Jo Koy remembers watching main award ceremonies just like the Golden Globes along with his mom on their front room couch attempting to guess the winners.
It was a ritual that Koy cherished as a baby. Since then, he’s grown as a comic with numerous stand-up specials and several other performing credit together with final yr’s movie “Easter Sunday,” which was set in Daly Metropolis.
On Sunday, Koy will reside out his childhood dream of internet hosting the Globes — which is seeking to return to kind after being tarnished following years of scandal. He calls his upcoming duties a “very massive second.”
“It is a throwback to my childhood, and now I’m the man who’s onstage,” mentioned the Filipino American comic and actor, the second Asian host in Globes historical past. (Sandra Oh emceed the present in 2019.) He desires to the encourage these from the Asian neighborhood in his first main internet hosting gig.
“As a child and watching TV and never having that many position fashions to form of not directly encourage me, that’s what this implies to me,” mentioned Koy, whose “Easter Sunday” movie turned the primary massive studio film with an all-Filipino ensemble. He’s launched 5 stand-up specials on Comedy Central and Netflix, together with his most up-to-date Netflix particular, “Stay From The Los Angeles Discussion board.”
“I do know there’s youngsters on the market that might be watching the Globes,” he went on. “And now after they see this, it’s like ‘Oh, it’s doable. I can do that.’ Issues aren’t so grey anymore. It’s not simply two colours on the palette, someday three. Each colour is on the palette. It is a stunning second. I actually need to be sure that I knock this out of the park.”
Koy hopes to go away a constructive mark on the Globes, that are the primary main broadcast of awards season. It airs reside starting at 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7, on CBS and Paramount+ for customers with a Showtime subscription.
The present is thought for being a boozy celebration of tv and movie with a extra party-like ambiance in comparison with their Academy Award counterparts.
However the Globes confronted super backlash after a 2021 report within the Los Angeles Instances discovered there have been zero Black members within the group that solely had 87 international journalists. The membership has since been revamped with a voting physique of 300.
All indications level to a starry present, which is able to embrace presenters equivalent to Michelle Yeoh, Will Ferrell, Angela Bassett, America Ferrera and Amanda Seyfried.
Sacramento native Greta Gerwig leads the Globes nominations with 9 for her blockbuster hit “Barbie,” together with for greatest image musical or comedy in addition to performing nominations for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and three of its authentic songs. It’s intently adopted by its launch date and meme companion “Oppenheimer,” which scored eight nominations, together with for greatest image drama, greatest director for Christopher Nolan and nods for actors Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt.
Koy gave reward to Dick Clark Productions, the awards’ producer, and an proprietor of the Globes’ longtime residence, the Beverly Hilton.
81st Golden Globe Awards: 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7, broadcasting on CBS. Paramount+ subscribers with the Showtime add-on can stream the present reside. In any other case, it’ll be out there on the streaming platform the next day.
“This manufacturing firm has been nothing however high notch,” he mentioned. “The connection with CBS is gorgeous. It’s enjoyable to see this as a result of that is how issues must be ran. We have to begin shifting ahead. That’s what that is. We’re shifting ahead now. You be taught from the previous and also you be sure that it doesn’t occur once more.”
Koy mentioned he’s anxious to hit the Globes stage to ship his model of relatable humor.
“They’re giving me the blessing to be me,” he mentioned. “I need to carry my fashion to the Globes. In fact, I’m going to have enjoyable. However most significantly, I need to be sure that everybody’s pleased. I’m going to make enjoyable of myself. If I can do this, I could make enjoyable of different individuals.”
