Nikki Glaser is able to tackle the largest evening of her profession.
After a breakout 2024 — one which noticed her incomes awards consideration for her HBO comedy particular “Sometime You’ll Die” and dominating the discourse for her excoriating efficiency on Netflix’s “The Roast of Tom Brady” — the stand-up has been tapped to host the 2025 Golden Globes. Glaser had been within the comedy trenches earlier than Could’s Brady roast, by which she took the soccer legend to activity for his failed relationships and for delaying his retirement, all with a smirkingly abashed supply.
Now, she’s emceeing in awards season’s most raucous room. The potential upside is big, however the dangers are actual: Ricky Gervais after which the internet hosting pair of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler grew to become iconically related to the Globes over a number of appearances, whereas final 12 months, Jo Koy tanked with a crude joke about Barbie’s breasts. Talking in New York some three weeks out from the Jan. 5 ceremony, Glaser says, “I really feel actually prepared. I simply realize it’ll be killer.”
So what’s the Nikki Glaser tackle the Golden Globes? How is it totally different from what we would have seen earlier than?
The best way I really feel concerning the Globes is like, What are we doing right here? We’re treating this such as you guys are all nominated for Nobel Prizes. I don’t assume I will be as trustworthy as I wish to be, to speak my emotions about a few of these nominees that I don’t assume deserve it. That’s the argument my writing crew is stepping into: Will this fly? Can we make enjoyable of “The Bear,” or is “The Bear” going to take itself too critically? It’s about determining the place the road is.
Is your critique that “The Bear” shouldn’t be thought of a comedy, provided that it’s not significantly jokey?
That’s one thing that’s been tackled by different reveals; the Emmys had a pair actually good jokes about that. It’s been performed. I’m making an attempt to method from one other angle — what else is there to say about “The Bear”? You don’t wish to beat a useless bear with the identical jokes.
Have you ever been watching this 12 months’s films?
Sure! I’ve watched “Conclave” twice. Ralph Fiennes is the best actor. I like the film; I fell asleep quite a bit in the course of the first watch — it’s a darkish, sluggish film — but it surely’s one in every of my favourite films of all time. I noticed “Emilia Pérez” — I don’t even know what I used to be watching. Then somebody goes, it’s French. And I am going, “Oh, OK. This jogs my memory of the Paris opening ceremony.”
That one’s enjoyable as a result of there’s numerous fodder there. To begin with, not many individuals have seen it. Then, due to the subject material — there are specific issues that culturally, we’ve all determined we don’t joke about. It’s delicate. In order that’s a tough one to sort out, however not unattainable: I welcome the problem.
After which “Depraved” is the one which we’re actually making an attempt to nail. It has that “Eras Tour” vitality — I wish to respect the fandom and never trash it, as a result of as a Swiftie, there is no such thing as a joke you may make about Taylor Swift that’s OK to me. I relate to individuals who love “Depraved” that a lot. But it surely’s so good to have “Depraved,” as a result of everybody’s seen it.
What else is there? I’ve been speaking about “A Full Unknown.” Persons are like, “Huh?” Or “Nightbitch.” Persons are like, “What’s that?” It’s form of surprising. The folks at residence don’t know these movies, so I’ve to provide the plot somewhat bit.
Final 12 months, Jo Koy was the host, and viewers might inform on TV he wasn’t a success within the room. He made a joke about “Barbie,” if you happen to bear in mind —
Oh, I bear in mind.
I’m curious if you happen to took something from watching that.
It taught me the significance of contextualizing your self to the room as a comic. Comedians, we might like to be considered in the identical gentle as these A-listers, however we simply aren’t. His monologue would have gone quite a bit higher had he acknowledged, “Who am I?” He’s a man that kills more durable than anybody I’ve seen kill earlier than — to his viewers. So I believe he thought that might be the vibe there. And it was somewhat naive.
I’m going the opposite approach and never assuming anybody is aware of who I’m, and ensuring they’re launched to me earlier than I begin making jokes about them.
You’re additionally a nominee in a stand-up comedy class, which places you in a humorous place: You’re deflating the vanities of the night, however it might in all probability really feel like a giant honor if you happen to gained, proper?
Sure — you actually like me. My Sally Subject second. However I simply love being nominated. I used to be nominated for an Emmy; I’m nominated for a Grammy. I didn’t win an Emmy. Who is aware of if I’ll win. I simply actually just like the nomination. I don’t like profitable issues. I prefer to be hungry and get shut: It retains me going.
Additionally, after my class, I’m going to speak about what simply occurred. And the funnier factor is to lose.
Simply this previous weekend, you had been enjoying reveals in New England. Does working your monologue out on the highway offer you a bonus?
It’s such a bonus! Ricky is a stand-up, so he is aware of the membership circuit — he might have labored it out, and I’m positive he did. And Jo Koy additionally might have performed that, and I don’t know that he did. I’m positive some folks fear concerning the jokes getting out; I simply know from doing roasts that that is a part of my course of.
The cool factor is that, as a result of I understand how the jokes do for regular folks, I already know that I will probably be killing at residence. Even when it doesn’t go within the room, there’s part of me that may go, “Effectively, the folks in Burlington, Vermont, are dropping their minds.”
Is there a notoriously tough movie star whom you wish to needle, only for the problem of it?
There’s sure folks everyone knows who don’t have a humorousness about themselves, and if I had been to make that individual chortle, it reveals the folks within the room, “OK, it’s protected to chortle.”
I had a joke that I don’t assume goes to make the ultimate monologue: “The digital camera goes to be on you. Professional tip: Simply chortle. It’s a extremely great way for the viewers at residence to love you.” I don’t perceive why publicists haven’t instructed them this. Once you chortle at a joke about your self, it makes you look so pleasant, so cool, so personable. I’m making an attempt that can assist you out. This manner you don’t should play Hip-Hop Hopscotch with Jimmy Fallon to look relatable.
You’re a large Taylor Swift fan. Is there a world by which she would come up in your monologue?
Not until it’s a really favorable approach. She was on the Golden Globes final 12 months — I might have liked for her to be within the viewers this 12 months. I’m hoping this turns right into a gig that I can do a number of instances, and I can carry out for her, as a result of I’ve watched her so many instances.
What number of instances did you see “The Eras Tour”?
Twenty-two.
Huge quantity in Swiftie numerology.
It was purported to be 24, however the Vienna reveals had been canceled. So it ended up being good that I acquired that quantity — 22.
Do you could have a relationship with Swift?
I met her after “The Pink Tour,” however I used to be not a Swiftie but. I met her backstage, and he or she was so regular and good. It wasn’t identical to, pose subsequent to her and don’t make eye contact — we had a second.
However I’m very pleased simply staying a fan. I in all probability like her an excessive amount of — it might be form of bizarre to be associates with me. In the meanwhile, there’s been no try for me to satisfy her. I would like it to occur naturally.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did this present 4 instances; Ricky Gervais did it 5 instances. So would you want to return again?
I would like this. A lot of being a slapstick comedian is shifting from city to city. I actually like the thought of getting a gig yearly for some time, and I like reside, high-pressure TV. So it’s a gig that nobody’s going to should persuade me to do 12 months after 12 months.
The Oscars have introduced Conan O’Brien as their host this 12 months; it looks like these reveals are so totally different, however each are actually leaning into pure comedy.
The Globes takes itself approach much less critically; I imply, the Oscars is the Oscars. There’s extra money behind it and extra star energy. Hopefully, that’s a gig for me down the highway too. Lots of people watch the Golden Globes, however the Oscars warrants a musical quantity, a dance sequence. I’m actually trying ahead to seeing what Conan does with it. He’s at a spot in his profession the place we’re seeing him take these dangers, like his “Scorching Ones” efficiency — essentially the most lovely, chaotic factor I’ve ever seen.
How will you understand in case your internet hosting gig is a hit? What will probably be your metric?
I’m doing Howard [Stern] the subsequent day — he’ll completely be trustworthy. However actually, I don’t learn something. I’ll know based mostly on the best way I knew from the Tom Brady roast. The stage supervisor, after I’d gone on, goes, “You killed.” And after I walked by the stage, the crew was like, “Oh my God.” Once you get the sound guys and the digital camera guys mouthing “You killed” — that’s how I knew.