The comic claims the joke’s intention was misplaced on the viewers, “I’m not saying something that nobody’s saying, and it’s apparent what that joke was.”

The 52-year-old sat down with the Los Angeles Instances following the roasting of his efficiency – one he says he was given simply 10 days to organize for. Earlier hosts have been given months to make amends for the yr’s movies, reveals, write recent materials and their monologue.

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“We have been nonetheless writing up till they mentioned we’re stay,” Koy advised the publication. “Absolute chilly reads, by no means obtained an opportunity to work out something. And this isn’t an excuse, I’m simply making an attempt to color the image as a result of I don’t suppose folks perceive, in any scenario, how is that geared in the direction of successful?”

However it was his dig at Taylor Swift that copped probably the most hate on-line, (one ought to know by now to by no means mess with the Swifties). It was a joke that he claims was rewritten “50 million occasions” and was “by no means ran via”.

Taking intention on the 34-year-old singer and the NFL throughout his opening monologue as a first-time host of the Globes, Koy joked, “As you realize, we got here on after a soccer doubleheader. The large distinction between the Golden Globes and the NFL? On the Golden Globes, we have now fewer digital camera pictures of Taylor Swift.”

The joke fell flat.

It was met with an icy response from the 12-time Grammy winner as she took a sip of her drink. Koy shortly tried to get well and apologized for it on stage.

Koy tells the LA Instances that he did not perceive the “Taylor tiff” and that the joke was misinterpret.

“The entire intention of that joke was to make enjoyable of the NFL. It’s like, the cool factor concerning the [Golden] Globes is we don’t have to do cutaways for rankings. What hurts probably 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 sick intent in that joke. The joke is concerning the NFL and the way they preserve utilizing cutaways to [her]. And it’s an apparent purpose why. I’m not saying something that nobody’s saying, and it’s apparent what that joke was.”

Talking with Leisure Tonight on the Billboard’s Golden Globes after-party concerning the Unhealthy Blood singer’s response Koy says.

“Aww, man, it was cute. I used to be simply saying it was cute. I used to be simply saying it is much less cutaways, that is all.”

Swift is properly conscious of the destructive backlash surrounding the NFL’s choice to repeatedly present her on display screen when she chooses to attend video games to help her boyfriend, Travis Kelce’s crew the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.

In her profile for Time‘s Individual of the 12 months, Swift mentioned, “I am simply there to help Travis. I’ve no consciousness of if I am being proven an excessive amount of and pissing off just a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”