Two years ago, Kevin Hart’s stand-up movie, Laugh at Your Pain, suddenly arrived in movie theaters. It was kind of a blip on my radar — I don’t keep up with the stand-up comedy scene as much as many of our readers here, so I had no idea who Kevin Hart was. I just remember that his movie didn’t do very well. But then I caught Think Like a Man, a movie I’d have never watched unless it was for review, and the damn thing was surprisingly great. It’s probably impossible to convince anyone of that who hasn’t seen it of that, because it’s based on a silly, preposterous, and lame Steve Harvey self-help book (which I actually initially thought was fake) and it also featured Turtle from Entourage. The bright spot in an already solid movie featuring the soulful Michael Ealy and a knock-out Taraji P. Henson, however, was Kevin Hart, who stole that damn film. I liked him in it so much I went and checked out Laugh at Your Pain, and hell if that wasn’t solidly hilarious, too.
I don’t think Hart has broken through just yet, but with seven movies due out over the next two years, he’s certainly poised to. He’s funny. I have no idea if he’s going to be any damn good on Saturday Night Live, where he’s probably a more gifted comedian than everyone except for Bill Hader, but it should at least make for a interesting Saturday Night Live.
Check out his promos, with Jason Sudeikis.
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No, he hasn’t broken through to my white brethren as of yet. But he has been black famous for a minute now as the late great Patrice O’neal put it. In fact Laugh At MY Pain broke some sort of record for a standup film.
He sells out arenas and just recently sold out Madison Square Garden. I think a few caucasians might’ve heard of him.
im white and live in england and ive heard of him. step yo game up
I watched think like a man based on your review and how you always talk about it and it was decidedly not great. It was an commercial for Steve Harvey’s book that went on way too long, made no attempt to be realistic and used old tropes to try and sell a book that’s advice should never have made it out of the 90s. Just horrible
So are these promos supposed to make me want to watch SNL? Seems unlikely.
Him and Sudekis have good chemistry though don’t they?
*cut to NBC exec furiously trying to get a pilot greenlit*
WAS THAT AN EAGLE?!? LOL
It’s “Laugh at *MY* Pain.”
/You like the most nonexistent things, Dustin
Why don’t legit comedians use some of their old material and set it up in skit form? I’d imagine there’s at least one or two jokes each comedian has where they could do such a thing. It’s how sitcoms can be formed. It shows that the comedians are funny and it puts less pressure on the monkeys who write the show. Seems like a win-win to me.
Hoo boy. This Saturday is Parade Day, and I’m not even sure watching this in a heavily intoxicated stupor can save it.
i would love to get tix anybody selling? snl tix do they even exist?
I will be watching, but that is because of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. It doesn’t matter to me who the host is.
how is everyone overlooking Dustin calling Think Like A Man a great movie? it’s like he’s just trolling at this point.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, he’s going to kill it.
Surpasses stand-up record previously held by Eddie Murphy = Hasn’t broken through yet……..