Nikki Glaser Don't mess around when it comes to preparing for it Golden Globe Hosting party.
“93 years old,” said Glaser, 40. and! news On the red carpet before the awards show shows how many times she practiced her monologue. “(Tonight) will be the 94th time I've told a version of this. I mean, it's still changed even from the last time I told it to now, so we're constantly making adjustments, trying to get on top of the jokes, trying to set the right tone and tone for the evening. But an effort has been made to A lot of work on this.”
While she rehearsed her set nearly 100 times, Glaser wants to be clear: There's plenty of room for improvisation, and anything can happen at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards, which air on CBS on Sunday, January 5, 8:00 PM ET. .
“I don’t want people to think, ‘Oh, it’s just reading some monologue.’” “I rehearse a lot, so when I get there, I’m off the book and I can be in it,” she said. “And then things will start happening that weren’t planned. And now I know it so well that I can be myself there.
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Although this is her first time hosting the Globes, the comedian is no stranger to commanding a crowd: Glaser went viral late last year for her Netflix performance. Roast Tom BradyShe has been performing stand-up comedy for more than two decades.
“I feel very prepared,” she said on the red carpet. “I can't wait to perform. The nerves aren't there yet. I just finished rehearsals, and I feel very comfortable with it. I'm just like, 'Oh my God, I can't wait to tell this to a room full of people.' It's going to be a lot of fun.”
In that room are loving people and 2025 candidates Timothée Chalamet and Glenn Powellwhich Glaser thinks might “spark something new in my head” when she sees them in the audience during a show.
Glenn Powell
Amy Sussman/Getty Images“(Glenn) will be in the back and he'll have to wear sunglasses so he can't make eye contact with me because she'll throw me, I need to stay dry,” Glaser joked of Powell, 36, who is nominated For Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for his performance in Hitman. “These people don't talk to me outside of a setting like this, so this is the time to talk to them, for them to look up to me. It's not that they think they're better than me, it's just that I don't meet these people very often, so I stand there, and it blows my mind.” Angelina Jolie He has to listen to me talk for nine minutes.
Glaser's 93 rehearsal tours included nine shows in and around Los Angeles during the few days leading up to the show.
“Not every host does that,” she said. Hollywood Reporter About its preparations on Thursday, January 2. “I'm lucky enough to be a comedian who can go and find these rehearsal spaces in front of a live audience and trust that my audience members won't leak jokes to tell anyone.”
She continued, “It's been a really collaborative process. I get on stage and I just say, 'Guys, do you mind if I play my set?'” and everyone is so excited. They feel like they're part of this interesting secret operation because they are. And I just say, “If you laugh On tonight's joke, and then I heard the same joke on Sunday night when you watch the balls, you can literally say, 'I asked her to do that joke,' because you did it!'”
