Representatives for Koy did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment made outside regular working hours.
"Lot a marshmallows, man. They're delicious, but goddamn, they're soft," Koy said of the celebrity crowd, according to the outlet. "I just come from a different time. I see the changes that are happening. I get it, but goddamn, can we fucking laugh at ourselves?"
Koy continued that his St. Louis audience members probably didn't watch — or care — about the controversy.
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"I got a feeling none of you motherfuckers watched it, and I'm kinda happy. Oh my god. It feels good to live in this country," Koy said. "We get to say what we want to say. Don't be apologetic about it at all. Be able to…speak your mind," he continued.
During his monologue, Koy said "Barbie" is based on "on a plastic doll with big boobies."
He added: "The key moment in Barbie is when she goes from perfect beauty to bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet — or what casting directors call 'character actor.'"
Once the joke fell flat, Koy attempted to shift blame to the writers.
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"Some I wrote, some other people wrote," he said in a video of the monologue shared on YouTube. "Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago! You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up! You're kidding me, right? Slow down. I wrote some of these, and they're the ones you're laughing at," he added.
"Well, he's not wrong," Gerwig said Wednesday on BBC Radio 4's "Today" program. "She's the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on."
Gerwig added: "And you know, I think that so much of the project of the movie was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll. Barbie, by her very construction, has no character, no story; she's there to be projected upon."
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