Jo Koy claims he’s providing himself an A-plus for holding the Golden Globes simply days after the historic gig got reaction.
The comic and star talked to the Los Angeles Times simply days after the turbulent experience, which saw Koy revealed as the occasion’s host simply 10 days prior to the event. In the meeting, which likewise touched on his approaching trip and just how he crafts his specials, Koy rated his efficiency and addressed why he would certainly take a gig where his writers really did not enter into an area with each other up until 2 days prior to the occasion.
“I don’t want to give myself a rating because that’s subjective, you can give me whatever rating you want,” he claimed.“I’m gonna give myself an A-plus just based on the courage [to do it]. I’m going to hit it over the head a million times, whoever you can think of in your head that could have done it, I’m telling you right now they said no, and I didn’t.”
The factor he really did not, he claimed, was because of its historic nature. “The history of the show is 81 years. That’s 81 hosts and some repeated. I’m the first Asian to ever solo host. It’s 2024. I’m the first out of 81 years. Sandra Oh was the first co-host, but I was the first solo host,” he claimed.“Imagine if someone said yes before me, we’d still be at the 82nd Golden Globes and still no Asian as a solo host, so if I didn’t say yes, there still would never have been.”
While Koy claimed he’s “happy I did it because I did accept that challenge,” the truth that they were “writing up until they said we’re live” and doing “absolute cold reads” without an opportunity to function anything out, elevated some concerns for him.
“This is not an excuse, I’m just trying to paint the picture because I don’t think people understand, in any situation, how is that geared towards winning?” he informed the L.A. Times.
Throughout the meeting, he likewise resolved a comment viewed as a small to his composing group after his talk stopped working to make stimulating assistance from the Golden Globes space. “I wrote some of these [jokes], and they’re the ones you’re laughing at!” he claimed at the time. Currently, Koy is calling that a “rookie move.”
“I love my writers. I love all three of them, and I shouted them out. And I told them like that was a moment right there where I’m just grasping. I love them, and I can’t stop talking about them in every interview. They busted their ass, man,” he claimed.“There’s a lot of greats that make rookie moves. That was a rookie move. Those writers are dope, and that was not my intention at all. They were amazing, they had my back, and I need to make sure I fix that, and I will, I always will.”
The Easter Sunday celebrity once more resolved doubters of his Barbie and Taylor Swift jokes, with Koy specifying he “didn’t understand the Taylor tiff” and that those upset over his Barbie “boobies” product had actually left him questioning “what happened to society where we can’t even joke with each other anymore.”
“I did that [Swift] joke, and I’m like, what just happened?” he showed. “Mind you, that one was just getting rewritten 50 million times, never ran it through, all the way up until we had to walk out. It’s just weird, where do you place it, and we kept hammering it and cutting it down. But the whole intention of that joke was to make fun of the NFL.”
“Then, just the reaction to the Barbie joke. The things that are being said, it’s just like, man, I don’t think you understand who I am as a person, you know what I mean?” he included.
Koy is remaining to speak up regarding his efficiency, with Hollywood names– consisting of fellow comics, stars and writers like Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin– safeguarding him after he encountered a wave of objection on social regarding his Swift and Barbie jokes, writers remarks and extra.
On Wednesday, Barbie supervisor Greta Gerwig reacted straight, sharing that his joke regarding Oppenheimer being based on a Pulitzer Champion publication while Barbie has to do with “a plastic doll with big boobies” had not been completely incorrect.
“Well, he’s not wrong. She’s the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on,” she claimed. “And you know, I think that so much of the project of the movie was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll.”