Kevin Hart spreading laughter, love during Bay Area stint

During an intimate summer night at Mountain Winery in Saratoga, the 5-foot-4 comedian had the 2,500-seat concert bowl roaring with laughter.

Hart, with gold mike in hand, ran through his roughly hour-long set with relateable — though hyperbolic — stories about family, sex, his growing celebrity status and much much more (yup, poop jokes were not off limits).

Monday’s set was just one of a string of shows in the Bay Area this week, sandwiched between two arena-sized appearances (Concord Pavilion on Sunday and Stockton Arena on Tuesday) part of Hart’s What Now? tour.

Fliers at the Mountain Winery box office and throughout the venue notified fans that Monday’s show was being filmed for his forthcoming “5th Hour Documentary.”

Four serious-faced men in all black sat at the edge of the stage with their eyes locked on the crowd as security guards paced the aisles ready to pounce if they saw the glow of a smartphone, and yes, several people were actually escorted out just 20 minutes into Hart’s set.

When I look around this room, I see so many different races and ethnicities and I see us all underneath one goddamn roof; we’re in one space and we’re enjoying ourselves, he said, arms outstretched as if he wanted to give all his fans a big hug.