Kevin Hart: Don't F**k This Up (2019) s01e01 Episode Script
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1 - [woman.]
Okay.
We gotta talk about Upside.
- [Kevin.]
Okay.
[woman.]
Have you talked to Bryan Cranston, - or Adam from STX? Okay.
- No.
[woman.]
They're pulling him, so he's no longer doing GMA with you.
[Kevin.]
Got you.
They feel like he shouldn't have to speak to - what happened to you.
- Mm-hmm.
He's also on Broadway, which is a very large You know, that's very LGBTQ-heavy in ticket sales.
- [Kevin.]
Okay.
- So we lost Bryan.
[Kevin.]
Got you.
Yeah, that's fine.
[Haley.]
But there comes the question of, you're gonna have to go on an apology tour that week.
I've talked to everybody, all offers we had.
Everybody kinda needs to address it.
The The tour's gonna be very simple.
[laughs.]
[Haley.]
"I addressed it on Ellen.
" You just have to know that the question is coming.
That's fine, but the answer's gonna be very simple.
It's not even "I addressed it on Ellen," - as I've addressed it several times.
- [Haley.]
No, you can't do that.
I have after Ellen.
- I know, but you're gonna to say - I don't 'cause they saw it.
I'm telling you, the easier answer is to say, "I just addressed it on Ellen this week.
" - I have talked about this.
- I know, but if you go back to that That means that nobody watched the time that I did it.
- It's going back to my point.
- Just say you talked about it on Ellen.
- [laughter.]
- I got a lot of fears, man.
I got a lot of fears as a parent.
Let me tell you guys, one of my biggest fears is my son growing up and being gay.
[woman.]
Just two days after being tapped to host the Oscars, comedian Kevin Hart is under fire for old tweets and jokes that target the gay community.
- [man.]
What's up with the Oscars, Kev? - I got y'all on the way out.
[Dave Chappelle.]
Kevin Hart is damn near perfect.
As close to perfect as anybody I've ever seen.
In fact, Kevin is precisely four tweets shy of being perfect.
I'm gonna put the tweet right here.
"Yo, if my son comes home and tries to play with my daughter's doll house, I'm going to break it over his head and say in my voice, 'Stop.
That's gay.
'" I've said where the rights and wrongs were.
I've said who I am now versus who I was then.
I've done it.
I've done it! He has somehow turned himself into a victim instead of acknowledging the real victims of violent and sometimes deadly homophobia.
- [reporter.]
Kevin! - No comment.
He feels like he's being attacked, but the truth is, he's not.
You have to just acknowledge the pain of other people.
That's all anybody's asking for.
That's it.
[Kevin.]
I got a call from the Academy.
That call basically said, "Kevin, apologize for your tweets of old, or we're gonna have to move on and find another host.
" Talking about the tweets from 2009, 2010.
I chose to pass.
I passed on the apology.
Kevin Hart has stepped down from hosting this year's Oscars.
[machine beeps.]
[woman.]
Okay.
[interviewer.]
Do you wish you had done something differently? Let's just stop it right here.
Because before people judge and go, "Kevin Hart's a dickhead, an asshole," I want you to understand that there's a lot you don't know.
So let's just stop here and then we'll come back to this moment.
[interviewer.]
Okay.
[jazz music playing.]
Crack of dawn.
Early bird gets the worm.
What up, man? Morning, guys.
Morning, morning.
This early morning life is two things.
One not many do it.
Two, you get an edge.
You feel like You feel like you're way ahead of everybody else in the world 'cause you're doing shit that nobody else is thinking about doing.
[man.]
I totally agree with you, and, um, I think if you shut the fuck up, and let's start.
[all laughing.]
[Ron.]
I started training Kevin, shit, almost six years ago.
[Ron.]
Push-ups.
[Ron.]
He wants to do more than most.
He wants to do more than the one that thinks they're doing the most.
- [Ron.]
Yes.
- And now we go hit the gym.
Get this What time is it? - [Ron.]
It's 6:45.
- Good.
We got 30 minutes.
It's this internal thing about greatness that Kev will just He lives in that.
I don't want all this shit in here.
It's the best or nothing else.
That's it.
That's my mindset.
[Ron.]
Ten, twenty, thirty.
[Ron.]
He doesn't believe his own Kool-Aid.
You know? He doesn't drink his own Kool-Aid.
He's not drinking from the cup of celebrity, of "I got this.
I've achieved this.
" He's like, "Fuck, I got a lot of shit more I do and to prove.
" So I think that mentality keeps him hungry for more, like, for real.
There you go.
[man.]
We're talking to Kevin Hart.
One thing that I think does separate you is your hustle.
Like, where did you get your drive? - 'Cause you work hard.
- Thank you, man.
[yells.]
- [Kevin.]
Who's that little guy? Morning! - [man.]
What up, Kev? [Kevin.]
Morning, morning, morning! [Kevin.]
How much time you think we need? - Hoping an hour and a half, we can get it.
- [Kevin.]
Hour and a half? - [Chris.]
That good? - [Kevin.]
Done.
I got my headsets on.
[Kevin.]
You know, I ain't got time to take a poop.
[laughing.]
I've gotta do everything at the same time! Clearly! [Stacey laughs.]
[Kevin.]
Oh, nice! So, uh, is he ready for preschool? [Kevin.]
All right.
Glad to be starting on time today.
[man laughing.]
[Kevin.]
Oh, Jesus.
[woman.]
Okay, looking at the calendar, there's a lot.
Jumanji 2 and then Uptown.
I just want to go over your schedule to see which pitches you're gonna go to, which ones you're not.
Okey-dokey, artichokey.
[Kevin.]
We're here! Du-du! [Kevin.]
What is this? A giant bottle of 1942, and it says, "Happy birthday, Kevin Hart.
" Who the fuck gave me boxing gloves? Oh, somebody got to go down.
[woman laughing.]
Thirty-nine! Where does time go? Wow! And I'm just getting started.
[cheering.]
[Kevin.]
Hartbeat Productions sits at the top.
I'm developing movies, television Welcome to an all-new episode of Straight from the Hart right here on Laugh Out Loud radio, SiriusXM channel 96.
We're trying to be the opposite of Comedy Central.
We're trying to be our own lane.
Laugh Out Loud is my digital network.
Welcome to an all-new episode of Cold as Balls.
I, of course, am your host.
I was about to tell you, my name is Kevin Hart.
- How are you, sir? - Wh Wh What? [Kevin.]
It's so insane how much I actually do, that I don't think people would ever understand or really believe it.
It's the world of Tommy John.
The men that wear the Kevin Hart cameo.
The marathon's gonna be in October.
I basically gotta get miles in just any way, shape, form.
I love you, New York! It's been real! We love you! We love you! [Kevin.]
I mean, look, I think the biggest the biggest driving force between the ambition of Kevin Hart the star and Kevin Hart the CEO is that Kevin Hart the star is so much further than Kevin Hart the CEO.
[cell phone ringing.]
This is Chadwick Boseman.
I gotta take this call.
This is about getting him to do this movie.
Chad.
- Yo.
What's good, man? - What up with you, man? Dude, look, so I got something good for you.
I'll keep it I'll keep it brief.
Um Big, big opportunity for us to fucking jump on a screen together.
So the movie Uptown Saturday Night has been around for the longest.
Everybody's had it.
Everybody's tried to do it.
Everybody's fucking failed.
So what I would want to do is just set up a meeting with you so you can hear the take.
Yeah, I got you.
Let's do it.
- All right.
- All right.
Perfect.
Out.
That was a good That was a good hiccup.
Okay, let's go.
It's been around for a while.
It had so many big pieces of talent.
So many "oh, my Gods," "I can't believes" were in it.
I feel like there's nobody bringing the stars of today together.
It's taking responsibility of trying to make that happen.
How can I make this generation's version of what that movie was for them at that time? So this is when I take my foot, and I put it on the gas, and I do this right here.
See this here? [imitates revving.]
That's me haul-assing.
[engine revving.]
[Kevin.]
You act like I'm late just because.
You don't think I know what I got to do and what I got going on? - [woman.]
You don't have any sense of time.
- [Kevin.]
What are you talking about? You've been like this for the nine years that I've known you.
And that's what made you love me! If I wasn't like this, and I wasn't the crazy man that I am, that was always not on time and x, y, z, then you wouldn't you wouldn't fucking you wouldn't love me! You love me because I do so much.
- My husband drives me nuts.
That's why.
- [Kevin.]
Oh, geez.
Here we go.
[Kevin.]
This is Becky.
Let me call you right back.
[woman.]
See? This is why.
Don't call me.
[Kevin.]
Shit! God damn! I need gas.
Ain't this a bitch? [man.]
You the man.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Appreciate it, brother.
Have a good one.
[Kevin.]
That's good.
Look, I'm on this.
I'll lock this shit in.
All right? Done deal.
All right, boy.
Out.
- What up, big guy? - [man.]
What's up? - That's my intern.
- Hey.
That's my intern right there.
He's a smart college kid that was thinking about going to porn, and luckily I got him when I did, and I kept him on the straight and narrow.
He was about to have his dick in the street.
Thank God I did what I did, which was save your fucking life.
[man.]
Good, guys.
Looking good.
- Take six.
- [Kevin.]
It's gonna be great.
- Yeah.
- This'll be great.
I'm happy for you.
[Big Boy.]
Kev, first off, man, when you look at this, so many things about Kevin.
When did Kevin Hart know he was funny? When did Kevin Hart know he was funny? Uh That's out the gate.
I was never not funny.
I was always the silly kid.
I always wanted to be the center of attention.
[Big Boy.]
Hm-mm.
[woman.]
Kevin, not in front of the camera! Why do you get up on the camera like that? - I'm recording.
You're in the camera.
- [Kevin.]
That's why I did it.
[man.]
Did anybody ever tell you to not be the center of attention? [Kevin.]
Yeah, my mom.
Heavy on "Sit your ass down.
Shut up.
Do what you're supposed to do.
" You know, she was extremely strict in that world.
[mother.]
The noise is coming from this face.
Turn around, Kevin.
[mother.]
That's all the noise right there.
- [man.]
What does your mother mean to you? - [Kevin.]
My mother's everything.
My mother's everything.
[Kevin.]
Grew up Philadelphia, PA.
[interviewer.]
What kind of area? What kind of neighborhood? - [Kevin.]
My neighborhood's shit! - [laughing.]
[Kevin.]
North Philadelphia, 15th and Erie.
You know, crime city.
We were raised in a one-bedroom apartment.
My mom, she had laid strips of upside down duct tape next to the sink to catch the roaches.
It was just me and her.
And my brother, Ken.
As a single mother, I think we never knew how hard she was struggling.
[mother.]
There are my Christmas cards and my tree.
[Kevin.]
She had more strength and fight in her than any woman that I've ever met.
She was a beast.
She was a different animal.
She had this thing where she would look at you, and she would let you see her smile fade.
It would put the fear of God into anyone.
My mom gave my brother a fair amount of freedom.
Any mistakes that you could make as a teenager, he made.
My brother was in a gang, he dealt drugs.
One afternoon, my brother actually tried to snatch a purse from an old lady.
That there, that was the last straw for my mom.
She had enough.
She took my brother to court, had him emancipated.
And there was two, just me and my mom.
This is Nancy Hart, and we're taping this for Robert Hart.
[Kevin.]
The way my mom saw it, she was too lenient with my brother.
So she figured that if she could keep me off the streets, then I wouldn't turn out like him.
Now you start joking around now.
Time to play.
[Kevin.]
She set up a routine of structured, systematic, and supervised movements that she imposed on my life.
Her routine for me went like this We woke up at 6:00 in the morning.
I left to catch the school bus at 7:00.
After school, I had to go straight to an extracurricular activity.
[Nancy.]
Oh, wow! And it's a gutter ball.
[Kevin.]
My mom was very excited about putting me on the swim team 'cause she just couldn't think of a criminal that ever swam.
When I complained that it wasn't fair, she just responded with, look at what happened to my brother.
I made the decision just to suck it up, listen to my mom, and make the best of the situation.
[Nancy.]
Here's the big baby.
What's up, peeps? [Kevin.]
The schedule that she designed didn't leave room for anything but hustle.
That's where it all began.
- [Kevin.]
Are the kids up? - [woman.]
I don't know where your son is.
I have not seen him since last night.
You know why? Probably because you just let him stay up all hours of the night.
- Go wake that boy up.
- You allow him to do what he wants to do.
Go wake him up and tell him we're going to the gym when I get back.
He's probably up.
His room door's open, so I think he's up.
Go and wake him up.
Tell Kyle to cook him something to eat, - and tell him I'll be home in - He doesn't want to eat.
Tell him to eat! - Tell him he needs to - You tell him.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
[line hanging up.]
That's my household.
- [woman.]
Who was that? - That's my wife.
- [woman.]
Who's not eating? - She said my son ain't eating.
You know, my son, it's summertime, so He like me, a night owl.
So dude will stay up until, you know, wee hours.
Dude may stay up until 4:00 in the morning.
[Kevin.]
Jesus Christ! I don't have no control over my household.
I'm losing it.
I'm losing control.
- [woman.]
How many kids do you have? - Three.
Three kids.
- Wife want one more.
- [woman laughs.]
[Kevin.]
Having kids is a great idea until you got them all at the same time.
What the Hey! [laughs.]
Hey, man! [Kevin.]
What time you go to bed? Don't lie.
[boy.]
It was three or two.
- [Kevin.]
three what? - [boy.]
three or two.
Brush your teeth.
Brush your teeth.
Brush your teeth, wash your face.
You look homeless.
[Kevin laughs.]
[Kevin.]
Headbutt it.
I'm out.
Love you.
Psh! All right.
See you in a little bit.
[Kevin.]
Bye.
All right.
Let's do it.
- I'm all yours.
- [woman.]
Okay.
[phone chimes.]
Oh, shit! Hold on.
Yeah, go.
I'm ready.
A hundred percent, I come off annoying to my kids.
[indistinct caller.]
[woman.]
He is not human.
He's a machine.
I will say that.
He can go on two, three hours, no sleep.
[Kevin.]
What's going on, Anchorage, Alaska? Get your tickets! You've been at-ed.
[Eniko.]
It's non-stop, back-to-back, and then he wants to do a dinner meeting.
You have to find time to rest your body.
You can't just keep going.
[Kevin.]
Nike sent you something dope.
[car beeping.]
You grab those two.
[Kevin.]
I think the most important thing is prioritizing my time.
It's very easy to get caught up into the whirlwind of work and business.
- [Kevin.]
Front door open, or no? - I guess.
- [boy.]
I don't know.
- [Kevin.]
Huh? - [boy.]
I don't know.
- [Kevin.]
You don't know? [Kevin.]
You the man.
You's the man.
It's very easy to forget that other people are simply wanting the pieces of you that matter most.
Hey, lady.
[Kevin.]
Ah! [Kevin.]
Hey! Come on, Bux.
Outside.
[dog barks.]
Quality, love, affection.
My daughter's 13, my son is 11.
Zo is one and some change now.
Go in that house, you have to make sure that you're giving the same energy that you're giving in your workplace in your home environment.
Zo! - [Eniko.]
Your hands clean? - Give me the baby.
[Eniko.]
Have you washed your hands since you've been in the house? - Give me the baby! - [Zo cries.]
- [Eniko.]
He don't want your dirty hands.
- Look at him.
[both laughing.]
Come here.
Oh! [Eniko.]
He's the best.
Like He's such a good dad, and seeing him with his family Loving.
He has a really good heart.
I know that's why I fell in love with him.
- [Eniko.]
You know when you showered? - [Kevin.]
When? - [Eniko.]
You need me to tell you? - What day? Day before yesterday.
Was that a good day or a bad day? The day that you wore the sweatsuit that I bought you is the last time you took a shower.
[Eniko.]
That was poker night.
What's today? Thursday? Yeah, Tuesday.
- Uh-uh.
- You wore that sweatsuit And what I have on yesterday? - Lies! I showered yesterday.
- No, you didn't.
I did shower.
'Cause you got right up from poker Tuesday night.
- Wednesday - No.
Remember I did it to wake up.
- No, you didn't.
- You were downstairs.
- No, you're lying.
- I showered in the other bathroom.
- You're just gonna lie.
- I'm not lying.
- I showered in the guest house.
- My husband has not bathed in two days.
[Kevin laughs.]
[Kevin.]
I'm home, I'm comfortable.
You ain't home! You've been out.
[Eniko laughs.]
[laughing.]
I cannot say anything to you! [Kevin.]
Oh! It's go time.
[Eniko.]
There's times where I tell him to slow down, but it's just in him.
He's a hustler.
He's not going to just sit down and be content.
He has to keep going.
[Kevin.]
You think about how you were raised [Kevin.]
Me loves ya.
[Kevin.]
I got to witness my mom want more and go after more.
I'm the same way with my kids.
I know it's late, so we're not gonna make this the longest conversation ever.
[Kevin.]
Uh I can't help but be excited because I think it's a no-fuckin'- brainer, and there's just nothing else out there like it.
When the conversation of you and the potential of you came up, we all jumped right away, and it was, "Yo, I'm reaching out to him ASAP, and let me see what his schedule is.
" And I also told you the possibilities of doing for our generation what Harlem Nights was for theirs.
That movie where you get those fucking stars that are real stars, that are real valuable pieces that add to it.
This can be that.
You and Kevin will add to the legacy of what this movie was.
It was Growing up, this was the anti-black-exploitation movie, which is why we always wanted to make this movie.
What this movie was able to do, it was able to galvanize all of the stars of its time.
I want to make this happen.
With you, with your career, with your level of success and that star that continues to rise.
This is a great added component to what you already have.
And I know, for me, I'm fucking excited because I've yet to be able to cut loose like I would be able to cut loose in this movie.
Yet.
And you put me with a guy who can fucking do both? I'm I'm I'm in heaven.
I'm here sitting across from you because I've told you the poster of Chadwick and Kevin on it is a fucking great poster.
Be real with us, be honest, and give us your feedback, your thoughts on it.
I have to go away and think about it, just so you know.
[Kevin.]
That's another thing I've realized is that he's an artist.
[all laughing.]
- [Kevin.]
Listen, he's a fucking - I'm not saying that I won't say anything.
I'm just saying that it's not - It's not gonna all come at the end.
- [Kevin.]
That's the real reason that I wanna work with him, 'cause he's a fucking thespian.
[all laughing.]
- [Kevin.]
I want your ass.
- [Chadwick.]
I'm 100% in agreement that we have to do something, and - Yeah, I just need to let it seep through.
- [Kevin.]
Look at that.
God damn! I've just got to let it seep through.
- I'll see y'all later, man.
- [Chadwick.]
All right, man.
Thank you.
[Kevin.]
All right.
Uh This is getting disgusting.
This is getting real fucking disgusting right here.
All right.
Shit! Oh! [line ringing.]
[Eniko.]
I've been gone all day, and you still have to pack.
Yep.
I love you.
I'm almost done.
- All right? - Bye.
Bye.
[Kevin.]
You know, when you're around a person that's always pushing and pushing and pushing, that has no choice but to rub off on you.
[trumpet fanfare playing.]
[Kevin.]
Mom was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
- [Marc.]
She had a gig at the university.
- [Kevin.]
She was serious.
- [Marc.]
You could've got in there.
- [Kevin.]
With no problem.
[Marc.]
State school.
[Kevin.]
I was so stupid.
"I don't want to go to college.
I don't want the world of smarts.
That's not me, Mom!" I was that guy.
"I ain't the school dude, lady!" [laughing.]
All right? So basically [Marc.]
That's when she said you better find your own place? [Kevin.]
She said, "You won't stay here and do nothing.
" I was bad as shit as a child.
I don't want no damn kids.
I was too fuckin' bad.
I used to make my mom pass out when I was a kid.
[person laughs.]
Y'all laughing.
I'm dead serious.
She used to pass out 'cause she had high blood pressure.
She couldn't take it.
You could tell she was gonna pass out 'cause her sentences would stop making sense.
When a magician first tells his mother that "I ain't going to school 'cause I wanna do magic," a little piece of frustration is gonna come from that parent.
She genuinely wanted the best for me.
She made a deal.
"You have a year to show that this is what you wanna do and that you're serious about it.
" She'll be angry, you could see that, but she didn't know what she was angry about.
"Kevin! Kevin! Let me tell you something, okay? You're not gonna sit on my toilet without drinking juice.
" [laughter.]
[Kevin.]
I took it so serious.
Some people just get up there and wing it.
But me, it was my own time walking to the bus stop, to and from the train, on the train, reciting jokes.
I'm gonna put all Everything I got is going into the craft of comedy.
Let me tell you something! You think I'm a I'm [laughter.]
[Ron.]
Happy birthday, you ugly bitch.
[call ends.]
Motherfucker hang up in your face when he wrong.
I've been at the gym, motivated, since eight o'clock this morning.
Kev has a tendency of calling people lazy.
He thinks he outworks everybody.
Not me.
Absolutely not.
I forgot my damn workout.
[Ron.]
It kinda pissed me off that he's late.
But that's what I'm paid to do and be here, no matter what.
That's why I woke up early, even though we got in at 4:30.
I've been up since 8:00 'cause my number one priority is to do my fucking job.
Sorry for cursing, but I'm on my endorphins, if you know what those are.
I'm on a hot level of turned up.
[Ron.]
I go in with the idea that I have a job to do to make you better and give you good energy.
I have something to do.
There's something you're trying to accomplish, and I'm gonna do that.
And so, I come on a mission.
[Kevin shouting.]
Now I'm ready to work out! I've been in this bitch for two hours the other side.
That's my job.
I got you 'cause you work.
- Come on.
- Brother, I'm not fit to do this with you.
- Give me some.
- I'm not gonna do.
[Kevin.]
We got a hardcore - 30 minutes! - Come on, bitch.
- [Ron.]
Let's get on the treadmill, then.
- All right.
Let's just warm up.
I don't give a fuck if you're the highest grossing comedian in the world.
Somebody wants your fucking position.
Somebody's looking at you right now saying, "You're time's gonna be up.
" [grunting.]
One.
You didn't do shit, and you're two and a half hours late.
[grunts.]
- Actually, longer than that.
- I still came.
I still came.
I'm done talking to you, brother.
[grunts.]
[Ron.]
Do I think Kevin works himself too hard? No.
This is his time.
You gotta maximize your opportunity while you got it, God damn.
[phone beeping.]
[boy.]
I just wanted to call you and tell you happy birthday.
[chuckles.]
I love you, man.
You having a good time? - Yeah.
- Why you got your hood on? Your hair messed up? - No.
I just got sprayed by sprinklers.
- Oh, okay.
Y'all having fun? Yeah.
All right.
I love you more than life.
- You hear me? - Yeah.
You my guy.
Headbutt it.
Headbutt it.
Dush! I'll call you later today.
- Okay.
- All right, boy.
Bye.
Bye.
[crowd cheering.]
[Kevin.]
Would it be better for Eniko and the kids if I would stop touring? Of course.
- Happy birthday.
- Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
[Kevin.]
They want me home! But my response is, "Ain't gonna be no goddamn home.
'Cause last I checked, I'm doing it I'm doing it for you guys.
" I want the legacy of our last name to mean something.
[reporter.]
1996 is upon us.
[Nancy.]
It's Kevin getting his act together.
He wants y'all to see how he dance.
He gonna act stupid for you for a while.
Don't even hear the music.
[crowd cheering.]
[Kevin.]
I appreciate you! I love you! [Nancy.]
All offbeat with the music.
I guess he thinks he's Hammer.
Shall we go and see what this butterfly looks like on the bottom? [Kevin.]
Butterfly again.
[Kevin.]
Ovarian cancer.
Bad as a death sentence.
I can feel myself getting ill as soon as I even heard the words.
She said, "Just know that you made me so happy.
" That's the love of your life.
On the brink of my success on the highest level, my mom passed away.
So my mom never came to any shows.
Never, not one time.
[Kevin.]
Look at your boy.
You see what you did.
[Nancy laughing.]
He swears he can dance.
He's all winded.
Out of breath.
Just all over the place! [Nancy laughing.]
[Nancy.]
We're about done now? - [Nancy.]
I think this is the end of this.
- That's it.
- [Nancy.]
I guess so.
- That's it.
[Nancy.]
Let's see.
Can we After Laughter Comes tears After Laughter Comes tears [Kevin.]
I'm glad to be where I am, and I'm glad to be successful.
But my thoughts today are, well, how do I set up so I don't have to do what I'm doing now? What happens when I don't wanna tour?" - [Marc.]
How do I not die broke? - [Kevin.]
Yeah, honestly! - [Marc.]
I know! - [Kevin.]
Like, that's what it is for me.
So, for me, it's building an empire.
[cheering.]
[Kevin.]
I'm 39, and I ain't even start yet.
[Kevin.]
There's a panic.
What if it does stop? [interviewer.]
Where does that come from? Being broke.
Being broke is where that comes from.
I wonder if I can hold on till tomorrow [Kevin.]
I know what comes from hard work.
Hard work was on display every day.
I get so much good from my mom.
You know, but I'm also my dad's child too.
My dad's a different conversation.
[Kevin groans and sighs.]
[Kevin.]
My mom passed away five years ago.
We're at the funeral.
Funeral's almost over.
So I'm on the right side.
I've got the casket over here.
My brother's on the left side.
He's got the casket there.
Keep in mind, it's my mother and it's a funeral, so I'm emotional.
I'm crying.
I'm a mess.
No! [cries.]
No! - She She wasn't ready! - [laughter.]
She wasn't ready! So this is why my dad's an asshole.
My dad see me crying, my dad stood up, punched me in the back of the head.
"Stop being a bitch.
"
Okay.
We gotta talk about Upside.
- [Kevin.]
Okay.
[woman.]
Have you talked to Bryan Cranston, - or Adam from STX? Okay.
- No.
[woman.]
They're pulling him, so he's no longer doing GMA with you.
[Kevin.]
Got you.
They feel like he shouldn't have to speak to - what happened to you.
- Mm-hmm.
He's also on Broadway, which is a very large You know, that's very LGBTQ-heavy in ticket sales.
- [Kevin.]
Okay.
- So we lost Bryan.
[Kevin.]
Got you.
Yeah, that's fine.
[Haley.]
But there comes the question of, you're gonna have to go on an apology tour that week.
I've talked to everybody, all offers we had.
Everybody kinda needs to address it.
The The tour's gonna be very simple.
[laughs.]
[Haley.]
"I addressed it on Ellen.
" You just have to know that the question is coming.
That's fine, but the answer's gonna be very simple.
It's not even "I addressed it on Ellen," - as I've addressed it several times.
- [Haley.]
No, you can't do that.
I have after Ellen.
- I know, but you're gonna to say - I don't 'cause they saw it.
I'm telling you, the easier answer is to say, "I just addressed it on Ellen this week.
" - I have talked about this.
- I know, but if you go back to that That means that nobody watched the time that I did it.
- It's going back to my point.
- Just say you talked about it on Ellen.
- [laughter.]
- I got a lot of fears, man.
I got a lot of fears as a parent.
Let me tell you guys, one of my biggest fears is my son growing up and being gay.
[woman.]
Just two days after being tapped to host the Oscars, comedian Kevin Hart is under fire for old tweets and jokes that target the gay community.
- [man.]
What's up with the Oscars, Kev? - I got y'all on the way out.
[Dave Chappelle.]
Kevin Hart is damn near perfect.
As close to perfect as anybody I've ever seen.
In fact, Kevin is precisely four tweets shy of being perfect.
I'm gonna put the tweet right here.
"Yo, if my son comes home and tries to play with my daughter's doll house, I'm going to break it over his head and say in my voice, 'Stop.
That's gay.
'" I've said where the rights and wrongs were.
I've said who I am now versus who I was then.
I've done it.
I've done it! He has somehow turned himself into a victim instead of acknowledging the real victims of violent and sometimes deadly homophobia.
- [reporter.]
Kevin! - No comment.
He feels like he's being attacked, but the truth is, he's not.
You have to just acknowledge the pain of other people.
That's all anybody's asking for.
That's it.
[Kevin.]
I got a call from the Academy.
That call basically said, "Kevin, apologize for your tweets of old, or we're gonna have to move on and find another host.
" Talking about the tweets from 2009, 2010.
I chose to pass.
I passed on the apology.
Kevin Hart has stepped down from hosting this year's Oscars.
[machine beeps.]
[woman.]
Okay.
[interviewer.]
Do you wish you had done something differently? Let's just stop it right here.
Because before people judge and go, "Kevin Hart's a dickhead, an asshole," I want you to understand that there's a lot you don't know.
So let's just stop here and then we'll come back to this moment.
[interviewer.]
Okay.
[jazz music playing.]
Crack of dawn.
Early bird gets the worm.
What up, man? Morning, guys.
Morning, morning.
This early morning life is two things.
One not many do it.
Two, you get an edge.
You feel like You feel like you're way ahead of everybody else in the world 'cause you're doing shit that nobody else is thinking about doing.
[man.]
I totally agree with you, and, um, I think if you shut the fuck up, and let's start.
[all laughing.]
[Ron.]
I started training Kevin, shit, almost six years ago.
[Ron.]
Push-ups.
[Ron.]
He wants to do more than most.
He wants to do more than the one that thinks they're doing the most.
- [Ron.]
Yes.
- And now we go hit the gym.
Get this What time is it? - [Ron.]
It's 6:45.
- Good.
We got 30 minutes.
It's this internal thing about greatness that Kev will just He lives in that.
I don't want all this shit in here.
It's the best or nothing else.
That's it.
That's my mindset.
[Ron.]
Ten, twenty, thirty.
[Ron.]
He doesn't believe his own Kool-Aid.
You know? He doesn't drink his own Kool-Aid.
He's not drinking from the cup of celebrity, of "I got this.
I've achieved this.
" He's like, "Fuck, I got a lot of shit more I do and to prove.
" So I think that mentality keeps him hungry for more, like, for real.
There you go.
[man.]
We're talking to Kevin Hart.
One thing that I think does separate you is your hustle.
Like, where did you get your drive? - 'Cause you work hard.
- Thank you, man.
[yells.]
- [Kevin.]
Who's that little guy? Morning! - [man.]
What up, Kev? [Kevin.]
Morning, morning, morning! [Kevin.]
How much time you think we need? - Hoping an hour and a half, we can get it.
- [Kevin.]
Hour and a half? - [Chris.]
That good? - [Kevin.]
Done.
I got my headsets on.
[Kevin.]
You know, I ain't got time to take a poop.
[laughing.]
I've gotta do everything at the same time! Clearly! [Stacey laughs.]
[Kevin.]
Oh, nice! So, uh, is he ready for preschool? [Kevin.]
All right.
Glad to be starting on time today.
[man laughing.]
[Kevin.]
Oh, Jesus.
[woman.]
Okay, looking at the calendar, there's a lot.
Jumanji 2 and then Uptown.
I just want to go over your schedule to see which pitches you're gonna go to, which ones you're not.
Okey-dokey, artichokey.
[Kevin.]
We're here! Du-du! [Kevin.]
What is this? A giant bottle of 1942, and it says, "Happy birthday, Kevin Hart.
" Who the fuck gave me boxing gloves? Oh, somebody got to go down.
[woman laughing.]
Thirty-nine! Where does time go? Wow! And I'm just getting started.
[cheering.]
[Kevin.]
Hartbeat Productions sits at the top.
I'm developing movies, television Welcome to an all-new episode of Straight from the Hart right here on Laugh Out Loud radio, SiriusXM channel 96.
We're trying to be the opposite of Comedy Central.
We're trying to be our own lane.
Laugh Out Loud is my digital network.
Welcome to an all-new episode of Cold as Balls.
I, of course, am your host.
I was about to tell you, my name is Kevin Hart.
- How are you, sir? - Wh Wh What? [Kevin.]
It's so insane how much I actually do, that I don't think people would ever understand or really believe it.
It's the world of Tommy John.
The men that wear the Kevin Hart cameo.
The marathon's gonna be in October.
I basically gotta get miles in just any way, shape, form.
I love you, New York! It's been real! We love you! We love you! [Kevin.]
I mean, look, I think the biggest the biggest driving force between the ambition of Kevin Hart the star and Kevin Hart the CEO is that Kevin Hart the star is so much further than Kevin Hart the CEO.
[cell phone ringing.]
This is Chadwick Boseman.
I gotta take this call.
This is about getting him to do this movie.
Chad.
- Yo.
What's good, man? - What up with you, man? Dude, look, so I got something good for you.
I'll keep it I'll keep it brief.
Um Big, big opportunity for us to fucking jump on a screen together.
So the movie Uptown Saturday Night has been around for the longest.
Everybody's had it.
Everybody's tried to do it.
Everybody's fucking failed.
So what I would want to do is just set up a meeting with you so you can hear the take.
Yeah, I got you.
Let's do it.
- All right.
- All right.
Perfect.
Out.
That was a good That was a good hiccup.
Okay, let's go.
It's been around for a while.
It had so many big pieces of talent.
So many "oh, my Gods," "I can't believes" were in it.
I feel like there's nobody bringing the stars of today together.
It's taking responsibility of trying to make that happen.
How can I make this generation's version of what that movie was for them at that time? So this is when I take my foot, and I put it on the gas, and I do this right here.
See this here? [imitates revving.]
That's me haul-assing.
[engine revving.]
[Kevin.]
You act like I'm late just because.
You don't think I know what I got to do and what I got going on? - [woman.]
You don't have any sense of time.
- [Kevin.]
What are you talking about? You've been like this for the nine years that I've known you.
And that's what made you love me! If I wasn't like this, and I wasn't the crazy man that I am, that was always not on time and x, y, z, then you wouldn't you wouldn't fucking you wouldn't love me! You love me because I do so much.
- My husband drives me nuts.
That's why.
- [Kevin.]
Oh, geez.
Here we go.
[Kevin.]
This is Becky.
Let me call you right back.
[woman.]
See? This is why.
Don't call me.
[Kevin.]
Shit! God damn! I need gas.
Ain't this a bitch? [man.]
You the man.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Appreciate it, brother.
Have a good one.
[Kevin.]
That's good.
Look, I'm on this.
I'll lock this shit in.
All right? Done deal.
All right, boy.
Out.
- What up, big guy? - [man.]
What's up? - That's my intern.
- Hey.
That's my intern right there.
He's a smart college kid that was thinking about going to porn, and luckily I got him when I did, and I kept him on the straight and narrow.
He was about to have his dick in the street.
Thank God I did what I did, which was save your fucking life.
[man.]
Good, guys.
Looking good.
- Take six.
- [Kevin.]
It's gonna be great.
- Yeah.
- This'll be great.
I'm happy for you.
[Big Boy.]
Kev, first off, man, when you look at this, so many things about Kevin.
When did Kevin Hart know he was funny? When did Kevin Hart know he was funny? Uh That's out the gate.
I was never not funny.
I was always the silly kid.
I always wanted to be the center of attention.
[Big Boy.]
Hm-mm.
[woman.]
Kevin, not in front of the camera! Why do you get up on the camera like that? - I'm recording.
You're in the camera.
- [Kevin.]
That's why I did it.
[man.]
Did anybody ever tell you to not be the center of attention? [Kevin.]
Yeah, my mom.
Heavy on "Sit your ass down.
Shut up.
Do what you're supposed to do.
" You know, she was extremely strict in that world.
[mother.]
The noise is coming from this face.
Turn around, Kevin.
[mother.]
That's all the noise right there.
- [man.]
What does your mother mean to you? - [Kevin.]
My mother's everything.
My mother's everything.
[Kevin.]
Grew up Philadelphia, PA.
[interviewer.]
What kind of area? What kind of neighborhood? - [Kevin.]
My neighborhood's shit! - [laughing.]
[Kevin.]
North Philadelphia, 15th and Erie.
You know, crime city.
We were raised in a one-bedroom apartment.
My mom, she had laid strips of upside down duct tape next to the sink to catch the roaches.
It was just me and her.
And my brother, Ken.
As a single mother, I think we never knew how hard she was struggling.
[mother.]
There are my Christmas cards and my tree.
[Kevin.]
She had more strength and fight in her than any woman that I've ever met.
She was a beast.
She was a different animal.
She had this thing where she would look at you, and she would let you see her smile fade.
It would put the fear of God into anyone.
My mom gave my brother a fair amount of freedom.
Any mistakes that you could make as a teenager, he made.
My brother was in a gang, he dealt drugs.
One afternoon, my brother actually tried to snatch a purse from an old lady.
That there, that was the last straw for my mom.
She had enough.
She took my brother to court, had him emancipated.
And there was two, just me and my mom.
This is Nancy Hart, and we're taping this for Robert Hart.
[Kevin.]
The way my mom saw it, she was too lenient with my brother.
So she figured that if she could keep me off the streets, then I wouldn't turn out like him.
Now you start joking around now.
Time to play.
[Kevin.]
She set up a routine of structured, systematic, and supervised movements that she imposed on my life.
Her routine for me went like this We woke up at 6:00 in the morning.
I left to catch the school bus at 7:00.
After school, I had to go straight to an extracurricular activity.
[Nancy.]
Oh, wow! And it's a gutter ball.
[Kevin.]
My mom was very excited about putting me on the swim team 'cause she just couldn't think of a criminal that ever swam.
When I complained that it wasn't fair, she just responded with, look at what happened to my brother.
I made the decision just to suck it up, listen to my mom, and make the best of the situation.
[Nancy.]
Here's the big baby.
What's up, peeps? [Kevin.]
The schedule that she designed didn't leave room for anything but hustle.
That's where it all began.
- [Kevin.]
Are the kids up? - [woman.]
I don't know where your son is.
I have not seen him since last night.
You know why? Probably because you just let him stay up all hours of the night.
- Go wake that boy up.
- You allow him to do what he wants to do.
Go wake him up and tell him we're going to the gym when I get back.
He's probably up.
His room door's open, so I think he's up.
Go and wake him up.
Tell Kyle to cook him something to eat, - and tell him I'll be home in - He doesn't want to eat.
Tell him to eat! - Tell him he needs to - You tell him.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
[line hanging up.]
That's my household.
- [woman.]
Who was that? - That's my wife.
- [woman.]
Who's not eating? - She said my son ain't eating.
You know, my son, it's summertime, so He like me, a night owl.
So dude will stay up until, you know, wee hours.
Dude may stay up until 4:00 in the morning.
[Kevin.]
Jesus Christ! I don't have no control over my household.
I'm losing it.
I'm losing control.
- [woman.]
How many kids do you have? - Three.
Three kids.
- Wife want one more.
- [woman laughs.]
[Kevin.]
Having kids is a great idea until you got them all at the same time.
What the Hey! [laughs.]
Hey, man! [Kevin.]
What time you go to bed? Don't lie.
[boy.]
It was three or two.
- [Kevin.]
three what? - [boy.]
three or two.
Brush your teeth.
Brush your teeth.
Brush your teeth, wash your face.
You look homeless.
[Kevin laughs.]
[Kevin.]
Headbutt it.
I'm out.
Love you.
Psh! All right.
See you in a little bit.
[Kevin.]
Bye.
All right.
Let's do it.
- I'm all yours.
- [woman.]
Okay.
[phone chimes.]
Oh, shit! Hold on.
Yeah, go.
I'm ready.
A hundred percent, I come off annoying to my kids.
[indistinct caller.]
[woman.]
He is not human.
He's a machine.
I will say that.
He can go on two, three hours, no sleep.
[Kevin.]
What's going on, Anchorage, Alaska? Get your tickets! You've been at-ed.
[Eniko.]
It's non-stop, back-to-back, and then he wants to do a dinner meeting.
You have to find time to rest your body.
You can't just keep going.
[Kevin.]
Nike sent you something dope.
[car beeping.]
You grab those two.
[Kevin.]
I think the most important thing is prioritizing my time.
It's very easy to get caught up into the whirlwind of work and business.
- [Kevin.]
Front door open, or no? - I guess.
- [boy.]
I don't know.
- [Kevin.]
Huh? - [boy.]
I don't know.
- [Kevin.]
You don't know? [Kevin.]
You the man.
You's the man.
It's very easy to forget that other people are simply wanting the pieces of you that matter most.
Hey, lady.
[Kevin.]
Ah! [Kevin.]
Hey! Come on, Bux.
Outside.
[dog barks.]
Quality, love, affection.
My daughter's 13, my son is 11.
Zo is one and some change now.
Go in that house, you have to make sure that you're giving the same energy that you're giving in your workplace in your home environment.
Zo! - [Eniko.]
Your hands clean? - Give me the baby.
[Eniko.]
Have you washed your hands since you've been in the house? - Give me the baby! - [Zo cries.]
- [Eniko.]
He don't want your dirty hands.
- Look at him.
[both laughing.]
Come here.
Oh! [Eniko.]
He's the best.
Like He's such a good dad, and seeing him with his family Loving.
He has a really good heart.
I know that's why I fell in love with him.
- [Eniko.]
You know when you showered? - [Kevin.]
When? - [Eniko.]
You need me to tell you? - What day? Day before yesterday.
Was that a good day or a bad day? The day that you wore the sweatsuit that I bought you is the last time you took a shower.
[Eniko.]
That was poker night.
What's today? Thursday? Yeah, Tuesday.
- Uh-uh.
- You wore that sweatsuit And what I have on yesterday? - Lies! I showered yesterday.
- No, you didn't.
I did shower.
'Cause you got right up from poker Tuesday night.
- Wednesday - No.
Remember I did it to wake up.
- No, you didn't.
- You were downstairs.
- No, you're lying.
- I showered in the other bathroom.
- You're just gonna lie.
- I'm not lying.
- I showered in the guest house.
- My husband has not bathed in two days.
[Kevin laughs.]
[Kevin.]
I'm home, I'm comfortable.
You ain't home! You've been out.
[Eniko laughs.]
[laughing.]
I cannot say anything to you! [Kevin.]
Oh! It's go time.
[Eniko.]
There's times where I tell him to slow down, but it's just in him.
He's a hustler.
He's not going to just sit down and be content.
He has to keep going.
[Kevin.]
You think about how you were raised [Kevin.]
Me loves ya.
[Kevin.]
I got to witness my mom want more and go after more.
I'm the same way with my kids.
I know it's late, so we're not gonna make this the longest conversation ever.
[Kevin.]
Uh I can't help but be excited because I think it's a no-fuckin'- brainer, and there's just nothing else out there like it.
When the conversation of you and the potential of you came up, we all jumped right away, and it was, "Yo, I'm reaching out to him ASAP, and let me see what his schedule is.
" And I also told you the possibilities of doing for our generation what Harlem Nights was for theirs.
That movie where you get those fucking stars that are real stars, that are real valuable pieces that add to it.
This can be that.
You and Kevin will add to the legacy of what this movie was.
It was Growing up, this was the anti-black-exploitation movie, which is why we always wanted to make this movie.
What this movie was able to do, it was able to galvanize all of the stars of its time.
I want to make this happen.
With you, with your career, with your level of success and that star that continues to rise.
This is a great added component to what you already have.
And I know, for me, I'm fucking excited because I've yet to be able to cut loose like I would be able to cut loose in this movie.
Yet.
And you put me with a guy who can fucking do both? I'm I'm I'm in heaven.
I'm here sitting across from you because I've told you the poster of Chadwick and Kevin on it is a fucking great poster.
Be real with us, be honest, and give us your feedback, your thoughts on it.
I have to go away and think about it, just so you know.
[Kevin.]
That's another thing I've realized is that he's an artist.
[all laughing.]
- [Kevin.]
Listen, he's a fucking - I'm not saying that I won't say anything.
I'm just saying that it's not - It's not gonna all come at the end.
- [Kevin.]
That's the real reason that I wanna work with him, 'cause he's a fucking thespian.
[all laughing.]
- [Kevin.]
I want your ass.
- [Chadwick.]
I'm 100% in agreement that we have to do something, and - Yeah, I just need to let it seep through.
- [Kevin.]
Look at that.
God damn! I've just got to let it seep through.
- I'll see y'all later, man.
- [Chadwick.]
All right, man.
Thank you.
[Kevin.]
All right.
Uh This is getting disgusting.
This is getting real fucking disgusting right here.
All right.
Shit! Oh! [line ringing.]
[Eniko.]
I've been gone all day, and you still have to pack.
Yep.
I love you.
I'm almost done.
- All right? - Bye.
Bye.
[Kevin.]
You know, when you're around a person that's always pushing and pushing and pushing, that has no choice but to rub off on you.
[trumpet fanfare playing.]
[Kevin.]
Mom was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
- [Marc.]
She had a gig at the university.
- [Kevin.]
She was serious.
- [Marc.]
You could've got in there.
- [Kevin.]
With no problem.
[Marc.]
State school.
[Kevin.]
I was so stupid.
"I don't want to go to college.
I don't want the world of smarts.
That's not me, Mom!" I was that guy.
"I ain't the school dude, lady!" [laughing.]
All right? So basically [Marc.]
That's when she said you better find your own place? [Kevin.]
She said, "You won't stay here and do nothing.
" I was bad as shit as a child.
I don't want no damn kids.
I was too fuckin' bad.
I used to make my mom pass out when I was a kid.
[person laughs.]
Y'all laughing.
I'm dead serious.
She used to pass out 'cause she had high blood pressure.
She couldn't take it.
You could tell she was gonna pass out 'cause her sentences would stop making sense.
When a magician first tells his mother that "I ain't going to school 'cause I wanna do magic," a little piece of frustration is gonna come from that parent.
She genuinely wanted the best for me.
She made a deal.
"You have a year to show that this is what you wanna do and that you're serious about it.
" She'll be angry, you could see that, but she didn't know what she was angry about.
"Kevin! Kevin! Let me tell you something, okay? You're not gonna sit on my toilet without drinking juice.
" [laughter.]
[Kevin.]
I took it so serious.
Some people just get up there and wing it.
But me, it was my own time walking to the bus stop, to and from the train, on the train, reciting jokes.
I'm gonna put all Everything I got is going into the craft of comedy.
Let me tell you something! You think I'm a I'm [laughter.]
[Ron.]
Happy birthday, you ugly bitch.
[call ends.]
Motherfucker hang up in your face when he wrong.
I've been at the gym, motivated, since eight o'clock this morning.
Kev has a tendency of calling people lazy.
He thinks he outworks everybody.
Not me.
Absolutely not.
I forgot my damn workout.
[Ron.]
It kinda pissed me off that he's late.
But that's what I'm paid to do and be here, no matter what.
That's why I woke up early, even though we got in at 4:30.
I've been up since 8:00 'cause my number one priority is to do my fucking job.
Sorry for cursing, but I'm on my endorphins, if you know what those are.
I'm on a hot level of turned up.
[Ron.]
I go in with the idea that I have a job to do to make you better and give you good energy.
I have something to do.
There's something you're trying to accomplish, and I'm gonna do that.
And so, I come on a mission.
[Kevin shouting.]
Now I'm ready to work out! I've been in this bitch for two hours the other side.
That's my job.
I got you 'cause you work.
- Come on.
- Brother, I'm not fit to do this with you.
- Give me some.
- I'm not gonna do.
[Kevin.]
We got a hardcore - 30 minutes! - Come on, bitch.
- [Ron.]
Let's get on the treadmill, then.
- All right.
Let's just warm up.
I don't give a fuck if you're the highest grossing comedian in the world.
Somebody wants your fucking position.
Somebody's looking at you right now saying, "You're time's gonna be up.
" [grunting.]
One.
You didn't do shit, and you're two and a half hours late.
[grunts.]
- Actually, longer than that.
- I still came.
I still came.
I'm done talking to you, brother.
[grunts.]
[Ron.]
Do I think Kevin works himself too hard? No.
This is his time.
You gotta maximize your opportunity while you got it, God damn.
[phone beeping.]
[boy.]
I just wanted to call you and tell you happy birthday.
[chuckles.]
I love you, man.
You having a good time? - Yeah.
- Why you got your hood on? Your hair messed up? - No.
I just got sprayed by sprinklers.
- Oh, okay.
Y'all having fun? Yeah.
All right.
I love you more than life.
- You hear me? - Yeah.
You my guy.
Headbutt it.
Headbutt it.
Dush! I'll call you later today.
- Okay.
- All right, boy.
Bye.
Bye.
[crowd cheering.]
[Kevin.]
Would it be better for Eniko and the kids if I would stop touring? Of course.
- Happy birthday.
- Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
[Kevin.]
They want me home! But my response is, "Ain't gonna be no goddamn home.
'Cause last I checked, I'm doing it I'm doing it for you guys.
" I want the legacy of our last name to mean something.
[reporter.]
1996 is upon us.
[Nancy.]
It's Kevin getting his act together.
He wants y'all to see how he dance.
He gonna act stupid for you for a while.
Don't even hear the music.
[crowd cheering.]
[Kevin.]
I appreciate you! I love you! [Nancy.]
All offbeat with the music.
I guess he thinks he's Hammer.
Shall we go and see what this butterfly looks like on the bottom? [Kevin.]
Butterfly again.
[Kevin.]
Ovarian cancer.
Bad as a death sentence.
I can feel myself getting ill as soon as I even heard the words.
She said, "Just know that you made me so happy.
" That's the love of your life.
On the brink of my success on the highest level, my mom passed away.
So my mom never came to any shows.
Never, not one time.
[Kevin.]
Look at your boy.
You see what you did.
[Nancy laughing.]
He swears he can dance.
He's all winded.
Out of breath.
Just all over the place! [Nancy laughing.]
[Nancy.]
We're about done now? - [Nancy.]
I think this is the end of this.
- That's it.
- [Nancy.]
I guess so.
- That's it.
[Nancy.]
Let's see.
Can we After Laughter Comes tears After Laughter Comes tears [Kevin.]
I'm glad to be where I am, and I'm glad to be successful.
But my thoughts today are, well, how do I set up so I don't have to do what I'm doing now? What happens when I don't wanna tour?" - [Marc.]
How do I not die broke? - [Kevin.]
Yeah, honestly! - [Marc.]
I know! - [Kevin.]
Like, that's what it is for me.
So, for me, it's building an empire.
[cheering.]
[Kevin.]
I'm 39, and I ain't even start yet.
[Kevin.]
There's a panic.
What if it does stop? [interviewer.]
Where does that come from? Being broke.
Being broke is where that comes from.
I wonder if I can hold on till tomorrow [Kevin.]
I know what comes from hard work.
Hard work was on display every day.
I get so much good from my mom.
You know, but I'm also my dad's child too.
My dad's a different conversation.
[Kevin groans and sighs.]
[Kevin.]
My mom passed away five years ago.
We're at the funeral.
Funeral's almost over.
So I'm on the right side.
I've got the casket over here.
My brother's on the left side.
He's got the casket there.
Keep in mind, it's my mother and it's a funeral, so I'm emotional.
I'm crying.
I'm a mess.
No! [cries.]
No! - She She wasn't ready! - [laughter.]
She wasn't ready! So this is why my dad's an asshole.
My dad see me crying, my dad stood up, punched me in the back of the head.
"Stop being a bitch.
"