Golden Globes: Jo Koyâs monologue bombs, blames writers after getting booed
It was a rough start for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday.
Host and stand-up comic Jo Koy hosted the annual event and to say his monologue fell flat would be an understatement.
Koy got the gig late last month. That, combined with the writers’ strike, didn’t help matters.
Here are just some of the jokes.
On getting the late call to host:
“I locked myself in a room and started binge-watching everything. While my family was clinking champagne glasses and ringing in the New Year, my family was watching Oppenheimer,” Koy said. “I loved Oppenheimer. I just got one complaint: (It) needed another hour, because I felt like it needed some more backstory. My New Year’s resolution for 2024 is to finish Oppenheimer in 2025. I love Oppenheimer — especially the first season.”
The camera then cut to Christopher Nolan, who wasn’t laughing.
Koy then said, “That’s so stupid.”
He then made Barbie his target.
“‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’ are competing for cinematic box office achievement,” Koy said. “‘Oppenheimer’ is based on a 724-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie is based on a plastic doll with big boobies.”
That’s when the boos started.
“The key moment in ‘Barbie’ is when she goes from perfect beauty to bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet — or what casting directors call ‘character actor.’”
Koy, recognizing he was losing the crowd, blamed the lack of laughs on joke writers.
“Some I wrote, some other people wrote,” he said. “Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago. You want a perfect monologue? Shut up! You’re kidding me, right? I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”
Koy opened with a joke about watching the nominated titles: “I lied. I only watch ‘Beef,’” the Filipino American actor joked. “It’s mandatory. I’m Asian.”
Koy is the second Asian host in Globes history. Sandra Oh emceed the show in 2019.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.