The Guardian says Jo Koy delivered a horrible hosting gig for the ages

He was utterly dreadful. Not one joke landed.

Not sure if Jo Koy was horrible, but his opening monologue was pretty bad. He was trying very hard, but so much fell flat.

Thankfully, Jo Koy was nearly absent for the rest of the show.

Vanity Fair said he sucked too.

Jo Koy is only the second Asian American to host the Golden Globes. (Sandra Oh was the first, in 2019.) But Koy’s opening monologue felt like a highlight reel of mortifying moments. From a weird joke about being attracted to a plastic Barbie to one about the “Killers of the Flower Moon” filmmakers stealing the plot, Koy’s jokes met an icy reception from the audience. To be fair, he had barely any time to prepare. “I got the gig 10 days ago!” he said from the stage. “You want a perfect monologue?” It’s a shame, but Koy’s jokes will probably end up being best remembered for the memes they inspire on social media.

Why you gotta be so mean? The host’s jokes did not really improve as the night went on.

“We came on after a football doubleheader,” Koy said as the ceremony returned from its first commercial break. “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the N.F.L.? On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.”

Koy seemed to swallow the word “camera” as he said it. And when the actual camera, on cue, panned to Swift, she appeared deeply unamused, her lips pursed, her eyes stern as she sipped a drink.

It is true that Swift has been shown many, many times on N.F.L. telecasts since she began showing up at Kansas City Chiefs games to cheer on the team’s tight end, Travis Kelce.

But Koy’s joke, at the expense of perhaps the most famous person in a room full of famous people, fell flat again. So flat, that he muttered, “Sorry about that.”

One unfortunate thing he kept repeating was to disavow jokes that fell flat by saying he didn't write them.

[quote}"We came on after a football doubleheader,” Koy said as the ceremony returned from its first commercial break. “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the N.F.L.? On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.”

[quote]Koy seemed to swallow the word “camera” as he said it. And when the actual camera, on cue, panned to Swift, she appeared deeply unamused, her lips pursed, her eyes stern as she sipped a drink.

[quote]But Koy’s joke, at the expense of perhaps the most famous person in a room full of famous people, fell flat again. So flat, that he muttered, “Sorry about that.”

What was wrong with that joke? I didn't watch the show, but reading that just now made me chuckle. Is Taylor Swift really that humorless? And are people too afraid to get on her bad side to not laugh?

Yes I have to give Koy the Taylor Swift at the NFL joke. It's funny cos it's true.

The Taylor Swift comment was one of the few jokes that I thought was OK - if only because it looked like it irritated her.

Most of his jokes were really corny and just not funny.

Watching the monologue was like watching an amateur facing an audience for the first time.

I felt bad for him, he seems like a nice guy and he was trying hard, but his stuff wasn't going over with the in-person audience at all. I assume it was the same for viewers at home, though I think the Taylor Swift joke was kind of funny.

If anything, let us all hope and pray that the swift peace of the evening causes a backlash against that entitled humorless overexposed Cunt of a woman. She’s due for a reality check, and after years of fighting with other celebrities and typically winning, she needs to be knocked down several pegs.

The Taylor Swift joke was the only one that DID land!

That's why she was so pissed.

And I fucking loved it that he ZINGED her. Fuck that useless cunt Taylor Swift. Overexposed bitch.

Jo Koy's humor is mostly about Filipinos, I would imagine. Which is probably why he wasn't connecting.

I've seen bits and pieces of his stand-up comedy, and it's mostly cultural humor. His audience is primarily Filipino.

I don't think his type of comedy was right for the Golden Globes.

But they had no choice, since no one else would take the job.

Jo Koy telling "Filipino moms" jokes.

Again, his type of humor was not a right fit for the Golden Globes, which needs a more universal type of humor.

No, her face will be on tv more at the football games. It's the playoffs, which is prime season for her PR stunts.

I love that the Jo Koy joke and this NYT article calling her a lesbian, was like a one-two punch thrown at "America's Sweeheart."

I wish there would be something that would just KNOCK HER OUT!

His inappropriately white teeth were all I could fixate on. Who is he again?

He came from nowhere and to nowhere he shall return.

[quote] Is Taylor Swift really that humorless?

Yes.

Tay Tay.....a dyke with a limited sense of humor.....

Groundbreaking.

He should have thrown in his hilarious jokes about Hawaiians.

He was terrible but I've noticed the swifties are leading a lot of the.backlash against him. Because he made a very benign joke about her and The NFL.

Bitch is so thin skinned!! Fuck her and the swifties. Most demented fanbase than Michael Jackson's

She came for Netflix after a character on a teen show rudely told we her mom that she changes boyfriends more often than Taylor Swift.

He stuck his dick in Chelsea Handler.

It was like Open Mic Night.

Exactly, R23. It was like watching an amateur who KILLED in his own shower, stumble in front of a live audience.

She really needs to lighten up. It’s such an unlikable quality to not be able to handle even the mildest of jokes. She’s well aware for example, that she has a reputation for going from boyfriend to boyfriend. She even put that in a song! Who cares if some Netflix show makes a joke about it too? And she took offense at Koy’s joke? Relax Taylor.

Will Harry and Meghan sue over his joke about them?

What was the Harry and Meghan joke?

Her fanbase started to explode once she started playing the victim angle. She was much bigger after she whined about her masters being bought by scooter braun. It makes her fans lives feel meaningful when they stick up for Taylor.

Stupid bitches like Taylor get angry for the attention. She probably learned it from her bitch mother and her cunt father and never had to unlearn it because she's a celebrity.

Just punch her in the face. Give her a real reason to get angry.

R27, That they got paid last year for doing absolutely nothing . . . by Netflix.

R30, You just know they were watching.

R24 I think R23 was referring to Chelsea’s pussy as an open mic night? ;)

"Thankfully, Jo Koy was nearly absent for the rest of the show."

He was demoted to busboy.

He saud that Imelda Staunton gave such a great petformance as the Queen that Harry called her asking for money.

Also, Harry and Megan got paid millions for doing nothing. And that was just from Netflix --pans to Ted Sarandos laughing--

Their little fan club us maaaad at Jo too.

He sucked really really hard.

It felt like he knew the jokes were lame. And I took some pleasure in watching these pompous celebrities having to endure such bad comedy.

One can only get so far on chuckles about their Philippino mother. BUT, I do feel horribly for him. He still did the job and he stood up there and took the hits, (not that he had a lot of choice at that point).

Could any of his fans here explain the teefs? Did he used to have really bad teeth? Usually, a lot of people with really bad teeth overcompensate when they're able to get them fixed and go for the klieg-light white. I was born with low enamel on my teeth and when I could, I got all my front teeth veneered then later got them with crowns, (which last longer). My dentist just refused to let me go bright white and I'm grateful to him for that. he also made sure that the caps slightly faded in brightness as they went around because that's what natural teeth do. My teeth now look great, bright but natural. Wonder why all these celebrities and news anchor folks don't have dental people who help them with that and let them go with teeth so white they turn blue under bright lights.

The pressure to use veneers in Hollywood is overwhelming. I have friends in production who got veneers because it is so expected of you if you work in the entertainment industry.

The same thing is true with hair implants and Botox/fillers. It started with just the actors getting it, then the producers got them too, and now everyone gets them. They become so used to them they even think people in the rest of the USA who don't get them are weird. (Note how freaked out some DL posters get about the British royals not getting those things--I am sure they're mostly posters who live in LA.)

He kept being his writers for the bad jokes. I'm sorry fella but you can disagree with your writers on jokes and not perform them and ask them to come up with new ones. Or better yet, write your own. A bad workman blames his tools. This guy had zero delivery and the 'jokes' were dreadful and each time he'd make one it would pan to a non plussed audience with faces saying 'get this fuckwit off the stage please'.

The 'banter' between the award presenters was (save for Jon Baptiste) equally awkward and dreadful.

*blaming

....

I don't care and hope he got a good paycheck.

His horrible, tired, so-called "joke" about Meryl Streep always winning all the awards was dreadful and embarrassing. Omg, she was sitting right there, and at first she kid of went along with it, but the entire room just couldn't get away from the fact that it was so bad.

And the joke about Kevin Costner showing up even though he never goes to anything was painful.

Next year they should get Gypsy Rose Blanchard to host.

R45 I’d like to see Gypsy take a stab at it.

Jo Koy had maybe two decent jokes...the one about Taylor Swift, which was funny and harmless. Taylor Swift is an humorless asshole.

Koy's other funny joke was the insult thrown at Harry and Markle for getting paid by Netflix for doing nothing. That was a good one--and I'm sure the Markles were mortified and humiliated in Montecito. But they deserved Koy's zinger.

Patrick Adams, another cast member from 'Suits,' supposedly tried to get Markle on the Golden Globes as a presenter with him since Suits enjoyed some popularity this past summer on Netflix, and Patrick though presenting with him might give her a bit of favorable spotlight, which she needs. However, rumor has it that she declined Patrick's suggestion because she wanted to be a sole presenter and didn't want to have to share the stage with him.

Since it didn't work out with Markle, that's the reason Patrick had other cast members on stage with him as fellow presenters.

^ I didn’t last long enough for those two jokes. Right from the start it was, who is this guy? and weird unfunny jokes. The audience was not with him and I swear I could see flop sweat. My friend said it was too awkward to watch and went into the kitchen to clean up.

Poor Jo. Imagine thinking hosting the GGs is going to be a career boost but it has the opposite effect. I hope Chelsea Handler at least throws him a mercy fuck.

Think pieces about how the criticism of his hosting is down to virulent anti-Filipino/anti-Asian/anti-POC sentiment coming in 3, 2....

[quote]My friend said it was too awkward to watch and went into the kitchen to clean up.

I didn't see the awards live, so I went to YouTube to watch his monologue. Could make it past a couple of minutes.

There have been worse hosts of these zombified celebrity award shows than Jo Koy. He tried. But the monologue was all-over-the-place: no transitions, a patchwork of various writers' jokes delivered by a host who clearly didn't believe in the material enough to sell it. And Koy seemed really determined to get everyone in the room to like him--a fatal mistake in that den of wolves. Ricky Gervais as host acted as though he ran out of fucks to give before Taylor Swift was born.

Whoopi and the other hosts on “The View” defended Jo Koy wholeheartedly this morning.

They would, r54.

Is The View still not talking about The Color Purple?

They couldn't shut up about it all December and what a formidable contender it was going to be at the Oscars.

But then it opened Christmas Day and not a peep since then.

I’ve never even heard of this dude.

In Taylor's defense, nobody was laughing at his stupid jokes. The guy was awful.

Tay-Tay has no grace or sense of humor. Even Robert Di Niro laughed at the joke asking how he managed to get his wife/girl friend pregnant at his old age.

Joy B would have been fierce in her defense of him.

I loved the part when Koy made that harmless joke about Taylor Swift, and she got out of her chair, marched down to the stage, and laid that big slap across his face. Wow! There goes her career.

Oh, wait...

He decimated his career. Or at least showed it will never go beyond stand up.

I found Koy to be the William Hung of Awards Show hosts. Delightfully inept; refreshing.

R62, Was that his Snow White moment?

I had never heard of him until recently, so I watched a highlight clip of his - seemed funny. The Golden Globes hosting was such a bomb. I really felt bad for him - non-stop unfunny.

His standup specials are better, I would suggest at least giving one a try. He did one in Hawaii that made me laugh and I don't like a lot of standups.

I thought the joke about Imelda Staunton doing such a good job as the Queen that Harry called and asked her for money was good.

The Taylor Swift one was pretty funny, and it wasn’t mean spirited. She really has no sense of humor.

I don’t know Jo Koy’s stand-up, but now I’m going to look him up and watch some videos. Sure I’m not the only one. Maybe this will help his career. Sucks to throw the writers under the bus, though.

Next year they should really get Betty Broderick to host.

Whypipo whypipo!!!!!!!! Whypipo steal EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!

Meh. Ten days ago is enough time to prepare if you’re a good comic. He’s probably just not “host” material. Someone like Kathy Griffin in her prime probably could have aced hosting with less than 10 days notice. I think it’s just a different skill set. Plus, he’s not exactly a big enough name to be landing this gig in the first place.

Get him, fellas!

It wasn’t just him. The presenters were awful too.

Who's surprised? The GGs always suck. Barbie and all of them were there, hope hope hoping for an Award, any Award.

When the “stars” (I didn’t recognize any of them) of Suits took the stage—and especially when the two female Suits actors came on stage midway into the guys’ speech—I was certain Markle would be the last surprise person to take stage.

I was dreading it…but then when she didn’t, I realized that would have been the only entertaining part of the show.

CBS can breathe a sigh of relief.

The Golden Globes appears to be on the up and up, with 9.4M live + same-day viewers tuning in to watch the 81st annual ceremony, up 50% from 2023’s show, according to early Nielsen data. This number is likely to go up slightly when final numbers are in.

Was there a 2023 show? For some reason I thought this was the first year it was back after being shut down?

It was a good awards show. Everyone lighten up

Everything he said about Swift is true.

Scolding the audience for not laughing was not a good look and wasn’t going to win them back.

I blame Swift for any or all of this unpleasantness.

They should have hired Uncle Roger.

I didnt know he was fuckiing helsea handlers pussy. I used to see him on her show all the time.

He was fine, nothing special. He was in a room full of incestuous, pathological narcissists who can't laugh at themselves.

A lot of real funny comedians don’t even want to do it anymore because the culture is so PC now and many of the A listers act like stuck up cunts, like Sean Penn. Its not like these things are highly rated anymore. It’s just not worth it.

You would think these cunts would realize the imminent death of the movie star and be good sports. But they’re stubborn cunts. They gon learn. They gon be casting a bunch of Taylor Swifts and Justin Beibers in these roles. And instagram influencers will play the supporting roles. They gon learn.

Chelsea Handler isn't funny either. Who told her her she was qualified to be a stand-up comic?

R86 She truly isn’t. Her show was somewhat funny just because of the raunchiness. But generally she is not funny. 100% agree with you.

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I don't think it was bad at all. He seemed very confident in an intimate room of megastars sitting thisclose to him. Most jokes landed, some didn't. I don't know what people expect: these monologues are typically to needle celebs- some who get the joke and some who reveal their lack of humor.

The award show premise itself is silly so it's ripe for ridicule.

Koy is a niche comic who thought he was mainstream. If they wanted a Leguizamo, they should have hired Leguizamo. Joey Koy simply aged into an old, unfortunate hack. He needs to make as much money as fast as possible.

I had never heard of Jo Koy before the Golden Globes telecast and, based on his dreadful performance, I am certain I won't ever hear of him again.

He mentioned in his sorry excuse for a monologue that he had spent "just ten days" to write the jokes. Ten days? Seriously. A gifted performer could have dashed off half a dozen in an hour.

With a roomful of self-important egotists to aim at, it should have been like shooting fish in a barrel. Only he had the gun pointed at himself.

I was pleased overall with the list of winners, but Koy spoiled the evening with a delivery that was like the biggest fart heard round the world.

R90 😂 😝

Remember this thread?

[quote] Jo Koy responds after criticism of his Golden Globes hosting performance

After viewers and audience members gave Jo Koy a chilly reception for what many said was a mediocre performance as host of Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, the comedian admitted it wasn’t his best night.

Koy, who took on the hosting duties 10 days before the ceremony, told Good Morning America 3 that he had an “off night,” but that the criticism he’s received has been difficult to hear.

“You know, I’d be lying if [I said] it doesn’t hurt,” Koy said. “I hit a little moment there where I was just like, hosting is just, it’s a tough gig. And, yes, I am a stand-up comic. With the hosting position, it’s a different style.”

Koy added that he still appreciated the experience.

“We just had 10 days to try and write something for this monologue. It was a crash course. And, you know, I feel bad but I gotta still say that I loved what I did.”

Koy got off to a rocky start when his monologue failed to land with audience members. Some of his jokes, particularly one about feminist film “Barbie,” were heavily criticized.

“‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’ are competing for cinematic box office achievements. ‘Oppenheimer’ is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project. And Barbie is on a plastic doll with big boobies,” Koy said.

Another, about Taylor Swift, fell flat.

“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL?” Koy said. “At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.”

Koy told Entertainment Tonight that the Swift joke was more so about the more frequent use of cutaway shots in NFL broadcasts than the Globes.

“Aww, man, it was cute. I was just saying it was cute,” Koy told ET of the joke. “I was just saying it’s less cutaways, that’s all.”

Koy, who previously said in a statement that he hoped to make his “Filipino family” proud and spoke about the power of representation prior to the ceremony, did have some positive things to say about the night, including the several wins for the Asian American community. Three awards of the night went to “Beef,” starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.

“It’s not just one, it’s for all of us,” Koy said.

It was like Tuesdays at the Laugh Factory.

Complaining about the audience time and time again is not a pro comic.

He really is a bad standup.

Who the fuck is Jo Koy anyhow?

r96, he is some cable comic who thought he was mainstream, but ain't.

R43 They don't get paid much for these gigs. One of the reasons why Billy Crystal didn't want to do it anymore. Too much pressure, too little money.

R98, The Academy pays the host $15,000.00.

“Jimmy Kimmel Revealed That His Salary For Hosting The Oscars Was $15,000

Speaking alongside Wanda Sykes, the two discussed the actual pay for hosting the Oscars. Sykes initiated the conversation, stating that she wasn't making much for the hosting gig.“

That's lousy pay for all the weeks of work and prep.

His career is over.

Why are they paid so little?

R103, I’m sure they also receive perks such as an expense account, their writers are paid and their personal staff.

Plus, they will be viewed by millions internationally.

It’s viewed as a good promotional platform for the host.

Unless you're Jo Koy.

Can we say Career Killing, boys and girls?

Koy has moved from wanna-be to never was.

next year's host already has a good joke on Jo.

And this is how it is done...

Does Mulaney look hot?

I fel sorry for him. Isn't this the gig no one wanted?

Mulaney is excellent in that clip at R109, a great audition for similar but bigger gigs.

Jo Koy was awful. A couple of the jokes landed, but most were amateurish. By the way, the Taylor Swift about NFL cameras was funny and harmless. It was not insulting to Swift at all. Swift is a humorless, stick up her ass moron.

Jo Koy's fans will still be his fans, but he didn't gain any new ones with that sub-par performance. Looking back, perhaps he shouldn't have accepted the gigif he only had 10 days to prepare, and his writers only had eight days. He was looking for an international audience and it failed.

This is dreadful!