Jo Koy says he'd host the Golden Globes again 'with 5 months, not 9 days' to prep

Jo Koy got the Golden Globes hosting job just weeks before the Jan. 7 event. Yet, despite the quick turnaround and a mixed reception, the comedian isn't opposed to taking the stage once more. 

Koy told PEOPLE that he'd "love to" host the show again, "with five months, not nine days" to prepare. During his opening monologue, he quipped that he had just 10 days to write jokes. He was announced as the show's host, succeeding Jerrod Carmichael, on Dec. 21.

Ko said he had just days to prepare after some of his jokes fell flat. "Some [jokes] I wrote, some other people wrote," Koy joked during the show. "Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago.You want a perfect monologue? Shut up. You're kidding me, right? I wrote some of these, and they're the ones you're laughing at."

He told the publication that the best part was "just walking out there [on stage] for the first time. I was like, let's just do this. Let's just have fun."

Koy's monologue took aim at Oppenheimer's length, Robert DeNiro having a child at 80, and Bradley Cooper's Maestro nose making an appearance on Barry Keoghan in Saltburn.

“I had fun," Koy told GMA3: What You Need to Know on Monday. "You know, it was a moment that I’ll always remember. It’s a tough room. It was a hard job, I’m not going to lie.”

He continued, "I’d be lying if [I said] it doesn’t hurt… Hosting is just a tough gig. Yes, I’m a stand-up comic, but that hosting position it’s a different style.”

He also told Good Morning America that there was one moment he felt bad about. "I think it was when the Taylor [Swift] one was just a little flat," he said. "It was a weird joke, I guess. But it was more on the NFL… I was trying to make fun of the NFL using cutaways and how the Globes didn’t have to do that. So it was more of a jab toward the NFL. But it just didn’t come out that way.”

For her part, Swift did not look amused by the joke.

Even with the chilly response to some jokes, like the silence around his joke about billionaires needing to "pull out," Koy says the experience was "great."

"We're back," he told PEOPLE. "Hollywood was closed. It's back open again. Let's just celebrate. They're eating, drinking, having a good time. 150 countries were watching. They saw how much fun we had."

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