I was out last night going to see Second City for the first time in years (pretty good show), so I didn't watch or record the Globes. Would I assume that they tried to lean heavily on the laugh track to try to cover up Koy's lack of crowd response? It's no secret that the awards shows sweeten heavily, since I've seen enough shots over the years of the audience not applauding while we hear tumultuous applause on the soundtrack. It goes back to when Bob Hope bombed one year at the Oscars. The next time he hosted, Charley Douglass' Laff Box was in the sound truck. The exceptions are when Johnny Carson or Dave say they don't want sweetening, which turned out not to be a good thing for Dave at the Oscars, since we heard the crowd genuinely not laughing at Dave and lots of laughter at the presenters' written-by-Bruce-Vilanch quips.
Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 12:56 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BXt0W-Z-%3DOFJGJ2WX%3D6Q5__F0k_pD5pEdSPp44qsCE1Q%40mail.gmail.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/CAJ_uKi9JRVp_3-8K3h-5H8p-e0F9AEmzzTQk3H3wa9ZtAnP5CQ%40mail.gmail.com.
