Kevin Hart Live Roast Set at Netflix With Host Shane Gillis

Kevin Hart will be in the hot seat for a live roast on Netflix, the streamer’s follow-up to the hugely popular Tom Brady broadcast in 2024.

Hosted by Shane Gillis, the ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. PT on Sunday, May 10, the final night of the Netflix Is a Joke Fest. Like the Brady roast, it will be filmed inside the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. The lineup of comedians who will take jabs at Hart has yet to be announced.

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Casey Patterson is executive producing for Casey Patterson Entertainment alongside Jeff Ross, Amy Zvi, Hart and Dave Becky.

“The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady” was a cultural phenomenon, spending three weeks in Netflix’s Global Top 10 and cementing Nikki Glaser as a household name. To date, the three-hour broadcast has racked up 26 million views on Netflix. The roast even earned an Emmy nomination for variety special, alongside the Super Bowl halftime show and the telecasts for the Grammys, Tonys and Oscars.

It was long rumored that Netflix would put together another live roast after the success of the Brady event, with big-name talent like Will Smith floated as possible subjects. On a panel moderated by Variety at the New York Comedy Festival in November, Ross teased, “We have another festival coming up in May, and I’m pretty confident we’ll have a roast in the spring.”

“There are a lot of B-list celebrities who want to get roasted. I want it to be like the Super Bowl of roasting,” he said. “Tom Brady I held onto for three years. He retired, unretired, got divorced, then we decided to do it at the Netflix festival. To get a whale sometimes takes a while.”