Nikki Glaser could have completely crushed her second flip as Golden Globes host, however even her razor-sharp set didn’t make it to air unedited. After delivering an evening filled with laugh-out-loud moments on the 2026 ceremony, the comic is now pulling again the curtain on the jokes that had been deemed slightly too spicy for the star-studded crowd.
Contemporary off the Globes, Nikki appeared on The Howard Stern Present, the place she admitted that a few of her favourite punchlines didn’t survive the ultimate lower — and she or he’s completely at peace with that now.
“Issues dwell on,” she defined, noting that awards exhibits are a special beast than a comedy membership. “Typically a joke is only for the room.” Nikki added, “There’s been occasions the place jokes have actually damage individuals’s emotions or I’ve gone too far and I really feel like I’m at all times okay with shedding stuff now. It was at all times actually onerous to chop these jokes, and now I’m similar to, ‘You simply don’t get the whole lot you need, and also you simply gotta transfer on and let’s simply write a greater joke. There’s gotta be a greater joke on the market.’”
Nonetheless, followers are understandably dying to know what didn’t make it. And whereas the jokes had been finally scrapped, they had been very a lot on-brand Nikki — daring, biting and unapologetically savage.
One joke took intention at Hollywood’s field workplace woes, with Nikki quipping, “You recognize, individuals simply aren’t going to the theaters to see issues and should you don’t imagine me, there was a film this 12 months the place Sydney Sweeney performed a lesbian who simply bounced round in tiny shorts for 2 hours and it made $14.2.”
One other scrapped line tackled the business’s obsession with AI: “Everybody’s involved about AI. Tilly Norwood is the primary star to be fully generated by AI, and in some way has nonetheless been sexually assaulted by three completely different studio execs.”
Sean Penn, apparently, was additionally a recurring goal. Nikki joked, “Sean Penn is right here wanting just like the defiant final tree standing in a rainforest,” earlier than including, “Sean Penn is nominated tonight, I’m assuming for greatest neck veins?”
Julia Roberts didn’t escape both. “Julia Roberts is nominated for After the Hunt. I don’t know what it’s about, however I’m assuming the hunt was to seek out somebody who’s seen it?” Nikki reportedly joked.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro and Penn had been lumped collectively in a single notably savage bit: “Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, and Leonardo DiCaprio are right here tonight for the class, Least Eyes. Leo, why are you at all times squinting? I imply, I assume it’s to learn your girlfriend’s ID, simply ensuring the 12 months begins with a 2.”
She additionally poked enjoyable at Folks’s Sexiest Man Alive, saying, “Jonathan Bailey is right here. Jonathan is the primary brazenly homosexual man to be named the Sexiest Man Alive by Folks Journal. And at first I used to be like, ‘Do we actually have to say brazenly?’ after which I checked out an inventory of previous winners, and I used to be like, ‘Oh yeah, we do.’”
Jeff Goldblum and Brad Pitt had been additionally on her hit checklist. “Jeff Goldblum is right here tonight, not as a result of he’s nominated, simply because they had been taking pictures an advert for Flats.com down the road, and he simply sort of wandered in,” she joked, including, “You haven’t lived in flats because you had been a fly.”
And eventually, on Hollywood growing older: “Brad Pitt is nominated for his function in F1 tonight. See, that’s what I really like about Hollywood. When a person turns 60, he will get to play a racecar driver. In the meantime, after 35, each function for a lady is ‘drained mother who hates her life.’”
