Golden Globes Host Jo Koy Berates Celebs as Awful Monologue Flops

A general rule of comedy: If you’re scolding the audience for failing to laugh at your jokes, you’ve already lost. Apparently, however, no one told Golden Globes host Jo Koy that—because throughout his monologue opening Sunday’s ceremony, he did just that, berating A-listers for failing to see the humor in jokes like, “The Color Purple is also what happens to your butt when you take Ozempic.”

Hosting awards shows has been a less-than-sexy gig in Hollywood for a while now, but the Golden Globes had a particularly hard time locking down a host for this year’s ceremony after a flurry of PR scandals. Sunday’s monologue might’ve faced some confirmation bias, but the jokes were objectively... not the strongest.

Throughout Koy’s monologue, the largely silent audience could also be heard offering light laughter and, often, groans. Koy, meanwhile, decided to throw the show’s writers under the bus: “I got the gig 10 days ago,” he said. “You want a perfect monologue? Shut up! ... I wrote some of these [jokes], and they're the ones you're laughing at.”

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