{"id":4612,"date":"2026-06-04T12:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/kevin-hart-admits-dwayne-the-rock-johnsons-joke-caught-him-off-guard-during-brutal-roast\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:55:15","slug":"kevin-hart-admits-dwayne-the-rock-johnsons-joke-caught-him-off-guard-during-brutal-roast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/kevin-hart-admits-dwayne-the-rock-johnsons-joke-caught-him-off-guard-during-brutal-roast\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Hart admits Dwayne &#8216;The Rock&#8217; Johnson&#8217;s joke caught him &#8216;off guard&#8217; during &#8216;brutal&#8217; roast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F129710367.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kevin Hart admitted that Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson\u2019s joke at the \u201cRoast of Kevin Hart\u201d caught him \u201coff guard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YwDoueGlALo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d<\/a> Wednesday, the \u201cThink Like a Man\u201d actor said he was a little taken aback by the professional wrestler\u2019s joke about Hart\u2019s late dad, Henry Robert Witherspoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the one that caught me off guard, Dwayne,\u201d Hart, 46, told host Jimmy Kimmel, 58, when asked if any of the jokes on the Netflix special \u201churt.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Kimmy Kimmel Live\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Kimmy Kimmel Live\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cDwayne had the picture of my father and he had a mug shot of my dad and he goes, \u2018Look at my dad. Kev, we both love our dads,&#8217;\u201d the \u201cRide Along\u201d star recalled. <\/p>\n<p>Hart said Johnson, 54, showed a picture of his dad, late wrestler Rocky Johnson, \u201cin shape, you know, coming from the gym.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>However, when the \u201cMoana\u201d actor showed a photo of Witherspoon, Hart said it \u201cwas the worst picture of my father I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe worst picture of my father. It caught me off guard, but it was funny,\u201d he explained of the image, which was of a shirtless Witherspoon sitting down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything done with the effort of giving a laugh, I\u2019m always going to give it the benefit of the doubt. All the stuff said about me, you know, I\u2019m like, look, it is what it is. They\u2019re jokes at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This story is being updated\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/04\/celebrity-news\/kevin-hart-admits-dwayne-the-rock-johnsons-joke-caught-him-off-guard-during-brutal-roast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Hart admitted that Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson\u2019s joke at the \u201cRoast of Kevin Hart\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129710367.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}