Jo Koy Says There Was No ‘Ill Intent’ in Taylor Swift Joke – Billboard

Jo Koy is clearing the air amid the controversy surrounding his Golden Globes opening monologue on Sunday evening (Jan. 7), by which he made a quip in direction of Taylor Swift.

Koy’s joke on the awards ceremony centered round how typically the NFL’s cameras minimize to response pictures of the singer when she attends boyfriend Travis Kelce’s video games. “The massive distinction between the Golden Globes and the NFL? On the Golden Globes, we’ve got fewer digicam pictures of Taylor Swift,” the comedian joked as cameras, naturally, minimize to Swift, who reacted with pursed lips earlier than casually sipping from her champagne flute.

“I didn’t perceive the Taylor tiff,” the comic informed the Los Angeles Instances on Thursday (Jan. 11). “Thoughts you, that one was simply getting rewritten 50 million occasions, by no means ran it by, all the way in which up till we needed to stroll out. It’s simply bizarre, the place do you place it, and we stored hammering it and chopping it down. However the entire intention of that joke was to make enjoyable of the NFL.”

He continued, “It’s like, the cool factor concerning the Globes is we don’t have to do cutaways for rankings. What hurts essentially the most is me simply supporting Taylor, I help her, I like her work. I obtained nieces that I purchased tickets for. There’s no ailing intent in that joke. The joke is concerning the NFL and the way they preserve utilizing cutaways to [her]. And it’s an apparent cause why. I’m not saying something that nobody’s saying, and it’s apparent what that joke was. It’s concerning the NFL.”

Koy concluded, “It’s like out of all the things that has occurred, that is the one you select to go after. I didn’t perceive why as a result of it was enjoyable once I walked out. Robert De Niro was dying, like, and I’m taking a look at him and his spouse was smacking his again and smiling and laughing and he was laughing. And once I did the entire thing about him being 80, he cherished it. And that was enjoyable. I used to be like, man, this man’s a lot enjoyable. After which I did that [Swift] joke and I’m like, what simply occurred?”