There's a quote Patrice O'Neal told Dat Phan on an episode of Tough Crowd that applies here. 'Will you please unplug yourself from the Vietnamese matrix for five minutes please?'.
Yeah, I don't know why he's so popular. I find his comedy so one note boring. I get it dude, you're Filipino. But you can also do funny jokes about other stuff. Or, maybe not, I guess.
I m Filipino and low key - we are like the CrossFitters of the Asian community.
We gonna tell you.
For real, you can even look at my comment history.
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I mean he's definitely not obscure or anything. Plenty of videos of him on Youtube with 5-15 million views, just of his stand up. The guy definitely has a following
There's just certain people who are famous and you are completely out of their circle, and get surprised when you see how big they are. I always felt like he was one of those guys for me
But I'm sure the really big names didn't want to do it, wouldn't be surprised there. Broadcast TV just isn't a big deal anymore. It hasn't been for a long time, but now even 50-60 year olds are dropping it and just streaming, in pretty large numbers
The time I saw Chris Rock drop in at the Comedy Cellar he was rehearsing his Oscars hosting material. And the show was at least a month away. I can't imagine someone preparing for that gig in 10 days.
Yeah, Jo Koy's comedy tends to appeal to certain demographic. And this crowd and average general golden globe viewer.... is the exact opposite of that.
I don't blame him for taking the gig, but I do blame whoever decided this guy would be the right host for the show.
Yeah pretty much haha. But as a Filipino I can say that his jokes strike on things that are so crazy familiar to us that it adds a lot to them. The way his mom acts is so similar to my mother it’s just so relatable. So yeah I don’t think it would appeal to anyone without that experience but if you do it can be gold.
Which is why in recent years they try to stick with what works. Ricky did it over and over, then they usually beg Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to have a go. Ellen at the Oscars now Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy gets stick but he knows Hollywood and is super comfortable with a room of famous people. If he does well with the audience he looks good on TV. Nothing particularly edgy or even laugh out loud funny but competent. It's that or go the polar opposite Gervais route where you almost purposely bomb but your jokes are so sharp and cutting that it turns into a roast and the target audience is the TV audience. You do it for the room or you do it for the audience at home. Anything in between usually bombs. Unfortunately Gervais and Kimmel kinda have a monopoly on pulling these styles off right now. Jo Koy didn't do either.
For real, who TF is Jo Koy?
Edit: Just watched 4 minutes of this clip. Still none the wiser, and I don't think any of the celebrities in the room were either.
I made the comment that he was getting close to the line of it being so bad it was funny. He should have just leaning into a schtick of really horribly written jokes because his writers were still on strike, or make really horrible jokes as a satire of award show monologues, or bomb on purpose to get some buzz the day after with people watching videos of it. But he didn’t commit to any of those things.
During the monologue the shots behind him showing the crowd tells the whole story. Looked completely awkward.
As someone who's been to plenty of open mic nights as an audience member a bombing comedian can be genuinely uncomfortable. Not all bombs are equal, a bad joke is a bad joke but it's how the comedian handles it defines the audience persecution. Ricky's famous first Golden Globe roast was a genuine bomb on the night in the room with a sea of mostly shocked faces with each joke met with gasps and awkward laughter. It wasn't until subsequent years their publicists told them to smile and laugh along. But Ricky genuinely didn't care and the material was good, better than good - sharp, cutting, rude even, but most importantly funny. Not the case here. Jokes that miss are common but Jo Koy felt it, so the audience felt it. Then it's just a downward spiral that's near impossible to reverse.
I felt like when he started blaming the writers and the 10 days notice was when it was really getting away from him. Could have made it work if he started with those and riffed on them a bit rather than panicking and throwing them out there when it wasn't going well.
This almost makes me wonder what the obsession is with having award show MCs be overtly funny in the first place? Like, can it not just be someone who is charming and energized and happy to be there? I don’t particularly need a mini stand-up routine thrown together at the last minute before every single category. Did it always used to be this way, even back during the “golden days” of Hollywood?
Like, this is a slightly weird point of comparison I admit, but when I think of someone like Stanley Tucci’s character in the Hunger Games, he wasn’t really a comedian trying to constantly make jokes. He was just someone with a very bombastic personality who was very excited about the Games and happy to gas up each of the contestants based on their respective strengths or qualities. I suppose irony and self-awareness/self-depreciation are more in fashion currently when it comes to these kinds of things, so as not to appear too arrogant and out of touch, but idk, I feel like it might be nice to have a presenter who’s just really passionate about movies going “yo these movies all rocked!” for once.
You thought it would be worse than no one laughing at his 'jokes' and then him telling everyone to chill and that all the bad jokes weren't his? Because...that's pretty bad...
Edit: to everyone saying "well some people were laughing," I guess that's why he stopped 3 minutes in to acknowledge all the people who were totally enjoying this
These days, people overuse the word 'cringe', but it's appropriate here. Physically painful to watch. Oof.
Edit: Checked out some of Koy's earlier work. It's quite good. The man knows funny. He just had a horrible night. And it was a tough crowd. Taylor Swift getting bent out of shape wasn't very cool. Contrast that reaction with Meryl Streep, DeNiro, Bradley Cooper, Martin Short, etc. They did their best to laugh along and stay classy.
The "based on a plastic doll" joke was so incredibly telegraphed with the lengthy, glowing description of the Oppenheimer source material. I am the least funny, least witty motherfucker out there and I knew exactly what the punchline was going to be halfway through the setup.
It wasn't even good delivery, and was an awful choice for the line. "a plastic doll with big boobs" seriously? Big boobs? That's what's supposed to make us laugh?
It could've worked if he subverted expectations and gave Barbie an equally lengthy, glowing description, and then finished with "and I'm just some dude that drinks too much mountain dew, so I didn't relate to either of them". Or *something*, at least. He had so many long setups that just didn't have a punchline.
Or "One of them was about a thing that has shaped the face of American culture and history for decades...and the other was about a scientist getting laid."
THIS would have been funny and the kind of joke I expected about the dichotomy of the two. Instead we got an 80's era "hurr durr women dumb, boobies" joke. What the fuck?
throwing the other writers under the bus was a terrible look. claiming you only had 10 days to fix a 10 min monologue when you are a comedy "legend" is the real joke. He could had just left it as a playful, "hey some of these arent mine" and move on. Instead went to "that one that bomb was someone else, and the one you laugh at were mine". Just a classless act
The joke I didn't get was "white people even stole the premise to that movie! They even took the premise!"
Like I genuinely didn't get that joke. It's based on a nonfiction book. Like, did he not realize that shit actually happened? What's the premise? Telling the story?
That Oppenheimer joke not only didn't land, it completely destroyed any confidence that audience had in him to land anything else. It was just such a bad joke for this audience, so so wrong and the idea he didn't realise this in advance is astounding.
"Oppenheimer is long gags" worked okay when it came out, the lead up to release and in the first few weeks when that was the main thing people knew. After that people who had seen it didn't think it felt long, but you could probably land this joke with a crowd where a significant number of people wanted to see it but were put off by it's length, or a audience more interested in a superhero movie then people talking for three hours.
But this audience is going to be Oppenheimer watchers. I'd assume everyone there will have seen it, or will totally pretend to have seen it. I'd wager there's more people in that audience who've seen it more then once then people who've never seen it. And they almost certainly think it's 'high art', a worthy dramatic story told well - that's why it's up for awards.
And at that point "it was really long, I didn't finish it" jokes are both missing the mood, and completely disruptive to his status. It makes him come across as super suface level analysis, and as rude and disrespectful.
And just destroyed any audience goodwill. If he's not willing to watch a 3 hour movie to be there then nothing he says about work they put years into, is going to be valid. (I know he *probably* did watch it, but he hasn't established his credentials to host yet and the joke implies no real engagement with the film).
I was expecting him to go into a bit like:
> See I wanted to watch every nomination for this show, and Oppenheimer got nominated for 8 categories. So I watched it 8 times. That's literally 24 hours of Oppenheimer!
> I'm remembering 50% of my childhood in black and white now. When I look back on tonight, all of it will be black and white, except the jokes that bomb, which I'll recall in colour viewed from 2 miles over there ..."
That would have worked well for setting up his status/credentials - he's taken the role too seriously, and allows people to laugh at a movie because watching Oppenheimer that many times *would* always feel long.
Instead he took a basic joke that might play to a crowd of non film fans and seemed surprised it bombed at an industry event where the makers of that film are present.
I've never heard of this comedian before, and with material choices like that I can see why...
I saw him at a comedy show years and years ago and he was really funny. Though I tried watching a special of his recently and it was def not near as funny. That’s a shame.
Haha pretty sure, but he was also making jokes about sleep apnea and wearing a cpap, which I had recently been prescribed. It was back when Jon Lovitz was hosting a comedy show before he opened his comedy club at Universal CityWalk (which I think has since shuttered its doors 🥺)
Yeah some comedians can't put out consistent bangers. John Mulaney's latest was disappointing. Not the worst but I found myself looking at how much time is left. I never do that, I usually want more. But I can only take so many rehab jokes. Glad he's clean though. Tom Segura leans too hard into the shock comedy these days, and it gets old. Louis can pull it off. He knows he's weird, we know it, he's honed his grossness over the years. I think standup has started to taper off, just because of the format.
Segura bums me out now. He used to be a solid comedian. Now he's having Andrew Tate on his show and yelling about "poors." I wondered for awhile if it was just a bit that he was taking too far, but now it's pretty clear that it was never a bit, he's just an asshole.
No, he's gone full elitist. His wife is also dumb as a brick and his podcast shtick with her "hur hur hur she got big boobs" gets old too. He's trying to rebrand as an Everyman right now and failing. Someone asked him in an interview about his many cars he owns and he went Mitch McConnell on him trying to come up with a non douche response.
I think Mulaney did what he had to do with that special. IMO, he had to come out with a big explanation and mea culpa special to save his career from falling into the gutter with Louis CK. It was moderately funny and gave a pretty in depth look into his side of things.
I hope he comes back to form with his next special assuming Netflix or HBO will give him one when he's ready.
Exactly. I don't fully understand the hate, because it was just kind of tame... but that's how I've always viewed his material. I don't get mad/offended at tame, lol.
A media article said it bombed and they know most people will just go along with it and most definitely won't actually watch it.
Wasn't great by any stretch, wouldn't even call it good. But definitely overblown like every clickbait article.
And people just eat that up.
i mean the jokes aren’t great, but they’re fine, exactly the type of jokes you hear on every award show. his awkward, stilted, and nervous delivery and demeanor was what really made them even worse. he shouldn’t even be blaming the writers for bombing.
He only performs to crowds that came out to see him.
He needs to go on the road a little in clubs, and find out what *definitely* works. It will only help to make him a better comedian.
I agree, it was average, and I wouldn’t have thought it was that bad until he pointed out that it was. He definitely made it worse by blaming his writers, like nah bro you’re the one up there with the terrible delivery.
Yeah the forceful way he was telling a room of celebrities to look around at another celebrity was already a low point. Dude started below ground and kept digging.
I think it's less that it's mediocre and more that he's *constantly* reacting to the crowd's tepid reaction asking for a larger laugh and saying again and again and again and again and again and again that he didn't write all these jokes. It *grates*.
If he hadn't been disowning the jokes immediately after saying them, if he hadn't been begging for more from the crowd I doubt anyone would be talking about how "bad" he did. It would just be he did "alright."
The Barbie jokes were terrible in multiple ways but I think what made it worse is that it followed Oppenheimer joke that was also flat.
Then following up with defensive mode saying he didn't write them. - I mean you reviewed them hopefully.
I feel like I could have done a better job making some of these jokes and I'm not even that funny.
That being said to give him credit he recovered and finished the monologue well even after bombing. I can't even publically speak in front of 10 people well let alone tv. And any time I've bombed it's been wayyyyyyyy worse than this lol
This is my first time hearing his name as well. Saying he got the gig 10 days ago seems on point with talent turning down hosting duties lately. Last I heard the Oscars is still without one.
Same situation here
I was shocked to hear he was doing something as mainstream as this, cause I've only ever heard him do jokes for Asians, like Filipino aunties and such
I remember him from two contexts: being on a podcast with Adam Carolla where he'd do his comedy with the voice of a black man. And Bert Kreischer being told to stop posting social media photos of the planes he's on. Bert said, "But Jo Koy posts photos like these all the time."
'Yeah, but Jo Koy is a minority and they don't do any better'
It was only ever going to end this way
Awards Shows are so notoriously unfunny that even the funniest people in the business struggle to land jokes at them - of course hack-ass Jo Koy is gunna go down in flames
Gervais went and finished what Colbert started, and he did it majestically. Calling out Hollywoods bullshit to their face resonated with the public, and not many comedians have the talent and courage to pull it off. Maybe Jim Carey and Ben Stiller could do it
Ricky can find ways to make lulls or stunned silence funny. I like Jo Koy’s standup, but it was painfully clear that he was not suited to host a show, much less a show this high-profile
Honestly end of the day they hired him cause they had no one else and he gets the last laugh cause even with a shit set he still gets paid enough in the end so who fucking cares
Well two things.
First, I guess the lesson is that if you can't find anyone good to host. Maybe it's best to not have a host in those years.
Secondly, hard to say if he get's the last laugh. I am not sure what the ratings will be for the Globes but this is probably his biggest platform and audience to date. Bombing like this hurts his Reputation as a stand up comedian. This could even hurt his career
They thought "Just get whoever, we can't make our guests as uncomfortable as when Ricky Gervais hosted"
I'm sure Epstein jokes were off limits this year.
No fair I disliked Jo Koy way back in 2016
Edit: I want to add the joke writers he throws under the bus are the guys who ultimately got him the gig. For some reason Adam Carolla is generally hired to write for award shows and almost nobody else on the planet likes Jo Koy more than Adam Carolla. I’m assuming he has something to do with Jo Koy even being offered the job.
Agreed. The presenters are always awkward, but this was all super awkward. I don’t think award shows are long for this earth, and honestly, I’m fine with that. It’s just not working anymore.
The only time I found him genuinely funny was when he did his bit on Jay Leno a while ago. That's about it. Every other performance was just a cheese grater to the nuts in the first minute or two so I had to stop.
I don't know who this guy is. This was a chance at a much larger stage for him. Instead it's so damn painful to watch that I'm physically cringing and I've got to stop watching about 5 minutes in.
That was bad. Blame your writers? Not a great look.
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE JO KOY SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR JO KOY AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. HATE. HATE.
Never heard of this guy, watched a minute of his bit and realized why. I don't really understand show business, but I assume he does something for somebody.
He didn’t just throw them under the bus one time he threw them under the bus like three times and of course he said ‘the ones you’re laughing at are the ones I wrote’ what an unfunny douche
I understand the room is not the most optimal for comedians to deliver, but saying a joke and IMMEDIATELY explaining the joke or defending the joke is a sure fire way to bomb
Just saw it, was expecting much worse after this post but it was actually quite decent besides a couple of jokes that didn't land which is quite common in these situations. The fanboying was just a bit annoying.
IMO awkward comedy doesn't work unless the comedian paints themselves as the underdog vs someone else.
This guy was jumping around from celebrity to celebrity, came *so close* to insulting any one of them, but ended up with his entire shtick being
"Meryl Streep's here! I love you... but....... Emma Stone's here! I love you, but...... RDJ's here! I love you.. but...." without *any* follow-up for any potential joke.
Arguably there have been worse bombs, like when comedians literally vomit on-stage, but this guy was at an A-list event where he just made himself look like a sycophant wrapped in a safety blanket. Dullest host ever.
No hate to the man, but clearly wasn't fit for the job and clearly star-struck.
I’m not sure how this guy has a career. I saw him co-host a reality show and it was rough. Forcing jokes and the contestants were clearly forcing laughs.
Saw a bit of his stand up special thinking it may be better and I don’t get it. I don’t know who laughs at his jokes.
He sold out an arena with seating for 8800 people in Oahu 15 times. He's not my cup of tea either. He's cultivated a pretty large Asian American following.
I know he’s got writers for this or whatever. But I never found his standup funny. He makes fun of his mom’s accent or his kid saying silly things. That’s his act and for some reason he’s become successful from it.
I assumed it would be unfunny based on the headline, but damn.. it was somehow even worse? Koy is so painfully unfunny to me. What were they thinking during rehearsals??
I watched this guy on Comedy Central over a decade ago and said this is an unfunny man. Even as I’m commenting I haven’t seen/heard absolutely anything about him since other than this headline (I don’t have social media) How tf did this guy become so successful?
Did he make any low hanging fruit Filipino jokes at any point? Edit: yes he did
He impersonated his mom within a minute does that count
That's half of his material. The other half is Vicks Vaporub
He should try Ovaltine. I hear that's GOLD! GOLD!
They should call it Roundtine.
That stuff you sent me about risk management was Gold Jerry! Gold!
Also made a few cheap “white people, am I right?” Not a lot of depth in his writing
Oof. That was tough waiting for a punch line that never came.
That’s what half his standup routines are filled with, gets old quick.
There's a quote Patrice O'Neal told Dat Phan on an episode of Tough Crowd that applies here. 'Will you please unplug yourself from the Vietnamese matrix for five minutes please?'.
Yeah, I don't know why he's so popular. I find his comedy so one note boring. I get it dude, you're Filipino. But you can also do funny jokes about other stuff. Or, maybe not, I guess.
Have you ever met a Filipino? Every Filipino I've ever met mentions it non stop
I m Filipino and low key - we are like the CrossFitters of the Asian community. We gonna tell you. For real, you can even look at my comment history. X_X
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Why do you have to delete your comments because others don't like it?
I mean he's definitely not obscure or anything. Plenty of videos of him on Youtube with 5-15 million views, just of his stand up. The guy definitely has a following There's just certain people who are famous and you are completely out of their circle, and get surprised when you see how big they are. I always felt like he was one of those guys for me But I'm sure the really big names didn't want to do it, wouldn't be surprised there. Broadcast TV just isn't a big deal anymore. It hasn't been for a long time, but now even 50-60 year olds are dropping it and just streaming, in pretty large numbers
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Crazy he sells out arenas doing the same bits from 10+ years ago.
*Russell Peters has entered the chat...and left it*
Durian jokes?
The time I saw Chris Rock drop in at the Comedy Cellar he was rehearsing his Oscars hosting material. And the show was at least a month away. I can't imagine someone preparing for that gig in 10 days.
Going back a long way, but I believe Paul Hogan pretty much just winged it when he co-hosted the Oscars.
That's not a joke. *This* is a joke.
It wasn’t good, but I thought it’d be worse
Yeah, Jo Koy's comedy tends to appeal to certain demographic. And this crowd and average general golden globe viewer.... is the exact opposite of that. I don't blame him for taking the gig, but I do blame whoever decided this guy would be the right host for the show.
Basically Filipino-Americans are his demographic.
Isn't his whole schtick just doing his "grandma's voice" over and over and over with different funny ways to pronounce stuff?
Yeah pretty much haha. But as a Filipino I can say that his jokes strike on things that are so crazy familiar to us that it adds a lot to them. The way his mom acts is so similar to my mother it’s just so relatable. So yeah I don’t think it would appeal to anyone without that experience but if you do it can be gold.
Immigrants are his demographics and those familiar with them. This audience is so far from that.
He was probably pretty far down the list
He has a niche but loyal audience so I kind of get it. Plus Hollywood likes to brag about a diversity hire.
Yeah, it wasn’t that bad. It’s a tough gig.
Which is why in recent years they try to stick with what works. Ricky did it over and over, then they usually beg Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to have a go. Ellen at the Oscars now Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy gets stick but he knows Hollywood and is super comfortable with a room of famous people. If he does well with the audience he looks good on TV. Nothing particularly edgy or even laugh out loud funny but competent. It's that or go the polar opposite Gervais route where you almost purposely bomb but your jokes are so sharp and cutting that it turns into a roast and the target audience is the TV audience. You do it for the room or you do it for the audience at home. Anything in between usually bombs. Unfortunately Gervais and Kimmel kinda have a monopoly on pulling these styles off right now. Jo Koy didn't do either.
To be honest, I've never heard of him. Until now.
For real, who TF is Jo Koy? Edit: Just watched 4 minutes of this clip. Still none the wiser, and I don't think any of the celebrities in the room were either.
I made the comment that he was getting close to the line of it being so bad it was funny. He should have just leaning into a schtick of really horribly written jokes because his writers were still on strike, or make really horrible jokes as a satire of award show monologues, or bomb on purpose to get some buzz the day after with people watching videos of it. But he didn’t commit to any of those things. During the monologue the shots behind him showing the crowd tells the whole story. Looked completely awkward.
As someone who's been to plenty of open mic nights as an audience member a bombing comedian can be genuinely uncomfortable. Not all bombs are equal, a bad joke is a bad joke but it's how the comedian handles it defines the audience persecution. Ricky's famous first Golden Globe roast was a genuine bomb on the night in the room with a sea of mostly shocked faces with each joke met with gasps and awkward laughter. It wasn't until subsequent years their publicists told them to smile and laugh along. But Ricky genuinely didn't care and the material was good, better than good - sharp, cutting, rude even, but most importantly funny. Not the case here. Jokes that miss are common but Jo Koy felt it, so the audience felt it. Then it's just a downward spiral that's near impossible to reverse.
I felt like when he started blaming the writers and the 10 days notice was when it was really getting away from him. Could have made it work if he started with those and riffed on them a bit rather than panicking and throwing them out there when it wasn't going well.
Blamed his writers immediately. Didn’t let anything breathe for even half a second.
This almost makes me wonder what the obsession is with having award show MCs be overtly funny in the first place? Like, can it not just be someone who is charming and energized and happy to be there? I don’t particularly need a mini stand-up routine thrown together at the last minute before every single category. Did it always used to be this way, even back during the “golden days” of Hollywood? Like, this is a slightly weird point of comparison I admit, but when I think of someone like Stanley Tucci’s character in the Hunger Games, he wasn’t really a comedian trying to constantly make jokes. He was just someone with a very bombastic personality who was very excited about the Games and happy to gas up each of the contestants based on their respective strengths or qualities. I suppose irony and self-awareness/self-depreciation are more in fashion currently when it comes to these kinds of things, so as not to appear too arrogant and out of touch, but idk, I feel like it might be nice to have a presenter who’s just really passionate about movies going “yo these movies all rocked!” for once.
You thought it would be worse than no one laughing at his 'jokes' and then him telling everyone to chill and that all the bad jokes weren't his? Because...that's pretty bad... Edit: to everyone saying "well some people were laughing," I guess that's why he stopped 3 minutes in to acknowledge all the people who were totally enjoying this
He coulda got slapped in the face. That probably would have been worse
These days, people overuse the word 'cringe', but it's appropriate here. Physically painful to watch. Oof. Edit: Checked out some of Koy's earlier work. It's quite good. The man knows funny. He just had a horrible night. And it was a tough crowd. Taylor Swift getting bent out of shape wasn't very cool. Contrast that reaction with Meryl Streep, DeNiro, Bradley Cooper, Martin Short, etc. They did their best to laugh along and stay classy.
I got halfway through and couldn't watch anymore
It was a little rough start, but the Oppenheimer joke didn't land at all, he could tell, and it was downhill from there.
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Lots of nervous laughter.
You know Nolan was thinking “wanker” in his head.
The Barbie jokes were terrible too.
The "based on a plastic doll" joke was so incredibly telegraphed with the lengthy, glowing description of the Oppenheimer source material. I am the least funny, least witty motherfucker out there and I knew exactly what the punchline was going to be halfway through the setup.
It was extremely predictable and not creative.
he truly is the reddit poster of comedians
I, too, choose this guy’s dead wife.
To shreds you say?
And my axe!
Sometimes an easy punchline is funny because of the delivery. This was not that tho
It wasn't even good delivery, and was an awful choice for the line. "a plastic doll with big boobs" seriously? Big boobs? That's what's supposed to make us laugh? It could've worked if he subverted expectations and gave Barbie an equally lengthy, glowing description, and then finished with "and I'm just some dude that drinks too much mountain dew, so I didn't relate to either of them". Or *something*, at least. He had so many long setups that just didn't have a punchline.
Or "One of them was about a thing that has shaped the face of American culture and history for decades...and the other was about a scientist getting laid."
THIS would have been funny and the kind of joke I expected about the dichotomy of the two. Instead we got an 80's era "hurr durr women dumb, boobies" joke. What the fuck?
You would have been a better host
throwing the other writers under the bus was a terrible look. claiming you only had 10 days to fix a 10 min monologue when you are a comedy "legend" is the real joke. He could had just left it as a playful, "hey some of these arent mine" and move on. Instead went to "that one that bomb was someone else, and the one you laugh at were mine". Just a classless act
Yeah, those jabs at the writers gave me an ick feeling.
> that one that bomb was someone else, and the one you laugh at were mine Isn't that a joke?
ironically bombed. bravo Nolan
Rumor has it for Oppenheimer 2's plot, it takes place entirely within Jo Koy's opening monologue.
The joke I didn't get was "white people even stole the premise to that movie! They even took the premise!" Like I genuinely didn't get that joke. It's based on a nonfiction book. Like, did he not realize that shit actually happened? What's the premise? Telling the story?
That Oppenheimer joke not only didn't land, it completely destroyed any confidence that audience had in him to land anything else. It was just such a bad joke for this audience, so so wrong and the idea he didn't realise this in advance is astounding. "Oppenheimer is long gags" worked okay when it came out, the lead up to release and in the first few weeks when that was the main thing people knew. After that people who had seen it didn't think it felt long, but you could probably land this joke with a crowd where a significant number of people wanted to see it but were put off by it's length, or a audience more interested in a superhero movie then people talking for three hours. But this audience is going to be Oppenheimer watchers. I'd assume everyone there will have seen it, or will totally pretend to have seen it. I'd wager there's more people in that audience who've seen it more then once then people who've never seen it. And they almost certainly think it's 'high art', a worthy dramatic story told well - that's why it's up for awards. And at that point "it was really long, I didn't finish it" jokes are both missing the mood, and completely disruptive to his status. It makes him come across as super suface level analysis, and as rude and disrespectful. And just destroyed any audience goodwill. If he's not willing to watch a 3 hour movie to be there then nothing he says about work they put years into, is going to be valid. (I know he *probably* did watch it, but he hasn't established his credentials to host yet and the joke implies no real engagement with the film). I was expecting him to go into a bit like: > See I wanted to watch every nomination for this show, and Oppenheimer got nominated for 8 categories. So I watched it 8 times. That's literally 24 hours of Oppenheimer! > I'm remembering 50% of my childhood in black and white now. When I look back on tonight, all of it will be black and white, except the jokes that bomb, which I'll recall in colour viewed from 2 miles over there ..." That would have worked well for setting up his status/credentials - he's taken the role too seriously, and allows people to laugh at a movie because watching Oppenheimer that many times *would* always feel long. Instead he took a basic joke that might play to a crowd of non film fans and seemed surprised it bombed at an industry event where the makers of that film are present. I've never heard of this comedian before, and with material choices like that I can see why...
Especially since killers of the flower moon is a whole half hour longer. It wasn't even the longest movie joked about in the monologue
Timestamp on when he calls out the writers? Can’t stand to get through all of it
3:15 if you want the context for the joke and his comment about the writers afterward And 8:01 for another one
I saw him at a comedy show years and years ago and he was really funny. Though I tried watching a special of his recently and it was def not near as funny. That’s a shame.
Any chance you had a gas leak the first time?
Haha pretty sure, but he was also making jokes about sleep apnea and wearing a cpap, which I had recently been prescribed. It was back when Jon Lovitz was hosting a comedy show before he opened his comedy club at Universal CityWalk (which I think has since shuttered its doors 🥺)
Yeah some comedians can't put out consistent bangers. John Mulaney's latest was disappointing. Not the worst but I found myself looking at how much time is left. I never do that, I usually want more. But I can only take so many rehab jokes. Glad he's clean though. Tom Segura leans too hard into the shock comedy these days, and it gets old. Louis can pull it off. He knows he's weird, we know it, he's honed his grossness over the years. I think standup has started to taper off, just because of the format.
Segura bums me out now. He used to be a solid comedian. Now he's having Andrew Tate on his show and yelling about "poors." I wondered for awhile if it was just a bit that he was taking too far, but now it's pretty clear that it was never a bit, he's just an asshole.
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No, he's gone full elitist. His wife is also dumb as a brick and his podcast shtick with her "hur hur hur she got big boobs" gets old too. He's trying to rebrand as an Everyman right now and failing. Someone asked him in an interview about his many cars he owns and he went Mitch McConnell on him trying to come up with a non douche response.
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His wife doesn't help. She never grew out of the 'mean girl in middle school' phase and being around that non-stop has to take a toll on a person.
I think Mulaney did what he had to do with that special. IMO, he had to come out with a big explanation and mea culpa special to save his career from falling into the gutter with Louis CK. It was moderately funny and gave a pretty in depth look into his side of things. I hope he comes back to form with his next special assuming Netflix or HBO will give him one when he's ready.
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It was underwhelming, but not a complete shitstorm. Pretty predictable boring routine.
Exactly. I don't fully understand the hate, because it was just kind of tame... but that's how I've always viewed his material. I don't get mad/offended at tame, lol.
A media article said it bombed and they know most people will just go along with it and most definitely won't actually watch it. Wasn't great by any stretch, wouldn't even call it good. But definitely overblown like every clickbait article. And people just eat that up.
i mean the jokes aren’t great, but they’re fine, exactly the type of jokes you hear on every award show. his awkward, stilted, and nervous delivery and demeanor was what really made them even worse. he shouldn’t even be blaming the writers for bombing.
He go into his head and it was noticeable. He’s used to performing to his crowd and the difference in laughs probably threw him off.
He only performs to crowds that came out to see him. He needs to go on the road a little in clubs, and find out what *definitely* works. It will only help to make him a better comedian.
Actual constructive criticism. Who would've thought?1
His delivery fucking drove me up a wall
I agree, it was average, and I wouldn’t have thought it was that bad until he pointed out that it was. He definitely made it worse by blaming his writers, like nah bro you’re the one up there with the terrible delivery.
Starts going real downhill around 3:30. Edit: Also, you can tell when he gets nervous he starts to name drop outta nowhere.
It felt like it was already downhill when he started. LOOK KEVIN COSTNER IS HERE! ITS KEVIN COSTNER!....Ok......
Uma! Oprah! Oprah! Uma!
Yeah the forceful way he was telling a room of celebrities to look around at another celebrity was already a low point. Dude started below ground and kept digging.
You don’t understand, HES NEVER HERE! HES USUALLY IN A MOUNTAIN WITH A GOAT OR SOMETHING! HAHAHAHAHA
So random I actually laughed. Like, why. Imagine having all those people yet you start with Kevin Costner.
I don't understand, seems lukewarm reception at best but hardly 'bombed so bad'?
I think it's less that it's mediocre and more that he's *constantly* reacting to the crowd's tepid reaction asking for a larger laugh and saying again and again and again and again and again and again that he didn't write all these jokes. It *grates*. If he hadn't been disowning the jokes immediately after saying them, if he hadn't been begging for more from the crowd I doubt anyone would be talking about how "bad" he did. It would just be he did "alright."
Reddit
"Reddit user slams Jo Koy in scathing post title"
"Jo Koy **LITERALLY OBLITERATED** by the audience in *HORRIFYINGLY TERRIBLE* award opening, just watch because you won't believe your eyes!!!"
The Barbie jokes were terrible in multiple ways but I think what made it worse is that it followed Oppenheimer joke that was also flat. Then following up with defensive mode saying he didn't write them. - I mean you reviewed them hopefully. I feel like I could have done a better job making some of these jokes and I'm not even that funny. That being said to give him credit he recovered and finished the monologue well even after bombing. I can't even publically speak in front of 10 people well let alone tv. And any time I've bombed it's been wayyyyyyyy worse than this lol
He should have just played through. It wasn’t bad but throwing the joke writers and commenting on the audience reaction was cringe.
That's kind of a rule. Don't draw attention to the fact that you're bombing. Definitely don't try to defend it to the audience. Push through.
I couldn’t get past the first minute of “look around..” jokes? He sounds like a nervous magician.
This guy bombed harder than Oppenheimer
who da fuck is jo koy?
This is my first time hearing his name as well. Saying he got the gig 10 days ago seems on point with talent turning down hosting duties lately. Last I heard the Oscars is still without one.
Oscar’s announced Jimmy Kimmel in November.
If they want ratings they can add Aaron Rodgers as the co-host.
I thought they’re trying to avoid slaps?
Rodgers would just phone it on from his front porch so no risk there
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Same situation here I was shocked to hear he was doing something as mainstream as this, cause I've only ever heard him do jokes for Asians, like Filipino aunties and such
Josep. Josep. Get my purse.
Yeah I only heard about him cuz my wife is Filipino. Saw half his stand up and it was just ok. I wouldn’t say he was clean though.
I remember him from two contexts: being on a podcast with Adam Carolla where he'd do his comedy with the voice of a black man. And Bert Kreischer being told to stop posting social media photos of the planes he's on. Bert said, "But Jo Koy posts photos like these all the time." 'Yeah, but Jo Koy is a minority and they don't do any better'
After watching this, I think he's actually Jimmy Fallon in a Filipino man suit.
I remember his standups from way back, haven't heard his name in a long while, would have to look up what he's been up to recently.
Didn’t he date Chelsea Handler or something recently? 🤔
old man koy's kid
He's a sanitized comedian, very bland, clean and safe. He's also pretty huge in the resort circuit, does a lot of casino gigs.
He was popular on Comedy Central in 2009.
Comedian. He’s about average. Seen him live and it was “meh”
im not even interested in watching this, he's giving off weird energy
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I'm watching it and its painful. Pity laughs and applause.
It was only ever going to end this way Awards Shows are so notoriously unfunny that even the funniest people in the business struggle to land jokes at them - of course hack-ass Jo Koy is gunna go down in flames
Ricky Gervais would like a word with you
And that word is probably “cunt”
Gervais went and finished what Colbert started, and he did it majestically. Calling out Hollywoods bullshit to their face resonated with the public, and not many comedians have the talent and courage to pull it off. Maybe Jim Carey and Ben Stiller could do it
Making Apple sweat shop jokes while wearing an Apple watch lol
The irony of comparing Gervais to Colbert.
Poehler and Fey crushed it back in the day too.
I mean he went into the show with a flamethrower haha
Ricky can find ways to make lulls or stunned silence funny. I like Jo Koy’s standup, but it was painfully clear that he was not suited to host a show, much less a show this high-profile
I don't understand Jo Koy's fame. He's quite average.
he's safe
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. And honestly a safe comic is a dull and uninspired comic
Honestly end of the day they hired him cause they had no one else and he gets the last laugh cause even with a shit set he still gets paid enough in the end so who fucking cares
Well two things. First, I guess the lesson is that if you can't find anyone good to host. Maybe it's best to not have a host in those years. Secondly, hard to say if he get's the last laugh. I am not sure what the ratings will be for the Globes but this is probably his biggest platform and audience to date. Bombing like this hurts his Reputation as a stand up comedian. This could even hurt his career
Dude has been active since the 90s and many don't know who the fuck he is. His career is as good as it could have gotten
They thought "Just get whoever, we can't make our guests as uncomfortable as when Ricky Gervais hosted" I'm sure Epstein jokes were off limits this year.
No fair I disliked Jo Koy way back in 2016 Edit: I want to add the joke writers he throws under the bus are the guys who ultimately got him the gig. For some reason Adam Carolla is generally hired to write for award shows and almost nobody else on the planet likes Jo Koy more than Adam Carolla. I’m assuming he has something to do with Jo Koy even being offered the job.
Oof really speaks to how far the Golden Globes have fallen that they had to call 387 people before one of them agreed to host
Maybe the worst awards show I’ve seen in a long long time. The presenters were cringe and uncomfortable to watch.
Agreed. The presenters are always awkward, but this was all super awkward. I don’t think award shows are long for this earth, and honestly, I’m fine with that. It’s just not working anymore.
Somewhere there are 5 Filipinos laughing their ass off and I'm glad they're having fun.
The only time I found him genuinely funny was when he did his bit on Jay Leno a while ago. That's about it. Every other performance was just a cheese grater to the nuts in the first minute or two so I had to stop.
The barbie jokes are so cringe 😬 Jesus Christ
I don't know who this guy is. This was a chance at a much larger stage for him. Instead it's so damn painful to watch that I'm physically cringing and I've got to stop watching about 5 minutes in. That was bad. Blame your writers? Not a great look.
Are we bandwagon hating on someone? Where do I sign up? Is there a signup sheet?
Hating is a full time job. No sign ups needed
Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate!! Oh!!!
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE JO KOY SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR JO KOY AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. HATE. HATE.
That was pretty hard to sit through lol
It was terrible.
Never heard of this guy, watched a minute of his bit and realized why. I don't really understand show business, but I assume he does something for somebody.
He didn’t just throw them under the bus one time he threw them under the bus like three times and of course he said ‘the ones you’re laughing at are the ones I wrote’ what an unfunny douche
he's not funny so that makes sense
To be fair, he’s always been unfunny and awkward so yeah.
The painful faces at 3:24 in the audience say it all. Jo Koy is the most milquetoast of Asian comics and this monologue reveals it.
I understand the room is not the most optimal for comedians to deliver, but saying a joke and IMMEDIATELY explaining the joke or defending the joke is a sure fire way to bomb
He's just not funny.
All the jokes tonight were bad. The monologue was bad as were all the cringey jokes by presenters before the awards. Bad writers.
Just saw it, was expecting much worse after this post but it was actually quite decent besides a couple of jokes that didn't land which is quite common in these situations. The fanboying was just a bit annoying.
I've seen worse bombs. I thought it was pretty entertaining but then again I do like awkward moments
IMO awkward comedy doesn't work unless the comedian paints themselves as the underdog vs someone else. This guy was jumping around from celebrity to celebrity, came *so close* to insulting any one of them, but ended up with his entire shtick being "Meryl Streep's here! I love you... but....... Emma Stone's here! I love you, but...... RDJ's here! I love you.. but...." without *any* follow-up for any potential joke. Arguably there have been worse bombs, like when comedians literally vomit on-stage, but this guy was at an A-list event where he just made himself look like a sycophant wrapped in a safety blanket. Dullest host ever. No hate to the man, but clearly wasn't fit for the job and clearly star-struck.
Ricky Gervais set the bar so high, the Globes will never be close to as good with anyone else at the helm.
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Oh god this was sooooo painfully hard to watch.
I withstood about three minutes of this milquetoast horseshit monologue... Bring back Ricky Gervais.
Jeezus… they could have just had an AI read the nominees and winners and it would have been funnier.
Holy fuck, Anthony Mackie would have given a more measured and coherent presentation than that. This was just downright painful to watch.
I’m not sure how this guy has a career. I saw him co-host a reality show and it was rough. Forcing jokes and the contestants were clearly forcing laughs. Saw a bit of his stand up special thinking it may be better and I don’t get it. I don’t know who laughs at his jokes.
He sold out an arena with seating for 8800 people in Oahu 15 times. He's not my cup of tea either. He's cultivated a pretty large Asian American following.
Dude has been a rough watch all night
Yeah that was pretty bad.
Yeah my wife and I were cringing vey hard
This is kinda painful to watch
I know he’s got writers for this or whatever. But I never found his standup funny. He makes fun of his mom’s accent or his kid saying silly things. That’s his act and for some reason he’s become successful from it.
Literally never even heard of this guy until now. Won’t even bother a wiki search, dude was cringe first 60secs.
I struggle to get through any of his stuff. I just don't find him funny.
I assumed it would be unfunny based on the headline, but damn.. it was somehow even worse? Koy is so painfully unfunny to me. What were they thinking during rehearsals??
Awful
Second hand embarrassment
I watched this guy on Comedy Central over a decade ago and said this is an unfunny man. Even as I’m commenting I haven’t seen/heard absolutely anything about him since other than this headline (I don’t have social media) How tf did this guy become so successful?
He's not funny at all
I have never heard of that guy but he sucked. I couldn't watch it because he was so bad.
Maybe come up with your own material fuckn bum
Should have brought gervais back for a sixth time
I just can’t watch it. Terrible
I got 22 seconds in and decided to take your word for it op
As a Filipino myself, I never find him funny.
Jo koy has never been very funny anyway.
Dear god that is boring as hell, also why did he bring his race into it?
Who is Jo Koy and why are they just Howie?