Just when you thought it was impossible to host the Golden Globes and make everybody in the room and watching at home laugh, we get Nikki Glaser—who is incidentally also the first solo female host the awards show has ever had. Probably a coincidence, right?
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According to her red carpet interview, she rehearsed her opening monologue over 90 times, and clearly it paid off. Some fan favorite quips from her opener included a light roast of Selena Gomez’s fiancé Benny Blanco, who, she joked, “is here because of the genie that granted him that wish.” Glaser also wisecracked about, “two-time Holocaust survivor Adrien Brody.”
And it wasn’t just in her opener that Glaser killed it. Her set also included a musical mash-up song about the movies Conclave and Wicked, called “Pope-ular,” which she interrupted herself with a fake phone call. “Wait, this sucks? I’m embarrassing myself in front of Elton John?” she said.
Especially after the 2024 Golden Globes host, Jo Koy, got less than stellar reviews for his performance, Nikki Glaser was a breath of fresh air. And don’t just take our word for it. By halfway through the 2025 ceremony, the internet was pretty unanimous in agreeing that Glaser ate and left no crumbs.
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Jon Stewart, for one, tweeted, “Nikki Glaser is very very good at this.” But non-famous comedians also loved her set. “Okay petition to have Nikki Glaser host all award shows moving forward because— are you kidding me?! This was great,” wrote one commenter on X. “Nikki Glaser devoured and left no crumbs with that opening monologue,” tweeted another. Other commenters suggested that we shouldn’t let men host awards shows at all after this. “Nikki Glaser reminding us why we should never have a male awards show host ever again.”
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Even Club Chalamet, the notoriously fickle Timothée Chalamet fan account, agrees: “Nikki is funny,” the account tweeted, “she made Timothée laugh.”
Whereas previous hosts have taken the Globes’s relaxed reputation and come up with roasts that were more offensive than actually funny, Glaser managed to poke fun at the nominees without crossing any major lines. Even her darkest bits, like when she joked that the after-party wouldn’t be as fun with Stanley Tucci’s olive oil (as opposed to Diddy’s baby oil), hit just the right note.
And, frankly, it was refreshing to hear from someone able to call out some of Hollywood’s sexist double standards. Midway through the show, Glaser joked that when a woman actor over 50, like Pamela Anderson or Demi Moore, is nominated, they call it a comeback. When it’s a male actor over 50, “congratulations, you’re about to play Sydney Sweeney’s boyfriend.”
It almost makes you wish they gave out Golden Globes for hosting the Golden Globes.
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