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Stephen A. Smith<\/strong> admitted he was hurt by Kevin Hart<\/strong> listing him on the \u201cMount Rushmore of Racism\u201d during his recent comedy roast.<\/p>\n Hart was the target of Netflix\u2019s latest roast, which was hosted by comedian Shane Gillis<\/strong><\/a>. At one point during the special, Hart joked that Gillis was on his \u201cMount Rushmore of Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n Also included in that list, Hart continued, were Kid Rock<\/strong>, Hulk Hogan<\/strong>, and Smith.<\/p>\n Responding on his SiriusXM show<\/a> Straight Shooter<\/em> on Wednesday, Smith said the joke \u201cstung like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFirst of all, I got \u2014 at least I thought I had \u2014 a pretty damn good relationship with Kevin Hart,\u201d Smith began. \u201cHe\u2019s been on my show on many occasions. I\u2019ve known him for years.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued:<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know. I mean, it\u2019s a roast, but, you know, he\u2019s getting crucified<\/a> because a lot of people felt like too many jokes at this particular roast were tasteless. My attitude is a roast is a roast and people are there to be attacked. He\u2019s gotten attacked, all of that other stuff. But I\u2019m not going to front in failing to acknowledge that this year has been very, very difficult for me, from the standpoint that even though I\u2019ve been very, very blessed and fortunate to secure my future in ways that I never thought imaginable \u2014 first at ESPN and then here at SiriusXM \u2014 the flip side to that is that I\u2019ve taken a lot of heat because of perceived positions that I may have had.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Smith then pivoted to begin attacking the Democratic Party, accusing its members of trying to \u201csilence\u201d him.<\/p>\n He also claimed that criticism only motivates him more to consider running for president<\/a>, an idea he has floated for well over a year since his name began appearing on polls for the 2028 election.<\/p>\n The post Stephen A. Smith Admits It \u2018Stung Like Hell\u2019 That Kevin Hart Listed Him on \u2018Mount Rushmore of Racism\u2019 During Roast<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephen A. Smith admitted he was hurt by Kevin Hart listing him on the \u201cMount Rushmore of Racism\u201d during his recent comedy roast. Hart was the target of Netflix\u2019s latest roast, which was hosted by comedian Shane Gillis. At one point during the special, Hart joked that Gillis was on his \u201cMount Rushmore of Racism.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2437092,"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":[478331,26857,68192,47917,383606,362997,368466,305537],"class_list":["post-2437089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-comedy-roast","tag-hulk-hogan","tag-kevin-hart","tag-kid-rock","tag-mount-rushmore","tag-racism","tag-shane-gillis","tag-stephen-a-smith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stephen-A-Smith-Admits-It-\u2018Stung-Like-Hell-That-Kevin.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437089","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=2437089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437093,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437089\/revisions\/2437093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n