Nikki Glaser on Preparing to Host the Golden Globes Again: "Everyone Should Kind of Watch Out"

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Nikki Glaser chats with The Hollywood Reporter at THR's Women in Entertainment gala and gives her advice to Rachel Sennott who is giving the opening remarks this year. Plus, she shares her preparations to host the Golden Globes in 2026.

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00:00You gave the opening remarks at this event last year.

00:03What's your advice to Rachel Sennett, who's doing it this year?

00:05Oh, she's doing it. I'm so excited she's doing it.

00:09Because I was wondering, who is it going to be this year?

00:11Because it's a tough gig. It's early in the morning.

00:14You want to be funny, but people are kind of still waking up.

00:17She doesn't need my advice.

00:18She is such a pro and is so funny and so herself already at this young age.

00:23So I feel like my advice would always be to call out what's really going on in the room,

00:30which is we're all tired. We all have to wake up at the crack of dawn.

00:33Kind of breaking the tension of we all had to get our hair and makeup team in at 4 o'clock in the morning

00:40and shoe off raccoons.

00:42We've all been, and we're all just looking stunning at 8 a.m.

00:46And just kind of how that's a different world for women than men.

00:50I think, like, just speaking to the woman's experience of, like, we have to work a little bit harder than men do

00:57because of the fact that, you know, I always just think about when I'm in hair and makeup

01:00and I'm preparing for a speech or I'm preparing for some jokes I have to do

01:04and I'm reading through notes, and, like, I'm like, oh, men can just, like, read their notes.

01:08They don't have to, like, have a pencil in their eye while they do it

01:11or, like, hold still and hold their phone up here so they can read the script.

01:14Like, there's a lot of things we have to, like, we have to look a certain, you know,

01:18like, we're all trying to be ourselves and not care about how we look so much,

01:22but the pressure is still on, obviously.

01:23And so, yeah, just speaking to that experience, but she'll do it.

01:27She's amazing. I can't wait.

01:29I love that.

01:29And for you, I remember last year you started preparing for the Golden Globes super early.

01:33You ran the monologue so many times.

01:35What's your plan this year?

01:36Same plan.

01:37You know, just I think I start doing sets and running it this week.

01:42I think tomorrow night I'm doing, like, three sets,

01:44and then it'll be, like, three or four sets a night until January 11th.

01:48So we're, like, over a month out, so I have so much runway ahead of me to just nail it.

01:52And it's just going to be the same process of watching all the movies

01:55and just trying to approach things differently than I did last year.

01:58It's, like, felt like I nailed it last year and I want to bring that same energy to it,

02:02but, like, what can we do differently?

02:04Oh, they kind of know me a little bit more this year,

02:06so I'll have a little bit more leeway to get away with some stuff than I did in last year

02:10because I felt like last year I had to really introduce myself to everyone

02:13and get them comfortable and, like, I'm not going to hurt you,

02:15and this year I can hurt them.

02:17No, I'm not going to hurt them, but I'm way calmer going into it this year

02:22because it's just easier to do anything that you've done before.

02:26Who is someone that needs to behave themselves this next month

02:29so they don't get roasted harder than they're already going to get roasted?

02:32I'm trying to think.

02:34I'm not really going to roast anyone.

02:36I mean, I feel like, hmm.

02:38Maybe Timmy?

02:38Timmy was such a good sport last year.

02:41I feel like I need to lay off of him this year.

02:43I feel like I just saw Marty Supreme.

02:45I got, like, an early screener, and it was so good.

02:48And I just, I think, again, like, I've learned from last year,

02:50like, everyone has, like, such a good sense of humor about things,

02:53and that's such a great room.

02:55I mean, I think it's the ideal awards show.

02:57Everyone's at tables.

02:57Everyone's kind of a little drunk.

03:00They've eaten.

03:01And it's just a little bit more of a party atmosphere,

03:03and it's a little bit more, it feels like a comedy club,

03:08a little bit more.

03:09So I feel like it's just, everyone's just in a good mood,

03:12and they can take it.

03:13You know, they can really take it a lot harder than I thought they could.

03:15I was really treading carefully last year,

03:17so I think that this year everyone should kind of watch out, I guess.

03:20And since we're celebrating women in Hollywood here this morning,

03:23who's a woman in Hollywood who's really inspired you over this last year?

03:27Tilly Norwood.

03:28The AI actress.

03:30Not Tilly.

03:30Perfect.

03:32You know, who's inspired me this year?

03:35Gosh, I would say, you know, Gwyneth Paltrow in Marty Supreme,

03:40I just thought was, we haven't seen her on screen for a while, I guess.

03:47Maybe she's, maybe I haven't noticed,

03:49but, like, it was the first time I feel like I'd seen her in a while.

03:51And she just was so sexy.

03:54She was, like, not wearing makeup in a lot of it,

03:57and I was just, like, marveling at how she's, like, this, you know,

04:00beauty icon and runs this brand that is promoting just, like,

04:04wellness and looking snatched.

04:06But she just looks so natural and just gorgeous,

04:10and, like, it's just an example of how I want to age in this business

04:13because she's not really aging, let's be honest.

04:15Like, we all, I'm not trying to, I just feel like she's just so herself,

04:19and I just felt like her character, she nailed this role,

04:22and I just look up to her.

04:24She's, like, always uplifting, me included, had me on her podcast,

04:27Women, that she's consuming culture and uplifting young women.

04:30I just felt truly inspired by her.

04:33I'm trying to think of anyone else that I'm, Audrey Hobart.

04:36I don't know if you know who she is.

04:37She's Gracie Abrams' writing partner, and she's sitting out on her own tour.

04:41I feel like she just released an album.

04:43She has been really inspiring.

04:45Her music has been the soundtrack to my life recently.

04:47It's just so autobiographical.

04:49So detailed, so silly.

04:51She leans into this, like, awkwardness that comes off as so hot,

04:55and it's captivating, and so I've been really, like,

04:58watching a lot of her stuff and trying to channel her energy of, like,

05:01someone so young just being able to be so authentically themselves,

05:04and I think that's what this younger generation has given me,

05:06is, like, they just know themselves so much better than we did.

05:10Even the better than I know myself now, Rachel and all the cast of I Love L.A.,

05:14like, just authenticity throughout, just anyone who's just, you know,

05:20being that is just so sexy to me.

05:23I love that.

05:24We need to get to the Audrey tour, you know?

05:26Oh, I can't wait.

05:26I cannot wait to dance along with it.

05:29And just, like, someone just seeing them, like, become a star overnight.

05:33I thought her, I've watched her performance.

05:35If you haven't seen her performance on, I think it was Fallon,

05:39you have to watch it.

05:40It's just, like, the most creative, most, like, just bold debut of a pop artist

05:46I've seen in a while, and I was just, I love her so much.

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