Kevin Hart Learned Comedy And Food Don't Mix | Extended Interview | The Graham Norton Show

0:00 Listen, Kevin, you've Have you You've never been in a film together?

0:02 NO.

0:03 NO.

0:04 OH, THAT WAS COOL.

0:08 YEAH.

0:07 Came out like,

0:13 but the plan is you'd like to, right?

0:15 We are trying like we're, you know, we're we're both from Philly, too.

0:18 So, it's like we we love to work together.

0:20 We've been looking at a few, you know, few things,

0:23 but uh Kevin stays really busy and it's uh it's hard to fit into his schedule.

0:28 I I I do stay busy.

0:30 Uh I you know I think that the beauty of the idea of us working

0:36 together is is such a wonderful thing that we just want to make sure it's right.

0:41 Right.

0:40 We want to make sure like we don't want to just throw something together.

0:43 We feel that when that moment happens,

0:45 it should be something that people hold on to and really

0:48 gravitate towards and understand how special of a moment it is.

0:51 And you know I

0:52 we could do Wild W too.

0:56 Oh my god.

0:57 DON'T LAUGH AT THAT IDEA.

1:03 I'm so down.

1:04 No, if you did work together, I mean,

1:06 the world would go crazy, but Philadelphia might explode.

1:10 Philadelphia loves work.

1:11 When you go back to Philadelphia, presumably you visit this.

1:14 Oh, yeah.

1:14 This is a 65 foot mural of Will Smith, right?

1:19 But but someone else has a mural in Philadelphia.

1:22 Who?

1:22 Who?

1:22 Well, to show it after.

1:23 Well, it's only ever.

1:26 It's not as big.

1:28 It's not as big, but it's beautiful.

1:30 You should have showed mine first.

1:32 I think it all.

1:35 No, no, but except Kevin.

1:38 Kevin though, you do have one up on Will because that's a special day.

1:42 That is That is That is a special day for me.

1:44 Um I have a day in Philadelphia,

1:46 but that's uh that's Max's and it's a it's a place

1:49 where I frequent it to get cheese steaks for my child.

1:52 You have a day It's Kevin Hart Day.

1:54 A Kevin Hart Day.

1:55 Philadelphia.

1:55 Kevin Hart Day.

1:56 Yeah.

1:56 Does Philadelphia have a Will Smith day?

1:58 No.

1:58 No.

1:59 No.

2:01 Have a Will Smith day in Philadelphia.

2:03 Yeah.

2:03 No.

2:03 That's That's

2:04 We need to sort that out.

2:04 THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING.

2:06 THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING.

2:06 YOU BROUGHT your kids back to Philadelphia, but not for like Kevin Hart Day.

2:10 You brought them back to where you're from.

2:13 Okay.

2:13 And was it was it to impress them?

2:16 WHY DID YOU bring them back?

2:17 Well, you know, I'm uh parenting is something that I take pride in.

2:20 Um, you know, I want to make sure that my kids understand

2:23 the value of hard work and and what the meaning behind it should be.

2:27 So, you know, I don't want you thinking that what we have

2:31 and and our lifestyle is how it's supposed to be because it's not.

2:35 There's a there's a reality behind it.

2:37 So, I want to take you to where dad is from.

2:39 So, we take a trip, you know, we take a real trip to Philadelphia.

2:43 Uh, and you know, we land and I said,

2:46 I'm going to show you where I grew up so you can understand.

2:47 You land in your private Thank you.

2:53 Life's lesson.

2:55 Listen, every lesson has a moment of of disbelief.

2:58 Just follow me for a second.

3:00 I'm with you.

3:00 I'm with you.

3:00 The lesson didn't start till we got off the plot in the car

3:07 and start driving through in the neighborhood where I was from.

3:10 Then that's where where are you from?

3:14 All right.

3:15 So, we we pull up to my place and you know, I give this long speech.

3:20 It's like a moment.

3:21 Like, it's like 7:00 a.m.

3:23 I got there when nobody would be there.

3:24 And I'm like, "Look, I didn't have Okay, look.

3:27 This is This is all we This is the grass.

3:30 See this little thing?

3:30 It's all the grass we had.

3:32 I had to sit on the step.

3:34 I waited for the bus here.

3:35 I walked 2 and 1/2 miles to get from here to where I had to go to meet my mom.

3:41 This was not a situation that you were comfortable in.

3:43 And I get done and my kids ARE LIKE, "WE WANT TO LIVE HERE.

3:53 This place is a piece of show what we HAVE IS NICE, BUT YOU GOT TO WORK FOR IT.

4:00 WE DON'T WANT TO GO HOME." LET US GO UPSTAIRS.

4:05 I literally had to stop the lesson trip to Philadelphia short.

4:10 Let's just go back home.

4:11 I'm just going to I'm going to show you books from now on.

4:14 No more live event.

4:18 And then since then you've gone a bit crazy.

4:21 You're doing this bucket list thing.

4:24 NOBODY LIKE NOBODY'S LIKE YOU'RE DOING THIS BUCKET LIST CHALLENGE AND IT'S

4:27 LIKE YOU want to die like you're doing a lot of dangerous things.

4:31 Yeah.

4:32 you know um a a huge part of of my childhood

4:36 was was marked by fear you know and there you you can

4:41 generate you know great things and you can succeed and you

4:44 can win but you can never really be happy if you're scared

4:47 you know so I turned 50 and I had created this wonderful

4:51 life and this wonderful career but I felt trapped by being

4:55 Will Smith and a part of that freedom was well I

4:59 have kids so I can't do this um well I'm famous,

5:01 so I can't say that.

5:03 Well, you know, people look at me this way, so I can't behave like that.

5:06 And a part of the bucket list was I just wanted to give myself the freedom

5:09 to do all of the things that I was put in my mind that I couldn't do.

5:14 And there's, you know, I'm adventurous, so I I've always wanted to be that.

5:18 So, yes, like fast cars, driving, swimming with sharks,

5:21 and like now swimming with sharks, I shouldn't have done.

5:24 That's the one.

5:25 Oh, yeah.

5:25 I shouldn't have done that.

5:26 I got down there with those sharks,

5:27 and I was like, I will, now you just being stupid.

5:33 Man, this is stupid.

5:34 That was Kev was like Kev was like, "Hey, Will, man, listen.

5:37 It's just we going to keep it simple.

5:39 One word.

5:39 STOP." At some point, you got to tap back in, brother.

5:46 You gone.

5:49 Shots are real, man.

5:52 Bucket list are all things.

5:52 I mean, David, do you have a bucket list?

5:54 I want to learn how to belly dance.

5:56 You think you can help me with that, honey?

5:58 YES.

5:58 IN FACT, I CAN.

5:59 IT'S SAFE.

6:00 It's safe.

6:00 No shark.

6:01 No shark.

6:04 Can I just say that's a very not a very ambitious bucket list.

6:10 Hey, she's lost.

6:21 KEVIN, is there anything on your bucket list, Kevin?

6:28 Uh, I don't I don't like to help death.

6:30 No, no, I know.

6:33 Death is coming.

6:34 I'm not I'm not I'm not going to speed it up.

6:38 I'm going go ahead and chill out.

6:39 I I don't want to do anything.

6:41 I'm I'm content.

6:42 That's what I am.

6:43 Very content.

6:44 And And Kevin, obviously, you're like not just a standup,

6:47 you're like a standup superstar.

6:48 You sell out arenas all over the world.

6:50 The best of our time, right?

6:57 But what's nice to know is it wasn't always like that.

7:02 Oh no.

7:03 Like what was it?

7:04 What did you perform?

7:05 You performed at a seafood festival.

7:06 I mean which which show you want to know about?

7:12 It was I think they wanted was it crab?

7:14 I had I had a crab fest that crab fest.

7:18 What is that?

7:19 In the beginning of the stand of comedy.

7:21 You're not you're not performing in in luxury, you know,

7:24 venues that wherever they feel that they can build

7:27 the stage and make money is where you going.

7:29 So, there was a crab fest.

7:32 They was like, we going to book some talent comedian talent and I was like,

7:37 all right, well, you know, I'm available.

7:40 And uh I don't know if you guys have

7:41 ever tried to tell a joke about people cracking crabs.

7:45 Not the best environment at all.

7:47 I mean, literally the frustration that comes from not

7:51 being able to open a crab is scary.

7:54 If you're not funny at the same time,

7:56 the stuff that you hear, I remember hearing a woman, an older lady who was like,

8:01 she was cracking crab cuz this is how you crack crack.

8:07 Looking at me and she's like cracking a crab.

8:09 And I tell a joke and the joke doesn't work.

8:11 And I remember this lady just going,

8:13 "Oh no." And I I don't think I would much rather be booed.

8:21 The dis the disappointment that came from her voice and then oh no.

8:28 She said baby.

8:28 It was like oh no baby as if I made a mistake with my choice of life.

8:35 Like like I'm not doing it wrong.

8:38 I I mean, you know, look,

8:39 the the the the hardship that I went through has helped help helped build

8:43 me into the person I am today where I I can take so much.

8:46 But I I've been through it all.

8:47 I was I was hit in the face with a buffalo wing.

8:50 Um I performed at Don't PERFORM AROUND FOOD.

8:54 NO MORE.

8:55 When you go to my shows now, there's no food allowed.

8:59 Uh it was it was a it was actually a male

9:01 strip club that they shut down for comedy for the first half.

9:05 So it was like it was a bunch of it was ladies in there and you

9:10 know it was just supposed to be us

9:11 performing for these women that were riled up.

9:13 First thing I got on stage when they introduced

9:15 me and this lady was LIKE PULL IT OUT.

9:17 I SAID hey that's not me.

9:22 I'M NOT HERE FOR THAT.

9:23 I'm here to entertain.

9:25 These are jokes.

9:26 I know who's got kids.

9:28 I start I start trying to merge into kid material and this one

9:32 dude from the back I just remember this dude from the back.

9:34 He was like, "That's enough." And he just threw a buffalo wing at me.

9:39 It landed.

9:40 Hit me hit me in the cheek.

9:41 A little bit of sauce.

9:42 Got like right here.

9:44 Buffalo sauce is hot.

9:46 So I start I assumed that it was a woman with a deep voice.

9:50 So I was like, "Who threw it?

9:51 WHO THREW IT?" Cuz at the end of the day, I'm a man.

9:53 I'm a man first.

9:54 Don't disrespect me.

9:56 He stood up and he was like,

9:57 "I did it." And I I contemplated just taking my clothes off.

10:01 mother.

10:03 The only way to GET the crazy thing is,

10:09 you know, I haven't seen Octavia in forever.

10:12 So, I ran into Octavia at Cineacon.

10:15 We're there and we're both doing promo and I saw the trailer for her film

10:20 before we got to Cinecon because I like to know what's going on.

10:22 And I haven't seen her.

10:23 Keep in mind, I haven't seen her, but I

10:25 saw the trailer and I remember I was like,

10:26 "Oh, THIS THIS IS DIFFERENT, RIGHT?" and she saw me.

10:31 She was like, "Hey, Kev." And her eyes.

10:34 I just remember what I saw in the trailer.

10:37 I don't know if I like that trailer was too good.

10:42 Like, even though we know as a movie,

10:44 I think it's in the culture of a black person to just think that that's you.

10:49 Have you ever been to makeup?

10:50 Never been.

10:51 I've never been to makeup.

10:52 Me either.

10:54 Never.

10:54 You're too good to get up.

10:56 No.

10:56 I'm going tell you why I haven't been.

10:58 Like I've I've been invited, but

11:01 I don't think I'm at that level of fashion.

11:04 I don't I don't think No, I disagree.

11:06 I disagree.

11:08 No, I'm I'm not talking about the ability to dress.

11:10 I'm saying I don't think I'm at that level.

11:12 I don't want to be in a corner and somebody hits me was like sometimes

11:21 what are you talking about?

11:22 No.

11:23 No.

11:23 I get that.

11:23 Yeah.

11:24 Like having a hell of a year.

11:27 Who are you talking about?

11:30 What are you saying to me?

11:36 There's some intense fashion faces.

11:39 No, serious.

11:39 It's not a joke.

11:40 Yeah.

11:40 I just don't I don't know if I'm at that level for that conversation

11:43 cuz at some point at some point you're going to run into that group

11:46 and they're going to ask

11:47 Yeah.

11:47 And they're gonna ask you, "What do you think?"

11:51 And it's for me because I'm in that same situation.

11:54 And I always be like, "Hey man, look,

11:55 I just took a shower and wore what Jada left on the bed." Yeah.

12:01 Honestly.

12:02 Yeah.

12:03 That's the only reason why.

12:04 But I like I've seen a lot of my friends going.

12:06 I think they look amazing.

12:07 I love the themes behind it.

12:09 My fear is just like getting it wrong.

12:11 Like like going in a regular suit and they're like,

12:14 "WHAT THE WHAT IS KEVIN DOING?

12:17 HE'S GOT A BLACK SUIT.

12:18 STUPID.

12:20 STUPID." I ALWAYS I ALWAYS WANTED TO GO DO THE EMPEROR'S new clothes.

12:26 I wanted to go naked.

12:27 Yeah, you just go naked and pretend like you have something great on.

12:33 Yeah,

12:32 do that.

12:33 Yeah, that's a good idea.

12:35 That's a great idea.

12:36 That will really work out for you.

12:38 Let me know how Jada Let me know how Jada feels about.

12:46 Okay.

12:47 Kevin Hart.

12:47 He lends his vocal talents once again to The Secret Life of Pets 2.

12:52 Strange across the country on Friday the 24th of May.

12:54 So, uh, this is you.

12:55 You're back as Snowball Funny, but this time Snowball,

12:59 is he a superhero or does he believe he's a superhero?

13:01 Uh, well, for those who do not know,

13:02 Snowball is, uh, my character in Secret Life of Pets.

13:06 We had amazing success in part one.

13:10 I was a villain in part one,

13:11 and I I ended the movie on love, and I found a family.

13:15 And within this family, there's a little girl that loves to dress me up.

13:19 She dresses me up as a superhero.

13:21 And because of how gullible I am,

13:25 you know, I I start to believe it and I really

13:27 believe that I'm capable of living the life of a superhero.

13:31 And I get blessed with the opportunity to carry out a superhero lifestyle.

13:36 And it's a it's an adventurous time for me.

13:38 I don't do the things that I think I can do,

13:40 but um there's a there's a level of ambition that Snowball

13:43 has and drive that I think people will gravitate towards.

13:46 So, but also he does do a great I mean

13:49 capture Snowball that he does do something very good.

13:52 By by the way, I know there's a lot

13:54 of uh people with kids that that have seen the movie.

13:58 And the biggest thing for me is telling

14:00 these kids uh especially white kids that Snowball is black.

14:03 So if you can help, you can help.

14:07 You can just help by show your kid a picture.

14:12 It's the hardest thing for me to explain.

14:15 Uh doing the voice to kids is very uncomfortable for

14:18 No, it is.

14:19 No, I CAN IMAGINE THAT.

14:20 IMAGINE THAT.

14:21 IT IS, MAN.

14:21 LOOK AT ME, MAN.

14:25 That ain't no You You not snowball, man.

14:31 It's a very hard thing,

14:32 but it's a It's good because I love the progression of the character.

14:36 And for me, animation is a is such a great world

14:39 because it's one that I never expected to find success in.

14:42 And the fact that I'm at a part two and could

14:44 potentially go to three or whatever, uh, it's a high.

14:48 It's something else that you just you're adamant about making

14:52 succeed at the highest level.

14:53 What?

14:54 Now, you are both very competitive.

14:55 We know this, right?

14:57 And uh one of the things you both do online, oddly,

15:00 I don't think we've ever talked about this, but you both do it.

15:02 You post these kind of motivational uh

15:06 speeches online and they're short and punchy.

15:09 Just to give people an example,

15:10 this is uh will and they're always done like this.

15:15 Selfdisipline is the center of all material success.

15:18 What is your contribution to the human family?

15:21 It just other people's opinions is a really

15:25 way to determine how we feel about ourselves.

15:30 And that's all I'm going to say about them.

15:34 You now Kevin's are similar.

15:36 They're I would say slightly more aggressive.

15:38 Uh here's Kevin doing some wake up.

15:41 Wake your asses up.

15:43 Be a doer.

15:44 Let's get back to smiling.

15:45 Let's get back to loving.

15:46 Let's get back to being positive.

15:47 Don't do what they expect you to do.

15:48 Do the unexpected.

15:50 Very good.

15:52 So that's that's the idea, right?

15:58 So we had the idea.

15:59 We've asked the audience uh if there are any

16:01 kind of issues in their life that they need

16:03 motivation with something where you know their life is

16:06 stopping them and you guys can push them over.

16:09 Okay.

16:09 Okay.

16:09 Before we do it, can we exclude her brother?

16:14 Yes.

16:15 Yeah.

16:15 Just hang on.

16:16 Let me look.

16:16 No, there is No, he's not in it.

16:18 We're good.

16:18 We're good.

16:19 We're I mean, just for the safety of the audience.

16:21 Yeah.

16:21 Yeah.

16:21 Okay.

16:22 So, let's find out who we're going to first.

16:23 Is it uh Galia?

16:26 Galia.

16:26 All right.

16:27 Hello, Galia.

16:29 Tonight.

16:29 So, now you have a fear you want to help get over, right?

16:34 Yes.

16:34 Um, I'm scared of feet.

16:36 Okay.

16:37 But now, but I think But are you scared of your own feet?

16:40 Any feet.

16:41 My own, my friends.

16:42 Any like I don't want to look at them, see them, be touched by them.

16:45 Just

16:46 Okay.

16:46 Okay.

16:46 So, so Gala is is scared of all feet.

16:48 Scared of all feet.

16:50 Feet.

16:50 Okay.

16:50 So, I'm going to start with you, Will.

16:52 Okay.

16:53 So, the if you want to do it straight down the lens, it's number five there.

16:56 Okay.

16:56 So, Galia, scared of feet.

16:58 How can you get her over this fear?

17:00 Go.

17:01 Oh, this one's easy.

17:01 We going to fix this right now.

17:05 OH.

17:05 OH, NO.

17:06 OH, NO.

17:06 SHE'S NOT HERE.

17:07 THIS right now.

17:08 Okay.

17:08 Okay.

17:08 You just got to come down here and confront your fear.

17:17 She's horrified.

17:18 She's really scared.

17:21 Okay.

17:21 In a bizarre drug related incident, Graham Norton was arrested earlier.

17:26 Okay, that was your attempt.

17:27 Kevin Hart.

17:28 Kevin Hart, camera five.

17:29 Go.

17:29 Camera five.

17:30 Here we go.

17:31 Uh, what?

17:32 It's It's what?

17:32 What's your name again?

17:33 Feet.

17:33 Galia.

17:35 Galia.

17:37 Galia.

17:37 Galia.

17:37 Here's the best way to get you over your fear of feet.

17:40 You can't take steps in life without feet.

17:44 Your fear, your fear is prohibiting you from progression.

17:49 The minute that you can look at feet

17:50 and understand that feet are simply what move you forward,

17:54 you will put your fear behind.

17:59 YES.

18:01 YES.

18:01 There you go.

18:03 A fear of peace is a fear of life.

18:06 Like yours was like therapy and yours was like medication.

18:11 Okay, let's go.

18:12 Let's go to Jackson.

18:14 Where's Jackson?

18:15 Now Jackson's is almost real.

18:18 Uh so Jackson, you need motivation because

18:22 uh I'm lactose intolerant, but I can't help myself.

18:24 I keep um eating dairy.

18:27 And I mean, how good is it?

18:29 You can't you can't just give it up.

18:31 So No, you can't.

18:32 Okay.

18:32 So, but you want to stop you want to stop

18:34 eating dairy because it's bad for you, but you can't.

18:37 Yeah, look, there's plenty of alternatives out there,

18:39 but let's be honest, they don't taste as good.

18:40 So, how lactose intolerant are you?

18:43 What happens?

18:44 Well, um, basically, after I ate it, I'm the not so fresh prince of ballet.

18:50 Yes.

18:52 Yeah.

18:52 Well, this one this one seems Okay.

18:54 Well, there you go.

18:55 Easy.

18:55 Um, you know, at some point you have to think about other people, you know.

19:09 you know, uh, if the if the lactose doesn't agree with you,

19:12 it's not going to agree with others.

19:16 And just at the heart of it, if if you love anybody,

19:20 if you love anybody, especially those that are near you,

19:24 um just put the ice cream down because we

19:29 we we are not inclined to enjoy your funky ass.

19:37 Okay, that seemed that was very good.

19:40 KEVIN, HERE WE GO.

19:41 SO, I'm going to I'm going to take a different approach.

19:43 Okay.

19:43 Okay.

19:44 I'm going to I'm going to go the opposite the opposite route.

19:47 Here's my thing.

19:48 So many people want to change.

19:50 So many people want to do what you're supposed to do.

19:53 Everybody that's lactose intolerant says, "You know what?

19:54 I'm lactose intolerant and I can't." Here's my feeling.

19:57 You get one life and if you want to blow your ass for the rest of your life,

20:04 David, you should do it.

20:06 Do it to the best of your ability because you get one life.

20:10 WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE, go out saying, "I drank milk cuz I loved it."

20:22 Very good.

20:23 He won't take advice.

20:25 And if Justin drinks that milk, he going to need some sage advice.

20:30 Drinking that milk needs some sage advice for sure.

20:33 Ha!