Steve Martin is aware of that higher than any person that webhosting isn’t for the faint of center, so he’s chopping Jo Koy some slack after the 2024 Golden Globes.
“I tip my hat to anyone who steps out on stage to host a live awards show,” Martin, 78, wrote by means of Threads on Tuesday, January 9. “It’s a very difficult job and not for the squeamish. I know because I’m still throwing up from the last time I did it in 2010.”
The Handiest Murders within the Development superstar added: “So, Congratulations to Jo Koy, who took on the toughest gig in show business, hit, missed, was light on his feet, and now has twenty minutes of new material for his stand up!”
Martin hosted the Academy Awards solo in each 2001 and 2003. He returned in 2010 to cohost the Oscars with Alec Stanley Baldwin. Koy, in the meantime, made his webhosting debut on Sunday, January 7, with the 81st annual Golden Globes.
A lot of his opening monologue jokes fell flat, which Koy, 52, temporarily addressed. “I got the gig 10 days ago! You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up,” he informed the group. “I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”
Koy left visitors and audience at house speechless when he poked a laugh at Barbie and looked as if it would utterly omit the film’s empowering message of feminine development. “Oppenheimer is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie is based on a plastic doll with big boobies,” the comic mentioned.
Barbie director Greta Gerwig addressed the awkward shaggy dog story right through an look on BBC Radio 4’s Lately, pronouncing, “Well, he’s not wrong. She’s the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on. And you know, I think that so much of the project of the movie was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll.”
All over the awards display, Koy additionally made a dig at Taylor Swift, who misplaced to Barbie within the Cinematic Field Place of work Fulfillment class for her Taylor Swift: The Eras Excursion movie.
“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear,” Koy mentioned because the digital camera switched to Swift, 34, who has been incessantly highlighted right through Kansas Town Chiefs video games whilst cheering on boyfriend Travis Kelce. “There’s just more to go to.”
Swift was once stuck making an unamused face within the crowd ahead of sipping her drink. Despite the fact that Swift has but to publicly deal with her now-viral response, Koy has spoken out about his shaggy dog story. “It was a compliment,” Koy informed Additional after the awards display, noting that he intended Swift “could be more intimate tonight, that’s all.”
All over an look on GMA3: What You Wish to Know on Monday, January 8, Koy confessed that he did really feel unhealthy about his Swift jab. “It was a weird joke, I guess,” he mentioned.
Koy gained combined critiques for his time on degree, however some actors, particularly those that’ve hosted awards presentations, got here to his protection. “These hosting gigs are brutal,” Whoopi Goldberg informed her fellow The View cohosts on Monday. “They’re just brutal. If you don’t know the room, if you’ve not been in these rooms before and you’re thrust out there, it’s hit or miss.”
Goldberg, who has hosted the Oscars 4 instances, confessed: “I don’t know whether it was the room or the jokes, I didn’t get to see it, but I do know that he’s as good as it gets when it comes to stand-ups. It’s not an easy gig. If you read any of the reviews of some of the gigs that I’ve had, where they just wished me into the cornfields, die on the vine, it’s not an easy gig.”