Steve Harvey supports Filipino comedian Jo Koy amid Golden Globes backlash

Gulf News

This year’s Golden Globes host and Filipino comedian Jo Koy, who is facing backlash over his performance on the Hollywood awards night, has found a staunch supporter in his prolific peer Steve Harvey.  Unless you have been living under a rock, you might be familiar with how the Filipino talent’s opening monologue, taking a swipe at pop icons like Taylor Swift and blockbusters like ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’, has been labeled disastrous. But Daytime Emmy Award-winning host Harvey, in an exclusive interview with Gulf News, throws his weight behind Jo Koy with all his might.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/hollywood/hollywood-legend-steve-harvey-stands-by-filipino-comedian-jo-koy-amid-golden-globes-backlash-1.100604079  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #steveharvey #jokoy

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00:00I'm not afraid to reinvent myself. That's first. Secondly, this world operates on ideas.

00:08And if you can be the first, the best or the only, those are the three greatest chances for success.

00:17Yesterday was your birthday. Happy birthday. Yeah, I had a birthday, man. It's really

00:22I'm appreciative of God almighty for allowing me to live this long, be healthy and shape, fly.

00:32You know, look at me. I come here a lot, you know, and I love it over here. And I was just

00:38hearing so much about people and then showing me these dishes that they were making. I was

00:43kept going, well, what about barbecue? Oh, we have great barbecue. Barbecue is really

00:48a Southern American classic. They said, no, no, we have the best. Well,

00:55well, let me show you something now. So I invited some friends of mine to come over.

01:00We're going to exchange some ideas, but then it's going to be a lot of people invited from just

01:04around the world. First of all, I'm not afraid to reinvent myself. That's first. Secondly,

01:11this world operates on ideas. And if you can be the first, the best or the only,

01:19those are the three greatest chances for success. If you're the best, the first or the only.

01:25So I try to come up with stuff in one of them categories, the first one, the best one,

01:30not only one. And then I've tried to be all three of them before too, but that's been a huge part

01:36of my success. My willing to not be afraid to try new things. You have to lose your fear to

01:43be successful. The internet doesn't matter. The blogs don't matter. Politicians don't matter.

01:52I have all my faith in God. All of it. 100% is in God. And God lives within me. So no matter what

02:03happens externally, what difference does it make to me? I don't care. I get told no all the time.

02:10I come up with ideas and somebody tells me no. Well, that's because they don't understand or

02:15they don't get it. I'm going to tell it to somebody else until somebody gets it.

02:22And it's usually going to have to be a person that's a dreamer or big thinker. Because like

02:28I've often times said, if you want to kill a big dream, all you got to do is tell it to a small

02:32minded person. Joe Coy is brilliant. He's outstanding. The Golden Gloves, they're the most

02:39arrogant, pompous people in the world sitting there. It's all about them. They want to win.

02:45They want the spotlight on them. You can't entertain celebrities. It's the worst gig in

02:50the world. You're sitting there with a bunch of I, me, it's all about me. The Golden Gloves, I can't

02:56even take a gig like that. It's an instant death. And then political correctness to kill comedy.

03:01Comedy is dying to cause it. You can't say anything about anybody anymore. Everybody's

03:04offended now. It's woke. Everybody's offended. You tell a joke. Everybody's offended. Women

03:10offended. Now they got pronouns. Every different pronoun is offended. Now ain't nobody got no time

03:16for that now. I'm a businessman now. I just made the transition. I told my wife, I said,

03:23I'm going to get out of the appearance business. I'm going to get out the show up and pay me

03:27business. And I'm going to get into behind the scenes and make quiet money business.

03:33Like some things we're going to open up here in Abu Dhabi, like the

03:37Steve Harvey's Inspo Academy, which is very similar to the program I started over 15 years

03:43ago with Disney, which was the Disney Dreamers Academy with Steve Harvey. But the concept of

03:49what it was, I gave to Disney. And it'll be to inspire young people to dream and chase different

03:55career models and entrepreneurship.

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