Nikki Glaser is aware of what it feels wish to be on the receiving finish of a harsh joke.
The host of the upcoming Golden Globes, 40, revealed {that a} joke Pete Davidson as soon as made about her physique harm her — and has stayed together with her for years.
“I still think about some of the jokes that have been made about me from roasts six years ago, and they still haunt me,” Glaser stated on Friday’s episode of “The Run-Through with Vogue” podcast.
“I’m seeing them when I look in the mirror. They will uncover things about you that you don’t even know about yourself, or it’s a thing you’ve always been, like, ‘I think this about me, but I’m just really mean to me. No one else has noticed that.’”
Glaser then identified a joke that Pete Davidson, 31, made at her expense, which nonetheless stings. Glaser says that the previous “SNL” solid member as soon as quipped that “I don’t have an ass” at a roast they each attended.
“I mean, I knew I didn’t, and I know I don’t,” the roast comedian quipped.
[But] the truth that Pete Davidson had taken that in and, like, sat with it and — I sat with it too, and it hurts as a result of I don’t have an ass — however the truth that he had actually considered it, or possibly somebody wrote the joke for him … however he a minimum of needed to be like, ‘That works for her.’”
“It hurt me,” she added.
Glaser didn’t specify throughout which roast Davidson made the comment.
The one Comedy Central roast they each participated in was Rob Lowe’s in 2016.
“It’s my least favorite part of the show when I’m at a roast and I see my name come up on the teleprompter. I’m like, ‘Oh, here we go.’”
“How bad’s this gonna be?” she recalled pondering. “And then you like, laugh politely, and you just try to black it out. I mean, I think I cried at one of the after-parties because I was, like, so sad about something.”
However Glaser harassed that with the ability to take the burns from her fellow roasters in stride helps her really feel empowered to not maintain again throughout her set.
“I think that’s one of the reasons why I feel like I can get away with it is because I’m putting myself up here and open to this stuff too, so I should be able to say what I want,” she defined. “But it really is a part of it that sucks so, so deeply.”
“I would love to say, ‘Oh, it’s just a joke. Nothing ever really lands, and we don’t take it personally.’ But we absolutely do.”
Glaser even took a joke made about her on the Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin in 2019 led her to get beauty procedures.
“Blake Griffin said I looked like Larry Bird, and the response from the crowd was so overwhelming — it killed so hard that I was like, I can’t deny that,” she confessed.
“That was the first time I ever went and got injections in my face in a way that was like, let’s restructure things. So, yeah, there’s consequences for sure.”
Glaser just lately revealed that she delayed an “invasive” cosmetic surgery process due to her impending internet hosting duties on the 2025 Golden Globes.
“For January 2025, I was going to possibly have, like, a brow lift or some kind of, like, really invasive surgery that I’ve been, you know, looking into getting,” she informed CBS in an interview posted Sunday.
Reserving the Globes internet hosting gig made her change her plans although. After her brokers approached her with the chance, she stated they requested her, “So, this operation, is there any way you could push it ’til maybe the second week of January?’”
Glaser will host the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. The present will air reside on CBS and stream on Paramount+ at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.
