Comedian Steve Harvey was definitely the loser at the 2015 Miss Universe pageant. After he unknowingly announced the wrong winner, Harvey received a lot of attention — and none of it was good. “When I woke up the next morning, it was everywhere,” Harvey said on Thursday’s episode of Comedy Gold Minds With Kevin Hart...
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