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Nikki Glaser called out beauty standards and joked about having to wake up at the crack of dawn to open The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment gala, presented by Lifetime, on Wednesday at The Beverly Hills Hotel.

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00:00hello everyone hi good morning how's everyone doing this morning awesome me too good morning

00:12and welcome to the hollywood reporters 2024 women and entertainment power 100 breakfast gala

00:19the search for curly's gold part one folie when i was told i had been chosen as one of the power 100

00:28women in hollywood i was so incredibly honored and then i said which number am i and they said it

00:34doesn't work that way you're all equal and i said okay well if that's the case then can i sit at

00:37nicole kidman's table and that's when the correspondence ended but then they asked me

00:43to do the opening remarks for today and i didn't even read the rest of the email before i was like

00:47oh hell yeah but then um i should have because i then read 7 a.m arrival time what the is this

00:58a breakfast gala for women in hollywood we don't even eat that meal but truly

01:07no what better time to honor women than at 8 a.m within at 8 a.m before the industry is even awake

01:14in that coveted post-thanksgiving pre-christmas hollywood dead zone

01:19we are women in hollywood hear us roar but not too loudly because the hotel has a quiet policy

01:25enforced until 8 9 a.m so but this is uh this is awesome um i love being in full glam at the crack

01:32of dawn what am i supposed to do the rest of the day looking like this i have fake eyelashes

01:39fake hair over lined lips i can't go to ralph's looking like this it would be ridiculous and if

01:45i want to go to air one i'm going to need to get touch-ups it's

01:51usually usually women who look this done up at 7 a.m aren't entering the beverly hills hotel they're

01:57leaving with a lot of cash and a fun story about charlie sheen but

02:06being a woman in hollywood is is really difficult for a multitude of reasons that

02:10we're going to get into in a second but um can we all just acknowledge the toll glam takes on our

02:16schedules thank you did you have to everyone start getting ready when it was still dark outside yes

02:21in fact uh i really think this very speech i'm giving right now is probably could have been 20

02:27better had i not spent most of yesterday getting ready just to feel presentable enough to read this

02:32in front of some of the most stunning and powerful women who have ever walked the planet and their plus

02:36ones and it's a lot right it's hard to write a speech in the same day you have to get a spray tan

02:46do a fitting get your nails done and your bleach your asshole i mean i didn't have to do that last

02:51one but i don't know what the rest of the day entails and yeah it's a privilege to get all done

02:57up and have a team of pros make me look as glamorous as i can possibly be but let's just remember that

03:03this is a part of our job that men don't really have to do right and when they do you hear about it

03:10non-stop i oh so colin farrell is so dedicated to his craft that he spends three hours in the makeup

03:16chair to transform into the penguin that's how long it takes me every day to make sure i don't look like

03:21a penguin okay or any other flightless bird that some redditor may compare me to and ruin my week i

03:29and i know i don't have to wear makeup but yes i do i'm i'm not pam anderson i haven't earned the right

03:37to a bare face i've been famous for five minutes if i started showing up places without makeup my

03:43agents would place me under conservatorship controlled by jamie spears they wouldn't even give it to my dad

03:52but i digress let's get back on track let's just take a moment right now to really appreciate the

03:58firepower in this room i mean look around this is the power 100 the most powerful women in hollywood

04:06assembled here together in the same room i mean we're like the avengers of people who haven't

04:11seen the avengers and i'm so honored to be here it really is because of bold badass women like you

04:22all that i even get to stand up here and speak my mind and say insane things like i bleach my asshole

04:28and i and i still get to work in this business and and yeah that now that work is going to be in

04:32charlie sheen's hotel room but that's a job's a job and today we're here to celebrate honor and

04:39encourage each other which let's be honest in an industry that relentlessly pits us against each

04:45other isn't always easy to do you know i'm i'm so proud to be in this group of amazing women but

04:52i know that sometimes i struggle with supporting women and and i bet you do too like i'm a jealous

04:59bitch i can't help it i i wish i wasn't but i mean i would bet there are at least like 30 of you in

05:06here today that i have at one point muted on instagram because you got some job i wanted or you had some

05:12relationship i envied or worst of all your hair air dries straight it's like

05:20and you gotta mute and muting is fine when you when you need to protect yourself from the comparing and

05:24despairing but the thing i found that has helped me in this business more than anything is sleeping

05:30with powerful men i'm kidding it's adderall but besides those two things it's no it's the truth is

05:40the hard thing to do is to be kind and and not ellen kind it's like

05:45kind kind you know it's it it's so easy to just judge envy and resent women you fear will take

05:59your place in this business but the harder thing to do is to bring them in to give advice to give

06:05them opportunities i really try to challenge myself to do exactly what i really wanted women to do for

06:10me when i was coming up in this business because when i first started in stand-up over two decades

06:15ago a whole jenna ortega ago i'll i really i'll never forget that um there was this in my tiny

06:26st louis stand-up scene there was a woman who i really looked up to uh in the scene who didn't

06:31really like me and in fact she went out of her way to tell everyone who mattered that i i slept with

06:37comedians for stage time which of course wasn't true i blew them but it's different um but

06:46it sucked man like we've all had something like that happen and her actions like actually impacted

06:52my life and it was bad but then i moved to la and i got out of there and then i met comics like

06:58caroline ray and sarah silverman wendy liebman bonnie mcfarlane and natasha leggero who were

07:04actually like nice to me and it wasn't just because i ate a mean puss i mean it was because

07:08they they understood they understood what i hope we all get from today's event that

07:20we're better when we support one another we are especially when that girl that you supported

07:29could one day cast you as her wacky aunt in her hit tv show after your career career derailed because of

07:34your botched eye job okay which i just turned 40 so we're years and years away from that two years but

07:42but this morning i really i'm so proud to be a part of the hollywood reporter women's power 100 and i'll

07:47close by um quoting the great lady gaga who once said at least three dozen times if there are a hundred

07:55people in a room and 99 don't believe in you you're probably at the men's power 100. thank you very

08:03much enjoy your breakfast

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