On the Podcast: Nikki Glaser on Hosting the 2025 Golden Globes, the Eras Tour, and the One Roast Joke She Can’t Forget

Malle: That is sensible.

Glaser: I don’t need to make anybody really feel uncomfortable or really feel like they have been referred to as out. You recognize, I watch these monologues and I see the host say, like, “Timothée Chalamet is right here,” after which everybody applauds and also you simply see Timothée within the shot being like, what’s coming down the pike? There are such a lot of elements to think about that I’m not used to with common standup, the place it solely issues if the viewers laughs or not. It’s not based mostly on one individual’s response who the digicam’s going to go to afterwards.

Malle: I’d suppose that the Tom Brady roast would put together you nicely for that.

Glaser: It did, simply by way of the excessive stakes and the reside facet of it. We’re there to have fun folks, however that’s after my monologue. My monologue is a comedy second, so it’s simply going to be fairly rapid-fire. Proper now, it’s nearly writing a whole lot of jokes and sifting by them and looking for the perfect ones in the perfect order, which is a ton of labor.

Emma Specter: Do you usually have an inside sense of whether or not a joke is just too edgy, or is it extra based mostly on viewers response?

Malle: Or do you might have one one that will learn your jokes and be like, “It’s too imply,” like your mother or somebody?

Glaser: I believe it’s the viewers, which is why I’m attempting them out. I believe as a result of I’ve been doing it so lengthy and have carried out in entrance of crowds for therefore a few years, I simply have an excellent sense of what folks like and what they don’t like, and I’m actually delicate to how delicate celebrities are. Everybody else simply desires me to go in there and go for blood, as a result of I believe most of us type of resent the elite Hollywood individuals who suppose they’re higher than us and are so smug. Regardless that we worship them, folks actually need me to allow them to have it, and it’s simple for folks to say—they don’t should take care of the backlash. They’re like, “Simply do it, Nikki, simply go laborious, full-throttle,” and I’m like, “Yeah, nicely, that’s dangerous recommendation.” Ricky Gervais, when he hosted and roasted everybody, that was his final time, and he knew it was his final time. He stored saying, “I don’t care. I’m not doing this once more,” in order that’s becoming for that. However I can’t come on the market and go “I don’t care.” [But] I do care. Like, that is my first time. I’d like to do that repeatedly, and a number of these celebrities have most likely by no means heard of me, these A-listers, and even when they’ve, they’re like, who’re you to make enjoyable of me? So it’s delicate.