Nikki Glaser Won’t Be Roasting Kevin Hart: ‘I’m Coming Up Short With Short Jokes’
Nikki Glaser will not be roasting Kevin Hart.
The comedian and Golden Globes host tells me that has been offered a spot on the dais for Netflix’s upcoming live Hart roast hosted by Shane Gillis.
“I do not have the time right now in my schedule to commit to giving it what I want to give it,” Glaser told me Thursday at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, adding, “I love it and when I work hard at it I kill it, but I just don’t have the time to work hard at it and I just recently roasted Kevin Hart at the Golden Globes. I roasted him at the [Tom Brady roast]. I’m coming up short with short jokes if you know what I’m saying.”
In addition to Brady, Glaser has participated in roasts of Rob Lowe, Alec Baldwin and Bruce Willis.
It was announced earlier this month that Glaser will return as the host of Golden Globes for a third time in 2027. “I honestly think I’ll want to do it as long as they’ll want to have me because, honestly, it’s a fun gig,” she said. “It’s the one thing that I do once a year that just makes me feel like, wow, I really gave it my all. I have self-esteem from working hard and doing things that scare me. It always terrifies me. And in February, March, the spring, I’m just so relaxed and feel so accomplished. If anything, it’s just I want to do it to not be depressed because what makes me not depressed is being scared and conquering things whether they go well or not.”
Glaser will next be seen in her standup special “Good Girl,” premiering on Hulu on April 24.
“I’m terrified for it to come out because it is a lot of jokes that I’ve told on the road for years,” she said, “It’s always fine to do these jokes in front of a crowd that’s not recording and you feel freer to just say crazy stuff, but then they go, ‘We’re going to put it on tape,’ and you go, ‘That’s great.’ Then you watch it in the edit and you’re like, ‘Wait, everyone’s going to see this and there’s going be like comments on this.’”
Glaser compared doing stand-up to having sex: “I love doing it and I’m crazy and wild in the moment and uninhibited, but then afterwards I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to hear what I sounded like. I don’t want to hear what I said or what I did.”
The big iHeart headline going into the night was that Taylor Swift would be making a rare public appearance at the ceremony. Glaser is a self-identified Swiftie but insisted she didn’t actually want to come face-to-face with the superstar. They met for the first and only times years ago, but that was bfore Glaser became a superfan. “My assistant on the way here was like, ‘Do you want to practice like what you would say to her?’” Glaser said. “I was like, ‘No, because I don’t want it to be rehearsed and I want it to come from the heart.’ But I also think that’s probably a bad thing because I will probably be blubbering and kind of embarrassing [myself] because I find myself when I do meet people I really admire, I do act a fool and I can’t control myself, my teeth chatter and stuff. I don’t need her to deal with that tonight. That’s too much for her.”
Instead, Glaser said she’s happy just to be in the same room as Swift: “I love seeing her from afar and being like, ‘Oh my God, I’m breathing in the same air as her.'”
The comedian and Golden Globes host tells me that has been offered a spot on the dais for Netflix’s upcoming live Hart roast hosted by Shane Gillis.
“I do not have the time right now in my schedule to commit to giving it what I want to give it,” Glaser told me Thursday at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, adding, “I love it and when I work hard at it I kill it, but I just don’t have the time to work hard at it and I just recently roasted Kevin Hart at the Golden Globes. I roasted him at the [Tom Brady roast]. I’m coming up short with short jokes if you know what I’m saying.”
In addition to Brady, Glaser has participated in roasts of Rob Lowe, Alec Baldwin and Bruce Willis.
It was announced earlier this month that Glaser will return as the host of Golden Globes for a third time in 2027. “I honestly think I’ll want to do it as long as they’ll want to have me because, honestly, it’s a fun gig,” she said. “It’s the one thing that I do once a year that just makes me feel like, wow, I really gave it my all. I have self-esteem from working hard and doing things that scare me. It always terrifies me. And in February, March, the spring, I’m just so relaxed and feel so accomplished. If anything, it’s just I want to do it to not be depressed because what makes me not depressed is being scared and conquering things whether they go well or not.”
Glaser will next be seen in her standup special “Good Girl,” premiering on Hulu on April 24.
“I’m terrified for it to come out because it is a lot of jokes that I’ve told on the road for years,” she said, “It’s always fine to do these jokes in front of a crowd that’s not recording and you feel freer to just say crazy stuff, but then they go, ‘We’re going to put it on tape,’ and you go, ‘That’s great.’ Then you watch it in the edit and you’re like, ‘Wait, everyone’s going to see this and there’s going be like comments on this.’”
Glaser compared doing stand-up to having sex: “I love doing it and I’m crazy and wild in the moment and uninhibited, but then afterwards I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to hear what I sounded like. I don’t want to hear what I said or what I did.”
The big iHeart headline going into the night was that Taylor Swift would be making a rare public appearance at the ceremony. Glaser is a self-identified Swiftie but insisted she didn’t actually want to come face-to-face with the superstar. They met for the first and only times years ago, but that was bfore Glaser became a superfan. “My assistant on the way here was like, ‘Do you want to practice like what you would say to her?’” Glaser said. “I was like, ‘No, because I don’t want it to be rehearsed and I want it to come from the heart.’ But I also think that’s probably a bad thing because I will probably be blubbering and kind of embarrassing [myself] because I find myself when I do meet people I really admire, I do act a fool and I can’t control myself, my teeth chatter and stuff. I don’t need her to deal with that tonight. That’s too much for her.”
Instead, Glaser said she’s happy just to be in the same room as Swift: “I love seeing her from afar and being like, ‘Oh my God, I’m breathing in the same air as her.'”