I do wish Koy had asked for and taken my advice; he would have been better off skipping this gig. I don’t think his set went over well. Not really his fault - they didn’t give him much time to prepare, and he did not have the status to really kid around with big stars. The audience looked like they were all saying “who the fuck is this guy?”. Even my wife didn’t really dig it very much. He would have been better off doing 3 min of his Filipino son schtick and then leaning into his outsider status, rather than trying to be Billy Crystal. You know you are in trouble when you are an Asian comedian and Will Ferrell gets a bigger laugh for his sushi joke than you do.
But he did his job; filled the space while cameras verified that all the big names showed up (I counted two big names from Succession as only notable absences. Also Ricky Gervais). Nothing very notable happened - probably Lily Gladstone winning for Flower Moon, while not surprising, was most interesting. The two flavors of Hollywood liberal did not fight it out in public over Israel, as some feared. Mostly seemed to demonstrate that the GGs had been detoxified and Hollywood was clear to again use it to hype their films and careers. I suspect we will see a bigger named host next year. Sent from Gmail Mobile On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 at 3:08 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > We are big fans of Jo Koy, so he is not unheralded in our house. Have seen > him live a few times, seen his act either on cable or streaming. A lot of > his humor has to do with growing up with a Filipina mother; my wife was > note in Manila and grew up in Hawaii, so she is dead center demo. I laugh > even when he’s not funny because it makes me smile to see my wife so happy. > > Point holds, while Moy is a successful, professional stand up comic, as > little as three years age it would be unthinkable that a comic of his lid, > niche level would get the GG hosting gig. Today, well, if he checked with > me I would tell him he was slumming and damaging his brand. Still, I guess > if he kills he will jump the line. > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Sun, 24 Dec 2023 at 7:09 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The relatively unheralded standup is fronting the Globescast on Jan. 7 on >> CBS, since the strategy of a relatively-unknown standup hosting worked so >> well last time (in case you forgot, Jarrod Carmichael tore the Hollywood >> Foreign Press Association a new one for their many years of improprieties >> on the last telecast): >> >> https://www.thewrap.com/golden-globes-host-2024-jo-koy/ >> >> Guess neither Wayne Brady, Drew Carey, Colbert nor Cedric the Entertainer >> was available (and Penske/dcp didn't want "Entertainment Tonight" people >> hosting like the Daytime Emmys this year), Lorne told Tina and Amy not to >> go on CBS and no way in hell is Ricky getting the gig again. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/077d7d59-d963-4231-877b-a36b464f0eb3n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/077d7d59-d963-4231-877b-a36b464f0eb3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BXt0W-Z-%3DOFJGJ2WX%3D6Q5__F0k_pD5pEdSPp44qsCE1Q%40mail.gmail.com.
