Nikki Glaser may have absolutely crushed her second turn as Golden Globes host, but even her razor-sharp set didn’t make it to air unedited. After delivering a night full of laugh-out-loud moments at the 2026 ceremony, the comedian is now pulling back the curtain on the jokes that were deemed a little too spicy for the star-studded crowd.
Fresh off the Globes, Nikki appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where she admitted that some of her favorite punchlines didn’t survive the final cut — and she’s totally at peace with that now.
“Things live on,” she explained, noting that awards shows are a different beast than a comedy club. “Sometimes a joke is just for the room.” Nikki added, “There’s been times where jokes have really hurt people’s feelings or I’ve gone too far and I feel like I’m always okay with losing stuff now. It was always really hard to cut those jokes, and now I’m just like, ‘You just don’t get everything you want, and you just gotta move on and let’s just write a better joke. There’s gotta be a better joke out there.’”
Still, fans are understandably dying to know what didn’t make it. And while the jokes were ultimately scrapped, they were very much on-brand Nikki — bold, biting and unapologetically savage.
One joke took aim at Hollywood’s box office woes, with Nikki quipping, “You know, people just aren’t going to the theaters to see things and if you don’t believe me, there was a movie this year where Sydney Sweeney played a lesbian who just bounced around in tiny shorts for two hours and it made $14.2.”
Another scrapped line tackled the industry’s obsession with AI: “Everyone’s concerned about AI. Tilly Norwood is the first star to be completely generated by AI, and somehow has still been sexually assaulted by three different studio execs.”
Sean Penn, apparently, was also a recurring target. Nikki joked, “Sean Penn is here looking like the defiant last tree standing in a rainforest,” before adding, “Sean Penn is nominated tonight, I’m assuming for best neck veins?”
Julia Roberts didn’t escape either. “Julia Roberts is nominated for After the Hunt. I don’t know what it’s about, but I’m assuming the hunt was to find someone who’s seen it?” Nikki reportedly joked.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro and Penn were lumped together in one particularly savage bit: “Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, and Leonardo DiCaprio are here tonight for the category, Least Eyes. Leo, why are you always squinting? I mean, I assume it’s to read your girlfriend’s ID, just making sure the year starts with a 2.”
She also poked fun at People’s Sexiest Man Alive, saying, “Jonathan Bailey is here. Jonathan is the first openly gay man to be named the Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine. And at first I was like, ‘Do we really need to say openly?’ and then I looked at a list of past winners, and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, we do.’”
Jeff Goldblum and Brad Pitt were also on her hit list. “Jeff Goldblum is here tonight, not because he is nominated, just because they were shooting an ad for Apartments.com down the street, and he just kind of wandered in,” she joked, adding, “You haven’t lived in apartments since you were a fly.”
And finally, on Hollywood aging: “Brad Pitt is nominated for his role in F1 tonight. See, that’s what I love about Hollywood. When a man turns 60, he gets to play a racecar driver. Meanwhile, after 35, every role for a woman is ‘tired mom who hates her life.’”
