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Nikki Glaser

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“You know, there was just like stuff of like, hey, maybe don't, you know, in the past roast that I've done, it's just like, don't go after their kids. Don't go after maybe a person in their life who's sick or old or, you know, like it's stuff like that that I always respect. I don't mind anyone telling me, hey, don't joke about this. It's going to hurt my feelings. Like, fair enough. And that's never my goal, but it is my goal to find an angle that other people haven't explored”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have the right amount of mean. And honesty is mean. You know, like just Taylor Swift Lyric, you called me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest. Like you can be so mean and just say, but I'm just telling you the truth. Do you not want the truth? And so it gives me permission to do that. That's why I like them is they're it's protected by this it feels like the most protected space of free speech of like this guy signed up for this they they didn't give any parameters or they gave some and i'm abiding by them and so now i have to find loopholes where i can hurt this person in ways they don't even know that they were going to be”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it feels like a different skill. I mean, for me, it's about joke writing. That's what drew me to Rose most of all is I love really tight jokes. I like one-liners.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that's the comedy I like most is that when someone is sharing up part of their psyche that's really shameful and that is really embarrassing. I don't really like comedy that's just talking about the other day this happened or just observational comedy, although I respect it and it's not something I can do. It just isn't my cup of tea. I really like when people are kind of humiliating themselves in a way that makes me like them or feel closer to them and makes me like myself more.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When people like me because of the Golden Globes or a roast or a photo shoot I did or, you know, whatever it is, I can't really let it in because I'm like, well, that's not really me. You know, that's, it is me, but it's months and months of work that was to make this one version of me that is so glowy and so unattainable for me if I don't completely like, you know, doing a Golden Globes, I have to give up my entire life. It's like an Olympics. It's not something that I could keep doing forever. And so I don't really like the praise for that. But then there's the praise that comes where people go, well, then I'll praise you for how hard you work. And I'm like, well, I don't like that either because that means I'm not talented. That means, oh, you just work harder than everyone else. So I'm just never really satisfied. And I think I need that. It's the engine that fuels me.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm secure in my insecurities, is what I feel I am. I really am. Like, I feel like I had a friend once who was like, would never admit she had low self-esteem and she would always say to me, I can't believe how you could admit that you have low self-esteem. That's just something I probably do have. She couldn't even say that she even, she was like, I might have it, but I would never ever say that to anyone and say it out loud, and especially to everyone. And I just never felt shame about that. I really, I know that that's okay. And I just am, I'm always on a quest just to be as honest as possible. And I think that that is also, if I am as honest as possible and people still like me, then I guess I feel likable deep down because I think there's something about this business that feels so fake.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm honestly shocked that people go to comedy shows and have the attention span for it now. I'm always really impressed by people. I mean, I do as well, but I just, I'm always really proud of myself afterwards. Like I just watch someone monologize. It just feels like something that we shouldn't have the attention span for anymore. But I feel like I hope it never goes away. I kind of like my insecurities. And I am.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I don't think it ever goes away. I feel like I am always striving for, I guess, perfection, acceptance of myself is more the thing that I'm trying to strive for now is acceptance. And I like that it's an ongoing battle. I think it is what fuels me to keep going and to even pursue this career because it's an empty pursuit. And if I wasn't trying to achieve the world thinking something of me and how they perceive me, I really wouldn't continue going. There's no point in doing it. I mean, the money is nice. So that is, you know, something that I like about it. But the attention, I mean, that comes from a really sad place of wanting, expecting a crowd of people to sit for an hour and listen to me talking to a microphone. I'm not singing. There's no dancing. There's no lights. There's no video show. Like, I mean, it's really expecting a lot of a crowd.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Embarrassment around it for some reason, but I saw it from his perspective because I guess I could see my reflection in his head. And I was like, I am so sorry. And it was this like awakening on stage that happened in real time. And after that, I was a little bit more, you know, like I just told my parents, like you can go to the bathroom for this part of my set with, they would come to my show. Now, this one in particular, I was like, I think they can kind of handle everything that I'm talking about. But they're just so proud they don't care.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know they have been through the whole thing with me. I started out, you know, 20 something years ago really putting them on blast and talking about really disgusting stuff. Like kind of, I was just, I was a late bloomer, so I was just kind of exploring my sexuality and really bringing it all on stage. And so my parents were always in the crowd supporting me and kind of just stayed quiet about it. They never shamed me about it or said maybe don't do that. Or, oh, this is so embarrassing. But I came to find out later on that it was really embarrassing for them and really uncomfortable. And I just, I never even considered their perspective on it. I think that if I would have, it would have hindered my creativity in some way to consider how they felt and to have empathy for them in those moments. And I did have a moment, I would say 15 years in where my dad was in the crowd and I was describing giving oral sex or something. And I just saw his shining bald head in the background. And I had to stop. And I was like,”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I only have one daughter. You've heard it It is what we're not supposed to talk about. And I think that's maybe one of the reasons I am talking about is because I didn't have a chance in growing up to ever make jokes about it. You can't touch it if you even itch it in front of your parents and you're just like playing with it. What are you doing? You know, there was a shame around it. So I think I'm always just drawn to the things that as a kid or teenager, I just felt like I couldn't talk about.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that people thought, oh, she's too dirty, so she can't go on this show because she's just going to talk about her vagina. And they didn't realize that I know when and when not to do that. So I, you know, and I also just don't want other female comics to have to suffer what I have created for them, which is like more evidence that all we talk about is our vaginas. But I think there's so many different ones. They all look different. So I feel like there's a lot of different angles to cover.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I am embarrassed of doing called a sex comic all the time and I get kind of there's been opportunities I've lost out on, I would say earlier on in my career that were more mainstream network TV.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. I know there's not enough. It's really, I'm excited for them to tackle that at some point. Yeah, it's just, but there is a part of me that is ashamed of it and that maybe I put it at the end of my special, hoping that maybe some people wouldn't get to it so I wouldn't be judged for it because it's, you know, it's something that I, um...”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it was just like, you know, there's a part of me that felt it was hack or, you know, so many women get female comics get told, oh, you talk about your vagina and sex. And it's like so easy. And I never want to feel like I'm doing the easy hack thing, but I can't deny that it was killing. And I also thought, you know, if I let that kind of rhetoric determine what I talk about on stage, I'm just going to be placating into the, again, like the male comedians that I've started in my career trying to impress. And I just, I just don't want to do that. And I also just feel that it's still important. I feel like women still need to be really a lot more open about their sexuality. And it helps a lot of women and men understand women's sexuality more. So I just felt, you know, if there was still some girl who has not heard me in the course of my career talk about my insecurities, about my vagina, I want to reach that girl and let her know like.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, well, the main reason is that the jokes just killed on the road. I mean, there was just a thing you feel on stage where you start doing kind of the dirtier comedy that I've been like known for, where you just feel a pop from the crowd, where they just get energized. It's at the end of the show. They've been sitting there a while and they somehow summon all this energy to laugh so much harder at those jokes.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I go, Did you hear him hosting? I'm not watching it. I'm not hosting a party. It's just no fun. So I appreciate that. Like it's just not, you know, it's important, but okay. It humbles you.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They want everyone losing their minds because they lose their minds. But I just tell them people just don't care about that stuff as much here. And I'm, I, it, it tickles me, actually.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I was ready for her to go, what? Because it hadn't been enough, you know. And there's just, they just don't seem to be as awestruck by those things. And much to my parents' chagrin. I mean, my parents are so disappointed.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, do you have any fun plans coming up? And I go, Oh, I'm hosting SNL next week. And she goes, fun. And then she's like,”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I just in terms of show business is the thing that I pay most attention to is that people are not as driven not show business, business in general. I just don't feel like people are as driven here for good or bad. I think for me it's good because I just don't feel as in competition with others. I think here it's about what your yard looks like and how your home is decorated and what school your kids go to. And those are not metrics by which I measure myself at all. So I feel a lot more free here to not judge myself and not compare myself. And also I just people just don't care about celebrity here. It doesn't feel gossipy. It doesn't feel like I'm being watched or that, you know, I've told this story before, but it's just so funny to me that, you know, the week before I hosted Estadl, like sitting in the hair chair getting my hair done. And she's”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I sleep late. I play with my dogs. I take a Pilates class. I go visit my parents and hang out with them. I have like visit my sister and her kids. Like I kind of just do honestly nothing. I do a lot of sleeping because usually when I'm here, I'm just catching up from just, you know, non go, go, go. Yeah, yeah.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In pretty much March of 2020. And then I hung out there for 10 months living with my parents who are like, you know, my favorite people. And we just had a great time. And then as soon as they kind of were like, it's time for you to move back out. I just didn't feel the need to go back. I think I was actually very lucky because I was at a point in my career where I didn't really need to be on the coast to be seen and to be thought of for projects. People were already kind of aware of me. So I kind of reasoned, you know, if people, if someone wants me to do something in LA and they don't have a week's notice to give me and, you know, $400 for a Southwest flight, then it's probably not a project I even want to do anyway. So I feel like I can just be in St. Louis. And also, I just feel like I.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I moved back. I was in New York at LA pretty much after college just pursuing this career. And then I found myself in New York during COVID. And I just was like, I'll just move back home with my parents because this is scary and work is dried up. So I just moved back into my childhood bedroom”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is a low bar. I mean, it couldn't be truer that just men just age. We just accept their aging a lot more and we trust them more as they age. And we think they sound smarter and have more to say and we let them pause longer and take longer to tell stories and we hang on there every word. Whereas I just don't feel I'm just fearing that when I start to like show the signs of aging that people won't care anymore. And there's proof behind that. Yeah.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, there's some good looking ones. I mean, I don't want to name names. I don't want to give them any credit because I'm not such a fan of their material. But there are some that are attractive, but it is distracting. And I think that it hurts them in the end.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I used to not be able to afford Botox, and I could say, okay, well, I look like shit because I can't afford to look hot. And now that I can afford to look hot, it just feels like, God, why am I not doing this thing? And oh my gosh, they came up with in the peptides. And I should be doing that laser. And then there's another, and then you do that laser and then two months later you go in and they go, oh, no, that laser removes the fat on your face. You need the fat on your face. So there's a And the peptides. I mean, I just listened to you talk to that guy about them, and I'm so glad to hear that maybe I shouldn't be doing those because I was for a second and then I fell off because I didn't feel any difference.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, they're getting them now too. And I get why. I mean, it's really, there's really good work out there now that can be done really subtly. You kind of, you can't, you don't notice it as much anymore. And that's the other thing is like the more success I've had and the more money I have, the more options I have to look hotter. And it kind of feels like if you aren't doing everything you can and reaching again your potential in that realm, you're failing in some way. And there's almost like a wistfulness for.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, he's not. No, he's not. But yeah, it's something that I struggle with. I'm both grateful for it, but I also resent it deeply. And I'm also terrified of it. It eventually kind of falling away from me.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, they don't. And they lean into that, and I'm very envious of being able to not have to care about that stuff because it is so time consuming. And I feel like I would get a lot more done and I would just be more rested and just a more well-balanced person if I didn't spend so much time on all the upkeep to look a certain way. But then there's a part of me that also feels bad that they don't get a chance to really level up and that they kind of don't have as many options to draw the eye as women do. So, you know, we're getting into Manosphere talk here of like women just, you know, but there is a part of that that I do have some compassion for with men where like they, if they have a zit, they just have to have a zit.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I actually just was rereading Tina Fe's bossy pants and she had a great part in that that really synthesized everything I want to say about that is that one of the things she learned from Lauren Michaels is that don't feel bad about asking for a makeup touch up or perfecting your lighting or making sure that a scene that you're putting together on SNL is dressed well and detailed and pretty because if people are drawn to it optically they're going to hear you more. So I think in the end it's just about really wanting to be heard and feeling like when you are pretty both men and women are drawn to watch you and then therefore listen to what you have to say.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that's my problem, is that I should be watching and listening to myself through the course of putting together a special. And I don't, I just go off of memory. And if I were to even watch my set one time before and review it, like everyone tells me to, I could be so much better. So I think there's always just that fear of realizing my potential. It's not about what I first.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, regretting some decision I made. I mean, there's so many regrets I make in the edit where I look back and I think, oh my God, why didn't I just say this extra line? Or why didn't I describe this part differently? Or why didn't I make a funnier face at this moment? And I just have to think, okay, I've worked a lot on that of listening to a lot of Sam Harris meditations and podcasts about regret and how there's no point in it, first of all. And also there's something that me not doing that funny face or me not making that extra tag that really only fits that joke. I can't really use that again. There will be some use for it someday. You know, even in talking about it right now, this is a use for me regretting something is talking about regret here with you.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's the thing of like, I love fear. I run into fear. Picture fear is like a wall that you have to run into. And so I kind of go into that of like, I know that my self-esteem is built upon doing things that are hard and conquering them. So I know that on the other side of doing this horribly uncomfortable thing is me feeling better about myself. And it does.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, the one time I struggled with it, I was reading The Tools by Schultz, I'm thinking his name is. I forget his name, but he's kind of controversial now, but there was one quote in it. It was like, I love fear. Fear sets me free. And I was just repeating that to myself over and over of like, I just have to be uncomfortable. I just, I mean, honestly, the only reason I do it is because I have a team of people that are asking me to do it. Otherwise, I probably would never release a special ever or if it just wasn't a part of my career, I would love to just have stand up be this thing that is just live in the moment and there's no record of it.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you do because sometimes you outsource and you go, Oh, I'll trust my friends to look at it and give me their notes on it. And then in the end, the self-consciousness that makes me not want to watch myself is the same kind of self-consciousness that makes me as the only one who can edit it.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do. I think I just started to explore that feeling because I'm like this with everything I put out. Not everything because there's some things that I don't have a problem watching if it's I'm acting or if I'm singing or like any kind of but when I'm being myself I have a hard time watching it. I think it's like editing a special is the most uncomfortable thing I've ever done in my life. And honestly, in the past, I've had to delay the releases of specials because I just couldn't watch it and I couldn't edit it. And I and I'm not someone who pushes deadlines, but that's the only time in my life that I've had to because it's just so incredibly painful.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't want to hear about it. It's just so embarrassing to me. So when people see my special, I kind of change the subject really quickly. I just want kind of even now I'm like, let's move on to something else.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's something I like to do, it lets me behave in ways that I would not normally behave, say things and do things that I am otherwise ashamed of doing. And then when I started doing standup, you know, it was just like open mic nights and just clubs where there was no worry of it being recorded or anyone being able to even, you know, review it. I mean, I never put out clips online or anything. And so it was like, even if people came out to me after the show and quoted me back to myself, I could almost deny what I'd said because there was no proof of it. So it was like this safe space. So to me, when I think about my standup, it's like hearing people kind of talk about, you know, if someone after sex were to be like, oh, that thing you said or that one time you did that thing, you're just like, no, no, no, no, no.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I just kind of had this revelation when I was editing it that now that it's like coming out, I guess the editing process is a whole other kind of torturous, you know, self-examination, but now that it's coming out and people are starting to see it, and I was hearing from my publicists, you know, like we've sent out early copies of it, so people are watching it like today. It was just, yeah, this sense of doom that people are going to see a side of myself that maybe is a little bit more darker than I guess my image is now that I've in the past couple, you know, two or three years have had a more mainstream image. And there's maybe something in me that wants to protect that and to keep that kind of popularity coming in because it's, you know, made my life a lot easier. And I've used this analogy before, but I'll use it again because it's just so apt for it is that I just feel like stand up for me is like sex. Like I enjoy it.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you crash in a private plane, no one feels sorry for you. I think it's like we're that's my biggest fear now is like Yeah, They do. Yeah. And this elitist bitch, she deserved it.”
2026-04-20 · On with Kara Swisher · Nikki Glaser on Shame, Sex & Owning Who You Are · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT