Nikki Glaser Would Be Disappointed in Herself Too, If She Weren’t So Damn Funny

Glaser is aware of that’s the roaster’s paradox. “It’s the risk you take,” she says. “That’s what this is. You have to dish it out, you have to take it.”

Glaser indubitably proved she will be able to dish it out, ripping Tom Brady a brandnew one with out ever having met the person. “My first time meeting him was when I was up on the podium,” she says. “That’s the first time I’ve ever talked to him. We didn’t meet backstage. We didn’t have a Zoom call. There was no preface to this. Which made it easier to go hard.”

Now it’s secure to mention Brady is aware of who she is. “Tom Brady knows my name now,” she says in disbelief. “In his joke, he didn’t say it fully, but he said ‘Glaser.’ He said it right.” It’s sunny that Glaser remains to be processing her whirlwind past. “I will never get this much attention until I die,” she says. “I have an inkling of what it feels like to be Taylor Swift on a really slow day for her.”

However being Taylor Hasty on a sluggish month remains to be life-changing for Glaser, who has been a qualified comic for greater than two decades. “I ascended in my career more than I ever have, overnight,” she says. “It just doesn’t happen today with how oversaturated the content is—that all eyes are on something like this.” She provides a shaggy dog story for just right measure. “Outside of Will Smith slapping me, I don’t think I’ll get this much attention as a comedian in my life.”

Glaser’s timing couldn’t be higher. Her nearest comedy particular, One day You’ll Die, drops on HBO this Saturday, Would possibly 11. Within the particular, the 39-year-old comic loudly and proudly publicizes that she by no means needs to have children, expressing her uncooked, unfiltered feelings about getting older and motherhood the one manner she is aware of how. “My truth is that I don’t have kids, and I really do get jealous when my friends have babies because I don’t see them anymore,” she tells VF. “The funniest take on that for me is when my friends are trying, I’m like, Please don’t let this one take. It’s a funny thing to admit because it’s insane, but I can’t help that it did enter my brain. Like, Oh, I want her to have a kid. Just not yet, because we have a girl’s trip coming up.”

That’s to not say One day You’ll Die is most effective about something. Within the particular, Glaser wisecracks about subjects incorporated however now not restricted to abortion, suicide, autism, gang bangs, heroin, and, sure, there’s even a non-terrible trans shaggy dog story or two. In an month the place stalwart comedians like Jerry Seinfeld frequently lament so-called PC tradition and what they see because the corresponding demise of comedy, Glaser is evidence that you’ll be able to nonetheless say principally anything else you wish to have, so long as it’s humorous.

“It’s funny that Jerry says that because he’s a clean comedian,” she says. “Who is he offending? I don’t know. He’s mastered the art of being clean, and is as funny as any comic who’s dirty.” Glaser says that she longs to have the kind of blank and obtainable comedy employment this is de rigueur for Seinfeld, nevertheless it’s simply now not within the playing cards for her. “I can be very filthy and I can be very dark, so I sense that I turn people off a lot,” she says. “But I know at my core, I’m a good person. So if I’m joking about stuff, it’s just because it’s true and I want to draw attention to it.”

“It’s not about wanting to hurt people’s feelings,” she provides. “I want everyone to see what’s going on. Let’s 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.”

The intersection of fact and comedy has lengthy been a hot-button factor, in particular as comics like Hasan Minhaj come underneath fireplace for embellishing or fabricating tales they inform of their stand-up. Glaser isn’t enthusiastic about storytelling comedians—“I just do not have the patience for it”—however she is in fact, despite the fact that it’s now and then unflattering. “I’m never really lying on stage,” Glaser says. “People can go, ‘Oh, she’s just hyperbolizing for the sake of comedy.’ But I’m not really. Yes, I do turn it up a notch, but it should be obvious, the things in the story I’m lying about. To a savvy consumer of stand-up comedy, you should be able to tell where I’m doing a punch line and then where there is actual storytelling happening.”