Photo gaffe! Chris Rock and partner Megalyn Echikunwoke mistaken for Kevin Hart and wife Eniko Parrish

Chris Rock and partner Megalyn Echikunwoke attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp event in New York. Photo / Getty Images.

A leading photo agency has been left red-faced after they were unable to tell two iconic black comedians apart, confusing Chris Rock for fellow Hollywood funny guy Kevin Hart.

The gaffe occurred when Getty Images snapped Rock and his partner Megalyn Echikunwoke together at the lavish Met Gala fashion event at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art today.

Mistaken identity! A photo of Chris Rock and partner Megalyn Echikunwoke was incorrectly tagged as Kevin Hart and his wife Eniko Parrish. Photo / Getty Images.

The only problem was they mistook Rock for Hart, tagging the latter in photo captions, and compounding the error by incorrectly assuming Echikunwoke was Hart's wife, Eniko Parrish.

As far as we know, Hart and Parrish were nowhere near the event, but Rock looked dashing in a tuxedo accompanying a glamourous Echikunwoke.

Another picture of Rock and Echikunwoke - this time correctly captioned! Photo / Getty Images.

The 54-year-old stand-up comic certainly looks good for his age having been compared to young buck Hart, who is 39.

It's understood Getty is in the process of checking and correcting the rest of their photos of Rock and Echikunwoke.