Jo Koy reveals what ‘rookie mistake’ he made as Golden Globes 2024 host

Jo Koy revealed his “rookie mistake” while hosting the Golden Globes 2024.

In an interview with the LA Times released Thursday, the 52-year-old comedian, whose Globes performance is being criticized for his ill-received jokes, responded to people who felt he threw the show’s writers under the bus during his monologue.

“I love my writers. I love all three of them and I shouted them out,” Koy claimed. “And I told them like that was a moment right there where I’m just grasping. I love them and I can’t stop talking about them in every interview.”

“They busted their a–, man. There’s a lot of greats that make rookie moves. That was a rookie move. Those writers are dope and that was not my intention at all. They were amazing, they had my back and I need to make sure I fix that and I will, I always will,” he added.

As the crowd of A-List celebrities sparingly reacted to Koy’s jokes during Sunday’s monologue, the “Easter Sunday” actor quipped, “Some [jokes] I wrote, some other people wrote.”

“Yes, I got the gig 10 days ago! You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. You’re kidding me, right?” he asked. “Slow down, I wrote some of these and they are the ones you are laughing at.”

Koy spoke about the writing process to The Times, claiming, “It’s so crazy because the day before, we were all sitting right here, it was the first time we all met in person, the day before we had to turn in that monologue. One time, that’s all we had.”

He continued, “It was the most insane thing. And all we did was just sit and just go over it. And then you know there’s the suggestions. I went up on my stage [here at my office] and just verbally ran through it. But I was running it through [our group], of course we’re gonna laugh at it.”

“It’s honest feedback for us but I didn’t get to run it onstage anywhere. I didn’t get to go anywhere where I could just sneak these things in and that’s what this is all about, it’s working things out. So given the circumstances, that’s what I had to go through and that’s fine,” Koy defended himself once more.

Some of Koy’s less-than-impressive jokes included belittling “Barbie” down to a “movie about a plastic doll with big boobies” and an acknowledgment of Taylor Swift’s overexposure at Kansas City Chiefs games.

However, celebrities including Steve Martin and the co-hosts of “The View” have come to Koy’s defense against people picking apart his performance.

“So, Congratulations to Jo Koy, who took on the toughest gig in show business, hit, missed, was light on his feet, and now has twenty minutes of new material for his stand-up,” Martin concluded in a message posted to Threads.