- Here he is.
Please welcome Kevin Hart, everybody.
All right.
There he is.
(crowd cheering drowns out speakers)
- [Together] Hi Kevin!
- How you doing guys? Good to see you.
- You too. - Aye Kevin, you look tough.
Oh by the way, I'm supposed, I just got some news.
Your special was the most watched special of 2020.
Wow.
- Oh wow. That's big.
(cheering)
- That's pretty huge, dude.
- I can't believe it beat mine, this is crazy.
(laughing)
- That's great, so you're, it's called Zero Fucks Given
and I accidentally keep giving fucks.
How'd you come up with that title?
- The title was more of an attention grabber, you know?
For me it was, zero fucks given, it just meant that
I'm comfortable with being where I am in my life and
comfortable with being in my environment to the point
where the things around it don't matter as much.
So when I say I got zero fucks to give,
it means, you know, of which you feel and think about
the life that I choose to live and be comfortable with.
And that's the life of a dad, of a family man,
you know, one that's okay with being home,
one that has opinions about people
and why I'm becoming older and irritable.
It's zero fucks given about my attitude with being myself.
It's not worrying about the nay sayers
or opinions of others.
That's the play on the title.
- Yeah, I agree.
I think it's also, it might go in to just jokes you do
and you don't care about.
I think comedy in a weird way is getting,
everyone would be happy if we just drew
from the same five jokes.
And everyone did and then everyone would be happy.
It's just, it's hard to be a comedian in this day and age
and used to try to be edgy and try to do stuff
that was different, and that was
what made you a good comedian.
And now you do and people attack you.
It's a tricky business right now.
- Well I mean look, that's why you gotta get comfortable
and be happy and just once again with where you are,
you know, who you are.
So when you find happiness and confidence in that,
nothing else really matters.
So outside of pulling from my world,
once again, of the cool dad with a crazy lifestyle
that my kids have grown with me in
and that my wife is now with me in,
through the ups and downs,
I've kind of constantly just been,
I've been a open book.
I've been very transparent.
And there's always gonna be backlash.
There's always gonna be conversation
but not giving a fuck and having zero fucks
about the opinions of how you feel
is what I'm happiest about
at this point.
- Kevin, you were, in a clip you were talking
about private schools and it made me think
that all my friends that were sort of big in comedy
or that have been successful
all went to a regular school, public,
and now there's this interesting pressure
that they have money and they're doing well,
including myself where our kids go private
and it's a weird thing in your head going,
is that going to make it better or worse?
Because we all kind of scraped it a bit
and then it's hard to pretend you're not rich
or you know, you see Beyonce's kid--
- Oh is it?
Is it hard to pretend you're not rich.
Oh, problems of David Spade.
- If you're a kid, I'm saying like, you're Beyonce's kid
and she's like, do a lemonade stand,
the kids like, do I really gotta walk through this?
You know, I'm getting 100 million.
You want me to go through the motions?
All right sure, lemonade, pull up, 50c.
So it must be weird.
I'm not saying for me as much
because I still go cheque to cheque.
You know that.
- You gotta think, look, at the end of the day
your kids didn't ask to be born into the situation
at the end.
So if you are an entertainer, - Poor them.
- you have a crazy amount of success or just anybody
that has a crazy amount of success
and you've come from nothing, if you've come from the bottom
and you worked your way up, that's not your kids fault
that, you know, that they don't have to do the same.
Or that they were born
into a blessed situation full of opportunities.
I think it's your job as a parent just to find the balance.
So with me in the private school thing, it's just about,
I don't like the constant,
there's this crazy thing of always wanting to figure it out
that a private school does for these kids.
It's like they always want to help and answer the questions
or help motivate the child.
And sometimes a kid needs to fall on their face
or fail a little bit to understand why it's important
to do what you're supposed to.
So that's where my back and forth
with the private school comes from.
- I love it Kevin. Kevin it's London here.
Hey babe, hi.
- Hey London.
- Hi babe, it's Fortune. - Yeah, we're friends.
(laughing)
Kevin, I've got a question.
What was your biggest achievement of 2020
and why is it exec producing my Netflix special,
To Catch a Dick?
- First of all, your special is amazing
and a crazy achievement for us at HartBeat Productions.
That's very true, you know. - Thank you Kevin Hart!
- I'm very serious.
You know, you're the first female special
that I've produced.
You know, first black woman at HartBeat that we've been able
to attach an hour comedy special to, and rightfully so.
So that is an amazing accomplishment not just for myself
but for my company.
Outside of that, you know what I think that the,
imma go with the biggest one for me of course,
was the birth of my baby girl.
I had another addition to the family, Kaori, my heart.
Excited about that.
And other than that man, somehow pulling off a way
to keep the special in 2020 and during a pandemic.
That's another big accomplishment so you know,
I got lots of things to be thankful for.
Lots of things to happy about.
But most excited about my new little girl.
- Aw. - Of course.
- [Fortune] Yeah for sure.
- Well Kevin, thanks for making time.
I know you're shooting a movie and thanks for being here
and we'll talk to you soon.
- Thank you Kevin. - Yeah, thanks Kevin.
- All right man, congrats guys.
This is super dope. Thanks again for the love.
I appreciate you and this is a really cool thing to see.
So I'm sure that this won't be the last time
that you guys have me on.
I'll be on here talking about something else
in the near future.
- Awesome. - All right.
- [Presenters] Thanks Kevin!
- Zero Fucks Given, streaming now.
Kevin Hart everybody.