Kevin Hart can’t seem to accept that not everyone wants to wave away a bad George Floyd joke.

In an interview on “The Breakfast Club,” Hart addressed the backlash some of the participants in Netflix’s “Roast of Kevin Hart” have faced for their material — namely Tony Hinchcliffe, who quipped that Floyd, who was killed by former police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020, is “looking up at us all, laughing so hard that he can’t breathe.”

Hart acknowledged that while Hinchcliffe’s joke about Floyd wasn’t “tasteful,” he “wasn’t shocked” and said that he “arguably had the best set, or one of the best sets” of the roast.

“Tony told a joke,” Hart explained. “It wasn’t a tasteful joke to us. We didn’t like it. OK. … We move on. I don’t understand why we stand on a hill, and it becomes this big thing ... It doesn’t have to be that. It literally is, either you’re a fan of this level of content or you’re not. And if you’re not a fan, then you don’t watch it.”

Comedians have a right to say what they want, but when a comedian makes a joke about a Black man being killed by the state, the public has every right to complain about that comedian and everyone complicit in his bullshit.

No, Hart should not have been shocked by Hinchcliffe’s joke about Floyd because he had made similar tasteless jokes prior to the roast.

See Hinchcliffe’s infamous performance at Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, where he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

Hinchcliffe, like many white boy comics before him, has often conveyed his racial animus by way of a comedy bit.

Hart seems to take no issue with it, but when pressed about how he, as the host and well, a Black man, could have allowed that to go down, he feigned helplessness, saying there was “nothing” he could have done in the moment.

“It’s a live production,” Hart said. “I’m not compromising the live production for a reaction of what? What do you want me to do? I’m going to drag him off? You want me to fight afterwards? That’s not what I agreed to do.”

Terrence Floyd, George Floyd’s brother, previously told “The Breakfast Club” host Loren LoRosa that Hart should have brought “Will Smith energy” to the roast by pushing back on Hinchcliffe’s joke “right then and there.”

Even if Hart opted not to go to that extreme, he was not optionless.

When “The Roast of Tom Brady” aired earlier this year, comedian Jeff Ross took a shot at New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft over his 2019 visit to a Florida massage parlor.

“And on the first day of training camp, that scrawny rookie famously walked into the owner Robert Kraft’s office and said, ‘I’m the best decision your organization has ever made,’” Ross said during the roast. “‘Would you like a massage?’”

Brady smiled. Seconds later, he got up from his seat, reached the podium and whispered to Ross: “Don’t say that s**t again.”

Ross kept smiling, threw up his hands and said, “OK, OK, OK.”

I wish at least one of the co-hosts of “The Breakfast Club” would’ve noted this in response to Hart’s inquiry about what anyone expected him to do about Hinchcliffe going too far on a stage set for him.

It’s pathetic to find that one of the most outspoken participants about comments made by Hinchcliffe is a white woman.

While appearing on the “Funny Knowing You” podcast, comedian Chelsea Handler criticized the “gross” and “disgusting” jokes made at the event by Hinchcliffe and another comedian, Shane Gillis, who was also criticized for some of his material, including jokes about lynching and about the death of comedian Sheryl Underwood’s husband.

“People are like, ‘It’s a roast. You go for it,’” she said. “I’m like, ‘You can go for it without being gross.’”

Separately, the Wayans Brothers essentially said a comedian can say whatever but at least make it funny, which Hinchcliffe failed at.

To wit, Hinchcliffe’s response to critique is what one might expect: “I got called a Nazi, gay, a racist over and over again. I’m none of those three things … but they are what I said. They are fat, ugly, Black, Jewish.”

It’s no wonder he feels that way because not only has Hart not held him accountable, he continues to complain and defend the roast.

Following his interview, Hart posted a clip from it and wrote the caption:

“We are living in crazy times.... Truth no longer matters and it’s pretty damn funny. Nobody does research.... Everyone just assumes and runs with the narrative of click bait. Even when the proof is right in front of your face.... Most will forever choose the lazy road of assumption.... Even when I clearly say that comics are comics and comics operate on their own.... Nobody controls a comedian .... Comedians do what they want and how they want. It’s that simple... the rules to being a comedian are understood by all comedians. Enjoy ur day.... #LiveLoveLaugh P.S NEW MOVIE DROPPING THIS SUMMER!!!!!!!!!”

In spite of the actual truth being that not every comedian agrees with Hart’s rationale, he chooses to smugly double down and go into promotion mode — as if there are no real-world consequences, like Floyd’s daughter, Gianna, still being subjected to harassment from her classmates. Chances are, some of those people will pull material from “The Roast of Kevin Hart” to further torment her, but Hart sounds like he couldn’t care less.

I have seen some criticism that Hart was quick to apologize for homophobic jokes made in years past. I remember that a lot differently, but he did eventually try to squash the controversy once it impacted him professionally.

Maybe he deserves another wake-up call because, from the looks of it, Hart doesn’t give a damn that Black people are disgusted by the racist jokes he let fly.

Is it because he values the money other people bring to his bottom line? That sounds far more plausible than his professed love of comedy. It’s a shame he couldn’t be bothered to try to understand the community that made him a star long before Netflix gave him a call.

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