Presumably, enough people are watching his other Netflix content that the studio felt confident this would be a good sell. We are not contributing to a rebranding that makes Hart, who made money and jokes at the expense of abusing his child for a “gay moment,” look like a lovable galoot of a dad. This brings us to today and why I’m not showing you the trailer, and why Pajiba will not review Fatherhood. From the co-writer/co-director of About A Boy Paul Weisz, this drama features Hart as a widowed dad struggling to raise his daughter on his own.
Then, despite all Hart’s proclamations (on social media and talk shows) that he was the victim in all this, he went on to get Kevin Hart: Don’t F**k This Up, a Netflix series about how he handled the consequences of his own actions. Hart faced Don Lemon, who spoke from a personal place as a gay Black man in the public eye. Hart responded by insisting he’d apologized for his bigotry bits before (he hadn’t), then Ellen DeGeneres stepped in to forgive him on behalf of all LGBTQIA+ people, blatantly ignoring her privilege as a very rich white woman.ĭeGeneres faced backlash for the interview. Then, came the Oscar scandal of 2018, where the LGBTQIA+ community voiced dismay because proud homophobe Hart would have a massive platform to mock queer movies like The Favourite, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Boy Erased, Bohemian Rhapsody, Collette, Disobedience and Border. From there, Hart moved on to bits about gay panic in 2015’s Get Hard and 2016’s Central Intelligence. So, the issue was not what he said, but that people are too “sensitive” nowadays.
I think we love to make big deals out of things that aren’t necessarily big deals, because we can. Questioned about the video above in 2015, Hart insisted to Rolling Stone, “I wouldn’t tell that joke today, because when I said it, the times weren’t as sensitive as they are now. Before that, Hart had made a slew of gay jokes on Twitter.