Jo Koy Reducing ‘Barbie’ To Be About Plastic Dolls Proved Why The Movie Needed To Be Made

At the 81st Golden Globes on Sunday, the event’s host and stand-up comedian Jo Koy cracked the world’s best joke during his opening monologue. The joke was about Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and it was seemingly cracked to lighten everyone’s mood. Except these were the reactions – 

For your context, Koy was like, “Oppenheimer is based on a 721-page Pulitzer prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie is on a plastic doll with big boobies. I watched Barbie, I loved it. I really did love it. I don’t want you guys to think I’m a creep, but it was kind of weird being attracted to a plastic doll.”

Of course, his ‘funny’ sentences haven’t landed very well with the public online, as with the event’s attendees. And it’s not about people’s incapability to process humour. Rather, it’s about the sheer audacity to reduce the movie to everything it stood against.

Barbie portrayed what it meant to be a woman in a man’s world. The joke came across as just that, in its tastelessness and sexism. It was meant to be funny, but, in the process, it precisely proved why the movie needed to be made. With all the complexities it attempted to tackle for a man to come and say it was about a plastic doll with big boobies.

People have been calling out the flat joke for all the right reasons. Take a look –

Not that it makes a difference, but the joke was unnecessary. With movies like Barbie, one hopes for a positive change, but it proved we’re right where we started. We have been there for a long time now.