Celebrities Defend Jo Koy’s 2024 Golden Globes Jokes

“Now, I love Jo Koy. He, to me, makes me just crazy because he’s funny. I don’t know whether it was the room. I don’t know whether it was the jokes. I didn’t get to see it,” Whoopi, who hosted the Academy Awards four times (1994, 1996, 1999, 2002), continued. “But I do know that he is as good as it gets when it comes to stand-ups. That is not an easy game.”

Whoopi admitted that even she received backlash for some of her past hosting gigs. “If you read any of the reviews of some of the gigs that I’ve had [laughs] where they’ve just, you know, whisked me into the cornfield [laughs] to die on the vine. I mean, it’s not an easy gig.”