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Nikki Glaser won’t be roasting this pretty woman at the Golden Globes.
When the comedian takes the stage Jan. 11 to host the 2026 awards show, she knows that audiences want her to go easy on Julia Roberts.
“I’m trying out my monologue around L.A., at the clubs here, and just even any joke about Julia Roberts, they are not there for,” Glaser told Gayle King on CBS Mornings Jan. 6. “You cannot make fun of America’s Sweetheart. So, whatever I end up saying about her, that is the most fine-tuned joke that I’ve worked on so hard, because it is very delicate.”
The 41-year-old added, “They were booing, and I was like, ‘Is she here?’ It’s insane.”
But Glaser —who shot to fame after her viral turn on “The Roast of Tom Brady” in 2024 — explained her jokes will be more “covert” going into her second year of hosting the Globes, because “huge A-listers” like Julia, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn are nominated.
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“I am a huge fan of these people,” she shared. “It’s easy for me to take down the newer batch of actresses and actors who are younger than me. It’s like, ‘OK, I can make fun of you. I’m like a veteran.’ But when it’s people that I grew up admiring, it’s a different approach this year.”
“You have to be very delicate about making jokes that aren’t going to ruin anyone’s night,” she continued. “But you also want to give the people at home something to laugh at, and you want to poke fun at the people that they’re dying for you to make fun of. People at home want you to make fun of the A-listers.”
When it comes to the more brutal jokes in her monologue, Glaser sometimes tries running it by the recipient ahead of time. In fact, she texted Selena Gomez’s now-husband Benny Blanco last year for approval on her quip about him being with the “Only Murders in the Building” actress “because of the genie who granted him that wish.”
This year, though, she’s leaning away from that approach.
“I don’t even know if Leo has a phone,” Glaser joked. “There’s certain people that I don’t even know what I would say. Some of these jokes you think about, ‘OK, if I got their number, would I write them and ask them?’ And then I go, ‘You know what, they might say no, and I know the joke isn’t that mean.’”
As she put it, “I would rather ask for certain forgiveness later at the afterparty when they’re drunk.”
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