Jo Koy Performs First Stand-Up Set Since Bombing at the Golden Globes, Mocks ‘Soft’ Celeb Crowd: ‘Can We F**king Laugh at Ourselves?’

by GroundbreakingSet187

25 comments

  1. He’s acting like no one’s ever gotten a laugh out of that room before. His material was just painfully unfunny.

  2. I wasn’t a softie in the room and still didn’t laugh. I think he has to accept that the jokes didn’t land.

  3. I never thought he was all that funny to begin with

  4. According to comedians they the most oppressed people in this country.

  5. Seen him a couple of times live both before he was big and after (aka after he started dating Chelsea Handler)

    He could do funny self depreciation and growing stories, but that was it, if you were Filipino it resonated, if not it was ok. But he honestly couldn’t do a joke without putting someone down, and it’s the same for most of the poor comedians of today.

  6. Coming from him this is like if Jim Gaffigan, Brian Regan or Gabriel Iglesias went on stage like they were suddenly Gervais or Chappelle dropping “truth”

  7. Or maybe tell better jokes instead of yelling at the crowd for not laughing?

  8. As a comic myself, it would be a great moment for me to bomb at an awards show.

  9. So he’s saying his jokes were funny but the audience was bad? But the audience at home wasn’t laughing either. Who are the jokes for if not for the audience? This is like a contractor doing shit work and then saying it’s the customers fault for not just liking his shit work

  10. As Dave Chapelle has always said, “It’s always funny, until it happens to you.”

  11. Jo Koy is a really good niche comedian. I really enjoy that material.

    I did not expect him to do well at the gg

  12. The fastest way past his abject failure is or him to simply say *”Yeah, I was out of my depth and didn’t prepare properly. Live and learn.”*

    But if he keeps trying to justify and explain it away as a failure of other people to “get it” then IMO he is in real danger of tuning himself into a meme and being forgotten.

  13. Still trying to figure out who this guy is what he’s famous for

  14. His jokes weren’t funny, but also they weren’t fresh. Take the NFL/Taylor joke for example, it’s already been told a million different ways on twitter for months and had gone stale. The Barbie joke was just kind of dumb and obvious when he started the joke, and not funny.

    These comedians calling people who don’t laugh at their jokes “soft” feels like they need to self reflect on their material.

  15. I would love to be able to laugh at Jo Koy. Unfortunately he isn’t funny.

  19. Idk if the crowd isn’t laughing, maybe you aren’t funny

  20. He just wasn’t funny or memorable other than begging for a reaction.

    I can still remember jokes from Ricky Gervais monologues years later, because they were good. He also wasn’t begging for approval.

  21. This man literally blamed the writers a few months after a writers strike ended. Just take the L man your set sucked.

  22. Nothing weaker than a comedian blaming the audience for not finding them funny. This has become a new tactic for artists to blame the fans/audience for material that is not funny or enjoyable.

    Bill Maher has been doing that for years and that is the reason I stopped watching him.

  24. Whatever happened at acknowledging that sometimes a joke bombs without blaming PC culture?

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