Koy kicked off the night time on the Beverly Hilton Worldwide Ballroom in Beverly Hills, California, making an attempt to humour the star-studded viewers together with his jokes on varied subjects, together with Ozempic, Meryl Streep’s award-winning streak, and ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’.
Going by feedback on social media, followers of the Margot Robbie starrer ‘Barbie’ weren’t too happy with Koy’s ‘distasteful’ comment concerning the movie. Throughout his opening monologue, he gave his tackle the Barbenheimer frenzy and tried to summerise each movies. He stated, “Oppenheimer is predicated on a 721 web page Pulitzer Prize successful guide concerning the Manhattan Mission. Barbie is predicated on a plastic doll with large bo****s.”The comment earned him a variety of awkward reactions from Barbie solid, together with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and director Greta Gerwig. Even fellow nominee Selena Gomez, who was sitting within the viewers, could not assist however cowl her face along with her palms.
Koy additionally took a dig at nominee Taylor Swift, for her extremely publicised romance with NFL star Travis Kelce. “The distinction between the NFLand the Golden Globes is that we get much less photographs of Taylor Swift,” he stated. Because the digicam panned to Swift, the singer didn’t appeared amused and selected to sip on her drink as a substitute.
The awkward reactions didn’t go unnoticed by followers, who took to their handles to slam the host. “SOMEONE CALL WILL SMITH,” followers tweeted and added, “I want him to slap this man.”
“Think about lowering a film with essentially the most heartbreaking/influential speech for girls ever to a film about ‘large boobs’,” stated one other.
One other stated, “YOU HAVE MARGOT ROBBIE, THE CAST OF BARBIE & TAYLOR FXCKING SWIFT IN THE AUDIENCE & YOU’RE NOT JUST HYPING THE F**Okay OUT OF WOMEN? THAT’S ALL YOU HAD TO DO. YOU HAD ONE JOB!”
One other stated, “The awkward silence at Jo Koy’s Barbie jokes… He informed good jokes concerning the different nominees and all he had about Barbie was ‘large boobs’.”
“That joke about barbie was fully out of line. a doll with large b***s??? did you even watch the film?” A fan requested.
“Lowering Barbie to a film about “a doll with large b***s” for a joke… did you watch the film along with your eyes closed??? how did you miss the entire level?” commented one other.
Regardless of some preliminary hiccups, Koy navigated the night, addressing the challenges of taking up the internet hosting position on quick discover. “Yo, I acquired the gig 10 days in the past. You need an ideal monologue?” stated Koy. “I wrote a few of these they usually’re those you are laughing at.”
It took two hours for ‘Barbie’, the yr’s highest-grossing movie with over $1.4 billion in ticket gross sales, to say its first award. Billie Eilish‘s ‘What Was I Made For?’ secured the Finest Track class, swiftly adopted by ‘Barbie’ successful the brand new honour for “cinematic and field workplace achievement.”
Margot Robbie, star and producer of “Barbie,” devoted the award to moviegoers, emphasizing the importance of theatres.
The anticipated showdown between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” prolonged to the Finest Screenplay class, the place an surprising flip of occasions noticed Justine Triet and Arthur Harari successful for the French courtroom drama ‘Anatomy of a Fall’.
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic ‘Oppenheimer’ dominated the 81st Golden Globes, successful 5 awards together with finest drama, whereas Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein riff ‘Poor Issues’ pulled off an upset victor over ‘Barbie’ to triumph in the perfect comedy or musical class.
