The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #500 Golden Globes Glow-Up, Nikki Glaser's Iconic Monologue & The Skit That Had Everyone Talking!

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

The moment’s finally here—and Nikki is thrilled with how her night went hosting the 2025 Golden Globes. She’s hanging with her writing team, Brian Frange and Sean O’Connor, plus her producer (and boyfriend) Chris Convy. It legit feels like every headline is straight out of their Google Doc. Nikki spills the tea on what it was like delivering her monologue, and Brian and Sean dish on who in the room was living for her jokes. They’re pretty sure Ralph Fiennes is officially a Bestie now. Plus, there’s all the behind-the-scenes stuff—like who came to wish Nikki good luck and almost made two of her writers pass out, who made her feel super safe, and all the iconic details about the skit of the night: Pope-ular! In the Final Thought, the guys want Nikki to throw her own after-party next time, and she’s all in on the theme they suggest. Subscribe to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts to get this episode ad-free, and get exclusive bonus content: https://apple.co/nikkiglaserpodcast  . Watch this episode on our Youtube Channel: The Nikki Glaser Podcast Follow the pod on Instagram: @NikkiGlaserPod Nikki's Tour Dates: nikkiglaser.com/tour Brian’s Animations: youtube.com/@BrianFrange More Nikki: IG More Brian: IG More producer Noa: IGSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's the Nikki Glaser Podcast. Yay. Welcome. It's January 6th, Monday. Oh my god, I forgot. Oh yeah, wait a second. Happy holidays, let's celebrate. To everyone who celebrates, Brian is here, Sean is here, Sean O'Connor, Brian Frangie,

Chris Convey. I'm here. Yeah. We're all here, We're all doing it. This is the day after. I don't know. I have only slept for three hours. It's a crazy day. Since yesterday morning.

It's almost like I'm hard to say anything. So I feel kind of in a dreamlike state. And you've been talking nonstop for like 70 days getting ready for this. And then you had globes last night, stern this morning. I feel like you should just turn it over to these two to describe the events of last night we started talking about they're so good at this when we got here and i kept saying well no no we got to save it for the pod okay yeah so just to set the stage last night i hosted um the golden globes the 82nd golden globes um it was live on CBS. It went extraordinarily well.

All of the hard work, all of the running around doing sets, all of the writing, all of the just thought that went behind it totally paid off. It's a testament to like when you know something so well, you can just get up there and have fun and do it.

We had a blast doing it all around, but it like truly was exceeded expectations I believe like if I would have dreamed for it to have a response it truly was the response that it got in every way in fact like we were saying this morning some of the article titles would have been if we were like if I pitched to the writers room

can you guys like pitch out on some titles to articles that we would want people to write after this they would have been these. You know, it was like, it was truly you know yeah, it was just it's another Tom Brady roast kind of like moment of like

it all worked out and I'm so lucky and happy and grateful. To have two of these like the Tom Brady roast, where then everyone in the world of sports knows who you are after it. And then now everyone in Hollywood knows.

It's like, you got to go do like a Home Depot. Yeah, what group of people am I not hitting right now? Well, across the board, you got rave reviews from not just Huffington Post, but also Breitbart wrote an article about you that because there was there were jokes in there for everybody. Yes, there were jokes that appease different demographics at different times. We didn't do that because we were like trying to be middle of the road and play both sides it was just like we just felt the vibe of the we felt the zeitgeist right now which would literally change by the hour yeah based on like if they knew who luigi mangione was if they were worried about trump like if the vibe in the air was you know like it was changing every day

but we just nailed the tone and so no one felt we weren't we're you know skewering them because we weren't it was like it was about skewering the idea of things more. It wasn't like, no one got scorched either. It was so celebratory and the nicest tweet that I read that really just ignited something in my brain to the point where it's all I've thought about for the

last 18 hours is someone said this felt like the first award show to ever feel young and in the moment. And they were like, Nikki should be like the millennial Billy Crystal moving forward. Where it was just like,

it really felt like for the first time ever, it didn't feel old and stale. That's the longest tweet I've ever heard. Yeah. Oh, no. I just started. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

No, that's so nice yeah that's I mean the word young to be described you know when you're 40 but that's how long this takes to like be for me at least to be good enough to have done this I couldn't have done this in my 20s or 30s I think some people do have talent that emerges or they just find out who they are as a performer earlier on but um and just being able to be surrounded by the right people. But truly, it was such a win. I feel like Tom Brady on the Patriots, and we just won the Super Bowl. That's how I feel.

I really feel like it's our win. I think Tom Brady is a pretty apt description because I felt way different this time than I did after the Tom Brady roast. After the Tom Brady roast, I felt like I won the Super Bowl. I felt like I was euphoric. This time I was not euphoric. Yeah, what were you feeling? I was satisfied. I was like, we came here to win.

We expect it to win. And we won. Totally. I was like, this is going to... I think I posted online beforehand. Yeah, on my Instagram. I said, get ready because you're about to see the best monologue in Golden Globes history. And that was prior to the monologue.

And if it was any worse than that, I would be depressed right now. And we were the best monologue in Golden Globes history. And so now I'm satisfied. He's satisfied. I'm so satisfied. So funny. I love the difference between Brian right now and Brian on Saturday. Yes.

Yes. It's great. It's like a new, it's like, honestly, it's like the substance in a way where you have hatched out. You're younger. You're like more vibrant. Yeah. The lust for life.

Dennis Quaid's jacking off to you right now. Oh my God. It is. It was so, it's just so awesome. Like, just the relief on the other side

of a lot of work, a lot of anxiety is just one of the best feelings in the world. It's like, why you do it. It's like, why,

it's the, that's, that's what, I'm going after the feeling of, yes, it like, that was so scary. And then now it's not anymore. And there is like a, with that comes kind of like, then what do I think about?

Like, I can't. Last night I could not fall asleep because all monologue jokes were going through my head. The wording of jokes, like, still my brain is still like, keep running them, keep practicing them. It was really bizarre. How about Nikki memorizing that last joke? Oh, incredible. Oh my God. It's, it's, it's like one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. I can't believe, I can't believe I did not.

Let's just set the stage. Yeah. So the last joke I do was about In the monologue In the monologue The last joke I did Was about how You know No matter what happens tonight Whether you win or lose

Just remember The point of winning an award Is not to The point of making art Is not to win an award The point of making art Is to start a tequila brand So popular

You never have to make art again Great joke And every joke Was in the prompter The teleprompter In case You know I was off book For all of the teleprompter in case you know i was off book for all of the jokes but i would have to just look to see where i was in the in the monologue

and some of the wording maybe i would look to it but um we were moving things around so it was more prompter was more about like what's next as opposed to like what am i saying roadmap for you yeah um but that joke we took out because we found at rehearsal the one before it about you know this is going to be a memorable evening someday you're going to look back and be like oh see one of the crowd shots to go oh my god that was before they caught that guy that was supposed to be the closer because at rehearsal a tag for it went really well yeah where i say it's like it could be it's a guy it could be a woman it's not going to be and the it did do really well in the room.

Both those tags exploded. 100% of the time, it's a man. That exploded. That was the biggest pop of the entire monologue. And it got an applause break. But what Nikki sensed was that this is kind of a downer to end on. This is not a celebratory statement to be making. Tom Brady, right here.

Right, called an audible at the line. Yeah, called an audible at the line. He did call an audible. And this was not in the prompter. We removed it because we were- Yeah, what, John? Even more impressive is every time you did this joke in a set,

you kept saying brand of tequila and it was always supposed to be tequila brand., you kept saying brand of tequila and it was always supposed to be tequila brand and you kept saying brand of tequila and in your memory you did the right wording

and it is... That's crazy. It was insane. I never once said it right before then. No. Holding it in your hand

like... Because I would always like see the joke and I would look up from my phone and just say brand of tequila instead of tequila brand i didn't even realize that i got that right that's so right completely right like last night and right now and it's just like what if i would have like like if it would be a totally different conversation that's how

delicate the shit is is that if i would not have landed that last joke which is just a fraction of what I did up there the whole night. Yeah. It would have been a different, like it would be different story today because a closer is your dismount is like, that's your, your pose at the end. And if you wobble on that,

it's like, it just gives a different, it's, it's more important than the first thing you do. So for me to go in, I was talking and I remember being like, it's that moment. Like when our gymnast is flying through the air on this like and and everyone's holding their breath and

it's silent and like it's time slows down that is what i felt in like in a like movie moment in my mind saying that joke of like i don't know if i'm if the next word is going to be the right word what's going to happen it thank fucking god that is over yes that moment is over because i if someone would have told me that moment was coming up in my life i would not i would and i hate that there are going to be more moments like that in my life that i can't that i that i know are coming up because i set myself up for them all the time yeah it was that was terrifying but it was completely flawless and like it ended it ended the uh the monologue in such a triumphant way where everyone cheered. And then right after that, you get another slam with The Rock coming out.

It paired so well with bringing The Rock up as well because he has a tequila brand that's very successful. We never even meant it to be that because he got moved the day of. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. It's like a perfect circumstance that you just nailed, and it's like this electric moment that it was like goosebumps.

It was incredible. It was amazing. It really is just about like, what it boils down to is like, you got to practice. And that's the reason I do lots of sets I don't like To

I don't like to rehearse I don't like to just go over the script Reading it over with a group in a room I don't like to rehearse by alone I'm sure it would have worked also that way To just say the lines over and over But I just had to go out and do a bunch of sets So that I was forced to say it a bunch It's not even it wasn't even about testing material i mean

it was about that but i realized that was about just like saying it so much that it i could say it anyway and still find my way back or if something happened it was just like i had it memorized so well but there for me there's no other way to do that than just book sets because then i have like practicing lines for an audition I would never do like and I never I go into auditions and I'm never prepared or off book because I don't there's no the auditioning sucks

but when there's an audience there I'll audition I'll or practicing sucks but when there's an audience practice can happen for me. You need to have an acting class Nikki likes to scrimmage she doesn't want to do drills. Yeah, yes. I don't want to drill.

That's why I practice. I learned so much guitar when I was able to go live on Instagram. It's like I need an audience watching me. I practice what I really suck off Instagram, but to try it, you need an audience. I don't know, three.

I guess three. That's all it is. Nikki, boil the whole monologue down to the fact that you're a three Oh god Can't get away from that I'm so glad I was watching the monologue on YouTube today

Which by the way is over two million now Yeah so it's at 2.3 What? It's at 2.3 It's been 15 hours at the time of taping And last year's monologue has 2.9 in a year Yeah Oh my word

Yeah and I think that's mostly us watching it to figure out what not to do. That's so funny. But I was watching it and we got to that part where you have to do that, you do the audible and you have to do that last joke.

And I saw it last night and I know that it went well. And even watching it, knowing that, I was still nervous that you weren't going to get it. My heart sank in that moment yeah when when i saw it was an impromptu and i knew nikki had to do it it was i

was terrified it's the wildest audible call because you on you start saying all right and then you're like before we start giving out awards like it it it was, like, so you caught yourself. You're like, I'm not going to start it right now. Yeah, yeah. But, like, we know that, but everyone in the room is just like, oh, of course. Like, she's taking a beat as we're laughing. Yeah. All right.

Yes. Yeah, it was flawless. And then I want to say something that I think is an underappreciated aspect of your hosting, which is, obviously, it it was funny and the monologue was amazing and the interstitials were amazing, but I, watching it back, I really like the way you introduce people.

It's very professional. It's got like a great tenor in your voice. It was wall to wall some of the best hosting ever. Your introductions were incredible. The smiles. It's like, you know when you see a kid and they've been trained to be a debutante?

And they're like, how do you know which fork to use? And how do you know how to position your arms? It was like that for hosting. It was just like. It really was. You were like adult JonBenet. That is the greatest compliment you could ever tell me. You're her grown up.

That is so nice. That's so nice. I mean, Popular? Okay, let's talk about Popular. Honestly, I think there could be an hour-long documentary about how Popular came to be. We might make one.

Safdie can direct it. I'm serious. You could interview every single person. There's a story for most people that have been involved in this project with Nikki. And everybody had some little part to play to create something that was so funny. And people loved. Loved.

It really is. They loved to a point that literally my son today woke up and he did, like, to wake me up was sing popular. Him and his friends were singing popular at a Golden, like, an adult Golden Globes thing. Does that mean everybody was topless? No, it, like, it really, like, it changed something in my son. He, like, loved it. something in my son. He loved it. Oh, my God. I was listening to Wicked's soundtrack at the gym today.

I was just like, I got to hear Popular. You went to the gym today? Went to the gym this morning. I have to. I guess you got to sleep in. Not really. You didn't do Stern? Yeah, I didn't do Stern.

I got back pretty late. I talked to... Allie stayed up so I could give her the download. What grade did she give it? She gave it an A++. Okay, good. That's really good. Yeah, we talked until like 2 o'clock in the morning about it. We stayed up really late.

I didn't leave the Hilton until midnight or past midnight. Yeah. Nikki was trying to go to sleep for us and I just kept trying to talk about how great she was and she's trying to sleep i'm like i'm so sorry no no no i wanted the company i was like because you went downstairs for a bit to collect like some stuff from the you know writer's room and i was like when is he coming back like i can't be alone i haven't been

alone forever i wanted like talk or like process and like yeah it was it's wild it's all i wanted i got home and everyone was asleep but then i got like a text message from my friend who is not in the industry but he's like a he's in the music industry and he's like way too cool for school with everything and he was like i was at a party and as she started doing popular, the whole party was like, no, don't do this. And then the turn of this sucks. He was like, it was a celebration. We all got got.

That's so good. Because we were feeling, so many people were like, they really wanted the song. And I think some people, it would have been a fun thing to do. But I didn't really hear that anyone had that. I haven't heard the reaction and like I think some people it would have been like a fun thing to do we like but I didn't really hear that anyone had that like I haven't heard the reaction of like what is she doing like and then they were like oh you got us

that's so good to hear that that paid off because that's what we were writing to like we wanted to trick people we tricked like we tricked like a group of like like alternative musicians in a way where they were just like oh my god like what a turn anything but this that was my favorite part was just saying this whole thing sucked that really

like made me laugh every time I said it which was like three times but to practice that we came up with popular the night before at like 10 p.m. 10 p.m. 9 or 10. It happened so late that I went to sleep being like,

well, Popular's definitely getting cut. I can't wait to see what we do at Act 3. We were loopy. You never can trust an idea like that late before the show. And it's a miracle that it even happened. It just is. Thank God I canceled my sets that night

because I was just i was having a fun time in the writer's room i was like i don't need to practice it anymore it's down like we don't need to do that so i canceled my sets and um and then we were just that just came from us being kooky and just like throwing out stuff and like saying like oh what could be we do if we're not just like because jess dweck was the one that was like, you know, you just had a great monologue and you have another, you're doing, talking in all the acts. We have this act three. Like if you just, we were going to do another mini monologue about TV, which would have been great and great jokes. But she was like, I don't know.

At that point, I'm like looking for something more. I'm like kind of bored. It's like the same thing we already saw. And then to me, I was just like, God damn it. She's fucking right And now we have to like Come up with something Like

We have to come up with like An interactive bit Where I'm gonna have to like Go in the audience Or I'm gonna have to like I don't know Like go over Like do some

Just do some sort of like Bit Just doing bits Is like It's hard to come up with a bit that works Like yes I'm great at telling jokes That's what I do

Like let's just stick to that. But she was so right. And I'm like, I really was like, oh, this is going to be such a long night and this is just insurmountable of like,

where do we even go? What do we do? Her saying that at like 8.30, 9 p.m. was so helpful though because we've been in a windowless room all day.

Oh my God, you're so right. There's no windows in the room. And everyone's crazy. And the original pitch was like, you come out like Linda, and the song was cut. And then J.P. McDade said, popular.

Yeah. And then we all, no one heard him except for Mike Gibbons, who then asked him to re-pitch it again. And then we kind of just talked. He thought, he was like, he backed off on it because he's like, oh, everybody hates it. There's no way this is a good joke.

Nobody laughed at it. I'm never saying this again. And then he pitches it again because Gibbons makes him pitch it again. And then we kind of riff on it for like 10 minutes. And then like three of us just go into another room, bang out a script, and then you're sending it off. And thank God we did it because not only was it

really funny but it also gave uh the every like news outlet an iconic photo of you wearing a popad and you look fucking awesome yeah it's so it's my favorite thing i've ever done i think for sure and i i definitely want that as my in-memoriam photo when I die. It's 100%. Please, if I die, please have this clip resurface at the Emmys, because that's the one I'll be shown dead on. Nikki said this last night, and her mom and her dad, a bunch of us were there.

And Nikki's like, I want this as my in memoriam image please we need to make that happen and nikki's mom goes oh we'll make it happen but i think it'll get a laugh in the room oh yeah that is like this it just looks ridiculous it looks ridiculous but it also looks iconic like yes you have a white background from the spotlight you look fucking cool and it's so dumb it's so dumb it's a callback it's just the longest callback of all time if that picture pops up but when we were

in the room and you had written it out and you guys had like gave us this amazing script and like we had pitched out on it in the room and stuff and I was just like fired up by it but it was also like we were like high on caffeine and adrenaline and nerves and like you know there's I would and I was just like fired up by it but it was also like we were like high on caffeine and adrenaline and nerves and like

you know there's a I would say there was probably like 30 times we all collectively got like really excited about something

and it didn't work literally like 30 times that happened for 30 different wicked jokes we never wound up telling yes we all gave out a medal yeah even

Brian's like Dweck has done it Or like another person Has done it multiple times Yeah Man There were so many ideas That we had

That we You know in the room It's a great feeling Because even if it doesn't work out There's like this feeling Of like And then this And this

And we're just like We're making each other Laugh about it And we're like Should we do this This is crazy And they never go But this was one

When I was like God I really do I like singing And it's I don't I'm not doing it never go. But this was one when I was like, God, I really do. I like singing. And I'm not doing it too much that it seems like I'm like, I'm singing. And it's making fun of myself. And it's just,

and it's catchy. And it's just, it's so good. Popular is so funny. Yeah, it's such a catchy song. The joke is so clear immediately. And then on top of that, it's like, honestly, maybe the most cutting joke of the entire show. Because in any other award show, they would do the entire song.

Yes. It's a burn on every award show. Yes. Honestly, you took that away from the SAG Awards. You might have actually done that. Yeah. Hold on. I just got to text to someone very important that I got to.

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Listen to The Daily Show, Ears Edition on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We're back. Yeah, that was a crazy text. This article is crazy. There is an article in Rolling Stone

that the title of the article is, and Bob's just sent this to us, so credit to Bob. System of a Down, jokingly confirm, Glenn Close was a bandmate following Golden Globe shout out. Oh my God.

That's right. That is so funny. Guitarist. That joke did not get anything in the room. People were so confused. It was just for people who were listening closely, you know? I will say. Playing closely.

It was the dumbest thing I've ever pitched in my entire life. It was so funny. It killed in the room. And sometimes the jokes are for the people. And this one was definitely. It was like two-time Golden Globe recipient, Hollywood legend, and former drummer of System of a Down, Glenn Close. That was definitely for the room. It was so funny.

But why not say that? That is so funny. And for me, those kind of tosses to presenters there's no harm in that because it was just like to say the weirdest thing may people go what did she just say that's more interesting than just like here it comes because those when you bring somebody out nobody's even really paying attention until the person walks out exactly the idea that you even put some jokes in there is like so exciting yeah it was like it was just a little treat for anyone who was paying attention which i at that point in the show was late in the

show it's probably the seventh act out of like 10 or so it was oh no it was the 12th act what it was the end of the show it was the last thing yeah she was about to give the reward to the brutal oh my god she was laughing as she was walking out she was laughing as she walked out She was about to give the reward to the brutal. Oh my God. She was laughing as she was walking out. She was laughing as she walked out. She liked the joke, I think. I mean, I can assume that's why she's laughing. Glenn Close, like re-watching the monologue was a top five audience member.

Glenn Close, Ralph Fiennes fucking loves you. Like the entire Halftime recap You're like he's right behind you He's just laughing the entire time Really? He's like laughing at Tucci And he starts laughing at Tucci and pointing at him About Tucci's cologne

Oh my god I love Ralph Fiennes so much I cannot believe you just told me that I was so nervous just standing When you got in the crowd i was so nervous being there because i just didn't want anyone to like feel forced to say something to me because i'm just like waiting there so i even told the stage manager don't set me out there until like i go like literally let's start walking a minute before we're back on he was like i want to go out a minute 30 i was like please i can't be i just don't want to stand out there in like while everyone's still talking and i'm just standing there alone like they're gonna feel

like they'll have to say good job and if they don't i'll feel sad but people people just were like leaving me alone because they're like she's a job to do yeah it's the vibe it wasn't like we don't like her vibe oh no like i i made mental notes of everyone who like was really digging it. Glenn Close. Yeah, I've got MVP huge star edition. Yeah. So who are some of yours? Oh, Kylie. Kylie. Kylie, you, even during the Timothy part.

I was scared to even ask. It matters to me too much. Eyelashes fucking killed her. She doubled over. Stop. It's on the monologue. She is like Bending over laughing Yeah

And like Timothy Is like trying to play it cool But he's laughing Dude And then like During the Sandler thing You really broke Timothy Oh my god

Yes What Well it's I realize like It's so much It's so hard to have A camera in your face When you

Because all the cameras Are in people's faces Wait And they don't know When the joke is coming About them They know it's coming Because there's a camera in your face when you because all the cameras are in people's faces wait and they're they don't know when the joke is coming about them they know it's coming because there's a camera in their face yeah and they're a big star so it's probably like they're like oh what's this gonna be and when you like from doing roasts when i would even see my name up in the prompter when someone was like doing their roast set and i know a joke's coming about me you like black out you

don't even listen to it like you're just like you can't like process information when you're so nervous what's going to be said so i i went to bed last night being like oh i i have to remember they are terrified in that moment i really was like they have nothing to worry they should trust me and like i just like know that i am trustworthy so i just think that they will be but they were so scared oh they might have been scared but oh my god like kate planchette every reaction shot, she's dying. Eddie Redmayne Eddie Redmayne is MVP. He was laughing and

looked like he pretended he got shot. He was falling over in his chair. He loved it. The Jackal joke broke Redmayne. He loved it. Huge MVP, Adam Sandler. Yeah.

Oh, my God. Big boost in the room. That was amazing. Oh, that was great. So cool that he was down for that. Ariana and Cynthia. Oh, Ariana. The most attentive audience member of all time.

She was just being a fun human being. They made me feel so safe being there. I literally said to Chris, I think when you were out there, that Ariana doing the hold your finger, and then she picked up Cynthia's and was like, this is you, felt like the Kevin Hart moment at the time, Brady Rose. It was just a co-sign of we're on board with this girl. Everyone was in.

They didn't have to go that hard on it. Or, like, you know, have that kind of moment. I met Ariana once when she was dating Pete, like, very quickly. And I don't think she knew who I was. I mean, there's no way. So there was no, like, goodwill I had with her in my mind before that. But I, like, I just sensed, I sensed them even before that joke of like like they they leaning forwards and like you know she was present yes fun and light it was amazing her and cynthia came to play like cynthia when you were saying cynthia arriva was here like re-watching the monologue she's like

okay what is she gonna say it's like oh like we oh, we didn't know. We didn't know. We didn't know you'd be down, girl. Oh my God, next time we will hit you in the back. We were more afraid of you than you were of me. Yes, yes, totally. They were so cool. Because Wicked, they were the ones to win over. And it turns out that fear I had of like they might be taking themselves

too seriously was so unfounded it was like the exact opposite they were so they had such a good sense of humor about themselves

immediately about it and they were so yes in the press conferences they were so sincere about all that stuff but the fact that they were so light

and fun and present in that show of course Ariana is down for comedy she's funny yeah she's funny you know Kidman

Kidman brought it. Yeah. Kidman is like. Oh my God, thank you for telling me this because I haven't watched it yet and like when I was up there, I wasn't really absorbing anything. And I sent you this one,

but Sarah Paulson's reaction to the two fingers up joke is my favorite. I didn't see that. She is just. Like right, you see her over, like she looks so shocked her face turned into Katy Perry's Like Adrian Brody

Oh Oh yeah That was the surprise Of the night Yeah The fact that he laughed At that He laughed

And blew you a kiss Yes That was so So cool I wish I could've seen better I couldn't really see What everyone was doing But that's from my years

Of blurring my eyes And not Paying attention To people's faces Like my body doesn't know How to like Look at people And like see What everyone was doing but that's from my years of blurring my eyes and not paying attention to people's faces like my body doesn't know how to like look at people and like see what they're doing I literally can't and so I just kind of saw like an energy it was a positive energy yeah like wicked I like

did see because I like they were so close I almost couldn't but everyone else there was just like Sandler Chalamet I was like oh I could see an energy of like he was I saw moving in a way that was laughing, but I couldn't really track it. It's nice to hear this. Shalame had a great time.

Club Shalame had a bad time. This is one of my favorite things. The greatest. I'll never besmirch my queen, Club Shalame. Oh my god. Yeah, there's the fan group for people who love Timothee Chalamet. It's one woman. She's a 45-year-old woman in New York. We love Club Chalamet.

The moment Timothee laughed at you, that was the endorsement that she needed. She said, we think Nikki's funny. Timothee laughed. It's such a great tweet. Nikki Glaser is funny. Timothee laughed. Like, yeah, it's, yeah. I love that endorsement.

It really meant a lot to me. There was so much generosity in the room from these huge stars. The rock, I will love the rock for the rest of my life. That was, like, my voice just cracked. I almost teared up. That was, I know it was your moment,

but for me and Mike Lawrencerence that was a pivotal moment in both of our lives watching your face like i melted at just the sight of the rock but you oh my god i don't think the human brain could comprehend what the rock looks like in real life yes for context this was after the show ended and he had said before the show he had he was presenting so he was on the other side of the stage. He walked across the stage to come say hi to me and say good luck and say you're going to kill this and give me

the sweetest. Did you get a hug? I think yeah. I think I saw that he got a hug. I think I hugged him before and then after which he did not need to do came by after everyone was in the room. We were all kind of celebrating. It was probably like 10 minutes after the end of the show and he came back. He came back like he was the president room. We were all kind of celebrating. It was probably like 10 minutes after the end of the show, and he came back. He came back like he was the president of Hollywood.

Let's make him. Yeah. I mean, like, he kind of is. He's the fucking rock. The president of the United States. It's like, yes. He came in, like swooped in, and like Nate Bergazzi had just come in,

and I was like, Nikki, you have a visitor. I think he was like, not Nate. I was like, Nate! And then all of a sudden it was like... I'm like, not Nate. We love Nate. But this is The Rock.

And just like, honestly, like 280 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal walks into the room and then you... And then he's just held... And pure charm. Pure charm. Like the most charismatic man to ever live

tells you that for three hours you held the world in your hands that's beautiful yes when you do what you did up there you can hold the world

thank you so kind to you oh my god he said the monologue was perfect and he made this sign and then then he said goodbye

yeah I mean it was just perfect perfect length made nobody feel like oh what do we do with the rock now yeah he came in he delivered his piece and he got out of there yeah and then like i looked at mike lawrence and i was like do i kill you and we stab each other at the same time like this is as good as life could ever be that's so awesome a man that we've watched since we are nine years old oh Oh, my God. Marty and Martin Short were laughing and having such a good time.

Seth Meyers was having a good time. I know you hate watching yourself, but you should really watch the halftime part. Ralph Fiennes is having the time of his life. That is so great to hear. He looks starstruck with you just standing in front of him. That is so great to hear. Like he looks starstruck with you just standing in front of him. That is so cool. I would say this season of Nikki watching movies, there's two

people that have stood out to Nikki that I can remember. I'm sure you have more. She was just like, I love this man. Ray Fiennes. I'm sorry I've been sleeping on Ray Fiennes. Now I'm sleeping with him. I have. I'm not a Harry've been sleeping on Ray Fiennes. Yeah. Now I'm sleeping with him. But I have,

I have, I've like, I wasn't, I'm not a Harry Potter girly. I don't know what Schindler's List I've never seen. I'm sorry. What's the other ones? Oh,

he's in so much. Yeah. Yeah. I knew him from, um, made in Manhattan. He was great in that. I saw him in that recently.

Cause I, that's the one he was, he's actually so, I mean, it's like a rom-com. He's so, like, what a versatile performer. He's like one of the greatest actors to ever live. He's next. Like, you just, I don't know, watching him, I'm just like, that, it just, that's acting in a way that I, and it's so subtle.

It's like, I don't even know what he's doing, but it's moving me in a way that I've never been moved by acting before. Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious he's going to be listening to this i feel like he's a bestie now based on like truly i saw stars at his eyes like it was just like oh my god she's here now that is and she was like that is he was laughing at everything oh my god it was so fun to re-watch today he came to have a good time a bunch of those people i cannot believe they came to have a really good time the cock life table was a party table yes i can't wait to do this again i mean tucci tucci was an active audience member the first the the

first mention of stanley tucci freak off it looked like we betrayed him but when you alone no when you said there's no baby oil there's olive oil he starts laughing like okay like it really got him and it's so funny i somebody made a meme that i sent to ch. It made me laugh so hard. If you want to show it, you can see his reaction to Freak Off. And it's so funny what it says on top and then what it says on the bottom. Oh my god, I'm so excited for this. I love

Okay. What? Freak Off? No. She started roasting him again for no reason and he looked like he was in pain. I know it sounds harsh, but it's honestly what he deserves for not being gay. I saw that on Twitter. But Stanley Tucci was such a great audience member and such a good sport.

I'm so glad. And it happened again in the halftime thing when you... The clone? The clone, he was confused. Why are we... He laughed again. Have we tootied twice? The old toot-a-roo. I mean, honestly...

Two-time tooties. At this point, every award show you host from now on needs at least one toot-a-roo. Where he thinks we're going hard and then we lighten the load. We love family. Who does it? Who does it? Who we were going to say for

the after party is going to suck this year. Who we're going to say our Martin Short freak-off doesn't have the same ring to it. A Tilda Swinton freak-off. We were like, who's going to have the freak-off? And then because we were switching jokes around and Martin Short was going to be...

He was in so many jokes. He was going to be a freak-off. He made appearances in every joke in the monologue. We wanted him to be a part of this thing so badly. We moved him around to every space we could get. Since the first day we started. We knew Martin Short. And he landed where he should because it was like,

someone said it was like such the, or I said, and Martin Short is here because we have cameras. Someone said that's such a Martin Short joke. Yes. I loved that. It was great. And then they widened out after Martin was laughing to show Steve Martin laughing even harder at it.

Yes. That was a great moment. Steve Martin was fully on board it. Yeah, that was a great moment. Steve Martin was fully on board with it, too. It was just amazing. It was. I, like, truly, it was the greatest night of my life. So I have no idea how you're feeling. Oh, my God.

I feel literally ill right now. My body is shutting down. I'm not even kidding. The adrenaline's leaving your body. Like, sick. Hawaii's going to be miserable, guys. I might have to go to break right now and go puke. I'm so happy, but I'm feeling physically worn down.

I didn't eat much yesterday because I just wasn't hungry. I felt too nervous, and then today I just ate so many blueberries. I think it was that. Too many blueberries. I think I might have lister, I just ate so many blueberries. I think it was that. Too many blueberries. I think I might have listeria. Too many unwashed blueberries. Yeah. Yesterday, I literally, right after dress rehearsal, I started having a panic attack.

So I took an Ativan. And then Brian said that I was a completely different person. Oh my God. Once you were comfortable after act three, like with popular, I was depleted of anxiety. I was so calm that I'm like, I can't even pitch jokes now. Like, I don't even know where to pull them from. I've never been. I was like Mexican Pope in Cocklave.

I was just turtles are beautiful. Oh my God. I looked at you and you looked like a totally different, it was around act five or something and all of a sudden

I turned to Sean. During the show or like during rehearsal? This is act five of the show. Act five of the show. I took an Ativan between rehearsal and the show

and I just. But you were still pumped up. I was so pumped up. And then once after the monologue and like the halftime show was pretty much locked in, all of a you were still pumped up. I was so pumped up. And then after the monologue and the halftime show was pretty much locked in, all of a sudden I turned to Sean. His hair is up

and he's just eating a bag of chips. And he's just like, his soul left his body. I was like, Sean, Sean, give us jokes. I'm like, I have nothing. What caused the panic attack? I was just like...

It's everything. Yeah, it was everything. I feel like... Popular? It might have been popular. Where I'm like, oh boy. It's like I felt like a mother sending off her son to war. I'm like, it's gotta be okay.

Did you guys have doubts? I mean, I'm just playing out every scenario in these moments. Doubts about popular? Yeah. No, I didn just playing out every scenario in these moments. Doubts about Popular? Yeah. No, I didn't have any doubts. Popular crushed so hard in rehearsal, I was like, there's just no way it won. As soon as your family came in and we performed it for them. That was a real turning point.

I mean, that's another layer to the story of Popular. Popular, which is like... It could have... People were all loving it and having a good time. But when you called your parents in and i was like i was like what's going on here and you when you performed it yeah i i canceled a set that night or four sets that night but i booked one and i brought the audience in because i was like i need to i need to see myself if this works like because when something gets we're pitching it out, like,

and then you perform it. Like we've already all seen it. Like we wrote it, you know? So even when the performance is all put together, we can all laugh and stuff, but there's something we're giving it more or maybe less than it deserves. It's just hard to tell with the people who wrote it.

So I was like, I need, I texted them. They're coming back from dinner. I was like, can you come to the writer's room? I have something for you to see you need To let me know because they're a great

They just have such great taste they're also Like both uninformed and as Informed or like they're informed but Like they don't get every reference like they didn't They didn't get the my sister didn't know but like the Finger holding thing I think or maybe One or two of that I think she knew That but she didn't know

What didn't she know there was some Reference that I was like oh that. I think she knew that, but she didn't know. What didn't she know? There was some reference that I was like, oh, that surprised me that she knows. They're just like the perfect focus group of Midwest kind of Midwest, middle America, good old-fashioned folks. Of who you want, who's paying attention to this, who would be watching the show, and it worked. It killed with that.

And then you were immediately, you were off book before the script was written. There was no script. Popular was in my bones. It was the role I was the script was written. It was, it was, there was no script. Popular was in my bones. It was the role I was always meant to play. It was, it was so wild how you didn't even look at it when they got it. You just had it. You had like, I don't know if it was, I was not off book, but it was close.

It was, it was just fun. It was like, I love, I want to like musical theater is something i've always loved so even getting to touch on it a little bit and then the idea of like a sketch moment of of being told you suck is is just wonderful to act out because it's the voice in my head anyway you know and i now i get to like say it out loud and like and no one else can say it about me but now I have a chance that I say it so it just robs anyone the opportunity to say it. Yeah. In any way and that's not why I'm doing it but in talking it out I'm like oh yeah that's kind of

a part of it is like it's just so fun to say this sucks. This sucks so much. You're embarrassing yourself in front of Elton John. And I didn't see but you mentioned it that Ariana wanted. Oh, yeah. Twitter was abuzz. Her and Cynthia

both were like, why isn't she doing the whole song? They're so confused. The internet wanted more, too. Who did it? Vulture. Vulture wrote the lyrics to the song. New York Magazine wanted the whole song. They wanted the whole song. It gives us carte blanche

if we ever do this again to have a song. But it was so fun. It works so well because you also commit so hard and your voice sounds lovely when you're doing it to the point where it's like, oh, we are incapable hands. Here she is. She's going to do this song.

This is plausible. But it's so crazy to me that everyone thinks that you're going to do it when you go, you're going to love this. That's my only regret is that I should,

I wish I would have said, Wicked Table, this is for you. Or like, I wish I would have said Wicked Table because like the audience couldn't tell at home

who I was pointing to. But me just cockily being like, you're going to love this is so funny. And I wish there would have been something about Cynthia and Ariana being like, you're going to love this. It's so funny. And I wish there would have been something about Cynthia and Ariana. Yeah. Pay close attention. Take notes.

Like something like that. That was my only regret, but like, it was so fun. Here's a free lesson. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But we did it the right way because I think if we did do the entire song this time, then people would have been like, oh, that's too much.

And we just showed that this was a proof of concept. This was our sizzle reel for the thing that could be in the future yes you don't know that you didn't want more of popular but i assure you you didn't you did not the only reason you think you want more is because we didn't give you yes it is a it's a crazy paradox yeah less is more here i promise you like everyone's like you should have just done a little bit more i'm like i promise you. Everyone's like, you should have just done a little bit more. I'm like, I promise you. We cut it off. Leaving people wanting more is good. Classic bad boy boyfriend move. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Didn't give it to him. Yeah. You probably did want a bite or a taste of Insane and the Penguin. Insane and the Gwaine is a great lyric. You know what was beautiful about the monologue and all the things?

I'm getting a text about something different from every single person. Every single person. And one of the big texts I'm getting from people that love Nikki and that everybody wanted

more Nikki in the show. Yes. Oh my God, yes. I'm in a Mets fan discord that has 90 people and I was going through because they were all watching the Golden Globes and like

I didn't even say I was writing on it and so I was like basically a spy and then they're like at like 8pm they're like where's Nikki gone like we need more of that like they were mad that she like kind of disappeared at a point so nice you know what we gotta go to break

and let's continue this conversation when we get back Jon Stewart is back So nice. You know what? We've got to go to break, and let's continue this conversation when we get back. Jon Stewart is back in the host chair at The Daily Show, which means he's also back in our ears on The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. The Daily Show podcast has everything you need to stay on top of today's news and pop culture. You get hilarious, satirical takes on entertainment, politics, sports, and more from John and the team of correspondents and contributors. The podcast also has content you can't get anywhere else, like extended interviews and a roundup of the weekly headlines.

Listen to The Daily Show, ears edition on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, final thought. So what's next? Well, the after party. How is that for you? A non-event? You know, I don't think I like parties. My sister and I were both like, my mom loves parties.

And my sister and I were both like, we couldn't be more not like you. They're too loud. I wanted to change out of the dress. I wanted to sit down. I wanted to dance. It would have been really fun. We probably should have gone over there as a group. Was there a dance floor?

I didn't even notice. What we need to do next year is either have a separate section amongst the party for us yeah there's like 30 of us there was

and we were all kind of trying to we were trying to stand with each other but it was like we were just in people's way and just as people get drunk or they just like

feel like more entitled to come up and take your time and like tell you the story of why they... I think I can speak freely that the besties know that I love when people come up and

say nice things. I always invite it. I never think I'm too cool for a compliment. There's just some people where it was just starting to feel like I was being taken advantage of. It's a different type of person that's at an after party than at a show that you can't just see.

Yeah, your fans are different than like Hollywood hanger-ons. Yeah. There's like an entitlement a little bit. It's like, take out your phone, take my number.

Give me your number. Oh yeah, just fake Hollywood bullshit. The Hollywood snakes fluttering around. These aren't celebrities, by the way. Bullshit.

It just sucks. Not that if they were celebrities it would have made it okay. These are just people that like, I'm like, why do you think that I want to be in touch with you? Yeah. And this is not, if you think I'm talking about you,

it's probably not you because I did give my information to some people because I didn't give it to- We love that one guy. If I gave it to you, I like you, but I didn't give it to- Yeah, me this morning, he's great. Yeah, it was just a lot.

I was just tired. You just want to be around people that you can be really comfortable with and take your shoes off and take your pants off and just hang out. We should throw our own party. Yes. We got to throw our own sweatshirts. The host party. Wear our own sweatshirts.

We should throw our own party and immediately get into comfortable clothes. Oh, there you go. Yes, I love that. Noah has a question that maybe other people do. I would love to hear it. Did Harrison Ford really think you were a waitress, LOL? That's so cute. Great question.

No, no. That was part of the joke. That was built into the joke as kind ofrison ford as someone who obviously doesn't know who i am and is just you know begrudgingly even at this award show and i'm backstage and i go up to him i'm like hi harrison he's like i'll take a vodka soda and i'm like well i actually wanted to ask you an important question about hollywood yeah yeah it used to be like a like we used to have a joke about Harrison Ford before that. Yeah.

That was kind of like- Setting up that character. Yeah, setting up that character that we would then pick him up and put you down a little bit so that you could do the Indica joke. Yes, so we cut the joke before it, which was Harrison Ford is here

to show us a cool rock he found. Can I just say on that note, so many incredible decisions made by you guys, you especially, and then so many great ideas, like the writers. Every writer had a moment or multiple moments, like Jess had, of

like, I think we should do this. Stepping back and giving everybody perspective at different times. And there were moments of killing jokes. It's like, maybe we shouldn't do this. But so many good decisions. A complete team effort. Truly. Top to bottom. So much perspective. Somebody would be like, hey,

what if we did it this way? And it's like, oh my god, that's the exact way to do it. I think every single writer in that room got at least one thing into the monologue. That's so cool. And stuff sprinkled throughout the show it was like and there were a lot of things that were room babies yeah we just all came up with together

i mean like we were talking this is we were talking about this on the podcast there was a joke that nikki came up with on the fly at a japanese restaurant and now we talked about this now we can reveal what that joke was oh drum roll yeah and that joke was rfk's freezer yeah rfk's freezer we had the list of animals and it was going to be sexual at first and nikki was like i don't think it should be sexual because the ben affleck thing sexual and then we were riffing on what it could possibly be for like like 30 minutes and all of a sudden nikki goes rfk's freezer and then it was like yes that's it that's it it just came out of your head full flesh so that was what we were talking about

that was so exciting yeah it's even for me getting stuff in the monologue felt like a win I'm like oh I got a few things into it like it's like it's like that it's such a great feeling of like seeing where you had your influence on it and like it just felt like such it was just the it was the best

time I'm gonna like miss going in every day like i had a blast i was it was not i was saying you know after the show giving a little you know speech or whatever and saying like i just i usually dread everything i do even if it's fun and this is something i did not dread i was like never was like i gotta go down there you don't have to wear makeup in a writer's room. You don't have to look cute. There's snacks. There's your friends. There's enough people that someone's talking. If you don't want to talk, you don't have to.

It's relaxed. It's fun. And it's some of the funniest people on this planet were in that room. Just laughing so hard. Making each other laugh. The energy was incredible. Everyone was like, is truly the funniest person. And like to the point where like last night when everyone was making speeches,

Brian made a speech where he was like, it was the best Golden Globes ever. And I was like, I can't follow that. So what I did was I went to Real Housewives Logic and I was like, I was only mad one day to give some mystery because I thought i would get a laugh and everyone was the only time you didn't get a laugh in the last 70 days it was so funny no i loved that line yeah my favorite line of the room that like or not favorite but one that just comes to mind is when we were like really trying to like take apart a joke and we were like kind of almost like tired and like just going over this wording that didn't really matter but it did and it was just arduous and just we were all bored with it at this point

then noah was just like hey what oh if we were put it wasn't that we were putting together the map of the set so we what was that what is the um what is the platform that is used to i can't think of words when he put up each little joke was in a square and he moved it around the screen oh the mirror the mirror yeah he was using this like god and we're moving all these jokes no we should put that there and i really think that that it's better up there it was just like we're getting bogged down by all this and it was like well why don't we just take a quick break and watch the Miro highlights of the year? It was like a little, it was a little link.

It was like a Spotify rap for Miro. It was a Spotify rap of Miro. Like Miro's trying to Miro this application where you like put up. You make grids. You make grids. It's like, try to do a Spotify rap for their users to be like, let's see what grids you make this year.

I'm glad we didn't hit play. Because what were Rob's grids going to be? Oh my god. And he just goes, hey, why don't we just take a little time, take a little breather and watch a Miro wrapped of the year and just see what, that was so funny. His line, because, you know, again, we were trying to like parse words

and it was like, should we say he is still? Yeah, still needs money. Still needs money. And he's like, I just don't like the still. Somebody said, I just don't like the still. Yeah, still needs money. Still needs money. And he's like, I just don't like the still. Somebody said, I just don't like the still. He needs money. And then he goes, we can move the still to another spot. It's like, we need it still in the monologue somewhere.

The logic of taking it out that someone wants to keep still. But he's like, we'll put it somewhere else which defeats the purpose of why anyone would want it it's so funny shout out to Noah Garfingal follow him on

Twitter and stuff but yeah I guess in closing because we can we can end now is uh just thank you I mean that

what an incredible experience this whole year honestly between TNF and this oh my god this was so fun

honestly yeah this was this was so fun. This was the culmination of truly like it was the greatest job I've ever had. Yes me too. It was unbelievable. Me too you guys. I feel like Sean and I are your sons now. Yeah. Truly. I feel like we are weird twins and you

are our older sister. I love that so much. Thank you guys it was so fun we're the squire brothers that's right um yeah kc 95 i'll save my thank yous for another day but this was really fun to wrap it up and i truly my body's shutting down yeah this was actually really fun yeah to recap i don't want anyone to think I was in pain the whole time, just a little bit. You can just think that I was in pain the whole time. Yeah, because you are. For one day you weren't.

Is this how you feel all the time? This is terrible. I literally feel hungover. It feels like I was drinking last night. That's how my body is feeling. Well, you were drinking it. You had adrenaline flowing through your body for about two weeks, probably. The last time that I felt

this way, I said, I'd never want to do what caused that again. So this is not a good sign. I have to agree. Alan Carr is the easy way to quit hosting award shows. All right, guys. Thank you very much for listening. We will be back next week with more Nikki Glaser podcast.

I love you besties thank you for all the support and kind wishes and dms and um just all the love i got i see it all if i don't uh write back it's just because i'm bogged down right now but if i give it a little double tap in a heart just know that i that means i saw it and i read it and i would write more but i just don't have time and my nails are so long and it's hard to type with that it really is a part of it too i love you so much thank you guys for listening and thank you guys for being here. Uh, we'll see you next time.

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