Joseph Glenn Herbert Sr.born June 2, 1971, known professionally as Jo Koy, is an American stand-up “comedian” and actor. He was a frequent panelist on E!’s late night show Chelsea Lately. He has since had a number of Comedy Central and Netflix specials.
Jo Koy Facts
- Birth name :Joseph Glenn Herbert[1]
- Born: June 2, 1971 (age 52)Tacoma, Washington, U.S.[2
- Medium:Stand-uptelevisionfilm
- Education: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Years active: 1989–present
- Genres:Observational comedyblack
Jo Koy Early life
Jo Koy was born to a white father who was in the United States Air Force stationed in the Philippines when he married Koy’s Filipina mother. His family moved from Spanaway, Washington, to Tacoma,
Washington, and then to Las Vegas soon after he finished high school in Tacoma. He originally attended Spanaway Lake High School and then moved to Foss High School in Tacoma. They moved to Las Vegas to be near his ailing grandmother. Jo Koy enrolled in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas but dropped out to pursue stand-up comedy.
Jo Koy Career
Koy began his stand-up career in 1994 at a comedy club in Las Vegas. Soon he moved from open mic night to a regular spot on the show Catch a Rising Star at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.After performing at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, he rented the Huntridge Theater and went door to door to sell tickets to his comedy shows.A talent coordinator from Los Angeles spotted Koy and landed him his first television appearance on BET’s ComicView. He has appeared in two seasons of Comic View.
Jo Koy The comedian has gone on to star in other TV stand-up specials like Jamie Foxx Presents: Laffapalooza!. Jo Koy has won the Showtime at the Apollo, performed in front of troops in the USO Tour, can be seen on various VH1 I Love the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, Tru TV’s World’s Dumbest and New Millennium episodes, Amp’d Mobile phone commercials and received a second invite to the Montreal comedy festival Just For Laughs, the series for which he was awarded Canada’s prestigious Gemini Award. Jo Koy was also a regular guest at Chelsea Handler’s roundtable discussion on E!’s Chelsea Lately. Jo Koy has also appeared on Carlos Mencia’s Punisher Tour performing stand-up comedy In 2005, Jo Koy performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
He started a podcast together with comedian and TV host Michael Yo on July 23, 2012, called The Michael Yo and Jo Koy Show. Koy has also appeared on over 100 episodes of Chelsea Lately as a season regular roundtable guest. Other appearances include: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, @Midnight with Chris Hardwick, VH1, World’s Funniest Fails, The Joy Behar Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Last Call with Carson Daly and Jamie Foxx: Laffapalooza. Today, the comedian tours across the US and can be heard as a weekly guest on the podcast, The Adam Carolla Show. He joined the PodcastOne family and hosts the weekly podcast, The Koy Pond. Koy has done two highly rated and successful comedy specials on Comedy Central: Don’t Make Him Angry and Lights Out. His third comedy special, Jo Koy: Live from Seattle is a Netflix Original was released on March 28, 2017, worldwide. Koy released another Netflix special titled Jo Koy: Comin’ In Hot on June 12, 2019. On February 23, 2019, Koy performed two shows on stage at the Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, CO for the closing night of Aspen Laugh Festival.
On June 12, 2020, Netflix released Jo Koy: In His Elements, a comedy special featuring Filipino American comedians, DJs, and B-boysOn July 28, 2022, Koy, alongside film producer Dan Lin appeared in the Rise for Comedy festival, where they raised a $75,000 donation to the nonprofit Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA.
Jo Koy On December 21, 2023, Koy was announced as host of the 81st Golden Globe Awards. His monologue was met with criticism from viewers and critics with many describing his jokes as “painful”, “unfunny”, and “cringeworthy”. Chelsey Sanchez of Bazaar described his monologue as “awkward” and “distasteful”. Koy was met with criticism for putting blame on his writers during the monologue, coming after a lengthy 2023 Writers Guild of America strike. Justin Curto of Vulture noted, that when some of his jokes fell flat, Koy “immediately threw his writers under the bus… Jo Koy He yelled. ‘Yo, shut up. You’re kidding me, right. Slow down. I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.'” Marlow Stern of Rolling Stone noted that many of Koy’s jokes drew “groans” and “boos” from the audience”. Among jokes that drew the most ire were those about the Barbie movie, Taylor Swift, Meryl Streep, and Robert De Niro Shirley Li of The Atlantic wrote, “practically every joke failed to land, mostly because the punchlines were dated or obvious.”
Jo Koy Personal life
Koy has one son, Joseph Herbert Jr., born April 21, 2003, from a previous relationship with Angie King. Koy and his son reside in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California.
On September 27, 2021, Koy and Chelsea Handler posted an official Instagram post of their relationship. In July 2022, they announced their breakup on Handler’s Instagram, which occurred in June.[citation needed
Koy is a practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu