Comedian Nikki Glaser is warning us ahead of time: tomorrow night’s Golden Globes show on CBS will be toothless.
Glaser tells Yahoo Entertainment that she won’t be making jokes about Donald Trump. She’ll avoid the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni scandal.
She’s just not going to offend anyone.
“I’m not gonna go so hard that anyone’s gonna be offended,” she says. “I’ve made a point not to, and that’s not to disappoint anyone who’s hoping I’m going to pull a Ricky Gervais. I’m not Ricky Gervais. This isn’t my last Golden Globes, this is my first one. He really went hard on his last one. He was ready to burn some bridges [because] it didn’t matter anymore.”
Past hosts like Gervais, and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, were merciless in their ribbing of famous actors in the audience. They also went after members of the mysterious and corrupt Hollywood Foreign Press Association. A couple of years ago, comedian Jerrod Carmichael called The Beverly Hilton — owned by the Globes’ owner Todd Boehly — as “the hotel where Whitney Houston died.”
No more of that.
Glaser is known for cutting edge humor. Her jokes at last year’s Tom Brady roast made everyone angry, especially Brady. She says that’s why the Globes hired her. But from the sound of this interview, Glaser will be relegated to telling rubber chicken jokes.
She says, “Celebrities shouldn’t be nervous because it’s a great opportunity for them to look cool,” she said. “People at home feel disconnected from celebrities. Although that’s a thing we like about them that we put them on these pedestals, we’re really looking for some humanity from them. And I would really encourage celebrities to just laugh at jokes about you. I know it sucks sometimes. I’ve been on the receiving end of jokes at roasts and I’ve had to laugh through my tears of being hurt. I’m not going to call you an ugly horseface woman, though, which is what I’ve had to laugh through.”
