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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Peter Bradshaw

Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain – review

Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
Padded out … Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain. Photograph: Summit/Sportsphoto/Allstar

Kevin Hart is the Philadelphia-born standup who might be vaguely familiar from movies such as This Is the End, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The Five-Year Engagement. Here is his sporadically funny live show, recorded over two nights at Madison Square Garden in New York: the set lasts just under 60 minutes, but this feature is padded up to around an hour and a quarter with self-congratulatory home-movie footage from his world tour, and a uneasy fictional setup at a party in which he is supposedly confronted with personal criticisms from his friends and resolves to answer all these points during his routine. I could have done without this pointless framing device, but there is some funny and highly incorrect material here.

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