Chelsea Handler doesn’t regret shading ex Jo Koy’s awful Golden Globes monologue
Chelsea, lately, has been talking about her ex.
Chelsea Handler is reflecting on throwing shade at her ex-boyfriend Jo Koy following his disastrous 2024 Golden Globes monologue.
“Listen, I would’ve done that had anybody thrown their writers under a bus,” the comedian, 49, told Parade in an interview published Friday. “I know more than anybody how valuable writers are. My whole life and my whole career is because I have great writers.”
Koy, 53, was hired 10 days before the coveted award show and was roasted online for bombing. The comic made what he called a “rookie move” and put the blame on the writers for his array of jokes.
His jest was aimed at the big names in the room, including Robert De Niro, who had welcomed his seventh child with partner Tiffany Chen at age 79, and Greta Gerwig’s summer project “Barbie” — which Koy described as a movie about “plastic doll with big boobies.”
That same year, Handler took the stage to host the Critics’ Choice Award and addressed her ex’s blunders in her opening monologue.
The “Chelsea Lately” alum spoke about her preference for older men, teasing she would toss Martin Scorsese “around like a little Italian meatball.” In response to the audience’s laughter, Handler quipped, “Thank you for laughing at that. My writers wrote it.”
At the time, Koy revealed he didn’t take the backlash well.
“Well, I had fun — you know, it was a moment that I’ll always remember,” he said on “GMA3.”
“It’s a tough room. And it was a hard job, I’m not going to lie. Getting that gig, and then having the amount of time that we had to prepare — that was a crash course.”
Handler and Koy started dating in 2021 before calling it quits nearly a year later. The host announced their split on social media, saying Koy “renewed my faith in men” and “in love.”
During her Parade interview, Handler called the split “the first mature ending to a relationship that I was in.”
“My behavior was mature and graceful,” said the stand-up. “I honored the relationship by never actually divulging what happened, and I liked that version of myself. I’ve ended so many relationships where I lacked dignity and I lacked grace, and I was immature and vindictive. And I don’t want to be that way. I want to be better than that. I’m a woman now, I’m not a little girl.”
Handler is gearing up to once again host the Critics’ Choice Awards live on Jan. 12 on E!, for the third year in a row.
Meanwhile, comedian Nikki Glaser is set to take the 82nd Annual Golden Globes at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 5.
Leading up to the announcement that Glaser would be hosting the award show, the television personality revealed that she had pre-show jitters.
“I am nervous to perform in front of all of those A-listers in a bright room,” she told Cara Delevingne during a sit-down for Interview Magazine in November. “Any advice?”
The model responded, “Don’t f – – k it up.”
Glaser cracked back to Delevingne, 32, “Oh, wait, your advice is treat it like I’m having sex with someone who’s never had sex before and I’m way hotter than they are.”
The “FBoy Island” host teased her planned routines for the Globes, insisting that she is “not gonna go so hard that anyone’s gonna be offended.”
“I’ve made a point not to, and that’s not to disappoint anyone who’s hoping I’m going to pull a Ricky Gervais. I’m not Ricky Gervais. This isn’t my last Golden Globes, this is my first one,” she told the Hollywood Reporter. “He really went hard on his last one. He was ready to burn some bridges [because] it didn’t matter anymore.”
