“When did we get to a point where life was supposed to be perfect? Where people were supposed to operate perfectly all the time?,” the comic and actor said in a Sunday interview with the Times of London.
After he quickly stepped down from the gig amid the ensuing backlash, he told talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, “On my side, openly I say I’m wrong for my past words.
It’s about the intent behind what you say — there’s an assumption it’s always bad and, somehow, we forgot comedians are going for the laugh.
“If there’s a message to take from anything I’ve said,” Hart told the Sunday Times, “it’s that in this world of opinion, it’s OK to just disagree.