Look out, Bieber, Kevin Hart is coming to roast you

Apparently for the upcoming — and sure to be not at all awful — roast of Justin Bieber, Comedy Central felt it needed someone who could relate to the boy of the hour on his own level. Enter equally diminutive comic titan Kevin Hart, who is stepping in as roast master for the event. “I don’t normally do roasts, but I had to step out for my guy Biebs,” Hart says in a statement. “It’s his big 21. It’s about to be Operation Roast Everyone’s Ass.”

And while we appreciate Hart’s enthusiasm, this feels like a incredibly safe choice, as the “Wedding Ringer” star is not known for any particularly negative slant in his comedy. Maybe the chances were too great that usual Friar’s Club go-to host Jeff Ross would’ve reduced Bieber to tears before the first commercial break.

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