- Jo Koy was called “the worst host” when he headlined the 2024 Golden Globes
- During his opening monologue, the audience laughed in pity
- He criticized Taylor Swift, Robert DeNiro, Kevin Costner and the Barbie movie
Stand-up comedian Jo Koy has been dubbed “the worst presenter ever” at the 2024 Golden Globes as he was vilified on social media for his terrible monologue.
“Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago, you want a perfect monologue? “Hey, shut up,” Koy said.
“Slowly, I wrote a few of these and you laugh at them,” he continued, as many viewers broke into laughter of pity.
Koy then turned to actor Robert DeNiro in the audience and said he was “sorry” for being a fan of his.
DeNiro smiled slightly before Koy said that getting his girlfriend pregnant at age 80 was his “greatest accomplishment,” and the crowd and DeNiro laughed a little more.
Social media was quickly flooded with harsh criticism of Koy's performance, with NPR media analyst Eric Deggans saying, “Jo Koy is a great comedian, but I'm not sure he's used to working in a show business audience, that hosts the #GoldenGlobes.”
“His monologue wasn't snappy enough, but at the same time it was a little too snappy. 'Tougher performance than it looks.'
Jo Koy was criticized on social media for his terrible opening monologue as host of the 2024 Golden Globes
Comments on his opening monologue flooded social media
As he began mentioning hit films from last year, Koy said that the “key moment” in the Barbie movie was when Barbie experienced “bad breath, cellulite and flat feet, or what casting directors call character actors.”
After he said this, Selena Gomez was seen lowering her head in disbelief and placing it in her hands while no one laughed.
“Some I wrote, some wrote,” he added.
“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL is that at the Gold Globes we have less camera footage of Taylor Swift,” Koy said.
Swift responded by taking a quick sip of her drink and not laughing.
Another tweet about his hosting said: “I feel like no one was in charge of the Golden Globes and Jo Koy just came in and said 'I'm hosting' and no one bothered to check if that was right .”
“Jo Koy's monologue is absolutely terrible. “I think most of the audience is just laughing out of pity and his bad jokes about Barbie show that he didn't understand Barbie.”
A tweet suggested that Koy had chosen himself to host the show and no one had “bothered to check” whether that was the right option
Koy made a joke about Taylor Swift and the NFL when the pop singer responded by taking a quick sip of her drink and not laughing
Koy said the “key moment” in the Barbie movie was when Barbie experienced “bad breath, cellulite and flat feet, or what casting directors call character actors.”
Koy continued to walk around the room, shouting to actors such as Saltburn's Barry Keogan as he said: “Where is your penis?”
Then he decided to answer his own joke, turning to Bradley Cooper and pointing to the actor's prosthetic nose in Maestro and saying he “found it.”