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Three more Kevin Hart team-ups we’d like to see

The Philly native and comedy star has ‘The Wedding Ringer’ with Josh Gad opening this week, and ‘Get Hard’ with Will Ferrell coming in March. If one or both titles take off, expect to see more match-ups between the Philly funnyman-turned-box office draw and Hollywood white folk.

    by Steven Rea
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It's one of the basic rules of Hollywood: if a film, or a formula, hits big, do it again. And again. And sometimes you don't even wait to see if it's a hit before you knock it off. That seems to be the case with the two Kevin Hart titles in the winter release lineup. In The Wedding Ringer, opening Friday, the Philly funnyman plays a guy who hires himself out to loser dudes who don't have a best man for their wedding. Josh Gad is said dude, and thus a buddy comedy is born.

In Get Hard, opening March 27, Hart plays  a car wash employee hired by prison-bound (very) white collar criminal Will Ferrell to school him on how to survive life behind bars, assuming that Hart's character has done time because of his "low income status" -- or as Hart puts it in the trailer, "I was being black." And thus, a buddy comedy is born.

Here are three more Hart pairings we'd like to see:

Downtown Abbey – Kevin Hart gets hired by Hugh Bonneville to tutor the stuffy Brit on how to survive life at a gritty urban monastery. And thus, a buddy comedy is born.

2233 Jump Street – Kevin Hart is a traffic cop partnered with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill to go undercover in an Ivy League MBA  program because their boss at Police HQ thinks it's an "MDA program" – you know, the designer drug Methylenedioxyamphetamine. And thus, a buddy comedy is born.

Black Black Widow – Hart meets up with Scarlett Johansson when she's trying out new martial arts techniques at the gym for the 11th Avengers sequel. He plays an aging blaxploitation star (geriatric prosthetics, please) famous for his killer moves in a bunch of '70s pics, and teaches the Russian émigré-turned-Marvel crimefighter a thing or two. And thus, a buddy comedy -- and maybe a romance -- is born.