Nikki Glaser doesn’t plan to blow her golden alternative.
On Sunday, Glaser will host the 82nd Golden Globes. She plans for the gig to be extra like her breakout Tom Brady roast efficiency and fewer like Jo Koy’s 2024 flip as Golden Globes host.
A yr in the past, Koy bombed fairly onerous in a ballroom stuffed with film and TV stars. He was on brief discover, means out of his ingredient, and a bit sophomoric with the jokes. His monologue was tough, to place it succinctly — and kindly. Glaser, like the remainder of us, took discover. She additionally took notes.
“It taught me the significance of contextualizing your self to the room as a comic,” Glaser instructed Selection. “Comedians, we might like to be considered in the identical mild as these A-listers, however we simply aren’t. His monologue would have gone lots higher had he acknowledged, ‘Who am I?’”
Not like Glaser, Koy is not any roast comedian. His materials focuses largely on cultural quirks he sees inside his Filipino tradition. Koy’s audiences eat it up, however the 2023 Golden Globes weren’t Koy’s crowd.
“He’s a man that kills more durable than anybody I’ve seen kill earlier than — to his viewers,” she mentioned. “So I believe he thought that might be the vibe there.”
That “was slightly naive,” she added. Glaser says she’s “going the opposite means.”
“I’m…not assuming anybody is aware of who I’m,” Glaser mentioned, “and ensuring they’re launched to me earlier than I begin making jokes about them.”
Glaser will be an acquired style herself — simply ask some NFL viewers. Her humor is commonly crude and surprising, however she is superb at taking the wealthy and well-known down a peg or two. Generally it may be just a few too many pegs, one thing Glaser will wish to keep away from on Sunday.
Although Glaser has been doing standup for greater than twenty years, she solely grew to become a (semi-) family identify in Could 2024 after completely slaughtering at Netflix’s reside particular “The Best Roast of All Time: Tom Brady.”
Glaser says she feels “actually prepared” for the Globes — “I simply comprehend it’ll be killer.” However she’s not taking probabilities. Glaser mentioned comedians internet hosting massive awards reveals have the “benefit” to work their monologue out forward of time within the comedy golf equipment, which she’s been doing.
“Ricky (Gervais) is a stand-up, so he is aware of the membership circuit — he might have labored it out, and I’m positive he did,” she mentioned. “And Jo Koy additionally might have finished that, and I don’t know that he did. I’m positive some folks fear in regards to the jokes getting out; I simply know from doing roasts that that is a part of my course of.”
See the fruits of her course of on Sunday, January 5 on CBS.