Sheryl Underwood walked onto the stage at The Roast of Kevin Hart and walked off with the night.

The 62-year-old comedian and "The Talk" co-host earned a standing ovation Sunday at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles after delivering what most critics are calling the best set of the entire Netflix live roast. The event streamed live on May 10 as the closing night of the 2026 Netflix Is a Joke Fest. Shane Gillis hosted, and the lineup featured Kevin Hart, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Katt Williams, Pete Davidson, Chelsea Handler, Lizzo, Tom Brady, and more.

"Sheryl Underwood delivered the funniest, boldest and most completely unfiltered set of the entire night," Big Gold Belt Media wrote in its review. "Sheryl Underwood completely took over the room the moment she stepped onstage."

Per Netflix Tudum, Underwood opened her set with a riff on freedom of speech that immediately grabbed the crowd. She then unloaded on nearly everyone seated at the dais. She teased Chelsea Handler about her dating history. She joked that Pete Davidson was "driving these b*tches crazy." She called Big Jay Oakerson out for looking like Guy Fieri. She told the room that Draymond Green was a bully.

One of the biggest moments of her set came when she revisited an old kiss with John Stamos, who was watching from the audience. Underwood went into graphic detail about the encounter, which she said happened before Stamos married his current wife. She referred to him as her "ex-boo."

Underwood saved her sharpest material for the roast's main target. She joked that Hart was "packing 10 inches." Then she added the punchline: "They're his legs, but it's still 10 inches." The Kia Forum crowd went up.

She also clowned the Philadelphia native about her own loyalties as an Eagles fan, gave the audience an inside look at the years she has spent knowing Hart's family, and shared that she has been in touch with his mother. The mix of personal jokes and raunchy crowd work was something fellow comedians at the dais reacted to with open shock at how hard the punchlines were landing.

"She would probably be the Nikki Glaser of this roast," one live recap noted, comparing her performance to the breakout set Glaser delivered at The Roast of Tom Brady in 2024.

But Underwood also delivered the line that summed up the entire night. Near the end of her set, after she had dragged nearly every famous person in the room, she got quiet for a moment. She turned to Hart and reminded the audience what a roast is really about.

"We only roast who we love, and we truly love you," she said.

That single line, Netflix Tudum noted, captured what the entire three-hour event kept circling back to under all the brutal punchlines: a real celebration of Kevin Hart's two-decade run as one of the biggest names in comedy.

Underwood, a longtime BET favorite, has been a fixture on "The Talk" since 2011 and has spent decades as a road comic before reaching her current TV platform. The Kevin Hart roast set may be one of the most-watched performances of her career to date.

Hart closed the night with about 15 minutes of his own clap-backs at everyone who had roasted him. "The Roast of Kevin Hart" is streaming now on Netflix.