Overview
- The special logged 13.5 million views in Netflix’s May 11–17 tracking window, ranking as the service’s most-watched TV title for the week.
- Measured against The Roast of Tom Brady’s 13.8 million first-week figure in 2024, the Hart event came in about 2% lower.
- Hart’s roast debuted late in the prior May 4–10 window and missed the daily Top 10 that night, a quirk tied to Netflix’s weekly chart cutoffs.
- Variety noted the No. 10 title that week drew 2.1 million views, so even a Brady-like 2 million premiere night would not have charted.
- The roast streamed live May 10 from the Kia Forum in Inglewood as part of the Netflix Is a Joke Festival, reflecting the streamer’s push to turn real-time comedy events into marquee programming.