Jo Koy

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Jo Koy makes moves and always brings the laughs. He has sold-out tours, sets new records with the upcoming first comedy event at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles (with Gabriel 'Fluffy' Iglesias), and even has holidays named after him... but what he really wants to do is make people laugh. From a hilarious story about betting on himself and producing his own special despite being told (repeatedly) no one wants it... to now multiple Netflix specials, breaking barriers in Filipino representation in entertainment and his pride in his cross-cultural comedy, Jo finds the ultimate joy in connecting with his audiences. Jo also gets real about his family: he tells Dan all about his military brat upbringing to working in entertainment just like his mother, and how humor got him through it all. Jo is currently on his "Jo Koy: Just Being Koy Tour", for upcoming dates, tickets, his bestselling book, and more, visit JoKoy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Welcome to another version of the West Coast South Beach sessions.
0:31.6	Joe Coy is with us.
0:33.1	You can check out all of his comedy, his book, his dates everything at joe coy dot com also he's got
0:40.1	five netflix specials another one coming out soon and you're going to become the first comedian
0:45.5	or second comedian depending on who opens uh with gabriel iglacias to sell out the local football
0:51.5	stadium uh what is your relationship and thank you for joining. What is your relationship?
0:55.4	And thank you for joining us.
0:58.9	What is your relationship with understanding how awesome,
1:03.5	weird it is that you're selling out stadiums with just your talent?
1:07.1	That you are selling out the forum, Madison Square Garden.
1:08.8	That's crazy, right?
1:14.2	It's still a pinch myself myself moment i think uh walking in it's like these arenas um like the kid the inner kid comes out of me and i just start looking at
1:21.9	the pictures on the wall and i'm still in awe and uh yeah it's still just like this these in my stomach. I still haven't put a grasp on it still. It feels like success, though, right? You enjoy it as success? What is your relationship with success? I think, well, success is just being able to do what you want to do. And this is just one of those things where it's like I can't grasp it. It's like if I go to a comedy club, that's a comedy club. That's what I'm supposed to be. I'm supposed to be anywhere, but I'm just saying, like, when you walk into an arena, you're just like, wow, this is nuts. So it's beyond anywhere where your dreams or expectations where were your dreams? Like you're starting out and where was it?
2:02.4	I started in Seattle.
2:04.3	Well, Tacoma, Washington.
2:06.0	But when you're from Tacoma, you say I'm from Seattle.
2:08.8	It just makes things easier, right?
2:10.8	And then I saw Eddie Murphy delirious.
2:15.7	I started listening to Richard Pryor tapes. And then I saw Eddie Murphy delirious. I started listening to Richard Pryor tapes. And then I saw Eddie Murphy
2:20.8	delirious. There was just something about that performance, you know, especially my age and hearing
2:27.0	what he was talking about. I just related to it more. I just enjoyed it more. I thought the guy was
2:34.0	Superman, you know, I think I was 11.
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