Comedian Kevin Hart Visits CBS SUNDAY MORNING, 5/28

By: Caryn Robbins May. 26, 2017

Being funny helped keep comedian Kevin Hart out of fights when he was growing up in a tough Philadelphia neighborhood, but it also kept him out of the dating world, he tells Tracy Smith in an interview for CBS SUNDAY MORNING, to be broadcast Sunday, May 28 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.

"Nobody wants to fight the funny guy," Hart tells Smith. "Nobody wants to mess with the funny guy. Everybody wants to be around the funny guy. And that's what I was."

Women in those early days however, had a different reaction to being around the funny guy, Hart recalls.

"Not even going to lie to you. This would have been a perfect place to put that lie. 'Yes, women were all over...'," Hart tells Smith. "Women bring out a different side out of you. So, it's like, you can be cool and you can be funny. But to women, you can be goofy when it's time to not be funny. I didn't know how to shut the funny off with women. That was my problem when I was younger."

Hart has put those days behind him and is now married to model Eniko Parrish. The couple is expecting their first child together. Hart also has two children from a previous marriage.

He tells Smith that the most important part about being a father is simply being there for the kids.

"Be there. Be present. Hands down. Hands down. Nothing else matters," Hart tells Smith. "All the money in the world does not add up to time, to a child."

In a wide-ranging interview, Hart talks with Smith about his childhood in Philadelphia, what he learned from his parents about life and about comedy, all of which he discusses in his new book "I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons," published by Atria, a division of CBS' Simon & Schuster.

CBS SUNDAY MORNING is broadcast Sundays (9:00-10:30 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. Rand Morrison is the executive producer.

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