutally roasted in a star-studded Netflix live comedy special, the streamer has set its sights on its next victim: Kevin Hart.

Netflix announced the “roast master himself” will be getting a taste of his own medicine at a live comedy event during the Netflix Is A Joke Fest in Los Angeles. Shane Gillis is set to host the evening, with a lineup of comedians that has yet to be announced.

The Roast of Kevin Hart will take place live from The Kia Forum on Sunday, May 10 at 8/7c. Hart will executive produce the roast along with Casey Patterson, Jeff Ross, Amy Zvi and Dave Becky.

This won’t be Hart’s first roast on Netflix.

In 2024, the comedian received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The event premiered on Netflix as part of a multi-year partnership with the Kennedy Center, featuring a star-studded lineup of celebrities who came to celebrate the comedian, including Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Regina Hall, Chelsea Handler, and many, many more.

Somehow, the evening turned into a roast of the world-famous comedian, with several of his colleagues taking shots at him throughout the ceremony.

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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.