Honestly, can this woman not take a joke? Well, apparently not, as it seems Swift and her fans have a low tolerance for jests at her expense. Surprisingly, the hosts on "The View" are standing in solidarity with Koy, asserting that Swift and her fans ought to lighten up and take this harmless joke with a grain of humor.
From OK! Magazine:
While Goldberg steered clear of specifically ridiculing Swift's reaction, her cohost Sara Haines didn't hold back, stating: "I love Jo Koy and the whole time I was nervous for him because I think he's so funny. He's kind, he's good, all the things."
"What bothers me more in watching this is, get a sense of humor, because we need to protect these national treasures called our comedians, because life needs them," Haines declared, snubbing Swift's "pissed" response to Koy on Sunday night, January 7. "We need to stop binding them in, fencing them in. In that room, Jo Koy is punching up. No one feels sorry. Just smile."
Haines then turned to The View's biggest Swiftie Alyssa Farah Griffin, asking her if she found Koy's joke "bad" enough for the 12-time Grammy winner to appear so upset.
"I think he's such an inherently nice person that doing more of a roast is not natural for him," Griffin explained, as she appeared to refrain from taking sides. "Whereas [prior Globes host] Ricky Gervais will just go in and knock people over."
As for what Koy's joke that didn't land right was exactly, the comedian quipped: "The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift."
