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No one particular is safe and sound from Chelsea Handler, primarily her ex.
During her opening monologue at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards Jan. 14, the comic place ex-boyfriend Jo Koy in the scorching seat, earning fun of his widely panned stint web hosting the 2024 Golden Globes.
She commenced by joking that she desired her men “outdated and hot,” shouting out “smoke show” attendees Harrison Ford—who is finding the Job Achievement Award—and Robert De Niro, as perfectly as fellow nominee Martin Scorsese—noting that she would “toss him about like a tiny Italian meatball.”
Handler then claimed, “Thank you for laughing at that, my writers wrote it.”
The punchline drew large applause from the group, which provided a lot of celebs who attended the Golden Globes. Just after various of his jokes fell flat in the course of his monologue, Koy appeared to toss his writers underneath the bus, saying, “Some I wrote, some other persons wrote.”
He extra, “Yo, I bought the gig 10 days back. You want a fantastic monologue? You, shut up. You are kidding me, proper? Gradual down. I wrote some of these and they are the ones you might be laughing at.”
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Many extra of Koy’s jokes from the Jan. 7 present sparked backlash, which include his remark about the NFL frequently slicing to Taylor Swift in the course of her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s online games.
But even though many of her supporters blasted his joke about Swift, the Easter Sunday star later stated he was not basically using goal at the “Cruel Summertime” singer.
“There is no unwell intent in that joke,” he explained to the Los Angeles Occasions in an job interview printed on Jan. 11. “I’m not saying anything that no one’s stating, and it really is noticeable what that joke was.”
Steve Martin has nothing but support for Jo Koy adhering to his controversial Golden Globes monologue.
“Thoughts you, that a single was just finding rewritten 50 million times, by no means ran it by way of, all the way up until finally we experienced to walk out,” Koy, who has spoken about only acquiring 10 times to get ready, continued. “It is really just odd, wherever do you put it, and we retained hammering it and chopping it down.”
Nevertheless, in spite of the controversy, preceding award clearly show hosts came to Koy’s defense.
“I tip my hat to anyone who measures out on phase to host a dwell awards demonstrate,” Steve Martin—who last cohosted the Oscars together with Alec Baldwin in 2010—wrote on Threads. “It truly is a really difficult task and not for the squeamish. I know since I’m even now throwing up from the final time I did it.”
A sentiment Whoopi Goldberg echoed. “Web hosting gigs are just brutal,” she said on The Watch. “If you have not been in these rooms just before, and you’re kind of thrust out there, it really is hit or overlook.”
