Greta Gerwig could’ve roasted Jo Koy’s tactless swipe at Barbie from the Golden Globes during her recent appearance on BBC Radio 4. Instead, the director seems to have kept things very diplomatic.
Globes viewers and critics were not thrilled with Koy’s monologue on Sunday night, in which the host managed to piss off Taylor Swift, blame his writers for jokes that bombed, and drop a sexist joke about the biggest blockbuster of the year—all while scolding the crowd for not laughing enough.
The Barbie joke in question: “Oppenheimer and Barbie are competing for cinematic box office achievements,” Koy said. “Oppenheimer is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie is based on a plastic doll with big boobies.”
