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Why we love Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart's His 'What Now' tour plays the Linc Sunday. We start the week gushing madly. Photo: Jon Furniss / Invision / AP Images)
Kevin Hart's His 'What Now' tour plays the Linc Sunday. We start the week gushing madly. Photo: Jon Furniss / Invision / AP Images)Read more

1. Pride of George Washington High School, class of 1997.

2. Every movie premiere, he comes home, has a steak at Max's (3653 Germantown Ave.), shakes hands with fans, shows unbounded generosity and doesn't make a big deal out of it.

3. Hilariously threw Aziz Ansari under the bus — make that, into the abyss — to save his own self in Seth Rogen's "This is the End." Poked fun at Hollywood's me-first ethos so perfectly, we're still laughing two years later.

4. Standup bit about a mom's reply to the know-it-all gradeschool teacher is pure comic gold. X-rated gold. But gold.

5. Wears an Eagles helmet while watching Eagles games on TV. "I believe I play for the team," he told ESPN. "My dog wears one, too."

6. Hurled his helmet at his TV when DeSean Jackson dropped the ball short of the end zone — then danced — in his rookie year vs. the Cowboys.

7. Modest when it counts: When he gave $50K scholarships to four Philly high school grads this spring, he said, "My money went to a much more useful cause than what I would have been doing with it at a strip club."

8. Immodest when it counts: Doesn't promote his movies for free. (As revealed in hacked Sony emails.) Does call himself a "brand" building an "empire."

9. Thoughtful, too. Remembers to credit his late mom, Nancy Hart, for teaching him, as he told the Daily News, in 2013, "to respect people and work hard."

10. When he set out to parody "Real Housewives" in "Real Husbands of Hollywood," he didn't need a casting director to find his "friends." Nick Cannon, Boris Kodjoe, DuaneMartin and Nelly — to name a few — all knew Hart before the cameras rolled.

11. He's man enough to date a woman taller than he is.

12. He stands by his girl. When the haters came for longtime girlfriend Eniko Parrish on Instagram, Hart replied, "Your life must truly suck if someone else's happiness bothers you."

13. He loves his kids, Heaven and Hendrix, who joined him on stage at this year's MTV MovieAwards.

14. Could be Temple's best hope to rekindle rep as proving ground for super-famous funny guys.