Jeff Ross reveals uneasy moment at Roast of Kevin Hart: He ‘looked a little tense’
The Roastmaster General didn't hold back, as usual.
Jeff Ross, which is his nature, didn’t hold back when looking back at the Netflix special “The Roast of Kevin Hart.”
The Roastmaster General revealed things went well, but there was a source of anxiety.
“The only real tension I felt was when Katt Williams appeared out of nowhere and started going in on Kevin,” Ross told Variety. “Kevin definitely looked a little tense, like these guys may not have seen each other for a long time. But Kevin asked for the hatchet to be buried, and immediately the tension turned into celebration."
Ross said it was Hart’s decision to have Williams attend the roast.
“Kevin is a great comic, but he’s also a really smart producer,” Ross said. “He loves to follow the discomfort. If something is making him uncomfortable, it’s going to be great TV. I would say it was a group brainstorm of who would be a funny person to bring into this thing, and Katt Williams was game. He came out with a cape, like a villain, and he left like a friend.”
Hart and Williams didn’t talk, per Ross, prior to meeting on stage Sunday night.