{"id":2413453,"date":"2026-05-12T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2413453"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:42:09","slug":"kevin-hart-roast-sparks-outrage-after-george-floyd-bit-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kevin-hart-roast-sparks-outrage-after-george-floyd-bit-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Hart Roast Sparks Outrage After George Floyd Bit | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did Kevin Hart\u2019s recent comedy special take things too far?\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The family of George Floyd is calling out Kevin Har<\/strong>t and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe<\/strong> after a joke about Floyd during \u201cThe Netflix Roast of Kevin Hart\u201d set off a wave of outrage online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to TMZ<\/u><\/a>, Travis Cains, a spokesman for The Gianna and George Floyd Foundation, called Hart\u2019s decision to let Hinchcliffe back into a roast \u201csad for the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The family says the bit crossed a line and felt especially painful because it repeated language tied to Floyd\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the joke, Hinchcliffe said, \u201cThe Black community is so proud of you\u2026 right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can\u2019t breathe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The family and friends also argued that Hart should have stepped in before the joke landed, especially given Hinchcliffe\u2019s history of making remarks about Floyd during other comedy events. Reaction spread quickly across social media, where viewers described the bit as offensive and unnecessary. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s always wild watching white people find humor in Black pain being murdered by a police officer and begging for air is somehow comedy material,\u201d said one user on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhere’s the joke? Where’s the commentary and punchline?\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The outrage lands in a climate where more people are discussing comedic boundaries, questioning where comedy stops being edgy and starts becoming cruel. That tension has followed Hart for years, but this latest controversy puts the spotlight on how celebrities handle material that touches on race, grief, and violence. For many viewers, the issue was not just the joke itself, but the decision to give it a stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Did Kevin Hart\u2019s recent comedy special take things too far?\u00a0 The family of George Floyd is calling out Kevin Hart and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe after a joke about Floyd during \u201cThe Netflix Roast of Kevin Hart\u201d set off a wave of outrage online.\u00a0 According to TMZ, Travis Cains, a spokesman for The Gianna and George […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2413454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kevin-Hart-Roast-Sparks-Outrage-After-George-Floyd-Bit.usff4e04d4-1eb0-41f0-baea-d6c19ab0a37a.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413455,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413453\/revisions\/2413455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}