Nikki Glaser Golden Globe host will not roast Julia Roberts on the ceremony

Nikki Glaser revealed the one A-Lister that she would not dare to roast when she returns as host of the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. 

The 41-year-old comic, who turned the primary lady to host the awards ceremony solo final 12 months, was tapped as emcee once more after incomes overwhelmingly optimistic evaluations for her debut. 

During a Tuesday look on “CBS Mornings,” Glaser shed some mild on what the awards attendees and viewers can count on from her efficiency this 12 months. She defined that she has been testing her materials for the upcoming present at a few of her stand-up gigs and admitted that there was one star that she would keep away from mocking. 

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“I’m trying out my monologue around LA at the clubs here and just even any joke about Julia Roberts, they are not there for,” she mentioned. 

“You cannot make fun of America’s sweetheart,” she continued. “Whatever I end up saying about her, that is the most fine-tuned joke that I’ve worked on so hard, because it is very delicate.”

“I mean, they were booing, and I was like, ‘Is she here?’” Glaser added. “It’s insane.”

“Nikki, Julia is everywhere,” “CBS Mornings” host Gayle King mentioned.

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“Yeah, she’s all around us always,” Glaser agreed. 

King noted that Glaser had contacted some celebrities last year for their input regarding jokes she planned to make about them and asked if she had reached out to anyone this year. 

“Not yet, but I was wondering if anyone there had Sean Penn’s number because I would like to get his approval,” she said with a laugh. “Last year I was able to reach out to Benny Blanco. I had a friend of a friend who knew him and he seemed like someone I could kind of cold text, but I don’t even know if Leo [DiCaprio] has a phone.”

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“There’s certain people that I don’t even know what I would say,” Glaser continued. “It’s almost like some of these jokes you think about, ‘OK, if I got their number, would I write them and ask them?’ And then I am going, ‘You know what, they might say no.’ And I do know the joke is not that imply. I might moderately say sorry later on the after celebration after they’re drunk.”

The “Trainwreck” actress defined that she seen the Golden Globes internet hosting gig as a “covert mission” since she has to please each the viewers at residence and the celebrities within the viewers on the ceremony. 

“You have to be very delicate about making jokes that aren’t going to ruin anyone’s night, but you also want to give the people at home something to laugh at, and you want to poke fun at the people that they’re dying for you to make fun of,” she mentioned. “Like people at home want you to make fun of the A-listers.”

“They want you to make them feel a little bit uncomfortable,” Glaser added. “So, it’s covert in the sense that I want to get away with those jokes without just ruining the vibe in the room. So, it’s really strategic, and it’s one of the most difficult jobs I’ve ever had is picking the perfect jokes.”

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Glaser has beforehand participated in a number of celeb roasts, together with these of Rob Lowe, Bruce Willis and Tom Brady and he or she has grow to be identified for her scathing jabs and fearless takedowns. The comic was hailed as one of many standout performers at Brady’s roast in May 2024, which considerably raised her profile and led to her choice because the Golden Globes host for the 2025 awards present. 

During her look on “CBS Mornings,” Glaser famous that her strategy to acting at a roast differed from how she handles Golden Globes internet hosting duties.

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“I leave the mean for the roast,” she mentioned. “I think people have known me as like, ‘Wow, she tells really mean jokes.’ I really save that for the roast because that’s the place to do them. People have signed up for that.” 

“This, I feel like, I don’t know, I am a huge fan of these people, and this year’s a little bit different because we have so like many huge A-listers that I grew up kind of really admiring, and it’s easy for me to take down the newer batch of actresses and actors who are younger than me,” Glaser defined.

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“It’s like ‘OK, I can make fun of you. I’m like a veteran,'” she continued. “But when it’s like people that I grew up admiring, it’s ‘Oh my gosh.’” 

“It’s a different approach this year.”