Golden Globes Host Joy Koy Dishes Uneven Jokes During Opening Monologue

Jo Koy‘s opening monologue on the Golden Globes this 12 months was a bit of … properly, up and down — and the viewers appeared to let him know early and infrequently.

The comic kinda got here out with child gloves at first throughout Sunday’s broadcast, praising everybody and speaking about how large of a second it was for all of the nominees … and for himself. Ultimately, he launched into some tried ribbing at among the films.

For starters, his jokes about ‘Barbie’ did not land with the viewers all that properly — in all probability as a result of he was a bit of crude in characterizing what it was about … a doll with “big boobs.”

There have been some groans within the crowd … and Jo famous he solely had a few week and a half or so put together this monologue — acknowledging not all the things he wrote (or had written for him) was going to kill. And but, he continued on with another zingers that fizzled out.

JK made gentle of Barry Keoghan’s penis in ‘Saltburn’ … suggesting it had made its technique to Bradley Cooper’s face in ‘Maestro’ — clearly referring to prosthetic nostril he rocked.

There was much more — and it was vey uneven … lasting about 10 minutes. Whereas he was in a position to get by it in the long run, Twitter/X was letting Jo have it on-line … with unhealthy opinions.