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“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift,” the comedian quipped.

What’s wrong with that? Really, nothing! Besides, it’s matter-of-factly true! And if you’re not an onion-skinned Taylor Swift fan, that’s actually funny! Especially if you’ve seen the who-knows-how-many camera shots of Swift at the NFL.

So why is the media so hard on Filipino American comedian, Jo Koy? My guess is that the star-struck media and Swift fans just went with the flow and follow her lead: Swift’s tight-lip reaction to the joke.

They’ve made Jo Koy look even worse by saying his jokes weren’t funny. C’mon! Watch the clips and see how people were laughing. Some even found the Swift/NFL joke funny, excluding Swift, of course!

But what if Swift was sport enough to just ride on Jo Koy’s joke, like Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep did? I bet things would have been different.

I don’t find all of Jo Koy’s jokes that funny, but it’s not fair to judge his performance based on Swift’s facial response to his joke. Yes, even if she is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.