Kevin Hart had a near-death experience—but not from skydiving, shark diving, or dodging Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s protein shake burps. No, his brush with the afterlife happened in the most dangerous arena of all: day drinking with Seth Meyers.
The 45-year-old comedian stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers and revealed that while filming Seth’s infamous “Day Drinking” segment last year, he came dangerously close to meeting his ancestors.
“I walked in there full of confidence,” Kevin said, shaking his head like a man who had seen things. “I was like, ‘Oh, this is gonna be light work! I drink all the time! I used to drink like a champ!’” He paused. “And then I almost died. There was a real moment where my body was like, ‘Hey man, it’s been real. We’re clocking out.’”
Seth nodded. “Yeah, and then you called me the next morning and yelled at me like I had tried to assassinate you.”
Kevin confirmed that neither of them remembers much from that fateful day, other than chaos, regret, and a pizza-related tragedy.
“I remember being on the floor, laying on your chest, and having absolutely no idea how I got there,” he admitted.
But the true crime of the day? The pizza.
“For some reason, all the cheese just slid off my pizza and ended up on my chest. I’m sitting there, holding this bread disc, looking around like, ‘Why would y’all do this? Why would you buy me just the idea of pizza with no cheese?!’”
Seth, equally traumatized, confessed he had no memory of playing their Jumanji-themed drinking game, but his staff filled in the blanks:
“At one point, I apparently rolled the dice and you—at full speed—just tackled me. That was the end of the game.”
Kevin nodded solemnly. “Yeah, they also told me that when you rolled the dice, I ran up, kicked them, and screamed, ‘F–king s–t!’ for absolutely no reason. Just pure, unprovoked rage. Then I tackled you, and right after, I hugged you and just laid there.”
Seth, now spiritually bonded to Kevin through the power of alcohol and physical combat, smiled. “I feel way closer to you now, even though I have zero memory of any of this. We’re basically family.”
And that, kids, is why day drinking is not for the weak.