One Star Nearly Came Late to the Golden Globes to Avoid Nikki Glaser’s Jokes
The Golden Globes just announced the date of the 2026 ceremony, for all those award show superfans who like to plan out their TV viewing schedules seven months in advance. Nikki Glaser will be returning to host, and presumably Ricky Gervais will be returning to tweet out worse monologue jokes from his bathtub.
While much of Hollywood seemed to enjoy Glaser’s act, the hype surrounding the comedian’s Golden Globes debut was very much focused on her comedy roast cred. Obviously this made some stars nervous. And, apparently, it made one star in particular very nervous.
Glaser appeared at the TIME100 summit, and revealed that several attendees of the Golden Globes told her afterwards that they were “really, really scared” about what she was going to say, purely because of the Tom Brady roast. But as Glaser pointed out, she’s “hired to be mean” at roasts, whereas at the Golden Globes, “it’s not my job to ruin their night.”
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“I wish I would have known that, because I would have just something to diffuse that a little bit,” Glaser acknowledged. “Next time’s going to be a lot more fun, because I think they know the tone that I have now.”
One of the stars most terrified by Glaser was Timothée Chalamet. That’s because a reporter had asked Glaser which actor she was “going to skewer” and she responded “not really anyone, but in order to serve a compliment about a performance, I have to make a joke with it, so I probably want to say something to Timothée Chalamet, ‘cause I just loved his performance in A Complete Unknown. So I’ll probably make a joke about him.”
Unfortunately this info got back to Chalamet. “He was just going to skip my monologue and get there late. Just so he didn’t have to deal with it,” Glaser recalled. “And I get it because he’s there with his girlfriend who’s already the subject of so many jokes.”
To ensure that her favorite nominee would be in attendance, she left a fawning message for his publicist, saying “I love Timothée. I’m not telling you the jokes, but I promise you the jokes are uplifting him. I’m a huge fan, I would never do anything to ruin his night.”
Luckily that worked, and Glaser didn’t have to resort to her back-up plan: begging Chalamet to show up on time from the red carpet while swearing that she loves Kylie Jenner and even wears her line of cosmetics. “I don’t. Because I lose lip gloss too much to spend $45 on it,” Glaser joked.
In the end, her lines about Chalamet were mostly quite tame; she joked about his mustache, dunked on Bob Dylan’s singing voice and made a joke that forever bonded him with Adam Sandler.
