It’s an age-old Australian tradition to torture foreign guests with our unique fauna. For reasons of international diplomacy, Vladimir Putin and Barak Obama only got clap-infected koalas, but for reasons of ratings and lols, Kevin Hart and Ice Cube got hoisted with a couple’a reptiles. Shirt-fronting? Mate, this is python-fronting.
The pair of talented humans appeared on the TODAY Show this morning, and after the required ‘chat’ that makes up the 99% of celebrity interviews, Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic led them over to a mysteriously-covered box, inside of which rested a Blue Tongue Lizard for the canoodling.
So far, so mild. But underneath that box lay another, and inside that box lay a deadly killer python. Well, a python, anyway. It was pretty un-deadly. Ice Cube lived up to his namesake and remained pr-e-e-etty chill, even daring to touch the snake despite the possibility that it would sense his jacket was constructed from snakeskin and punish him justly.
Kevin Hart did not.
#Bless.
Shortly after, the pair were chatting to Triple J’s Matt and Alex about the snake incident, and Kevin dropped a line that deserves engraving at every arrivals gate across the country:
“In Australia, they got stuff that bite you and you never get up.”
Yup.
Watch the segment below:
Kevin Hart and Ice Cube meet an Aussie python… LOL!
This is the hilarious moment we introduced Kevin Hart and Ice Cube to an Aussie python… LOL, welcome to Straya boys! #Today9
Posted by TODAY on Monday, 8 February 2016
Source: TODAY Show.
Photos: TODAY Show / Richard Jackson / Queensland Museum.
