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Nikki Glaser

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“And I wouldn't know about it. I would just be in traffic like checking my ways when I'm going to get there. And the answer is I'm getting there right now. Don't know which way I'm going, but I'm on my way. But I hope no one else is injured in my bridge collapse.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I want it to be as quick as possible, and I would like to just, they don't even have to cremate me. They can just, you know, I'm already dust because it would just be the most.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, I'm wondering how I want to die. Go ahead. I think, I mean, I guess everyone just says in their sleep. But I also was thinking a bridge falling on me because I heard about a woman who got squished by a bridge and it just happened so fast that you don't hear it. You don't think about it and you are like pulverized into dust immediately. And that I think, I know it sounds really horrible, but I just wanted.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He should be because I was terrified of him before and I really afterwards was like, oh, he's sweet. And there's, you know, the sadness that it's like, oh, okay.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Him and made him a human. You roasted, you did a great job with him. I think he would, I'm sure he is even really happy with that appearance.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my god. Very funny. I mean, I can't even believe that you did the where you had to put your face in the aging thing and it told you how old. Like you did so much stuff that I was like, oh, I'm glad she could do this because I would be. They got it exactly spot on. That was incredible. And you showed us a side of Brian Johnson where I was like, I was watching with my boyfriend. I go, I actually”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was such a good podcast, and I rarely do this, but I was just like, who is this lady? I was like, I was in my car and I have to say, I was like, I need to find out everything about her right now, just your voice, just the way you talked. I just was so drawn to you. You're so incredible. And it was, it sucked me right in. And your new docu series on CNN is so compelling. It's so good. And it's so funny. You're the perfect person to take us on that journey”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would love at any time. And I wanted to just say I first found out about you. I was listening to the succession podcast.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, it's making more movies. I just finished this movie and it's going on tour again in August. And just I'm, you know, my goal is the summer to completely keep it open and go to New York and work on my standup every single night all day long. And that's pretty much it. I have to build a whole new hour. So it's also about going out there and living life and not working so much. So I have stuff to write about, you know, so that's true.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. He needs to stop telling people. I have one friend who's a billionaire, and I'm really in her good graces. And I think I have a ticket to her bunker if I need it. But it's about like, okay, my boyfriend now has to learn how to fly a helicopter because how are we going to get to that? There's things I think about it and I put it off. And by the time it happens, I'm not going to be ready. I don't even have a good.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't, but like, I want, I think my parents will want to, or my sister has a family, so she'll probably want to, you know, be living during the apocalypse. I'll just, you know. All off myself when I lock them in it, but I feel like that is like that's now the goal is like I want to be.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I'm just trying to prolong it for what I don't know. I think there is a part of me now that just wants to hoard money so that I can have a nice bunker.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's it. Like, I get it. And I understand that desire that it's never going to be enough and that you and that it's going to lose it, it's so much more embarrassing than not ever getting it. Because if you don't ever get it, not that many people know you didn't get it. You weren't that famous. But now a lot of people know I have it. And now a lot of people can know that I lose it. And I think that's it. And it will go away at some point because it always does. And you can't take it with you. And I'm going to die. And it's like, it's, it's going to go away. So I'm.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To have this kind of success that I have. It was almost you read it and you think, oh, she was like sad about it. I wasn't even, I was like, I really was like, okay, good. You know, like this is, I'm so happy and I'm famous enough. And then it happened and I met this next level. And now it's shitty because it feels like you have to maintain it. And it feels like now it just can be taken away. Whereas before I was the underdog.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I think it just allowed me to relax and not want it so badly. And I think the industry rewards that. You know, like I was just able to do the things that I really wanted to do and not pick and choose projects based on is this going to be a cool look or is this going to get me to the next level? It was like, is this going to be fun? And do I care about this? And so I was able to do better work because of that because I wasn't just constantly doing things that I felt like I should do. And I think that that is what I was ultimately rewarded for was that I, you know, the Tom Brady roast was like exactly the kind of thing that I was passionate about that I knew that I was better at than most people is writing these kinds of jokes. And I fought to get that position on that roast because I knew it was going to be a big deal and I knew that I could kill it. So it was just, I think it, yeah, I think it was just, I really, it wasn't like us, you know, that quote in time that said, like, I never thought I was going to.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really accepted it. Around 2014, I was like, you know what? I'm a touring comic. I headline clubs. I make good money. I don't have to ask my parents for money anymore. I get to appear on shows here and there. This is like a good life. This is successful. Like I did it. Like I am making a living doing stand-up comedy. And that's enough. Like I was really like, and I think I was also past the point of like wanting fame and kind of realizing that that was like there was an emptiness to that that was never going to be satisfying enough no matter how much I got it. So I just kind of like, I don't know, I just was, I let go. And that's when I was able to.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And put it over here and support her and truly have no envy. I was so because I always was so worried that my whole life is just going to be being envious of women who do better than me. I was, you know, my sister was prettier than I was and more popular. It was just like a thing that got, you know, embedded at me at a young age of like, I am just this jealous person that I really hated about myself. But for some reason, I was really, I was just so proud of myself that I was like just able to just be so happy for her and just want her to continue to succeed and really feel that in my bones. And then I was like.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I well, there was just a point, I think Amy Schumer and I were really close around the time that she kind of blew up. It was like 2013 and we're around the same age and we've kind of done the same type of comedy and people, you know, like I didn't I always felt like she was just like a peer of mine that like I could look up to in certain ways. She's a little bit older so there was a big sister energy but she was just like a someone that like we just were in the trenches together and then suddenly she blew up and I remember she's like a movie star and I was just I was struck that I wasn't jealous. There was a moment where I was like I am just so happy for it and I remember I was able to understand that I wasn't envious because I just, there's just no way that I would ever do that. Like it just seems so unreachable to become the kind of star that she was. And so I just, I think that was the moment that I was like, I don't, I'm never going to have that and I can just be happy for her.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can't enjoy any kind of animal footage anymore. It was already sad to watch anyway because most news about nature is really depressing or any kind of stuff that you see. So I was always kind of like scared to watch it. But now it's just like I just, I don't, I don't trust anything anymore. And I can't, I think that's the part of it that I'm like upset about is that it's just made. You know, it's made entertainment less enjoyable because there used to be like, I can't believe they caught this moment and then you just go through the comments. The first thing I do now when I say videos go through the comments and see who's debugged it.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, when done right and, you know, and people behind it have a good point of view and are, you know, modifying it and working with it. And you can create some good stuff if there's like a human behind it. And I've used it a little bit just to like generate some starting places for jokes where I'm just like, okay, what are some angles that Nikki Glazer would take on this thing? And it'll just give me a jump start. Like, you know, like anything. Like if you were, when I used to work with my friends, yeah, with your friends. And so I think it's good for that, but I'm just like, it just made me sad that it's like, it's ruined wonder a bit, you know, like when I see something, when I see like a whale approaching a bone, this is Scott.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She can't do anything else. And so I don't fault her for that ever. And so, but I can still do it. I can be in boarding group C.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and this elitist bitch, she deserved it. So I do think about that. And I do feel like it's a huge waste of money. And I don't mind flying. I'm not famous enough that it's really a hindrance to me to be in the airport.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, but I thought about it because I've been in some private jets and I'm like, if this goes down, it's like the amount of sympathy me and my family are going to get is going to be so much less because of the private play.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I mean, also for fear of because you crash in a private plane, no one feels sorry for you. I think it's my biggest fear now is like whenever I am in one. My most south class people will be like, oh my God, what a woman of the people, what a hero died so young. But you know, like...”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's why I really don't spend my money. I'm always worried that it's going to drop out from underneath me at any point. And that's why I, you know, am going on tour again right on the heels of putting out a special. And I have to go to New York this summer and write a whole new hour in three months, which I'm going to get done. And I'm excited to do. But it is like I'm going on tour again in August, which is insane because I just got off tour. But I'm worried that people aren't going to have the money to go see people on tour and that someday, you know, live entertainment is going to take that same hit. So I'm trying to capitalize on as much as possible and enjoy that the luck that I've had in this business. But I also just really am very cautious and save my money. And I don't live at, you know, like I see a lot of people living. Like I don't, you know, I don't spend.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. These people, it was like maybe one of one job they get a year. And, you know, I've worked with makeup artists for years who were able to make a living and now they're thinking of moving to Las Vegas or Atlanta. I mean, everyone, everyone in that town is suffering. So I feel so much for everyone. And I will say that I do.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they're Your great material. Yeah. To be honest, Kara, I like don't look at it at all. And I know I should. And I feel really embarrassed that I don't pay attention to it that much. And that when my friends get in conversations about it, I just kind of slowly back out of the room because I don't really under, I feel, I feel too ignorant to kind of understand that kind of talk. It just like my brain shuts off and I don't, it's like when people try to explain football to me, like I don't understand mergers and monopoly. Like I just don't, I'm just not that kind of intelligent. And I just know where I should know. And I try to understand there are times where I go, please explain it to me and I'll get it all and then it falls out of my head right away. I mean, I do, I feel for everyone going through it. And I just worked on a movie that filmed in Los Angeles and I could just sense the gratitude of everyone on that crew and how.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I don't pay attention to it. It's just like I find out from people who write, I don't even pay attention to my friends.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's so fun. So heavy. It's delicious. It's so much fun. But I just, I mean, did you, do you find, you probably find out about most of these headlines because you have friends texting you? No, I don't.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just have to pay more attention now to the stuff I say. But then, you know, we could just go away in a day and no one cares. It's like, it's fine.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Oh, fun. No, that's the one she would know about and care about. Oh no. And so that's the other thing that's like, I just get like nervous now because in these spaces, I do feel like a connection with the host and I do feel comfortable and I feel like, oh, no one's really going to listen to this too hard. And yeah.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I was like, that was just one little thing I talked about, like, oh, I'm kind of turned on by this idea of it. And then it was just, everyone I knew had seen it that day. I went in to like do some voiceover work. And even the people in the Zoom on the voiceover were like, well, a lot of headlines about you today. And I'm like, that is so humiliating that they know this.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, the thing is, I do feel like I still need to do them. I am nervous about them every time I do it. Like I did one last week. I did call her daddy. And, you know, it was like a two-hour conversation. It was so much fun talking about sex openly. She's such a girl's girl. And it was like, I just felt like we were like best friends by the end of it. And I maintained that we are. Like I really feel a friendship with her. But I was talking like I would a best friend. And I was feeling like, oh, you know, I wasn't even thinking about censoring myself in any way knowing that this podcast gets, you know, makes headlines. And then, you know, a week later, I wake up to just headlines about Nikki Glazer says that she likes for her boyfriend to sleep with other women. And it was like five different headlines showing up in my feed. And I don't even follow myself. I don't look for news about myself. I like avoided at all costs. And it was just really embarrassing.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, yeah, so important. I mean, it's just a way, yeah, it's like doing the tonight show was the biggest deal ever to me, even when I did it after the boom and like, you know, first time I was on Tonight Show 2009, the hugest deal in comedy and was so until probably five years ago getting, and it's still a big deal to get a late night set, but nobody sees it. Nobody really, it doesn't move ticket sales like a podcast does. So you still have to go on these podcasts. You have to weigh, and especially now that. Know some of the most popular comedy podcasts are on the wrong side of things. You have to, you know, there's a moral dilemma there of what am I going to do. And so polar.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That weren't just looking to listen to something on their drive to work and were actually trying to pay attention to what I say and glean something from it. I think I was falling.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Every time I do it, I love it. You have to love it. I did love it, and there's parts of it that I miss. I miss having that connection with people who feel like they know you and you talk to them every day. Yeah. I mean, I have it too with celebrities. So I really liked providing that for people because I felt like, yeah, if you listen to my podcast and you think you'd be friends with me, you're probably right. I'm really myself on this thing. But I just felt like it was for people who were paying attention that wanted something.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You need to have a video podcast now, so it was about doing hair and makeup every day. So you could look presentable enough for this to live online forever and, you know, when you level up in show business like now, I need full glam for when I'm going to be on camera. I mean, I didn't get it today. There's a time and a place, but like, you know, I just was feeling like this burden every day of like I have to look a certain way and some days I would just look tired and then that's out there forever and then people are pulling. It just was, it was just too much pressure. You didn't like it.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. Well, yours is polished. You have notes. You've done your research. You're not just, you know, there's, you have a system in place and you work hard on it. There's a difference between there's a lot of different ways to podcast. And I enjoy the ones that are just shooting the shit. There's times and the time and a place for that. But I stopped podcasting because I wasn't giving it that effort. I just was sitting down and just shooting from the hip and saying things that I didn't even really hadn't really thought through and couldn't really back up. And I was just feeling like I was getting to a place where my words were being taken more seriously and being paid more attention to by like page six and I was getting things poll quoted that I didn't even remember saying and it was becoming kind of embarrassing and it was also like”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's getting people to go see comedians because they find out about them Podcast. So I think it's helping in that way. But I think that it's made the bar a bit lower for comedy because stand-up comedy takes work and it takes effort and rewriting and punching up and reviewing and trying your material over and over again. And that has kind of become a lost art because there's just this expectation now that you should just have fresh stuff all the time and just be able to be funny on command. And I think that it's lowered the bar in the sense that, yeah, people are just expecting they expect less, I guess. And so they're entertained by less. But I think I hear a lot. I mean, when I'm looking on Reddit and reading about people going to see stand-up shows of their favorite podcasters, that they're often very disappointed because it's not what they expected it to be because it's not the right place for the level of professionalism for podcasts. I mean, yeah, it needs to be more.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I like Kimball's anger at it. You know, like Kimmel is able to harness his anger and frustration with it in a way that I really find soothing to me. And also, you know, John Stewart's just consternation at it all and frustration is a really funny device for it.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Go in a certain way. I just start, you know, aiming my jokes at only the side that I like and I'm just, and these people made money and I don't want to make them feel bad. And it's not their fault that they have the ideology that they have. I would too if I had their same brain and was grew up in the same family and the same place in America. Like I try to remember that no one has free will and everyone that likes him. I would like him to if I was that person. I try to remember that I feel lucky that I have the brain that I have that knows, you know how ridiculous it all is.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I just don't want those words to come out of my lips. I mean, I can't even, I really don't listen to them. I don't watch him. I just read what he says. I sometimes watch it on mute, but I really, I can't, I can't stomach it. And so I just don't, and I don't talk about it on stage because I don't when I'm doing my standup. I don't want to know who in my crowd might be on that side because I don't want to resent anyone in the crowd. Because then I get angry and it starts to, and no one likes an angry woman, especially, but just in general, it just doesn't mix well. And I can just, when I get heckled or something or something disarms me on stage and there's an angry side to me, I just lose the crowd instantly. It's like they don't trust me anymore. Like the bus driver that is like driving the kids to school is suddenly like freaking out. And then everyone gets scared. And so I just, I try not to just, I try not to talk about because the times that I have and I felt like the crowd.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just don't want to say his name, to be honest with you. Like, I just don't want to give him airtime. There were lots of jokes that, you know, said ice and Trump. And I just. And the ballroom, we had jokes about, you know, I just didn't want to say his name. I just felt like I knew he would be watching and I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of having anything to respond to.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, he is a great example of someone who is continuing to be funny in this all this. And I think that, no, I mean, I've really struggled with it because it's just made me so depressed that it's hard to be funny and it's hard for me to even look at my own life and be funny about it or think that anything in my mundane life that I'm complaining about, like my lip filler is interesting for anyone to hear about. But you know, I think that Think we just have fatigue with all of it, and people needed us. I know that's often used a lot of like, we just need an escape and it's just a reason people give to justify making bad art. But I think that it's true. I think people do want to think about anything else. And I think that I want to talk about anything.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I think I knew that I was so happy that CBS did not cut that because, you know, that was one that I was really worried that they were going to see. And I would have understood if they were like, can you just not like, we're paying you a lot of money and we're putting a lot into this. Can you not throw us under the bus? But they liked it. And I think when I did in rehearsals, a lot of the crew and cameramen were all laughing. And I think I think the powers that be saw that and just knew it was undeniably just going to be a killer. And I think that they wanted, you know, they wanted that show to be killer. They wanted that headline. They wanted the press that would maybe come from me doing that headline more than the bad press associated with it. And I, and I thought it was really, I was really happy that they let me do it.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But in the right way, because I think actually Epstein, you know, 2019 till, you know, the drop last winter was kind of an easier joke to make and to reference because we didn't know the horrid details of it as much. And I think it was a little bit more risky given that. But I forget the, oh, yeah, it was like, oh, a lot of A listers in the room tonight. And by A listers, I mean people who are definitely on A-list that has been heavily redacted. So I felt like that was safe enough because you're not getting into any of the details of it. And we're just, and I didn't say his name. And it's just I said list. So there was a lot of things about that that I felt like.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She really did. And we still don't know exactly what that was preempting, but I'm waiting every day for that other shoe to drop. But yeah, I was just so, I was reading so much about it. I was so mad about it. I mean, if you like true crime, there's a lot going on in there. And there's a lot that the mainstream media can't even report on because it's too grotesque to even paraphrase. I mean, it's like, it was crazy the stuff I was getting into. So I think it was on my mind a lot. And also, it's one of those things that no one can deny is wrong. Like, no, that to me felt totally safe to go after because, you know, although there were people in that room that night that were definitely in the files, like no one's going to say that's mean of me. It felt like a, you know, for lack of a better term, a safe space to go to. For a monologue.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I was so immersed in it at that time anyway. I have gotten away from it. Like, I think we all have, unfortunately, recently.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, there's always times, even with the Golden Globes, there's always times where it's like, oh, this is the best joke I've ever heard or written or, you know, someone in my writing staff writes. And, you know, you just, you just can't do it because it's just going to make the room feel too weird or it's just too harsh for that moment, especially like a Golden Globes. And you just have to let it go. And it's so painful, but you just think, okay, maybe I'll put that in my book someday when that person's dead or something.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And when you get it, it's like that feeling of when you write a joke that no one else has thought of and it's a new type of joke that none of the roasts have ever done because a lot of it is just like, you know, a plug and play. Like you can really write a good set using a lot of the same tropes and tricks that have been done before. So it's a really fun nut to crack. And it's just, yeah, and you're just allowed to be a psychopath for seven minutes. I mean, it's insane the things that I've gotten away with”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT