'Planned and scripted disrespect': Women on Reddit don't hold back on their two cents of comedian Jo Koy's off-putting Golden Globes jokes

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jan 10, 2024 2:00 PM EST

If you caught the Golden Globes this week, then you are most likely already aware of the absolutely horrendous monologue done by comedian Jo Koy. Why in the world did they choose this not-very well-known comedian, nobody knows. But if they were going for someone who makes inappropriate, not funny, and just downright antiquated jokes then they sure chose the right guy! His jokes took one of the top-grossing films of the year and dwindled it down to "haha b0obies!" He became the type of guy the movie was commentating on and didn't even realize it. Now THAT'S a pretty funny joke. At his expense. As you can see, as a woman during the era of Barbie, I too did not find these jokes amusing. But don't take it from me, listen to the hundreds of women on the internet ripping Koy to shreds. If you're going to bomb a stand-up gig, at least do it with headier jokes. These were jokes for 12-year-old boys from the 1950s. Below we pulled some of our favorite explanations of why these jokes did not land at all. Hopefully, the Golden Globes will learn… 

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  • 01
    r/AskWomen How did you feel about Jo Koys jokes about the Barbie movie during the Golden globes? "It was essentially the year of girl power, brought on by Barbie and you chose these jokes??"
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    nevertruly O+ . 16 hr. ago I didn't know anything about them, so I looked it up just now. Well, that was incredibly stupid and unfunny. Sounds like it landed poorly, wasn't funny, and gave people some unexpected insight into what this comedian thinks. The
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    host didn't say those things on accident or mistake. Those were planned and scripted disrespectful and unfunny statements intended as jokes. Ick.
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    purseburger 16 hr. ago I've seen a lot of great commentary saying exactly why his jokes were weak and unfunny, and I agree on all counts; but something else that made me literally cringe: A fully-grown man saying the word "boobies".
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    ImBadAtGames281 OP. 16 hr. ago Yeah what the heck was that lol. "Boobies" like cmon man that was so weird Vote Reply Share purseburger 16 hr. ago It was SO awkward!
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    breathingcog 13 hr. ago You know, I always thought he was hilarious until I realized that the only funny one is his Mom. Vote Reply Share pearlsbeforedogs. 10 hr. ago His son is pretty funny, too.
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    sakatu 15 hr. ago Typical "I'm going to hit on a popular thing that women love in the name of comedy". Unoriginal and unfunny
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    Disco_Quail 14 hr. ago "Gotta keep those women- folk from getting too uppity!"
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    Im 12 hr. ago BadAtGames281 OP. Honestly feels like we aren't allowed to enjoy anything anymore.
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    ShezDinkDink - 16 hr. ago Perplexed on how he or the writing team thought it would land, same with the Taylor Swift comment. Like it was essentially the year of girl power, brought on by Barbie and you chose these jokes?
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    Plus I feel like if your movie is up for nomination and you are attending you shouldn't be singled out or ridiculed amongst your peers. Comparing Oppenheimer to Barbie like either is more important or deserving of more respect than the other annoys me, I think both films were amazing and told the story they intended to for the audience they were targeting.
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    1password23- 25 min. ago I don't think Barbie or Taylor Swift should be immune from jokes just for being popular, but God, at least make the jokes good.
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    If Ricky Gervais was hosting again his digs about both would have been far more scathing but also actually funny. He'd probably have even compared Barbie to Oppenheimer but in a new way no one else has before. Meanwhile Jo Koy's
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    tinkling out 6th grade boy level observations that are SO tired and completely lacking in depth. Gonna get on my soap box here: a roast-type joke is only funny if both the person telling it and the audience think it's true (to some degree)
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    Obviously this isn't the case for Jo Koy's duds because the media focus is centered around the validity of his jokes instead of whether or the audience or Taylor Swift reacted appropriately. The validity shoud be obvious the second you tell a joke
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    lelakat 14 hr. ago Out of all the people they could have given the gig to, it feels like they gave it to the least funny person they could find. I had no idea who he was and looked him up after seeing the comments about his performance. I'm
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    guessing this was supposed to be his big break into doing more because his resume is pretty sparse. I also have no desire to check out anything else he has done. The fact he claimed his writing team made bad jokes makes it worse because A)
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    the jokes made went through that multiple people and no one thought "hmm, maybe we need to workshop this some more" and B) the Internet has been making jokes about these topics for months that are not only funny but still respectful to the source material. It's dodging responsibility for what he said and feels very whiney.
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    I just felt so bad for Margot Robbie. She put her heart and soul into producing that film, acts in it and then gets told it's just about tits. I watched her Actors on Actors interview and she just lights up when talking about the film and the making of it, you can tell it was a really special project for her. Then in one sentence this hitty comedian reduces the film down to everything it's against, at an awards show.
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    TheGardenNymph. 14 hr. ago I totally agree with you, she's put her whole self into this, she's literally been living and breathing Barbie for months, I can't think of another actor who has gone so hard in terms of promoting their movie, and he's just reduced it to "haha boobies"
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    Accomplished-Ad-5951. 16 hr. ago Threw the writers under the bus and blamed them for jokes that didn't land (mere mere months after a historic strike!!!)
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    sigillum_diaboli666 14 hr. ago I saw him live for the first time earlier this year. 2 hours of my face not moving.
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    irontiddies 14 hr. ago i agree with the majority of the comments here- unfunny, nothing new, cringe, etc the thing that really got me..
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    he outed himself as the exact type of man the barbie movie made fun of. if he had watched the movie he definitely would have understood why that joke BOMBED
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    colour_me_crimson - 4 hr. ago The biggest irony is that people have noticed there are more unnecessary se*ual scenes in Oppenheimer which they felt didn't fit with the story that was being told! But yeah Barbie and "boobies", go off I guess!
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    Celesticle 13 hr. ago I am just tired if jokes at the expense of others. We spend so much time tearing people down. The whole point of Barbie was about lifting people up, empowerment. The Eras tour was brilliant and Taylor is powerful and empowering in her own right.
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    She lifts people up, doesn't tear people down. Unless you are Scooter Braun. Paraphrasing from Barbie, I'm tired of answering for men's bad behavior and then being told we are just complaining or are too sensitive.
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    Brus saffalaf 8 hr. ago . Usually jokes by supbar comedians don't bother me, but this one did. Particularly because of how much I feel women NEEDED the Barbie movie. Sure, it was a movie about Barbie's but it was so much MORE than that. America ferreira's monologue (pls watch it if you haven't it's incredible) in the film moved
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    me and loads of other women to tears. For the first time, women were seeing our struggles communicated in a mainstream, in your face way, and that meant something. The whole message of the film surrounded women being MORE than our bodies, more than a pair of boobs, or a nice as. So yes, when a
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    male comedian decides to punch down and diminish an incredibly powerful movie to just "big boobies" it made me and women all over mad. For me personally, I wasn't just mad, but genuinely saddened. A part of me
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    hoped that the Barbie movie would help the men in our lives understand our struggles, but that joke just proved to me that to some men, that's all women's struggles will ever be - a joke.
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    indicatprincess. 6 hr. ago Wanna bet how many women were in the room when they wrote these jokes? I bet... $0
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    anonuser123999 12 hr. ago So disappointed. Not only because it was just weird and unfunny, but the way he reduced women's achievements so blatantly was disgusting. The biggest
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    box office success by a female director... a meaningful narrative take on feminism and how women are more than just their bodies... cut down to just a movie "about a plastic doll with big boobies". Nasty man.
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    Plus his other jokes, the Taylor Swift one and the way he insulted Scorsese by saying his film's "premise was stolen". Just throwing insult after insult at all of Hollywood. So painful to watch.
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