Jo Koy has returned to stand-up comedy following his disastrous Golden Globes webhosting gig — and he’s reputedly pointing hands on the celebrities within the crowd.
“Lot a marshmallows, man,” Koy, 52, quipped all over his Friday, January 12, comedy set in St. Louis after bringing up his “whirlwind” week, in step with Selection. “They’re delicious, but goddamn, they’re soft. I just come from a different time. I see the changes that are happening. I get it, but goddamn, can we f–king laugh at ourselves?”
Koy hosted the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7, which used to be his first time emceeing an awards display. In his opening monologue, he significantly dissed Barbie — which costarred nominees Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling — in addition to fellow nominees Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper and Taylor Swift. A lot of his jokes bombed, with the star-studded crowd and at-home audience unimpressed by means of his makes an attempt.
“Yo, I got this gig 10 days ago. You want a perfect monologue? Shut up,” Koy stated all over the Sunday broadcast. “You’re kidding me, right? I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”
Koy, who later advised the Los Angeles Occasions that it used to be a “rookie movie” to position blame on his writing staff, does now not remorseful about any of his jokes.
“I got a feeling none of you motherf—kers watched it, and I’m kinda happy,” he stated on Friday. “Oh my, God. It feels good to live in this country. We get to say what we want to say. Don’t be apologetic about it at all. Be able to … speak your mind.”
In keeping with Selection, Koy by no means discussed the Globes by means of identify however used to be excited to go away the intense lighting fixtures of L.A. in the intervening time.
“The weather is better in Hollywood, but I’m happy to be in this blizzard. When it rains, it pours,” he joked, regarding the storm from snow that befell in Missouri previous that day. “Here in St. Louis, [you’ve got] people that listen to you, understand you and understand we’re not all out to attack each other. It’s stupid in LA.”
Koy’s Globes look has remained a trending matter for almost a complete week following the display. Surprise megastar Simu Liu even threw refined color at Koy’s comic story about Swift, 34, when he introduced his Folks’s Selection Awards webhosting position.
“There will be no Taylor slander at the 2024 PCAs,” Liu, 34, wrote by way of social media on Thursday, January 11, regarding Koy’s Sunday line that the Globes would have fewer cutaways to Swift than NFL video games.
Swift, who has been a staple at boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Kansas Town Chiefs video games since September 2023, gave the impression visibly frustrated by means of the statement. Koy has since showed that he didn't imply to offend the pop megastar.
“The whole intention of that joke was to make fun of the NFL,” Koy advised the Los Angeles Occasions previous this week. “It’s like, the cool thing about the Globes is we don’t need to do cutaways for ratings. What hurts the most is me just supporting Taylor, I support her [and] I love her work. I got nieces that I bought [concert] tickets for. There’s no ill intent in that joke.”