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Yikes! Fil-Am Comedian Jo Koy Faces Backlash After ‘Cringe’ Jokes at the Golden Globes

Yikes! Fil-Am Comedian Jo Koy Faces Backlash After ‘Cringe’ Jokes at the Golden Globes

Jan 8, 2024   •   Kyzia Maramara

In any other situation, Pinoys would’ve been thumping their chests with pride seeing Jo Koy host the prestigious Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles. But after the “absolutely awful,” “cringe,” and borderline insulting jokes the Filipino-American comedian dished out in his monologue, it’s safe to say Pinoys are distancing themselves from him.

 

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Koy (real name Joseph Glenn Herbert Sr.) was announced on Dec. 21 as the award show’s pick for a host and the move isn’t exactly surprising. With a total of six stand-up specials on Netflix and Comedy Central combined, this guy already has a rep for keeping folks entertained. So what exactly happened for the Internet to drop him like a hot potato?

 

When he joked about Barbie

Not even three minutes into his opening monologue, Koy took a jab at Barbie, saying it was a film “based on a plastic doll with big boobies.” The camera, then, cuts to Barbie director, Greta Gerwig, visibly uncomfortable with someone including her life’s work as a punchline for a misogynistic joke. Ironic, too, especially with the movie’s themes of female empowerment.

But Koy had an even more cringe follow-up: “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.'” Selena Gomez cringed so hard on this one she had to put her head in her hands:

 

When he threw his writers under the bus

After the Barbie joke landed flat on an unimpressed audience — Koy already lost them and everyone online — the comedian was quick to hang his writers out to dry. “Some I wrote, some other people wrote,” he murmured into the mic, justifying the words coming out of his mouth. He also revealed he only had 10 days to prepare for the monologue hence, it’s a bit rough.

“You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. You’re kidding me, right? Slow down. I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at,” he said.

Later, Marlow Stern of the Rolling Stones would write that Koy was met with boos and jeers from the crowd.

“Standup comedy should be illegal and this is evidence,” wrote one person on X.

“That was painful to watch,” said another. What they didn’t know at that time was that it was going to be a lot more painful because Koy wasn’t finished yet.

 

When he made a jab at Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift’s name somehow always makes its way into the punchline for comedians, scriptwriters, late-night hosts, and comedy specials everywhere. Guess that’s what naturally happens when you’re the pillar of pop culture. Koy was no different.

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

And Taylor Swift? She was unbothered, drinking her champagne. She knew by now not to tolerate jokes made at her expense. However, Swifties online are a different thing and Koy might be surprised to see the sheer number of mentions on his X notifications.

 

The crowd wasn’t pleased

In his 10-minute monologue, Koy also took a jab at Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose while playing Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, saying it looked like it belonged to a scene from Saltburn. Folks on X criticized him for antisemitism. He also cracked a joke about The Color Purple, Steven Spielberg’s coming-of-age film, and compared it to the color of someone’s bottom after taking Ozempic, a drug for treating diabetes and also Hollywood’s favorite weight loss hack.

Bottomline: Folks weren’t pleased. If the awkward silence at the Golden Globes was enough to make Koy keep apologizing and saying he didn’t write the jokes, he would have a heart attack going online. Koy managed to trend his name alongside the word “Cringe” and that’s just in the Philippines.

Check out these scathing posts criticizing his Golden Globes hosting:

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to check out his whole monologue, you can find it here.

Jo Koy has yet to comment on the backlash but everyone is convinced he won’t be invited to host for an awards show any time soon.

 

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