Jo koy lights out those bars standup6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() And through it all, there would be a consistency in quality that most comics would envy.Īs Tiffany Haddish, who has known Koy since they were both starting out, says: “I have never seen him bomb, and I don’t know if I can say that for any other comic. The irony, of course, is that Koy would go on to become one of the biggest stand-up comedians in the world, selling out stadiums and breaking records with his personable, storytelling style. “He was like an angel, placed there right when I needed him.” “If he hadn’t said that, I probably would have quit,” Koy says. Just work on your jokes.” To this day, Koy wishes he had gotten the man’s name. It was the worst.”ĭefeated, he was seated at the bar when the Lionel Richie impersonator said to him, “You know, you look good up onstage. She killed by calling back my joke that failed. “I said, ‘You ever have that problem where your tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth and you can’t talk anymore?’ And a drunk woman yelled out, ‘Put a condom on it!’ Everyone started clapping for her. When he did manage to get some jokes out they were awkward and immature - “I made a dumb joke about condoms being too small.” At one point, Koy, recalls, he appealed to the audience. I forgot everything I wanted to say,” Koy recalls. He had to follow a Lionel Richie impersonator, who absolutely killed. To look older, he penciled in a moustache over his baby hair with his mom’s mascara, and dressed how he thought an adult would: herring-bone pants, patent leather shoes and a mustard and purple tie. He was still around 17 or 18 when he signed up for a show called “Starmania,” a local version of “Star Search” in which people would perform at local bars in Vegas. ![]()
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