Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMANDOur Favorite Celebrity Interviews of 2024: Jo Koy
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Jo Koy stops by to talk about his comedy show at the Prudential Center!
This is Elvis Duran in the Morning show. Joe Coy He's right here, y, I've found him, yes, slithering around the hallway. Yes, of course, Joe's everywhere tonight out at Crudential Center in Newark. That's a great place. That's a cue. You play some really fantastic hauls. I love it. Like I was saying, Radio City, I would love to play Radio City. He's like, Nah, that radio steat is great. But I played it. I played it twice. Yeah, But then you said, the Garden is where we all want to The Garden is the mecca. Okay, that's the mecca.
What is it that makes it to mecca for? You can feel it. You can feel the energy when you walk in. There's just like this nostalgia when you walk in. The look from the outside, the way it just sits inside. The city just looks like you need to be here.
You know what.
I used to play carolines. I used to always walk by the garden and they used to go, oh, do you want tickets to the Knicks or do you want tickets? They would always offer me tickets and I always I always turned them down because I said, the only time I'm going in the garden is if I'm opening for somebody or f I'm you know, headlining, right.
And I waited and I waited a long time.
I waited a long like eighteen years, and I finally did it. By the way, the most expensive arena you can possibly play is the MSG.
Well we remember we have our jingle ball there right every year?
Oh, you guys get a deal with MSG. They tell the artist I don't get a deal.
They tell the artists, we have to do that.
You do? Are you? We don't get a deal. So there's bs right now there is you do get a deal, you guys. There's no way the hell you guys are paying outright.
I believe we get a deal.
They have told the artists before. We have to be done with the show at this time, yes, or we pay a big fine. Are we getting a deal if we have to pay a.
Fine on the on the rental of the Hey Joe, you I'm going to sit here and tell me you don't get a deal about something that it does.
On it you can't take credit for Maybe I know why it sets on fire all the time. I'm gonna say something. I'm gonna say something. I'm gonna say something here, and you're gonna die. I've never said this to anyone in my life. Okay, we played the Garden more than you play the Garden. I'm telling you right now, I know you do. I don't think you deal. I'm gonna throw you. So tonight you're at a Prudential Center and we uh.
The Devil's Play, by the way that I know, my devil.
By the way, when you're when you're a performer, like ice skating rinks, or even though they cover it up or if they turn it off, whatever it is, you feel it. You feel it, feel the ice. It goes right into your I should pause when I say this, but it goes right into your throat.
Really, go on, my God. I mean, I'll stop right there, but this is where I start. Okay. So, anyway, we have a commercial just playing on our show in a second, because there's a couple things in the commercial I want to talk about. It's right, It's okay. Anyway. Is it you plugging the Garden? No, no, no, no, no, it's about tonight's show about at Crudential Center. So I said to God, is it goney, are there any seats available tonight? Because we're playing the commercial. Maybe we're just charging them for commercial and they don't need it. And you looked it up and you said.
To me, your prices are way too reasonable.
Yeah, you need to make really much higher.
But what expensive when you play the garden?
Yeah?
I was like, man, I'm getting last second tickets. This is going to be crazy.
Okay, Okay, by the way, I do that, I've done that my whole career.
You make that decision, yeah, yeah, I make I'm I rent the room, that's me, everything's me.
Wow. Whatever you rent an arena, that's that's that's not someone hiring me. Well that's the thing about wants his fans to come see him, and you know, he doesn't want them to feel like they've been ripped off.
Don't get me wrong. Like, you know, I have my platinums, which are crazy, right, you know what I mean. But we also have to do that to to combat the scalpers.
I mean, so you have to make it hard for them to like buy your ticket.
Like I hate doing it, but you literally have to do it because if you keep it a certain price point, then boom, they'll buy everything.
I know. But you know what funny is funny? Way back in twenty twenty three, it broke records. You were Yeah, obviously you were ripping the fans off back then you've decided to bring it back. I didn't rip anyone.
He doesn't get any deals, so neither fans.
Okay, all right, I'm tall like Joe Hey.
Just coming from the guy that's talking into a gold plated microphone to match his gold plated jacket.
Oh well, this guy, I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not anyway. Jeff Toy is here and of course, just being coy, tour tickets are on sale. You've got how many more nights beyond tonight? I mean, do you have left on the tour?
It just started. I started last week. Oh my god, so you gotta yeah, so have many and how many of the tour?
How many? How many nights? I don't know. It's a lot, that's a lot. Yeah. It's usually like four shows a weekend, three to four. Yeah.
Last week was crazy because that was the beginning of this tour. And then that was that was nuts because it was where the where the Rockets play, and then we went to where the Spurs play, and then we went off to this.
Small town in Texas.
But they had an arena, right, and we sold that out and that was that was like crazy to do something like that.
Well, of course on Netflix, your Brooklyn Show. Yes, that was several months ago, and I loved it. What an incredible what we're looking at? Huh?
I read it's the reflection of the light hitting the gold microphone. And I tried to look into your eyes, but I was blinded, so it actually hurts your teeth. Just just talk to me and don't try to figure out why people are closing their eyes when they talk to you.
So, Joe, You're Life from Brooklyn Show on Netflix, one of my favorites. They're all great, But the thing is, all all that stuff you did on that show, it's done.
You can't do that anymore though, right So, now, that was an expensive special. That was the most expensive one out of all the specials. Expensive. Union was very expensive. Renting out King's Theater was so expensive. I built out my stage so I I wanted to I wanted to show the King's Theater how beautiful it was. It's one hundred years old. It's like a historic landmark, and you guys have it, you guys preserved it. It's gorgeous. They don't have theaters like that anymore. They blow them up, and you guys kept it. And uh so I put my stage on the front and uh and I lit up the room so you can see it in every shot.
It looks it's incredible.
And then instead of a backdrop of like my name or something, I put a brick wall. I built that brick wall behind me. Usually they cover, usually try to cover up. Brick built it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, do with that one.
It's over.
Uh you throw it away? Okay, yeah, yeah, but mine was made out of chocolate. Okay, Snowsberry's. Well, I know, but but those jokes are done, I mean, that material, those stories are done, by the way.
Those songs that I did in there, right, are they done. There's the most expensive songs ever. I wasn't even gonna do those songs. It was just I was in the moment and I just did it. And then uh and and right when I walked back, I looked at the producers. I like, I know it's gonna be a lot. So you talking about the mumble rap stuff? Yeah, right, Richard, rest in peace? Rich rich he just pas, But okay, let me.
Play the commercial because you kind of started off. Do you hear the commercials we run for you?
Yes, because there's no freaking clue.
I said, I didn't get a discount on MSG here, okay, here's how you are represented. But you actually start this conversation.
Kill coy, just tour and that's really have become my dad. My dad was like, oh, you listen to that hippidi hoppity.
And now I'm sounded like my.
Dad because I'm like, you're listening to that mumblet mumble you're listening to that mumblet.
I don't even say word. September twenty, it's crudential seven. It was. That's such a true story.
By the way, my son hated my rap when he was when that dad, Oh he hated it. He didn't understand it. He thought it was stupid. And all he listened to was you know that, I don't want to plug him, but rest in peace, rich home. He passed away, So like, yeah, he he passed and but dude, I didn't get it, and I started feeling old like I started when I took home. You know, uh run dmc and and and Beastie Boys and all that deaf jam stuff. My dad was doing that to me. Oh hippity huppy, you know that hippidi hoppity.
This is music.
And it's like it's like Aerol Smith and I'm like, yeah, that's run DMC dad you say that?
How dare you say that?
And now I've turned into that And but I'm glad I did.
I'm glad I did it because uh that that that that joke went viral. It costs a lot of money. I was not gonna do it. Got so much money. I'm getting rights for things.
Yeah, the licensings on that was so expensive and every second was just so much money. And I'm worth every penny though, right, Yeah, Look, the biggest state reached out. They gave me, you know everything, like they're they're doing collabo shirts with me, and it's like it's kind of cool. Uh uh you know missus Wallace you know, saw it and and like it's so cool man, and.
Yeah, big shout out to to the biggest state.
And now we're doing this collabo shirt and I'm gonna I'm gonna give proceeds to uh, you know, to the to the Wallace Foundation.
It all started with, not to trivialize it, it all started with a joke, right store and now look how big. It's just avalanche, never ever expecting you to do this.
But I was being true to myself though, you know what I mean, Like I wasn't doing it, like I really didn't want to do it. That's what when even my DJA in the back, he didn't even know what to do when I said that. I was even like pausing in between my setup too, because I knew he wasn't prepared for it, right. And then I was play it and he had it cued up. That was it was, man, That was That was a moment that I I'll always treasure because it really was. It was not supposed to happen, but it did, and that's all that mattered. My point is this, You've used that material. Now you're out on a new tour. We need new material for Joe. So if you want to text in some jokes, some stories, talk about other people's families, I'll I'll just talk about mine.
I'll just let my son do all the work, and I have to ever call it jokes, their stories and your son your I love it when you talk about your son. I love it too, because I don't know. Even though I'm a little sad now he's twenty one. Well, I know, but you still talk in his voice as if he's fourteen years old.
Oh dead God, yeah, he still kind of does that.
You never want that to leave him. Yeah, Like he loves to do this too. I don't get it. He loves to say that. I don't get it, but he probably doesn't. All right, that's dumb. You know.
That's cringe. My my, that's cringe.
Don't do it.
God, Oh gosh, Dad, you're being sus God, God, what you're loving it?
No? I do. I love it.
I love him being on the road with me, you know what I mean. There was a lot of sacrifices that I took, you know, and I get sad when I think about it sometimes, and uh, you know, I missed a lot of birthdays. I remember crying, you know, when I was on the road sometime. And but now it's like, oh, okay, this is why I did it. He gets to live his his best, best life.
You're a good dad. I sacrificed a lot, Yeah I did, I really did. We've never met your son, but I know he was a good guy. You love him because the way you speak about him is he speaks for all years about what come dad, you are. He's an amazing kid, He's an amazing man. He's he's he's so cool.
Does I know you said he did? Often? I don't get it. Does he get it now? Does he use does he use? Hey, my dad's Joe cooid ever flex?
Oh? He loves it? Yeah, yeah, he loves it, but.
He probably loves it when it's convenient to him.
No, no, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Yeah. He won't take a picture with me, he won't post things, you know what I mean.
And he's so sweet to his mommy, so I love that too. And he's sweet to his aunt like. I love how how caring is about them as well, like he always thinks to them.
I love that he understands the importance of family. Yeah, he really does. I love that. Look, you know obviously you got there from you because you saw you talk about is your family in glowing terms and sometimes fun and yeah, funny terms. But look at this joke.
My mom and dad was divorced, right, and like when I was like nine ten, right, so we kind of had it rough when when Jem and I were kids and then uh, and I even told Jema this. I was like, you know, when if When I divorced Angie, I said, I will never do what they did. You know what I mean, We're going to be the opposite of that. I even told Angree, you don't need a lawyer. I got you like and I was read at norse Fromac. I was like shelve and shoes at the time. I go, whatever happens in my career, I got you, don't worry about it. And I've been like that. We've been best friend ever since I bought her a house in front of my house.
She lives right next to them.
Awesome.
I'll wake up and she's drinking coffee in my living room. That's my sister. I'm not even making this up.
When I go on family vacations, Angie's right next with us, like I want us to be, like even though we weren't married, we're still like best friends. We got this great son together, and we do things together, Like if I'm going to take my son to London, I'm taking his mommy. We're going to share this together, like all three of us are going to go the way. You know.
I love hearing about you. Know why I love hearing this from you, Joe Koy, Is you know, there are a lot of artists like you who are on there. Wead talking about the family, talking about and that's their material. And it's funny when you know that it's all from a place of love, and sometimes you can riab each other a little bit because that's part of the family. I think that makes a difference with your with your fans and with me. I'm a fan too. Hey, you're you're like rolling through your third decread a decade, deck craz It's your third decade of doing this for a living. How has the art of if you want to call it comedy, the art of being a comic of the How has that changed? Can you look back at those first early lean years and compare them to today.
I love still what I did in the past, and I keep telling the young cats that are coming up now, like, tangible things are always going to be the best way of marketing yourself.
Describe that tangible things.
So when I was coming up, and this is why Angie so like my ex well, I used to burn DVDs because I didn't have a DVD yet, so I would burn them. I would go to like this, this electronics store was called Fries. I don't know if they have it here. But I would buy a stack of DVDs, the blank ones. It was one hundred dollars for one hundred, so it's a dollar disc right. I'd buy like three of those a week. So every weekend I would go out, I would burn these DVDs and I made myself right, and then I would put I get a jewel case, and I took a picture of my son that was crying, and I would slip that in the jewel case. We call that artwork. Yeah, yeah, to this day, it's it's still my logo. It's my son crying to this day. And literally we burned those DVDs and if I could, I would sell it for like five bucks a pop, you know what I mean. It's like it's one hundred dollars for a stag. You sell them for five hundred and make four hundred for the weekend, right, right. But then I wouldn't sell that many, right, I'd sell like maybe twenty of them on the weekend, and I would just hand them out for free. I'd just hand them out as much as I can, like candy during the Halloween. I'd just keep handing out every time I did a show, I'd have a thousand, ask Gema. We'd print, Oh, there's my that's the logo right there, and ask Gema.
I would print.
I would print ten thousand flyers and I still do it to this day. And I would hand them out right Gema, Like, right now, I got Brooklyn my Brooklyn Special on Netflix. I have how many, probably like twenty thousand flyers, and I will hand them out.
I don't care.
It's like you get it into their hands and you let them know about your product.
You know what I mean. We're talking twenty infested in it, So let them know about don't just sit there and wait for it to happen twenty something years ago, right thirty? Okay, Hey, So if you have one of Jocoy's original burned home Burned dvcds, text me at fifty five to one hundred.
It's the coolest thing when you walk up to me and they still have it. Oh yeah, wow, Yeah, I got people walking up to me. I was in China Square one time and uh this the cop on a you know, the bicycle cop walked up to me. He was he was like, hold on, let me show you something. He pulled out his wallet and it was my card. He kept it in his wallet and he goes, look at this man. He goes, I always knew you're going to do something. Look at that because you love.
The car too. It was a cool card.
I'm not gonna lie can Street before Canal.
Yeah real, but I think I tell every conmic that's coming up. It's like, bro, like, go out and get it. Like when I didn't get my first special, I went and got it. Like Netflix didn't give me that special, I went and made it myself. After they said no, I went and paid for it.
Oh wow, yeah, M know, Like, is that how it works if you want your own special? No, that's not how it works. Because they even told me the day I was taping it.
They were like, hey, we know you're taping it, but we want you to know we really don't want it.
Oh my god.
At that point, what can you do?
But I love Netflix and that's a business decision that has nothing to do with me personally. It's just that was a business decision decision that they made, and I had to be okay with that, you know what I mean. And I had to be like, all right, that's the decision you made, but let me show you why it's the wrong decision.
And I went and paid for I paid for all that, like everything.
Director, producer, you stood behind cameras, everything.
But do you ever hold grudges like well, well, well damn it.
No, not at all.
But I did want to let people know that, you know, because there's people that are always like, oh, he blew up because of that special Netflix game, and I'm like, pump the brakes, homie, before you're making a little assumptions.
That's not what happened.
That's what's happening with you, But that's what happened with me.
I went and paid for that. No. I remember I had two shots at that thing.
And I remember the first taping we had technical difficulty with the jib and I remember saying to myself, Man, I got all this money invested in and and we're not gonna be able to use that first taping. And it was the second taping that we went in on you got them, got it?
Yeah? Can I tell you something from a fan's point of view. I remember the night and I sat down and watched jokoy live from Brooklyn, Right, So it was a day. We had a great day at doing whatever, And I said, what are we doing? Where are we going tonight for dinner? Restauring, He said, let's just stay yet. Okay, what do you want to do. Let's watch a movie. So we got we started flipping around. So there and I said, wait a minute, Life from Brooklyn. It's out. It's been out a few days now. This is back in JUNI or July or whatever. So I remember. We we we got big bottle wine. We sat down, we dimmed the lights. We had the dogs with us, they'd already eaten and you know, Pete outside and they're ready to like hang out. We just sat there and just got into it. We didn't talk during it. We would laugh, We just relaxed. It was just an event for us, even as simple as it was in our own TV room watching you. That's how great these nights are when you release these specials on Netflix. Thank god you invested in that one specials to go because it gives us a chance just to sit back and let someone else do the work for us and just watching you tell your stories, watching you brilliant brilliantly get that audience going. We we we felt as if we were there with you in the comforter of our own home. You know, getting slashed on some cheap line. But just thank you so much for those moments. As simple as they seem to us, those are our favorite moments together right now. They really are. Thank you. I appreciate that. It means a lot to me. Man, Thank you, thank you, think, think, thank you. What are you saying to me? All? You got me? All? Now give me some cash, he's writing cue cards for now. You give me cash? Yeah, I should. I should pay you for that, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, more more so than my Netflix a monthly subscription. Do you get free Netflix on? No stupid question.
By the way, I just want to like, I don't want anyone to think like Netflix made a great decision and I went in and brought that special into them, you know what I mean, And then they watch it and they gave me the deal.
So I love Netflix.
I don't want I don't want anyone to think like, oh, he hated on Netflix.
No, I love Netflix. No one heard you hate on it Netflix at all. But I just don't want it to be misunderstood.
No. And they gave me a great deal. Well, they don't do that for everyone else.
Obviously, you earned everything you got on they gave me a golden mic and a matching jacket, and they said I was the only one. They do love you, don't they do? They do well? Joe, thank you so much for coming in. I love you. Just beginning a new adventure. Joe Koy just being Coy tour. It's coming to town. It'll be here in our town in Newark tonight. There are a few very very very affordable seats available.
Ridiculous.
But you know what, You're the best. And every time you visit us, we always hurt in our faces a little bit because you make a smile. I love you. You're the best.
Say I love you in my language to golloks, say mahal mahal kita kitakita, I love that?
Thank you? Is that? Yeah?
He just offended at right now? I hed no, he said I love you and I just a finger my anus. No no no, no no no, I wouldn't know.
How do you say that?
No? No, no no no, I follow it for that one. Never, Gandhi is a menace. Never. For all the info on when Joe is coming to your town go to Joecoy dot com. And of course, whatever Joe Coy does, please support because we love Joe cooy and thanks you, thank you for being here today. I love you, Joe, thank you.
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