Cheer up, Ricky Gervais fans – Nikki Glaser is the perfect Golden Globes host
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toMay, Nikki Glaser She took on the greatest quarterback in NFL history and made herself a star in the process. None of the two million viewers watched Netflix Roast Tom Brady No doubt was left as to who handed out the most brutal burns of the night, and many of Glaser’s devastating criticisms quickly spread on social media.
With a beguilingly sweet smile and deft timing, Glaser pulled no punches while delivering killer one-liners about Brady’s reluctance to retire (“I get it, it’s hard to walk away from something that’s not your pregnant girlfriend”), and his $30 million cryptocurrency losses. (“How did you fall for that?” Even Gronk [former teammate Rob Gronkowski ] He was like: “I know this isn’t real money”) and to him Divorce from model Gisele Bündchen (“You have seven rings – well, eight, now that Giselle has given them back to her”). Even comedy greats admired Glaser’s wit and the precision of her attacks. Conan O’Brien later told Glaser: “No one’s going to do a better roasting range than that.” PodcastAdding that all future roasting operations will be measured accordingly. “Where is it on the Nikki Glaser scale? “It’s a 6.2.” That’s pretty good, but it’s not her 10th.
Tomorrow we’ll get a chance to see if Glaser can return to those heights where she was given the chance to toast it all Hollywood In one night. Choose it as Host of the Golden Globe Awards He made the awards show Have to watch TV againafter last year’s disastrous last-minute host Joe Koi She was bombarded with a series of failed jokes and An ill-advised decision to throw his book under the bus.
Historically, Golden Globe They tend to either go without a host or simply pair a couple of good-looking actors. That changed in 2010 when The office Co-creator Ricky Gervais He took the party and I decided to use the opportunity to provoke and mock Hollywood stars. He memorably joked that year that he “likes a drink as much as the next guy, unless the next guy’s Mel Gibson.” That reference to Gibson’s DUI and the actor’s subsequent anti-Semitic statements was just the beginning. The following year, Gervais returned and set his sights on offending high-profile targets like Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. “It seemed like everything this year was 3D, except for the characters in it,” he joked Tourist“.
In all, Gervais has hosted the concert five times, once more than once former Saturday Night Live Couple Tina Fey and Amy Poehlerwhich continued the trend of vilifying stars with jokes about George Clooney (“attractiveness It was nominated for Best Picture. “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend another minute with a woman his own age”) and Leonardo DiCaprio: “Like a supermodel’s vagina, let’s give Leonardo DiCaprio a warm welcome…”
Glaser is set to continue that no-holds-barred dynasty. last month, She revealed that she reached out to Gervais for advice On how to nail the party, tell us CBS“His advice was just: ‘Be yourself.’ You’re not one of them. Don’t try to go out pretending to be a celebrity, just because you’re invited.”
Although Glaser is certainly not a film or television actress, she has spent years rising through the ranks of stand-up comedy. Glaser was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in June 1984, and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, far from Hollywood. She fell in love with comedy watching Julia Louis-Dreyfus play the sharp, assertive Ellen Seinfeld She began honing her craft in stand-up after being inspired by Sarah Silverman. While she was still studying English at the University of Kansas, she got her first big break competing on a reality show last stand comedy, He reached the semi-finals in 2006.
What followed was a decade of touring as a comedian on the road, where Glaser honed her sharp, acerbic voice night after night. She launched her first one-hour stand-up special, excellentwas released on Paramount in April 2016, but its appearance on… Comedy Central Roast by Rob Lowe Later that same year she actually announced her arrival as a caustic new voice in comedy. She didn’t hold back, making a series of explicit references to Lowe’s 1988 sex tape scandal. While Lowe and even the hardcore comedians on the road winced, Glaser’s star was born. It was no surprise to see her invited back by Comedy Central two years later to attend a roast of Bruce Willis (where she declared: “You had an amazing career in action movies, until Jason Statham started going bald”) and Alec Baldwin, where she joked about the actor’s wife Hilaria : “It’s so sexy and fit. Is it screaming when you burn calories?
By this point in her career, Glaser was beginning to become a household name, even if her path to fame wasn’t always smooth. In 2018, she participated in a reality show Dancing with the stars But she found herself the first person to be eliminated. “That was really a very low point in my life,” Glaser said recently. The Wall Street Journal. “I never thought I would come in first place, but I thought I might last longer than the blind woman on the show.” However, she wouldn’t have succeeded as a comedian if she couldn’t laugh at herself. The following year, she took over as host of the American version of the program Blind date She earned her own niche as a dating show host HBO Max F-Boy Island And the occasional one Lovers and liars. In 2022, she starred in her own reality show, Welcome home Nikki Glaser?which followed her return to St. Louis from Hollywood and her adjustment to a quieter life with her parents and on-and-off (current) partner of 12 years, television producer Chris Convey.
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While her reality TV adventures have helped Glaser build her brand and gain new fans, they haven’t detracted from her day job. Her latest special is on HBO Someday you will die (Available in the UK on Now TV) is her darkest and most personal hour of comedy to date, and it earned her a Golden Globe nomination which means in addition to her hosting gig, she will also compete with the likes of Adam Sandler, Ally Wong and Jamie Foxx in the Best Performance in a Comedy category Improvisation on TV.
As the morbid title suggests, Glaser uses her style to talk about death and extracts dark humor from her bouts of depression and suicidal thoughts. She joked about opening up about her suicidal thoughts during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, only to be reassured when her DMs were flooded with messages asking her to also kill herself. She adds that she has not ruled out doing so in old age, using her status as a “future victim” of suicide to mock dissidents who use their personal relationships to justify their material. “Now if I said, ‘Guys, I’m going to make some rape jokes,’ you might say, ‘Get back to the suicide stuff,'” she continues. “But if you say: ‘But I can tell these jokes because I was raped,’ then you say: ‘Oh, thank God she was raped.’ Well, good. I thought she wasn’t raped. Thank God she was brutally raped. Now I can relax.” “I was nervous before.”
Glaser’s deft handling of these dark themes makes for a smart hour of comedy that ends with an extended, impressive pantomime of the “Bang Gang,” which I can’t imagine any other situation in the world pulling off. She has promised to throw herself hard into her performance at the Golden Globes, recently telling an interviewer that she has decided to skip Christmas and New Year’s in favor of spending more time writing, rehearsing and testing her material. “You just skip the holidays. It’s very important,” Glaser told the newspaper. Wall Street Journal. “I hate that my monologue didn’t go well because I wanted to watch my nephew throw a fit over a toy he didn’t get.”
Come tomorrow night, this may be Hollywood’s best and most spectacular throwing match due to Glaser’s razor-sharp digs. I already hinted at that Didi, Trump and the evil Press tour It’s all fair game but of course, her exact goals are kept secret until the show itself.
However, Glaser revealed that in addition to speaking to Gervais, she also received some wise words from Fey and Poehler. “Their advice, which I hold dear, and which can only come from someone who has done it, is that the room is too noisy,” Glaser revealed. Fey and Poehler caution against rude celebrities, explaining: “They all talk; [but] Don’t try to calm them down because the audience at home can’t hear them. It’s relevant information, but probably unnecessary. If there’s anyone who can convince Hollywood to sit up, shut up, and take notice, it’s Nikki Glaser.
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