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The US standup has his say on celebrity culture and Covid, but not the Oscars row, and ends up buffering his own ego in a new special
‘It’s my fucking household, I’m not holding back!” That’s the conceit of Kevin Hart’s latest special, filmed chez Hart in September, to a masked audience. It promises a combative response to the “cancel culture” that led Hart to step down as an Oscars host after a homophobia row. But no such response materialises, nor does Hart convince as a man who – see the show’s title – has Zero F**ks to give.
He seems bruised, for one, by the brickbats. His reason for staying housebound is that “there’s people out there [and] … cat’s out of the bag, I don’t like people any more.” That’s because he gets no peace in public, never sure he’s not being recorded, filmed or set up. It’s a sad picture, although he uses a strikingly funny analogy – comparing the Insta generation to 1980s policing – to paint it.