{"id":96728,"date":"2024-05-11T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/nikki-glaser-would-be-disappointed-in-herself-too-if-she-werent-so-damn-funny\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T17:04:43","slug":"nikki-glaser-would-be-disappointed-in-herself-too-if-she-werent-so-damn-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/nikki-glaser-would-be-disappointed-in-herself-too-if-she-werent-so-damn-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Glaser Would Be Disappointed in Herself Too, If She Weren\u2019t So Damn Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Glaser knows that\u2019s the roaster\u2019s paradox. \u201cIt\u2019s the risk you take,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s what this is. You have to dish it out, you have to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Glaser certainly proved she can dish it out, ripping Tom Brady a new one without ever having met the man. \u201cMy first time meeting him was when I was up on the podium,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever talked to him. We didn\u2019t meet backstage. We didn\u2019t have a Zoom call. There was no preface to this. Which made it easier to go hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Now it\u2019s safe to say Brady knows who she is. \u201cTom Brady knows my name now,\u201d she says in disbelief. \u201cIn his joke, he didn\u2019t say it fully, but he said \u2018Glaser.\u2019 He said it right.\u201d It\u2019s clear that Glaser is still processing her whirlwind week. \u201cI will never get this much attention until I die,\u201d she says. \u201cI have an inkling of what it feels like to be <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> on a really slow day for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">But being Taylor Swift on a slow day is still life-changing for Glaser, who has been a professional comedian for more than 20 years. \u201cI ascended in my career more than I ever have, overnight,\u201d she says. \u201cIt just doesn\u2019t happen today with how oversaturated the content is\u2014that all eyes are on something like this.\u201d She adds a joke for good measure. \u201cOutside of <strong>Will Smith<\/strong> slapping me, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll get this much attention as a comedian in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd bCPQcu fNaHcW caption__credit\">Matt Winkelmeyer\/Netflix.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap paywall\">Glaser\u2019s timing couldn\u2019t be better. Her next comedy special, <em>Someday You\u2019ll Die,<\/em> drops on HBO this Saturday, May 11. In the special, the 39-year-old comedian loudly and proudly declares that she never wants to have kids, expressing her raw, unfiltered emotions about aging and motherhood the only way she knows how. \u201cMy truth is that I don\u2019t have kids, and I really do get jealous when my friends have babies because I don\u2019t see them anymore,\u201d she tells <em>VF.<\/em> \u201cThe funniest take on that for me is when my friends are trying, I\u2019m like, Please don\u2019t let this one take. It\u2019s a funny thing to admit because it\u2019s insane, but I can\u2019t help that it did enter my brain. Like, Oh, I want her to have a kid. Just not yet, because we have a girl\u2019s trip coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">That\u2019s not to sa<em>y Someday You\u2019ll Die<\/em> is only about one thing. In the special, Glaser wisecracks about topics included but not limited to abortion, suicide, autism, gang bangs, heroin, and, yes, there\u2019s even a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/a-new-year-of-old-jokes-with-dave-chappelle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-terrible trans joke<\/a> or two. In an age where stalwart comedians like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-new-yorker-interview\/the-scholar-of-comedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jerry Seinfeld<\/strong><\/a> continually lament so-called PC culture and what they see as the corresponding death of comedy, Glaser is proof that you can still say basically anything you want, as long as it\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIt\u2019s funny that Jerry says that because he\u2019s a clean comedian,\u201d she says. \u201cWho is he offending? I don\u2019t know. He\u2019s mastered the art of being clean, and is as funny as any comic who\u2019s dirty.\u201d Glaser says that she longs to have the type of clean and accessible comedy act that is de rigueur for Seinfeld, but it\u2019s just not in the cards for her. \u201cI can be very filthy and I can be very dark, so I sense that I turn people off a lot,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I know at my core, I\u2019m a good person. So if I\u2019m joking about stuff, it\u2019s just because it\u2019s true and I want to draw attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIt\u2019s not about wanting to hurt people\u2019s feelings,\u201d she adds. \u201cI want everyone to see what\u2019s going on. Let\u2019s talk about slaves making our clothes. Open your eyes. Making a joke about them is not going to make them any more slaves than they are. It actually might draw more awareness to it, even though it is under the guise of a joke. At least just acknowledge that slaves made your clothes by laughing at this joke, because it is happening and you know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The intersection of truth and comedy has long been a hot-button issue, particularly as comics like <strong>Hasan Minhaj<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2023\/09\/hasan-minhaj-admits-to-embellishing-islamophobic-events-in-comedy-specials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">come under fire<\/a> for embellishing or fabricating stories they tell in their stand-up. Glaser isn\u2019t interested in storytelling comedians\u2014\u201cI just do not have the patience for it\u201d\u2014but she is interested in truth, even if it\u2019s at times unflattering. \u201cI\u2019m never really lying on stage,\u201d Glaser says. \u201cPeople can go, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s just hyperbolizing for the sake of comedy.\u2019 But I\u2019m not really. Yes, I do turn it up a notch, but it should be obvious, the things in the story I\u2019m lying about. To a savvy consumer of stand-up comedy, you should be able to tell where I\u2019m doing a punch line and then where there is actual storytelling happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/nikki-glaser-would-be-disappointed-in-herself-too-if-she-werent-so-damn-funny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glaser knows that\u2019s the roaster\u2019s paradox. \u201cIt\u2019s the risk you take,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s what this is. You have to dish it out, you have to take it.\u201d Glaser certainly proved she can dish it out, ripping Tom Brady a new one without ever having met the man. \u201cMy first time meeting him was when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1224,31,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-96728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-comedy","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}