Rosie O’Donnell reacts to Jo Koy bombing the Golden Globes: ‘Not a great job by the host, huh?’
Ruthless Rosie.
Rosie O’Donnell is weighing in on fellow comedian Jo Koy’s hosting performance at the 2024 Golden Globes — and she didn’t seem impressed either.
The actress, 61, took to TikTok on Tuesday, kicking off her video by stating she’s “still digesting the Golden Globes.”
“Not a great job by the host, huh?” she asked her followers.
“Listen, it’s a hard gig. I’ve never done it. I’ve done the Grammys, I’ve done the Tonys. I’ve never done the Golden Globes. And I imagine it would be intimidating to see a room full of your favorite celebrities all with an open bar,” she continued. “Unlike the Oscars, where they’re sitting in their assigned seats as opposed to tables at the Golden Globes.”
“But I like to watch it. I like that you can watch it here earlier, here in California. That was really great. It was over at like 8:30. I was like, ‘This is perfect!’ ” she went on. “Because I go to bed around then.”
Koy, 52, brutally bombed his monologue at the 81st Golden Globes, which he blamed on the writers — during the monologue.
“Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago,” Koy said. “You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. I wrote some of these, and those are the ones you’re gonna laugh at.”
He also referred several times to his monologue “sucking” because of his lack of preparation.
“Like I said, I didn’t write all of these,” he said at one point. “Someone else wrote that one.”
Some of Koy’s jokes included asking Robert De Niro how he got his girlfriend pregnant at 80, how “Barbie” was based “on a plastic doll with big boobies” and how Taylor Swift won’t get as much camera time compared to what the NFL gives her — which led to the singer giving him a death stare from her seat.
“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL is that at the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift,” he said at the time. (Swift, of course, is often filmed when she attends boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs football games.)
After the show, Koy admitted that joke fell “a little flat.”
“Aww, man, it was cute. I was just saying it was cute,” he told “Entertainment Tonight.” “I was just saying it’s less cutaways, that’s all.”
“I was trying to make fun of the NFL using cutaways and how the Globes didn’t have to do that. So it was more of a jab toward the NFL. But it just didn’t come out that way,” he went on to explain on “GMA3.”
He added: “It was a weird joke, I guess.”
The stand-up comedian also told “GMA3” that he’s “hurt” by the negative reviews.
“I had fun. You know, it was a moment that I’ll always remember. It’s a tough room. It was a hard job, I’m not going to lie,” Koy said. “Yes, I’m a stand-up comic, but that hosting position, it’s a different style.”
