While internet hosting the Critics Choice Awards, Chelsea Handler appeared to take a cheeky dig at one in all her ex-boyfriend Jo Koy’s poorly-received remarks on the Golden Globes.
On Sunday, whereas main the awards present for a second consecutive yr, Handler joked that Harrison Ford and Robert De Niro are “total smoke shows.”
She added, “Martin Scorsese isn’t here tonight, but that’s not going to stop me from letting everyone in this room know that I would toss him around like a little Italian meatball.”
Then, following laughter and cheers, she quipped: “Thank you for laughing at that. My writers wrote it.”
The line was met with prolonged applause from attendees, a lot of whom had been current ultimately week’s Golden Globes.
Koy delivered the monologue at that occasion and plenty of of his jokes fell flat.
“Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago,” Koy mentioned in his protection throughout the Globes ceremony. “You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. Slow down. I wrote some of these and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”
Koy confronted backlash for a number of of his cracks, together with that one, which was criticized as disrespectful to his writers.
“That was a rookie move,” he informed the Los Angeles Times a number of days later. “Those writers are dope and that was not my intention at all. They were amazing, they had my back and I need to make sure I fix that and I will, I always will.”
Koy and Handler dated for just below a yr from 2021 to 2022. They had been buddies for greater than 20 years beforehand.
In a publish saying their breakup in July 2022, Handler wrote, “we have decided together that it is best for us to take a break from our relationship right now.” Koy informed TMZ on the time he and Handler remained good buddies.
