Hosting a Hollywood awards show can be a very difficult task, with its audience of image-conscious A-list celebrities on the receiving end and a large television audience scrutinizing the material in real time. After Joe Kuy’s performance as host of this year’s Golden Globe Awards drew criticism, he admitted on Monday that it was a “tough room.”
“Well, I had fun — you know, it was a moment I’ll always remember,” Coy said Monday on ABC’s “GMA3,” noting that he only had a week and a half to prepare. “It’s a tough room. It was a tough job, I’m not going to lie. Getting that gig, and then having the amount of time we had to prepare, that was a crash course.”
At Sunday’s awards ceremony, parts of Coy’s opening monologue appeared to fall off the dance floor, prompting the comedian to take a defensive stance. “I got the gig 10 days ago!” He said. “You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. You were kidding me right? Hang on, I wrote some of these – and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”
Koy’s material gravitated toward more standard celebrity teasing. Last year, when Jerrod Carmichael was the host, he gave a provocative show, immediately addressing the unrest caused by the lack of voting black members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization that ran the Golden Globes until it was disbanded.
Coy’s editorial addressed diversity, noting the whiteness in the room, but otherwise stuck to more standard fare, including a joke about Hollywood’s favorite weight-loss drug. (“By the way, ‘purple’ is also what happens to your butt when you take Ozempic,” he joked.)
Many clips that appeared on screen showed lukewarm reactions, but responses on social media and from some critics were harsher. (A Guardian headline reads: “The joke on Joe Coy: Golden Globes host gives bad gig for the ages.”)
Cui said in the interview that he would be “lying” if he said criticism “doesn’t hurt.”
“I got to a little moment where I was like, ‘Ah, hosting is just a tough gig,’” Coy said. “Yes, I’m a stand-up comedian, but this hosting position has a different style.”
One audience reaction became an instant meme: when Koe joked that the Globes would have “less camera shots of Taylor Swift” than the NFL broadcast — a reference to frequent reaction shots of her recent appearances at Kansas City Chiefs games to cheer on Team tight end Travis Kelce — Swift, who was sitting in the audience, He seemed unamusedShe sipped her drink coldly. In his interview, Coy admitted that the joke was “a little flat.”
So, one of the interviewers asked, if he could do it over again, would he accept the hosting invitation?
“It’s a tough job, I’m not going to lie,” he replied.