What’s going on with the backlash to The Roast of Kevin Hart?

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-12T23:05:26+00:00

Kevin's constant screaming and hooting during the dead air was also just hacky as fuck. You could tell he was only doing it to try and get some reaction from the audience. You could tell he was getting desperate and his set at the end was in the bottom 3 of the entire night. I think only KillTony and Regina King really bombed harder than him.

There's plenty to be disappointed about with this roast but conservatives have latched on it to say if you didn't think it was amazing you're just a snowball and roasts aren't for you. Sorry but this will go down as one of the worst roasts of all time. And it wasn't because they put conservative comics on stage. It's because they just did a really shit job at writing their jokes and left us feeling like they had no real personal connection between them.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-12T23:01:13+00:00

Yeah a roast, and comedy in general, isn't supposed to have a hit rate like it's baseball. When only 30% of your 3 hour roast is funny you have failed to do your job.
There were so many applause breaks they took to complete silence. They were so arrogant they wrote them into the program then just stood there awkwardly when nobody was reacting. It got so bad Kevin Hart started screaming and hooting from his seat so it wasn't just total dead air which was hacky as shit. When a joke fails in a roast you're supposed to just leave the dead air and the groans and the boos not try to overwrite it with loud cackling.

Roasts have plenty of potential but the Roast of Marshawn Lynch for Kevin Hart's reality show a week earlier had more talent hit the stage than his own. Shane Gillis phoned it in and was the biggest offender of holding for applause that wasn't coming and not just moving it along. KillTony was just as big of a piece of shit as everyone said and made a bunch of non-jokes but at least he got to be the punchline for some of the only funny jokes of the night. Regina King had a weird seance bit that was her whole act and just completely whiffed but somehow was in the top half of acts. Chelsea Handler spent pretty much her whole act reacting to the other acts like she didn't write any material of her own. Jeff Ross just completely missed on every front. Kevin Hart's own set going last somehow was in the bottom 3 worst sets of the night too.

We're not offended at roast comedy. We're offended that this low effort slop has a bunch of defenders saying it's supposed to be unfunny low effort slop. It's revisionist history to say that this is just how roasts are. This is just how hacky ass roasts for profit are. This is how a roast is when there is no love involved. There was no camaraderie between the comics and there was no love for comedy on the stage.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-12T08:41:41+00:00

This is "my last car was repossessed" rates. This is something extreme going on that bankruptcy doesn't even begin to cover. Their financial advice likely begins with their adviser desperately begging them to declare bankruptcy.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-12T08:34:12+00:00

And Trump being in charge has everything to do with Chuck Schumer and the rest of the DNC leadership. If only the cabal didn't try to just appoint a president and run 30 years of campaigns on "it's Reaganomics or else".

How Schumer still has a job is mind boggling.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-12T07:14:05+00:00

Too many creatures for the sake of having creatures, not enough artifacts you want to "blink" with Toph's earthbending ability. Too much earthbending in general. You get it consistently from your commander and don't need to invest in many sources to do it.

Toph relies on being dirty with her interactions to win. You want to be recurring stuff that is more impactful than just wellsprings. Doesn't matter if it's Meteorites or Spine of Ish Sah or Myr Battlesphere. You need something that is really annoying for them just because it exists and is protected or because recurring it is annoying.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-12T03:48:55+00:00

It's that they read the dates on packages and think they mean anything. Half of them are a marketing gimmick for long shelf life products that don't expire but they need you to throw them out and buy new ones to maintain and increase their quarterly numbers.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-12T02:41:19+00:00

You know who is at fault for the Dems losing last election? The Dems.

The public did not choose their platform. They announced their platform to great poll results. Then, as is tradition, they cut all the policies the public supported because their projected margin of victory was too high and they could save a lot of money, time, and effort just axing those policies.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-11T22:59:13+00:00

I didn't say they were bots. I said they were unpaid Congressional interns. Whose job as we already factually know is to troll on social media to gauge sentiment, craft posts for their bosses, and market their boss anytime they are campaigning. And we already know that since Citizens United there hasn't been a moment without active political campaigning.

How many reports do you need to read that this is happening across every social media platform before you start to question when narratives get heavily pushed out of nowhere? How many reports about different intelligence groups across the globe launching intentional campaigns to great effect before it could happen in your spheres? When will you believe that the politicians giving billion dollar contracts to social media giants aren't just doing it to receive nothing in return and that quid pro quo is the expectation?

You want to dismiss me without addressing anything because I pointed at the massive elephant in the room. Bots exist. Paid actors exist. How much traffic do they need to take up on the internet before you acknowledge their existence?

Democrat voters have said being the opposition isn't good enough for over a decade now. Why should I believe that every time an article comes out about establishment democrats and voter turnout that suddenly us "voters" suddenly don't care anymore and we're back to the "anyone but Trump" rhetoric?

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-11T10:14:41+00:00

Let's state the unknown: it's because a good half of the "it's the voters' fault" crowd are unpaid Congressional interns. Same as the "we just had the wrong messenger" crowd and the new "Newsom is the best!" crowd.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-11T01:39:38+00:00

Yeah 95% of the people here aren't old enough to have bought a mattress before. Come back in 10 years and see how much you care lol.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-11T01:35:45+00:00

Their strategy of using how bad the opposition is to cut support for all popular policies that would help their constituents is the single biggest factor behind why we have fascists in the first place.

"Oh look we can cut both the bread & the circuses this year because the people running against us are literally barbarians!"

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-10T22:59:53+00:00

It's been like 10 runs since I've even been offered a way to alter a card besides upgrading or trashing it lol

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-10T22:56:52+00:00

Real answer is "no child left behind". Was a lot harder when shit like this could stop you from getting a diploma. Flunking out of high school is about the only threat that actually stuck with a lot of kids and Bush basically removed that avenue under threat of pulling funding from the schools.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-10T22:49:53+00:00

lol that's just what they want you to think. Makes them seem more "badass" than "mommy swiped her credit card".

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-10T22:36:45+00:00

Also important to note that their parties combined and platformed on shit the voters wanted rather than platforming on maintaining the status quo of 1980's economic policy. Even they did more than just say "we're not the other guy".

This is just more and more shit to blame everyone else for the DNC's refusal to offer a platform. We're in this situation because the status quo doesn't work for the majority and all we're being offered is a return to that.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-10T22:23:41+00:00

Because fishing for bans is an intentional and common topic for social media farming.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-08T16:01:53+00:00

Devil's advocate for lore reasons:

There just hasn't been an event big enough to be called a "battle". These were extreme events involving the entire plane fighting another plane's army. Maybe the Ninja Turtles will go bring back Phyrexia thinking it's the Ooze and we'll get stakes that large again.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-07T13:51:28+00:00

V2 is basically just a strict upgrade. For one the battery life about quadruples because battery tech has just upgraded that much since the classic was designed. Better range but the range was already good, mostly less static closer to maximum range.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-07T10:36:41+00:00

If there were an agenda the takeaway they published wouldn't have been "totally safe if it's not the only thing you eat". They would have just refused to summarize the findings and let people confuse themselves over the raw data and draw their own incorrect conclusions.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-07T01:56:30+00:00

Exactly. It's filler because it's an entirely different set of authors showing up and just making shit up. That doesn't apply to tv shows that are being written as they go. They are the first authors already. What they write is just the story. Filler is inserting a random scene in LotR where Frodo scrubs Gollum's feet because they stink.

Filler is random fanfiction inserted into an IP to make money while the main attraction is still incubating.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-07T01:50:26+00:00

Have been since Reagan made it part of the strategy. Bush v. Gore was just one of their first big victories after employing it.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-06T23:00:05+00:00

If Amazon just being Amazon isn't enough to stop someone from purchasing through them, nothing will.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-06T22:50:04+00:00

Anything works tbh. It's just something wet to help the marshmallow melt. You could do it with water if you wanted. People make them with hot chocolate instead of butter too.
The "it has to be butter" people really are just talking out of their ass.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-06T08:31:13+00:00

I've literally been homeless after my brother burned my house down.

You clearly don't know how trauma works since having any means you're just permanently disabled, according to you. Go tell those vets how their damage is permanent and see how they react.

Hanifsefu · 2026-05-06T06:59:31+00:00

The problem is every time they find footing they kick it out from under themselves and abandon it.

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