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Laugh your Hart out

- By MAJORIE CHIEW star2.com.my

YEAH, the rumours are true. Y’all can stop scrolling – and mark your calendar!

American comedian Kevin Hart, 39, will be in Kuala Lumpur for The Kevin Hart Irresponsi­ble Tour ,a one-night-only performanc­e, on Dec 15 at 8.30pm in Axiata Arena, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur. This show is produced by Live Nation and presented by LOL Events.

Hart is also an actor and producer, known for Ride Along (2014),

Central Intelligen­ce (2016) and

Grudge Match 6 (2013).

Earlier this year, Hart voiced the title character in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.

Last year, he starred with Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas and Bobby Cannavale in the American adventure comedy, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, which was a massive box-office success. The film grossed US$961mil (RM3.88bil) worldwide, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2017, and the 40th-highest-grossing film of all time.

Hart’s next feature film Night School, which he co-wrote and produced, will open on Sept 28. The comedy follows a group of misfits forced to attend adult classes in the long-shot chance they would pass the General Equivalenc­y Developmen­t or General Equivalenc­y Diploma (GED) exams.

Hart’s last multi-city domestic and internatio­nal What Now comedy tour sold out large venues all over the world. He has a massively packed tour schedule of over 100 tour dates from cities like New York to Atlanta, Chicago, Paris, London, Sydney and others, before he lands in Kuala Lumpur.

He is the first comedian to sell out an entire NFL stadium with over 50,000 tickets in one show at Lincoln Financial Field, a stadium in Philadelph­ia, Pennysylva­nia, in the United States.

Internatio­nally, he sold out over a dozen arenas in the European market, selling over 150,000 tickets, and sold out arenas across Australia, selling 100,000 tickets. Hart’s hit comedy tour grossed over US$100mil (RM404mil) worldwide.

For his KL show, tickets range from RM200 to RM450, and sales will begin from July 21 at 10am.

More details for the show on Facebook: LOL Events.

 ?? —AP ?? Kevin Hart at the Los Angeles premiere of Jumanji: Welcome To
The Jungle in Los Angeles, the United States, on Dec 11, 2017.
—AP Kevin Hart at the Los Angeles premiere of Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle in Los Angeles, the United States, on Dec 11, 2017.

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