Jo Koy wasn’t immune to the backlash he received from hosting the Golden Globes.
“I had fun. You know, it was a moment that I’ll always remember,” the comedian told GMA3: What You Need to Know on Monday, per Variety. “It’s a tough room. It was a hard job, I’m not going to lie…I’d be lying if [I said] it doesn’t hurt. I hit a moment there where I was like, ‘Ah.’”
He continued, “Hosting is just a tough gig. Yes, I’m a stand-up comic but that hosting position it’s a different style. I kind of went in and did the writer’s thing. We had 10 days to write this monologue. It was a crash course. I feel bad, but I got to still say I loved what I did.”
However, Koy's joke about Taylor Swift did make headlines. During his opening monologue, he quipped about Swift’s constant coverage on NFL programming because of her relationship with Travis Kelce.
"We came on after a football doubleheader," Koy said. "The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift."
The camera then cut to Swift, who sipped her drink with a deadpan expression.
Koy confessed to GMA3 that the Swift joke was “a little flat.”
He added, “It was a weird joke, I guess. But it was more on the NFL… I was trying to make fun of the NFL using cutaways and how the Globes didn’t have to do that. So it was more of a jab toward the NFL. But it just didn’t come out that way.”
He described the show as being an “off night” for him: “I wanted to give a little bit more of me, and I fell a little short. That’s all,” he said.
Koy was hired as the host after other comics, like Chris Rock and Ali Wong, turned down the opportunity. "Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago," Koy previously said. "You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. I wrote some of these, and those are the ones you're laughing at."
