Who Is Jo Koy? 5 Issues to Know Concerning the 2024 Golden Globes Host

Jo Koy is making his method from the comedy scene to awards season.

Koy, 52, was introduced because the host of the 2024 Golden Globe Awards on Thursday, December 21. The ceremony, which airs on Sunday, January 7, will mark Koy’s awards present internet hosting debut.

“I’ve stepped onto a variety of levels around the globe in my profession, however this one goes to be further particular. I’m so excited to be internet hosting the Golden Globes this 12 months,” Koy stated in a press launch on Thursday. “That is that second the place I get to make my Filipino household proud. Mahal Kita (Google it)!”

Koy follows within the footsteps of fellow Golden Globes hosts equivalent to Jerrod Carmichael, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Ricky Gervais, Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh. The 2024 ceremony will introduce two new classes: Greatest Efficiency in Stand-up Comedy on Tv and Cinematic and Field Workplace Achievement.

The 2024 Golden Globes air stay on CBS and Paramount+ Sunday, January 7, at 8 p.m. ET. Hold scrolling for 5 issues to learn about Jo Koy:

1. When Did Jo Koy Get Into Comedy?

Koy informed Variety in October 2020 that he had wished to be a comic since he was 11 years outdated and was impressed by Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. He credited his mom with making him “fall in love with the stage and getting in entrance of individuals” by acting at massive Filipino gatherings.

Regardless of a failed audition on a expertise search present in his teenagers, Koy continued to pursue his ardour at open mic nights and ultimately began to open for different acts. Upon shifting to Los Angeles, he grew to become an everyday at comedy golf equipment such because the Chuckle Manufacturing facility, the place Tiffany Haddish would reportedly babysit his son throughout exhibits. His profession took off when he joined Chelsea Handler’s speak present, Chelsea Currently, in 2009. He appeared on greater than 130 episodes of the present till the top of its run in 2014.

His first Netflix particular, Jo Koy: Reside from Seattle, debuted in 2017, and he launched three extra earlier than touchdown a two-special deal with the streaming platform in April. In accordance with his website, Koy’s Reside From Seattle particular landed at No. 1 on the Billboard Charts in 2019.

2. What Different Tasks Has Jo Koy Appeared In?

Along with his comedy profession, Koy has appeared in numerous TV exhibits and films, together with Mr. Iglesias, Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, Haunted Mansion, The Monkey King and Leo. He additionally starred in and govt produced the 2022 household comedy Easter Sunday.

3. The place Is Jo Koy From?

Koy was born in Tacoma, Washington, and infrequently makes use of his Filipino household as inspiration for his comedy. “Filipino mothers s–t on their youngsters’ goals,” he joked throughout his Live from Seattle particular. “I informed my mother I wished to be a comic. She cried, ‘Why? Why do you wish to be a comic, Joseph? All of your aunties are nurses, your cousins are nurses. Do you see any clowns on this household? I don’t. Do you?’ S–t on my dream, proper there.”

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4. Who Has Jo Koy Dated?

Koy is at present single, however he beforehand dated Handler, 48, from 2021 to 2022. “I really like her, man. She’s superb. She’s a boss. She’s unbelievable,” he informed Good Morning Washington of his now-ex in October 2021. “Nothing higher than to be in love with somebody that you’ve got been mates with for a very long time. She’s bought my again, and I’ve all the time had hers.”

Handler revealed in July 2022 that she and Koy had referred to as it quits after lower than one 12 months of courting. “It’s with a heavy coronary heart to announce that we’ve got determined collectively that it’s best for us to take a break from our relationship proper now,” she wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “I do know a lot of you had been invested in our love, and I wished to precise to you the way a lot that meant to each of us. How a lot it nonetheless means. And the way a lot I now consider in love for every of us.”

5. Does Jo Koy Have Any Children?

Koy welcomed his son, Joseph Herbert Jr., in 2003 together with his ex-wife, Angie King, whom he was married to from 2003 to 2013. “My son is only a strolling joke for me,” Koy quipped throughout a September 2019 interview on Larry King Now. “Run into one thing, stumble upon [something], no matter it’s, I’m gonna go up on stage and speak about it. You’re not protected right here. If it occurs inside these partitions that I pay for, I’m going to capitalize, and also you’re going to take pleasure in what we make off of you collectively.”