Katherine Ryan speaks out amid Jo Koy Golden Globes backlashKatherine Ryan
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00:00 So a celebrity roast monologue at an evening like the Golden Globes, I feel, is a joyful honor.
00:07 I don't think it's mean.
00:09 You have to go in, like, truly annihilating this audience, or don't do the gig.
00:14 And be prepared to make a few enemies, to hurt a few feelings, but at the end of the day,
00:19 you're wearing $50 million worth of diamonds and an Oscar de la Renta dress.
00:24 You can laugh at yourself maybe for one night.
00:27 You've won a Golden Globe?
00:28 F*cking relax, but I don't know if celebrities are prepared to do that.
00:32 At a high-profile awards gig like that, first of all, it's a tough gig because of the nature of it.
00:37 Secondly, your jokes do go through different commissioners and different producers,
00:43 and people who aren't funny want to see a list of jokes
00:47 and tick off the ones that they're prepared to allow you to tell.
00:51 And that is annoying, because these are not people who understand comedy, but they go,
00:54 "I can see this not doing well."
00:56 Don't say that, and don't say that.
00:58 But I think that channels, producers, celebrities, and audiences really need
01:03 to give their heads a shake and go, "We are not deserving of good comedy anymore.
01:08 If we are going to be so offended by everything, if we're going to try to sanitize everything
01:12 and edit everything and have editorial say as a producer who's never been funny
01:18 over what gets articulated at an awards, then there you go.
01:23 You can't have comedy."