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The Roast of Kevin Hart Had One Surprise Guest. He Made It Count.

By Erica Coleman · May 11, 2026

Two years ago, Kevin Hart stood at a microphone in Los Angeles and spent a significant portion of the Netflix roast of Tom Brady telling the audience what a disappointment Brady had been as a roast subject — that he sat there with a frozen face, that he was a coward, that Hart had done better. “I ain’t no bitch,” Hart declared. “Tom is a bitch.”

On Sunday night, in the same arena, Brady walked out wearing all black.

“Have you even left The Forum?” Brady asked Hart after taking the microphone. “Or have you just been here screaming into that light for the last two years, waiting for Daddy to come home. Well, unlike your real dad, I actually showed up.”

He brought a gift. A child-sized Knicks jersey. He called Hart a “f***ing hobbit.” He referenced Hart’s 2017 Las Vegas affair — when Hart cheated on his then-pregnant wife Eniko while working on a film — by telling the audience he was “a busy man” who had “a few words to say before I return to my affairs in Las Vegas.” He paused. “Oh wait. I’m talking about affairs in Las Vegas. Was that off? Not supposed to talk about affairs in Vegas? I think I broke another rule.”

Then he looked at Eniko in the audience. “I’m too classy to go after your beautiful wife. Or am I?” He caught her eye. “What’s up, girl?” Hart yelled from his seat: “Cut it out!”

The whole appearance lasted roughly ten minutes. Brady exited the stage to sustained applause and went back to wherever retired quarterbacks go when they’ve just made an entire arena laugh at a man they love.

Brady was the surprise guest at Netflix’s live Roast of Kevin Hart, part of the streamer’s “Netflix Is a Joke” festival at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. The event featured a full roster — Venus and Serena Williams, Pete Davidson, Draymond Green, Tiffany Haddish, Lizzo, Tony Hinchliffe, Regina Hall, Chelsea Handler, and Jelly Roll, among others — but two cameos defined the night.

The second was Dwayne Johnson, who had been announced in advance. Johnson delivered an extended, R-rated set focused almost entirely on Hart’s wife that had Hart audibly protesting from his seat, at one point yelling “Why would you say that about my f***ing wife?” Johnson’s response — “You’re the one who said say anything you want!” — drew the loudest reaction of the night.

Hart had called the roast “way better than the Brady roast” in his opening remarks, having spent two years telling anyone who would listen that Brady’s 2024 roast was soft. By the end of Sunday night, Brady had walked into that exact challenge and answered it with about 600 words and a kids’ basketball jersey.

The roast is available on Netflix.