Monday, March 31, 2025

South Africans Are Not Impressed With Ticket Prices For Kevin Hart’s Comedy Show

He is set to do just one show this time around and tickets will not be cheap to come by.

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The ticket prices for Kevin Hart’s highly anticipated comedy show coming to South Africa have been revealed.

To say they are steep is an understatement.

The comedian and actor is gracing our stages as part of his Reality Check tour, which marks his return to Mzansi since his last check-in six years ago.

He is set to do just one show this time around at the Sun Bet Arena in Pretoria on February 17.

The Citizen notes that the early bird tickets were made available on Wednesday morning for Discover Bank clients, with pre-sale access only available for 48 hours.

Here are the prices for the various packages:

  • The Kevin Hart front-row VIP package with NFT — R17 820
  • The Kevin Hart gold VIP package with NFT — R12 995
  • Kevin Hart premium ticket package — R5 050
  • Official premium ticket — R2 500 — R4 000
  • Aisle seating R740 — R2 215
  • Price category A R2 155
  • Price category B R1 815
  • Price category C R1 360
  • Price category D R910
  • Wheelchair/Accessibility seating R680

The Kevin Hart Premium Ticket package comes with a special limited-edition tour lithograph, commemorative VIP laminate, red carpet entry, VIP check-in, some exclusive merchandise, and entry and crowd-free merchandise shopping.

The Gold VIP ticket with NFT comes with similar perks, although it also includes an invitation to the pre-show Kevin Hart VIP lounge which will include light appetizers and two drinks per person, as well as a “Reality Check” satin tour jacket.

That ticket is located in the first five rows, while the most expensive package deal seats you right in the front.

Of course in 2022/23, NFTs – non-fungible tokens or unique digital identifiers that cannot be copied, substituted or subdivided, in the form of art, music, video and much more – are sold as a part of concert package deals.

What the Kevin Hart NFT will be is unclear, but it will be “redeemable 24 hours post-show”.

Does this guy realise where he is talking? SA has obviously reacted with rampant cries of “bathong!”:

This is along the line of what you might be paying for:

Looks fun, but surely those couple of hours seated under his nose are not worth the sky-high cost.

[source:citizen]