On March 12, 2015, Hot Ones premiered to the world with Sean Evans serving up hot questions and even hotter wings for Tony Yayo. Now, we celebrate the show's 10th anniversary with one of the giants of Hot Ones history, Kevin Hart. He's an actor, producer, director, and entrepreneuer—not to mention one of the most successful stand-up comedians of all time. Check out the animated series based on his childhood, Lil Kev, now streaming on BET+, as well as his tequila Gran Coramino, and a new two-part documentary film called Number One on the Call Sheet, which premieres on Apple TV March 28th. But how is he with spicy food? Find out as the man who proclaimed "what y'all got going on here is genius!" when he first appeared on the show takes on the wings of death and discusses his beloved Philadelphia Eagles, action-movie stunts gone wrong, and the impact of Hot Ones on media. Thanks for rocking with us for a decade, Spice Lords!
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00:00It's a hot like everybody enjoys it like oh man, this is look at him about to die
00:12Hey, what's going on everybody for first we feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones
00:16It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today
00:19We celebrate the 10-year anniversary of hot ones with the return of one of our most iconic guests Kevin Hart
00:24Well, he's an actor producer director and one of the most successful stand-up comedians of all time
00:28Well, check out the animated series based on his childhood low-calibre now streaming on bt-plus
00:33Grand Coromino is his tequila brand and he also has a brand new two-part documentary film number one on the call sheet
00:38Which airs on Apple TV March 28th, Kevin Hart. Welcome back to the show
00:48Let's go let's go I forgot I did all that shit. Let's go. I'm ready
00:53Well, you're one of the most viewed and beloved episodes in the show's history. We really appreciate you coming back
00:59The milestone what's going through your head as you prepare to take on hot ones now for a second time, you know
01:04I was probably a little stronger with what I could handle back then my young you talking 10 10 year anniversary
01:11I mean, this is 10 years ago, right? That's 45, you know, I'm shitting a lot quicker
01:16So, I don't know. I don't know at what level is gonna be too much, but I'm just I want to be open about it
01:22This is a good time. Just me for check the exit
01:24Just so I know we have a clean path
01:27People can just move out this way
01:29And if I do need to go understand that I'm not playing right? That's it. Okay, we can go now. I'm right
01:35I
01:52I'm not gonna be a bitch man. Let's do it. So I bite it first, right? Yeah, you remember. Okay. God damn. Mm-hmm
02:00I
02:02Got shit
02:04It ain't gonna make it man, by the way, did we start out there hot before didn't warm up to it
02:15It shouldn't be burning like this out the gate, that's what I'm saying
02:18So low Kev is an animated series set in 1993 documenting your life as a 12 year old growing up in Philadelphia
02:25Low Kev is such an optimistic character. Did you always have that kind of hopeful outlook?
02:31I did it's a high level of innocence attached to it, right? Like I've always
02:35Believed in the idea concept that everything is gonna be okay
02:40everything works itself out and
02:42What's bad today doesn't have to be bad tomorrow
02:45Have any opportunity to kind of like showcase the hood in a manner that has never been right showing the positive side of it
02:52It's a new wave in storytelling and I think doing it through of course
02:56it don't animation was it was a it was a it was a creative idea that allowed me some like real bandwidth of
03:04Raw and edgy that I probably wouldn't be able to get to if had it been just regular
03:13It's hot right like okay
03:15Deserving that a name right lift off the dog. They're not lying to you. No, no, they get right out the gate
03:20Let you know what's going on, you know taste buds are activated right man. Okay, that's only number two. I know. Yeah
03:29That's the road. We're on here. I feel like we should be at the end
03:33This is where we starting out man
03:35Okay, so it was eight years ago when me and the team hopped on a plane and came out to Hawaii to do your og
03:42Interview and I remember it feeling like a big deal at the time
03:46But now that I look back on it
03:48I really think of it as one of the most important shoots that we've ever done
03:50You know, you were our first capital a a-lister and I'm forever grateful for you taking a chance on us. Thank you
03:57What is it that you remember about that shoot? You know, I remember like this being the first of its kind
04:02This is like a format
04:04That pretty much people are now trying to understand follow create
04:10And and find success in so it's dope to like really be able to pinpoint
04:15Those that have done it correctly and the reason why they've lasted and you know
04:20I can say when you like have real moments you get real reactions and that's what audience are responding to and today's time
04:27So it's pretty fucking special man is dope. So this is a well-deserving
04:32Ten year like anniversary. It's pretty fucking amazing to see
04:37But those are my memories right and like I said, it was a lot of bad a lot of badass shit
04:43Outside of that that's the positive side. Yeah
04:50By the way, this is weird, but I taste the pickle pickle garlic sriracha hot sauce, okay heat level three to ten
04:59Checks out. Yeah
05:02Okay, got it. That's why you put it third you put it third because it's a three out of three. Yeah
05:06Yeah, they make the math easy for us. Okay
05:09So your documentary number one on the call sheet celebrates black leading men and women and it features interviews with icons like Halle Berry
05:17Viola Davis Morgan Freeman Denzel, Washington. Yeah
05:20I'm curious was there an actor that most took you under their wing when you first started landing starring roles? I wouldn't
05:28I want to say
05:31more more comedians than actors because you know the
05:36The acting world it was it was a long road to get to a place of like real success
05:42but the the comedian or
05:45bigger comedian
05:47early in my career
05:49Legends like Bill Burr Patrice O'Neill rest in peace Colin Quinn Tracy Morgan all share with me
05:56Like if you do this correctly
05:58you'll get to the bigger stage where the movies or opportunity to do movies and TV will present themselves and
06:05I was so focused on that that by time the movies finally did come
06:09I felt that I was a little poised polished and ready, you know, but the the biggest like
06:15The biggest like idea of the arm over your shoulder and and take you under the wing
06:20It was it was comics that did the nurturing
06:27Here we go, you just go for like you don't even warm up like you you're so excited about the bites
06:31Yeah, it's crazy to me. Okay, shoot first ask questions later. Got it side of the table. Got it. Okay
06:44I'm trying to close my mouth, right?
06:47Maybe about this go. Maybe if I teeth it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you had a practice run in
06:52I see you've got some new tricks this time. I'm trying to avoid it touching my tongue
06:56If I teeth it just straight teeth it by the way didn't work
07:00Didn't work at all. Oh
07:03That's a bitch. Yeah. Oh
07:06Yeah, hello taste. Mm-hmm, but we're built for it. We're built for it. We're about to transition to milk
07:11With that time of the show. Yeah, we're about to go to the milk. God damn
07:15So congratulations on winning the Mark Twain prize for American humor
07:19It was amazing to see you honored at the Kennedy Center alongside Jerry Seinfeld Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. Yeah
07:26Uh-huh among all the fields that you've set your sights on, you know, whether it's acting fitness building businesses
07:32Is there something that hits a little bit different about getting the validation from the comics your peers? Oh
07:46A little taste
07:49Why would people ask for that is there any more I love this
07:56Mm-hmm
07:58Okay, I can't even taste the milk. Okay
08:02The question was about the Mark Twain report. Yeah. Yeah, like I remember this. Yeah, you know gets good cuz you lose focus
08:07Yeah, yeah
08:08Yeah
08:08You got this set up down and then the way that I'd land it is like is there something that hits a little bit different?
08:13About winning over the validation of your peers in comedy the award. That's great. But that that
08:20Like that's the the tug on the heartstrings, you know, I mean like, you know, Jerry don't go
08:26shit
08:27Jerry, that was a good look Jerry don't do anything
08:30but Jerry to be like absolutely Kev or for Dave to be like absolutely like Chris coming out like those are my
08:37Comedic heroes that to me is the biggest and the best
08:42Okay, Cali a days. Mm-hmm. Oh, this one's a five out of ten, huh?
08:46Yep, guess where it is fifth out of ten. Yeah. No, no, I got it. Let's see the logic. Yep
08:51Okay. All right. You ready? All right, here we go
08:56Oh
09:05Shit here we go. But here we go. Here we go. Go ahead. So yeah, I don't feel like I need a cup
09:11I'm like, yeah. No, that's all yours. Yeah, I'm gonna take it on that side of the table
09:17You can't chug that one though
09:19You don't know that
09:22As someone who's really leaned into the action genre over the last half decade
09:26Yeah, do you have any stories about stunts going wrong or inadvertently taking a hit while shooting a sequence?
09:32Uh, I got tons. I got I was a part of a lot of like stunts going. I got I got to what?
09:39Yeah, let's go baby. Yeah. Yeah, how do you feel? I feel great. I'm alive. I'm alive. I'm not a bitch. So
09:47I
09:49Was making sure my people back there
09:52We worked on a signal
09:55He worked on to get me the fuck out of here I
09:59Got one good one about ice cube. So we were doing ride-along while doing a stunt
10:05ice cube punch one of the stuntmen in the face real by accident and like the stunt guy kind of like
10:12knocked out for a second right and I was like
10:16All that can happen. I was like that can happen like we can actually get hit and cube
10:20I remember him just hugging the stunt guy. He's gonna be all right. You straight you straight
10:24Like just start talking real fast. You're good. You're good. You straight you straight you straight. I'll make sure you're good. You're good
10:29It's done guys. I know my mom, you know, he's like, I'm are you see his nose like bleeding a little bit
10:34I'm just sitting there observing and I mean let my stunt guy come in here and just kind of do everything and
10:40And from that day on I stopped with the idea of wanting to do stunts
10:45So much, but the energy that I used to have like younger me was like throw me on the fucking table
10:51You gotta slam it. Go ahead. Just do it do it one take so we get the real reaction
10:56But now I'm 45. I don't even want to run like, you know
10:59Hey, they're like, okay Kevin this scene like you're gonna run from here full speed there and I might get Jay
11:07Those guys don't get enough credit man, right there should be a stunt awards like they really don't get enough love
11:14some of these movies that you have watched and
11:18Fallen in love with where guys are falling from buildings are going through windows or falling down cliffs
11:23Like they're using real people for that
11:25I've seen some stuntmen get fucked up and I've seen it that right to go. We didn't get it
11:31Hey Gary Gary, you think you got another one guys like like, you know, they never want to say no
11:44You start to shake a little bit
11:46You should shake a little bit
11:48Is this me shaking a little bit? I ain't about to have a stroke enough for them. No. No, I think we're both good
11:53All right. Here we go
11:54Habanera, I smell toast
12:00It's almost over
12:04It's almost over yeah
12:06Don't start right? Yeah, right all part of the show. You're a little hot, you know, hmm triggered, you know, yeah
12:14Lots of physiological effects as we work our way through. Yeah, almost a new one with every wing, but don't worry. You got that picture
12:20So I was reading some crazy headlines about you spending millions of dollars on a pair of pet eagles that you named Jalen Hurts and Saquon
12:27Barkley
12:29Do you get the sense that they recognize you as a father figure? Do they ever show affection?
12:35My he was love me, okay
12:38I
12:39Spent top dollar on those eagles. Yeah me. Yeah top dollar
12:43And Jalen and Saquon, by the way, you know get along
12:46Well, the whole big thing was respect for me in the beginning, you know
12:51It was a lot of a lot of conversation between me and them because they thought I was a rodent
12:55I told people this they you know, the Migos are strong
12:58They look like they look at you. I know you have been picked up by you. I have
13:02Been picked up by evil just like, you know outside play on my kids
13:07I'm above was a swoop down quick, you know, pick me up from the back and you gotta you gotta tell him put me down
13:12Mm-hmm. I'm dead
13:16Understand yeah
13:17You know, but I'm a I'm a I'm an eagle lover, of course, you know real life and in the game, you know
13:23So that was me basically showing love to Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley
13:28You know by telling them I love the Eagles that much that I'm willing to live with them
13:32Yeah on a day-to-day respect to that say what I'm saying
13:39The hot house, yeah
13:46That's the first by late, yep, that's the first time I smelt like that
13:51That's just smell
13:53Stop reading and stop smelling. No
13:56Hey, I can smell
14:00Yeah, that's the
14:02It's how the show's design. Yeah. Yeah, I get the format that we progressively go up but it doesn't stop the shock
14:10That one right there
14:13Well, fuck man. Yeah. No, I get it. I get it. Who's putting that on a food but not you
14:20So, I really love the streams that you do with Kaisa net do the
14:26Oh
14:29How do you think streaming might play a role in changing the face of comedy
14:33You know, it is amazing to see you on for like up to 10 plus hours at a time. I
14:39Don't want to say that you
14:41The people that you have around this environment
14:45These people ain't shit cuz they love
14:48There's a high like everybody enjoys it like oh man, look at him about to die
14:53Yeah photographers over here
14:59Okay
15:00Kai's not is fucking insane man. Like I truly admire his work ethic his
15:08mind his ideas
15:11But his relationship with his fans, I think it's special
15:14So me going and doing streams with them when I do is to support him
15:19Well, those are nice words that you said about Kai
15:21He's actually on a press tour right now and called you a little little leprechaun and disparage your basketball skills
15:27Well on first take this morning. I don't know if you had a response son of well, first of all two things here
15:33Okay, let's just get the cat out the bag
15:35Kai is unattractive
15:38Okay
15:39That's what we need to like really pay attention to. Okay, and that little hair situation
15:45He doesn't take off his hat because it's connected nobody knows that
15:49But when it comes to basketball, I don't know why I would talk about me in basketball
15:52The one thing that I am is a four-time MVP as a lover of the game
15:57And as a humble MVP, uh-huh, by the way, there you go. I don't talk about this
16:01I don't I don't say this if you go to my house you walk in
16:04There's a four really big glass trophy cases with these MVP trophies in them and it says the goat
16:12And then there's an arrow pointing to a picture of me in case people don't know I'm talking about but it's a humble set
16:17It's a very humble setup, right which we all should have
16:26The bomb beyond insanity I do remember this I think this is where the jacket started to hang halfway off
16:32Yeah, it never came back shoulder. Yeah
16:38Okay, here we go
16:42Oh
16:44Too big a bite. Yeah, I'm usually a bigger bite. Yeah, I know
16:50I know you did it. I will be nasty spit it out
16:54Yes
17:02Same wavelength there. Yeah
17:05Same wavelength same wavelength. So let's say I walk into a bar. Oh, you better wait. Yeah
17:15Wait, yeah. Oh
17:18Shit, I'll give you the space. Oh shit. Do you want some ice cream? Oh
17:23shit, ah
17:26Oh, man, that's it. Yeah, we got some ice cream. Yeah, get it
17:30Oh man, that's it. Yeah, we got some ice cream. Yeah, get it. This will be helpful. Thanks Tom. Oh
17:39By the way, I mean
17:42But a combination of what's about to come out my
17:46Go ahead. Come on
17:47Let's say I go to a bar and order a Oaxaca old-fashioned, right?
17:51And the bartender tells me that they have two tequila brands, right?
17:55They have your grand core, you know, right and then they have the rocks Terra mana. What's your case is yours for the superior spirit?
18:02Oh
18:04You know, my case would be simple. It's like look
18:07This is a different type of taste, you know Wayne is a big guy big strong guy
18:12Like a you know, I was like a monster
18:18I tell you walk
18:21Me I'm just a nice little small
18:24Charismatic
18:26Smooth little man. Yeah, right
18:29And I was just saying like, you know, it's all about what you are to move for you want a little hair on your chest
18:35Yeah, well nice little a nice little pack
18:39I'm a smooth little man, right?
18:44You know when you ate this sauce last time you talked about it making you feel drunk
18:48I'm kind of catching the same tipsy vibe right now. What the fuck man is this?
18:53It's still there. Yeah. No, I get it man. Like why you want me?
18:57Why you want to talk?
19:00You gotta let this just settle down. Oh
19:11I don't know what's happening to my body right now, man
19:14Mm-hmm
19:22Not fun, huh, but not as bad as the last one. Yeah, that's who
19:29That's
19:30That's not
19:33Right, right, right, right. It's not like nothing's happening. Yeah, but look at where you've gone
19:38Look at where you've gone nine out of ten down nine out of ten down
19:42There we go slap the table slap the table that was that was like
19:47God damn man. So as an avid poker player and natural observer of life and people
19:52Do you think that you have a unique ability to spot tells and if so, what are some of the common ones?
19:59That's right, let's go
20:01One more I'm gonna break that fucking door down
20:08I'm uh, I'm
20:10extremely observant
20:11So I'm very much like aware of cadences and mannerisms and I'm a poker at the poker table
20:19I aggravate and agitate with humor just to get you to give me a tell like, you know
20:24If you're trying to be too stiff too serious, that's a sign. Are you too fucking comfortable? Are you overdoing it?
20:30Are you looking at me? Are you not looking at me? Are you playing with your chips too much?
20:34Are you staring at the flop? Are you staring at the turn? Are you staring at the river?
20:38Is it desperate? Does it look desperate? Does it look like you're in need or you fucking look like hey, man
20:44Do you do what you want? It's all things that like I'm reading and picking off
20:48All right, Kevin. What don't shake it up
20:51Don't shake it up here
20:54You
20:57Want to do the last dab I'll do the last dab with you
21:02We got the same sauce same exact one. Shit's making me talk like I was in a fast and furious
21:10Seen some gasping through some things we family
21:15Here we go, here we go
21:18Whoa
21:21All right, cheers Kevin
21:24What a run what a run man, huh? What a run ten years of it buddy for you
21:29All right a cheers to you for doing it, right? Okay, we talked about being groundbreaking
21:35Well people embrace what hot ones is okay. This is groundbreaking
21:39This is a show that redefined what unscripted IP looks like damn
21:44You're gonna break this shit down you're looking at the fucking unicorn. This is why other horses started to run
21:50Okay, that's for me to you buddy. That means a lot to me. I mean especially coming from you. Okay, here we go
21:56Peace to my ass
21:59Let's go
22:02I know
22:06But Kevin the good news is you have now run the hot ones gauntlet twice and what we want to do is
22:12Actually bring you your flowers, huh, you mean so much to us. Oh, this is big here at hot ones
22:20We are so grateful that you gave this skunkworks freak show a shot
22:24Yeah, and then back here again to celebrate the 10-year anniversary
22:29Look at you taking on the wings of death now for a second time and living to tell the tale now
22:33There's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet man this camera this camera this camera
22:37Let the people know what you have going on in your life, of course
22:40Before I do what's the budget right just because I feel like the gift
22:44I don't know what it is
22:45But I just I think just for context maybe maybe amp up the gift when we feel like we we love the person right and it
22:51Came back. I'll take that note. I'm taking that maybe maybe there's a stronger bouquet
22:58Take the plastic off something like that
23:01Outside of this I'll tell you what I have going on man little cab
23:05My animation series was just streaming now on bt+. I'm on tour. It's called acting my age
23:12Number one on the call sheet go watch it man. That's available on Apple. That's about it, man. Okay
23:18Yeah
23:22Thank you
23:27Whoa, oh
23:30Thank you so much
23:32I
23:34Know I meant everything I said, oh shit, man. Is it easier the second time around harder?
23:40No, did you forget?
23:42Y'all get this mic. Don't nobody follow me to the bathroom
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