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Nikki Glaser, whose 2024 was a breakout 12 months for the standup comic following her acclaimed HBO comedy particular “Sometime You’ll Die” and a smashingly profitable efficiency at Netflix’s Tom Brady roast, began 2025 robust because the host of the Golden Globes on Sunday night time.

The high-profile gig marks crucial night time in Glaser’s profession to date. The strain is turned on excessive throughout the Globes, an occasion that has change into carefully related to its previous emcees, from Ricky Gervais to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Final 12 months, Jo Koy tanked with a crude joke about Barbie’s breasts.

Chatting with Selection forward of the ceremony Glaser stated, “I really feel actually prepared. I simply comprehend it’ll be killer.”

Glaser was proper. The comic charmed the group, making sharp and expertly-written jabs on the A-listers within the crowd, making jokes about Timothee Chalamet’s sparse eyelash-looking mustache, and the way Glen Powell’s greatest function of the 12 months was in her head whereas having intercourse together with her boyfriend.

Among the best bits got here later within the night time, when she walked on stage with a Glinda-inspired glowing pink costume and “Conclave” pope hat whereas singing her personal rendition of “In style.” The efficiency was reduce quick after she took a pretend telephone name from the stage telling her how a lot everybody was hating it.

If Glaser’s internet hosting gig had you laughing out loud from dwelling on Sunday night time, you’re in luck: the comic is presently on the street, possible testing out materials for her subsequent particular (and hopefully revisiting some favorites from “Sometime You’ll Die.”).

Glaser will make stops in Tacoma, Portland, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Vancouver, Hartford and dozens extra cities by July, 2025. She and David Spade even have a two-night residency at Las Vegas’s Venetian Theatre on Sept. 5-6. You should buy tickets right here.

Look by all of Glaser’s comedy present dates right here, and purchase tickets under: