Steve Martin and Jo Koy.Photo:Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic, Michael Kovac/Getty
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic, Michael Kovac/Getty
Jo KoyhasSteve Martinin his corner after receiving mixed reviews for his 2024Golden Globe Awardshosting stint.
Martin, 78, shared kind words for Koy, 52, onThreadsTuesday, writing, “I tip my hat to anyone who steps out on stage to host a live awards show.”
“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,” the comedian and actor added.
Koy, a longtime standup comedian who wasannounced as the Globes' host on Dec. 21, has attracted plenty of opinions on his awards show hosting gig aftersome of his jokesreceived frosty responses from the celebrities inside the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday.
Steve Martin on June 6, 2023.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
Martin is not the first major celebrity to sympathize with Koy in the aftermath of the show.Whoopi Goldberg, who has hosted the Academy Awards four times (1994, 1996, 1999 and 2002), opined onThe ViewMonday that “these hosting gigs are brutal — just brutal.”
“If you don’t know the room, if you’ve not been in these rooms before and you’re sort of thrust out there. It’s hit or miss,” she said.
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“Now I love Jo Koy. He, to me, makes me just crazy because he’s funny. I don’t know whether it was the room. I don’t know whether it was the jokes. I didn’t get to see it,” Goldberg, 68, continued. “But I do know that he is as good as it gets when it comes to standups. That is not an easy game.”
Jo Koy on Jan. 7, 2024.Rich Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty
Rich Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty
Koy also received an empathetic response to his jokes aboutBarbiefrom its filmmaker Greta Gerwig during a Wednesday appearance onBBC Radio 4 Today. Gerwig, 40, was asked about the comedian’s joke that the box-office sensation was based “on a plastic doll with big boobies.”
“Well, he’s not wrong," Gerwig said. “She’s the first doll that was mass produced with breasts, so he was right on.”
The comedian himself told PEOPLE the day after the Globes that hewould “love to” hostthe awards ceremony again, albeit ideally with more time to prepare material. The comedian said the highlight of his night was “just walking out there [on stage] for the first time."
“I was like, let’s just do this. Let’s just have fun,” he shared.
source: people.com
