Tonight's guest on the Daily Show is Kevin Hart. The panelists on The Nightly Show will be Bradley Whitford, Kurt Metzger, David Bullock, and Shenaz Treasury.
Kevin Hart is an actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for his roles in Paper Soldiers (2002), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Soul Plane (2004), and Little Fockers (2010). Tonight he is on to promote his latest movie
Get Hard
When millionaire James King is nailed for fraud and bound for San Quentin, he turns to Darnell Lewis to prep him to go behind bars.
SXSW: If 'Get Hard' Offends, It's Doing It Right, Says Writer-Director
After the premiere of Get Hard, a new Warner Bros. comedy starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, a man asked the film's soft-spoken director, Etan Cohen, if he had been nervous to screen his "racist as f—" film to the public for the very first time.
Cohen maintained composure and offered a thoughtful, if somewhat canned, response: "The truth was that this was a really delicate balance. We wanted to think about stereotypes but not go too far."
The race and prison-rape jokes fly fast and furious, made somehow more palatable by Ferrell's patented brand of buffoonery: It's he who is the butt of every gag (particularly when he literally is hiding shivs up his own). Yet that can't undercut the fact that — Hart's charming nuclear family notwithstanding — the vast majority of African-American characters in the film are depicted as violent gang members who spend their days polishing hand guns and getting wasted on "gin and juice."
For Cohen, getting away with that kind of humor comes down to context: "It’s a very fine line between satirizing and turning into what you’re satirizing," he said. "The intention here is Kevin is training Will, but he has no idea what he’s doing. He watched Oz like the rest of us. So basically his go-to is to scare him about all of this stuff."
"But at the same time," added Cohen, "prison rape is real. It’s still a huge issue. I don’t mind having people think about those things as well."
So this movie is either satirizing racism, sexism and homophobia or it is helping to continue. Either way, despite all of the advertisements, I will not be watching it.
Bradley Whitford
is an American film and television actor. He has played White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy-comedy The Good Guys, Timothy Carter, a character who was believed to be Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison.
Kurt Metzger
is an American comedian, actor and writer. Metzger's stand-up act was featured on Comedy Central Presents in 2009, and his hour-long stage act titled "Kurt Metzger Talks to Young People About Sex" was released digitally on Comedy Central Records in 2011.He provides the voice of Randall Skeffington in Comedy Central's animated series Ugly Americans. He has also written for television programs such as Chappelle's Show and Inside Amy Schumer.
David Bullock
An activist throughout the city of Detroit, Pastor David Bullock has an outspoken, engaging personality that has established himself as a media sensation with a loyal fan base. Relishing in his reputation and driven by a sense of purpose, he is known for having a Bible in one hand and a bullhorn in the other. Although he plans to run for office in hopes of making substantial changes to the city, Pastor Bullock’s first love is practicing ministry as the leader of the Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church.
Shenaz Treasury
is an Indian model, travel writer, actress and contributor on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
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