When I started following Nikki Glaser in early December as she began preparing for her Golden Globes monologue, she had planned a joke that never made it into Sunday’s awards show, about screaming to Harrison Ford and then say, “Harrison Ford is here to show us a cool movie. rock he found.
It was more offbeat than his usual material, and it absolutely delighted Glaser. She told her staff that this was a different type of laughter they should embrace: “Don’t be afraid to be weird. »
You saw proof of that in her stellar monologue at the Globes that included the kind of harsh punchlines she’s known for, including a good insult about Paramount+, a joke about the effect of Sean Combs’ arrest about the after-party and a sharp feminist shot. at the Globes for ignoring women in the best director category in recent years (two, Coralie Fargeat and Payal Kapadia, are nominated this year).
But something new was also added last week: a print of Adam Sandler saying Timothée Chalamet’s name that was just complete nonsense. She even got Sandler involved. Glaser doesn’t usually do impressions, but she jumped in and it went very well, adding a fun, celebratory tone to kick off the evening.
Glaser wondered whether to mention the stars in the audience before eliciting applause. She wanted to include as many as possible but didn’t want to slow things down. She ended up mentioning several in a list as a joke making fun of movie stars moonlighting on television.
She left some very funny and mocking jokes out of the monologue that had worked, but if there was one joke that worked less well in the room than at a table among the writers’ club, it was when Glaser said : “I think I’ve seen more peacocks in my life than actual shows on Peacock. If there was one joke that crushed every club she tried out for, it was probably when she mentioned a few nominees: “‘Wicked,’ ‘Queer,’ ‘Nightbitch,’” then added: “Not just things Ben Affleck yells at. sex.” It killed again.
