Rely Jo Koy as one one that thinks his Golden Globes internet hosting wasn’t a whole catastrophe.
“I feel I did properly given the circumstances,” he mentioned in an interview with the Los Angeles Occasions.
Koy had simply 10 days to arrange. He instructed the Occasions his writers weren’t picked till eight days earlier than the present; there was no writers room till two days earlier than, and the monologue was performed the day earlier than.
“We had been nonetheless writing up till they mentioned we’re stay,” Koy mentioned. “Absolute chilly reads, by no means acquired an opportunity to work out something. And this isn’t an excuse, I’m simply attempting to color the image as a result of I don’t suppose individuals perceive, in any scenario, how is that geared in the direction of profitable? Should you had been to jot down that scenario down on a chunk of paper and go, ‘Do you need to do that?’ I assure everybody can be like ‘No.’ I’m completely satisfied I did it as a result of I did settle for that problem.”
Koy mentioned, “I’m gonna give myself an A-plus simply primarily based on the braveness [to host the show]. I’m going to hit it over the pinnacle 1,000,000 occasions, whoever you possibly can consider in your head that might have performed it, I’m telling you proper now they mentioned no and I didn’t. I checked out it in a distinct gentle. The historical past of the present is 81 years. That’s 81 hosts and a few repeated. I’m the primary Asian to ever solo host. It’s 2024, I’m the primary out of 81 years. Sandra Oh was the primary co-host, however I used to be the primary solo host. Think about if somebody mentioned sure earlier than me, we’d nonetheless be on the 82nd Golden Globes and nonetheless no Asian as a solo host, so if I didn’t say sure, there nonetheless would by no means have been.”
The one joke that didn’t land, however stirred up a hornet’s nest, concerned Taylor Swift. She was not amused by a reference to her NFL excessive tv profile whereas watching her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.
“I didn’t perceive the Taylor [Swift] tiff,” Koy mentioned. “Thoughts you, that one was simply getting rewritten 50 million occasions, by no means ran it by way of, all the way in which up till we needed to stroll out. It’s simply bizarre, the place do you place it, and and we stored hammering it and chopping it down. However the entire intention of that joke was to make enjoyable of the NFL. It’s like, the cool factor concerning the [Golden] Globes is we don’t must do cutaways for scores. What hurts probably the most is me simply supporting Taylor, I assist her, I really like her work. I acquired nieces that I purchased tickets for. There’s no ailing intent in that joke. The joke is concerning the NFL and the way they maintain utilizing cutaways to [her]. And it’s an apparent cause why.
“I’m not saying something that nobody’s saying,and it’s apparent what that joke was. It’s concerning the NFL. It’s like out of every thing that has occurred that is the one you select to go after. I didn’t perceive why as a result of it was enjoyable once I walked out. Robert De Niro was dying, like, and I’m taking a look at him and his spouse was smacking his again and smiling and laughing and he was laughing. And once I did the entire thing about him being 80 he liked it. And that was enjoyable. I used to be like, man, this man’s a lot enjoyable. After which I did that [Swift] joke and I’m like, what simply occurred?”
