--- ---  # Katy Perry Had Jokes at the VMAs and Twitter Wasn't Having It by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 28, 2017 12:42 AM UTC  Host Katy Perry speaks onstage during the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, California. Host Katy Perry speaks onstage during the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, California.Kevin Winter—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 28, 2017 12:42 AM UTC Katy Perry’s opening monologue at the [2017 MTV Video Music Awards](http://time.com/4917820/jared-leto-mtv-vmas-cape/) was filled with jokes. But not many of them landed with the show’s audience. Perry, who herself landed on stage in a shiny space suit, approached her opening comments as if she were working out a new solid seven, complete with digs at the chaotic state of the world and a joke about _Handmaid’s Tale_ style getting trendy. Though the [VMAs host](http://time.com/4911143/katy-perry-style-evolution-gallery-2/) got a few laughs and cheers, people online weren’t having it: > [](https://twitter.com/MarcSnetiker/status/901963009173663744) > [](https://twitter.com/AlannaBennett/status/901961286052958208) > [](https://twitter.com/Dani%5FJames22/status/901961161943511040) > [](https://twitter.com/hunter%5Fwesley/status/901962076096225280) > [](https://twitter.com/stidoudou/status/901961257137397760) Then again, it takes a while to get new material down. 2017 MTV VMAs: Katy Perry Monologue Reaction ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4917847/katy-perry-mtv-vmas-monologue-jokes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4917847/katy-perry-mtv-vmas-monologue-jokes/"},"headline":"Katy Perry Had Jokes at the VMAs and Twitter Wasn't Having It","datePublished":"2017-08-28T00:42:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:50.136Z","description":"Her monologue did not go over well","url":"https://time.com/4917847/katy-perry-mtv-vmas-monologue-jokes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8902377f90d3445e/6988db68e76ad24a9e62ee99/mtv-video-music-awards-41.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8902377f90d3445e/6988db68e76ad24a9e62ee99/mtv-video-music-awards-41.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MTV-VMAS-2017","caption":"2017 MTV Video Music Awards - Fixed Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4917847/katy-perry-mtv-vmas-monologue-jokes/","name":"Katy Perry Had Jokes at the VMAs and Twitter Wasn't Having It"}}]}] ```