Your Globes Host is Jo Koy--Who?

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Mark Jeffries

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Dec 24, 2023, 10:09:19 AM12/24/23
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The relatively unheralded standup is fronting the Globescast on Jan. 7 on CBS, since the strategy of a relatively-unknown standup hosting worked so well last time (in case you forgot, Jarrod Carmichael tore the Hollywood Foreign Press Association a new one for their many years of improprieties on the last telecast):


Guess neither Wayne Brady, Drew Carey, Colbert nor Cedric the Entertainer was available (and Penske/dcp didn't want "Entertainment Tonight" people hosting like the Daytime Emmys this year), Lorne told Tina and Amy not to go on CBS and no way in hell is Ricky getting the gig again.

M-D November

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Dec 31, 2023, 4:17:44 PM12/31/23
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Maybe it's because I listen to a lot of standup, but Jo Kay is hardly "unheralded".  He's done a number of Netflix specials (the modern equivalent the old 1hr HBO special), has done some TV and VO and has a few film credits to his name, including fronting the file "Easter Sunday" last year.  He was also romantically linked to Chelsea Handler for about a year.

Kevin M.

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Dec 31, 2023, 7:10:59 PM12/31/23
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There were over 30 Netflix stand up specials released in 2023, so forgive me if I can’t keep up. Did Kay produce his out of pocket then allow Netflix to distribute it, or did Netflix approach him to finance his stand up special? 

And I see Netflix has doubled down on stupid with another Chappelle one today and a Gervais one released last week. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)


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Bob Jersey

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Dec 31, 2023, 7:18:27 PM12/31/23
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Good place to put this, as I don't recall posting about it... if you didn't see Chappelle's The Dreamer, Rolling Stone did it for you...
Kevin M, to M-D November and Mark Jeffries, Dec 31st:

David Bruggeman

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Dec 31, 2023, 8:35:32 PM12/31/23
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Between most of the comedians starting podcasts and a decline in both comic-led sitcoms and late night comic bookings, you have to look for comedians a lot more than you used to.  At least that's been my experience.

David


PGage

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Jan 1, 2024, 6:08:52 PM1/1/24
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We are big fans of Jo Koy, so he is not unheralded in our house. Have seen him live a few times, seen his act either on cable or streaming. A lot of his humor has to do with growing up with a Filipina mother; my wife was note in Manila and grew up in Hawaii, so she is dead center demo. I laugh even when he’s not funny because it makes me smile to see my wife so happy.

Point holds, while Moy is a successful, professional stand up comic, as little as three years age it would be unthinkable that a comic of his lid, niche level would get the GG hosting gig. Today, well, if he checked with me I would tell him he was slumming and damaging his brand. Still, I guess if he kills he will jump the line.

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Bob Jersey

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Jan 3, 2024, 6:11:57 PM1/3/24
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Koy gets his V interview: https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/jo-koy-golden-globes-hosting-job-2024-1235860858/ (link)
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PGage, to Mark Jeffries, in part, Jan 1st:

PGage

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Jan 8, 2024, 1:56:27 AM1/8/24
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I do wish Koy had asked for and taken my advice; he would have been better off skipping this gig. I don’t think his set went over well. Not really his fault - they didn’t give him much time to prepare, and he did not have the status to really kid around with big stars. The audience looked like they were all saying “who the fuck is this guy?”.  Even my wife didn’t really dig it very much. He would have been better off doing 3 min of his Filipino son schtick and then leaning into his outsider status, rather than trying to be Billy Crystal. You know you are in trouble when you are an Asian comedian and Will Ferrell gets a bigger laugh for his sushi joke than you do.

But he did his job; filled the space while cameras verified that all the big names showed up (I counted two big names from Succession as only notable absences. Also Ricky Gervais). 

Nothing very notable happened - probably Lily Gladstone winning for Flower Moon, while not surprising, was most interesting. The two flavors of Hollywood liberal did not fight it out in public over Israel, as some feared.  Mostly seemed to demonstrate that the GGs had been detoxified and Hollywood was clear to again use it to hype their films and careers. I suspect we will see a bigger named host next year.

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Mark Jeffries

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Jan 8, 2024, 10:51:41 AM1/8/24
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I was out last night going to see Second City for the first time in years (pretty good show), so I didn't watch or record the Globes.  Would I assume that they tried to lean heavily on the laugh track to try to cover up Koy's lack of crowd response? It's no secret that the awards shows sweeten heavily, since I've seen enough shots over the years of the audience not applauding while we hear tumultuous applause on the soundtrack.  It goes back to when Bob Hope bombed one year at the Oscars.  The next time he hosted, Charley Douglass' Laff Box was in the sound truck. The exceptions are when Johnny Carson or Dave say they don't want sweetening, which turned out not to be a good thing for Dave at the Oscars, since we heard the crowd genuinely not laughing at Dave and lots of laughter at the presenters' written-by-Bruce-Vilanch quips.

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Bob Jersey

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Jan 9, 2024, 3:29:45 PM1/9/24
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Michael Che suggesting comedians should boycott award shows...
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PGage, Jan 8th:

Kevin M.

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Jan 9, 2024, 3:37:27 PM1/9/24
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Frankly, given what is now common knowledge about what a scam the Golden Globes are and the lack of character of the people who select them, I’m more than a little annoyed by people I generally respect who participated in the show again this week. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)


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PGage

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Jan 9, 2024, 5:39:47 PM1/9/24
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Same. But as someone I know who covers that industry told me yesterday, the GGs are only about PR and marketing. Most of those folks don’t really take it seriously.

Martin Scorsese and Meryl Streep  show up because they want their movies to be seen and enjoyed, which also makes them more money and makes it easier for them to get their next movie made. Also the perception (with some, but only some, support) that GG noms and wins help with Oscar noms and wins. Oscar has some perceived actual respect and honor, but also more on the marketing and profit.

Matt Belloni at Puck News has been saying the whole reason the corruption and racism at HFP became an issue recently was because of a power play by a group of influential publicists who didn’t like how HFP managed the publicity created by the GG process and wanted a system that gave them more control. In the new GGs, they got that.



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Dave Sikula

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Jan 9, 2024, 6:42:53 PM1/9/24
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As I've said in other venues, any show that is relying on Farrell and Wiig to bring the funny is screwed to begin with.

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Tom Wolper

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Jan 9, 2024, 7:12:44 PM1/9/24
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The Golden Globes, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter are all owned by Pennske Media so it’s now a closed circle: The magazines hype the awards and the awards show, and the awards show provides content for the magazines. Whatever anyone thinks about the awards outside of that is irrelevant.

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 6:42 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
As I've said in other venues, any show that is relying on Farrell and Wiig to bring the funny is screwed to begin with.

--Dave Sikula


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