Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser ‘irritated’ by star who takes themself ‘too critically’ for potential jokes about them

• Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser admitted that she's "virtually irritated" imagining one star's response to her potential jokes about them.
• "There’s somebody that we’d come after this yr, and I used to be interested by their response," Glaser advised Kelly Ripa.
• Glaser additionally revealed that, final yr, she reached out to Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco earlier than joking about them on the ceremony.

Comic and returning Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser has admitted that she's "virtually irritated" imagining one explicit star's response to her potential jokes about them at Sunday's stay awards present.

Showing Thursday for an interview on Kelly Ripa's Let's Talk Off Camera podcast, Glaser stated that she's contemplating concentrating on a particular superstar throughout her upcoming second Golden Globes internet hosting gig, however that she anticipates the star in query may not take too kindly to her jabs.

"There’s somebody that we’d come after this yr, and I used to be interested by what their response can be as a result of I don’t assume they’ve an excellent humorousness," Glaser advised Ripa on the episode (under). "I don’t need to reveal who, and I’m sorry to speak in imprecise phrases, however, picturing this individual trying indignant in regards to the joke I’m making. I by no means need to make anybody uncomfortable."

Glaser didn't reveal who the star is, however stated that, "This individual I really feel like can form of take it and, not deserves it, however I’m virtually irritated that they wouldn’t have a humorousness about it, versus like, oh, that was imply and I shouldn't have stated that."

She added that "this individual possibly takes themselves too critically," and additional lamented "the concept that this individual might look pissed off on the joke I'm saying."

Nonetheless, Glaser stated that gentle anxiousness over the star's suspected response marks "the primary time I’ve felt this, like, 'That’s even higher. That’s so humorous.' So I'm like, we have to write jokes about how this individual isn’t going to chuckle as a security web."

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Glaser additionally advised Ripa that she has "each form of plan in place" to regulate for no matter sudden chaos would possibly happen throughout the stay broadcast, together with particular eventualities she's already ready jokes for, like if her microphone cuts out, if she slips on her costume, if a lightweight falls, or even when her "nipple pops out" on stay TV. "I need a line for all the things," Glaser revealed.

The comedian additionally stated that, in her pursuit of being as inoffensive to stars as attainable, she reached out to superstar couple Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco forward of final yr's Golden Globes ceremony, to see in the event that they had been okay with a joke she wished to inform about them.

"I received [Benny's] quantity from somebody from somebody, and simply cold-called him. I stated, 'Hey, I’ve this joke. Completely superb if you happen to don’t need me to do it,' and he was like, 'Let me run it by Selena and I’ll get again to you,'" Glaser remembered. "So, we had been all identical to, ready with bated breath, like, oh my gosh, what's she gonna say? They usually had been each cool, they had been like, 'Selena thinks it’s humorous, I feel it’s hilarious, do it.'"

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The 83rd Golden Globes ceremony airs Sunday, Jan. 11, at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on CBS and Paramount+. Hearken to Glaser focus on making ready to host the 2026 Golden Globes on Ripa's podcast episode above.

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