Comedian Jo Koy was a defeated man when he appeared on Good Morning America after being widely panned for a disastrous turn at hosting the 81st Golden Globes awards.
"It was a tough room," he said.
"It was a hard job. I'm not going to lie."
Parts of his opening monologue didn't land well with the audience online, or apparently in the A-lister packed ballroom in Beverly Hills, California.
Pop star Taylor Swift sipped her drink while giving Koy a stern look when he joked: "The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift."
It was a reference to the attention Swift has been getting while sitting in the stands watching her partner Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce in action.
"The Taylor one was a little flat," he said.
"It was a weird joke, I guess.
"But it was more on the NFL.
"I was trying to make fun of the NFL using cutaways and how the Globes didn't have to do that. So, it was more of a jab towards the NFL. It just didn't come out that way."
A year for comedians
Despite Koy's bad night, it was the first year that comedians were recognised at the Golden Globes with their own category, with Ricky Gervais winning for his stand-up special, Armageddon.
"It's the toughest job in show business," Koy said about being a comedian.
"It is a hard, hard gig.
"We're by ourselves. We give everything out there and right away you find out what's good and what's not."
Koy said he worked hard to prepare.
"I literally got the call and haven't slept since."
By the time Koy joined Sam Rubin on KTLA 5 Morning News, he was defiant.
"I am a comic," he told Rubin.
"A host is two different things."
'A gig no-one wanted to take'
Koy was asked whether he was a little wounded by the reaction to his jokes.
"Does it hurt? Yes," Koy said.
"We found out that the Globes were getting picked up by CBS two weeks before. They needed a host. No-one wanted it.
"There wasn’t enough time to prepare. That's not an excuse at all. I took the challenge. I tried it. I'm not a host, obviously. I'm a stand-up comic and I love what I do."
Koy was widely criticised for throwing his writers "under the bus", but he told Rubin his writers didn't mind being brought up at all and even found it funny.
Not everyone was quick to criticise Koy, with comedic actor Whoopi Goldberg defending him on ABC America's The View, saying he's a great comedian, but then admitted she hadn't watched the Golden Globes.
"It is not an easy gig," she confirmed.
While Goldberg didn't watch the ceremony, 9.4 million people in America did, up 50 per cent on last year.
Not all bad
But it wasn't all bad for Koy.
"I had the best time," he told Rubin.
"Someone walked up to me and said: 'Big fan. And my wife loves you and I love you'.
"And she walked me up to her wife and it was Jodie Foster."
He also reiterated his respect for Swift.
"She's incredible," he said.
"She's crushing stadiums."
Koy was in some ways confused by the reaction, as well as saddened.
"If I said I wasn't sad about this, I would be lying," he said.
He vowed however, not to let it define him.
"I'm not going to let this bring me down. I worked so hard for this."
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