Kevin Hart has admitted that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s joke at the Roast of Kevin Hart caught him “off guard.” During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, the actor said he was a little taken aback by the professional wrestler’s joke about Hart’s late dad, Henry Robert Witherspoon, reports Page Six.
“I think the one that caught me off guard, Dwayne,” Hart, 46, told host Jimmy Kimmel, 58, when asked if any of the jokes on the Netflix special “hurt.”
Hart spoke about the roast on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week. Picture: YouTube
“Dwayne had the picture of my father and he had a mug shot of my dad and he goes, ‘Look at my dad. Kev, we both love our dads,’” the Ride Along star recalled. Hart said Johnson, 54, showed a picture of his dad, late wrestler Rocky Johnson, “in shape, you know, coming from the gym.” However, when the Moana actor showed a photo of Witherspoon, Hart said it “was the worst picture of my father I’ve ever seen.”
Johnson put up a picture of their fathers side-by-side during the Netflix special. Picture: Netflix
“The worst picture of my father. It caught me off guard, but it was funny,” he explained of the image, which was of a shirtless Witherspoon sitting down. “Anything done with the effort of giving a laugh, I’m always going to give it the benefit of the doubt. All the stuff said about me, you know, I’m like, look, it is what it is. They’re jokes at the end of the day.”
Hart admitted Johnson’s brutal gag had caught him “off guard”. Picture: Netflix
Elsewhere during Dwayne’s roast, he targeted his Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle co-star’s height, calling Hart a “little burnt Oompa Loompa.” Dwayne also came after Kevin’s wife, Eniko Hart, saying she “deserves an award for pretending to enjoy intimacy” with him. The Zootopia voice actor then suggested the longtime couple spend time together and “open up a bottle of tequila and, you know … Stop squirming, Kevin!”
The Roast of Kevin Hart is streaming on Netflix. This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission.
