Steve Martin says Jo Koy had ‘toughest performance’ as Golden Globes host
Steve Martin knows better than anyone that hosting is not for the faint of heart, so he cuts Jo Koy some slack after the 2024 Golden Globes.
“I tip my hat to anyone who steps on stage to host a live awards ceremony,” Martin, 78, wrote. via Wires on Tuesday, January 9. “It is 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 Only murders in the building star 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 both 2001 and 2003. In 2010 he returned to collaborate with Alec Baldwin. Koy, meanwhile, made his hosting debut on Sunday, January 7, with the 81st annual Golden Globes.
Many of his opening monologue jokes fell flat, which Koy, 52, quickly addressed. “I got the gig 10 days ago! Do you want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up,” he told the crowd. “I wrote a few of them, and they make you laugh.”
Koy left guests and viewers at home speechless when he made the mockery Barbie and seemed to completely miss the film’s powerful message about female advancement. “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 breasts,” the comedian said.
Jo Koy speaks on stage at the 81st Golden Globe Awards.
Rich Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty ImagesBarbie director Greta Gerwig addressed the awkward joke during an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today, saying, “Well, he’s not wrong. She’s the first mass-produced doll with breasts, so he was right. And you know, I think a lot of the project of the film was implausible because it’s about a plastic doll.
During the award ceremony, Koy also made a joke Taylor Swiftof those who are lost Barbie in the Cinematic Box Office Achievement category for her Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie.
Jo Koy made waves at the 2024 Golden Globes when he poked fun at Taylor Swift and her connection to the NFL, but he insists he wasn’t trying to be mean. “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? We have less camera footage of Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes. I […]
“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? We have less camera footage of Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes. I swear,” Koy said as the camera switched to Swift, 34, who was constantly in the spotlight at Kansas City Chiefs games as he cheered on his friend Travis Kelce. “There’s just more to go to.”
Swift was caught making an unamused face in the crowd before sipping her drink. Although Swift has yet to publicly discuss her now-viral response, Koy has spoken out about his joke. “It was a compliment,” Koy said Additional after the awards ceremony, noting that he meant Swift “could be more intimate tonight, that’s all.”
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During a performance op GMA3: What You Need to Know on Monday, January 8, Koy admitted he felt bad about his Swift shot. “It was a weird joke, I guess,” he said.
Koy received mixed reviews for his time on stage, but some actors, especially those who have hosted award shows, came to his defense. “These hosting gigs are brutal,” Whoopi Goldberg her colleague said The view cohosts on Monday. ‘They’re just cruel. If you don’t know the room, if you haven’t been in these rooms before and you’re pushed there, it’s hit and miss.
Goldberg, who has hosted the Oscars four times, admitted: “I don’t know if it was the room or the jokes, I didn’t see it, but I do know he’s as good as it gets when it comes down to it . to stand-ups. It’s not an easy gig. If you read the reviews of some of the gigs I’ve had where they just wished me into the cornfields, die on the vine, it’s not an easy gig.