Forget About Last Year’s Golden Globes

Nikki Glaser has already had the best 2024 a comedian could ask for: she went megaviral for her Tom Brady roast; she released her special, Someday You’ll Die, to critical acclaim; and she got to be on Everybody’s in L.A. Now, she’s taking that goodwill and trying to revamp the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. They’re set to air January 5, when most people will still be hungover from shooing out 2024. “I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes,” Glaser said in a statement. “It’s one of my favorite nights of television and now I get a front row seat (actually, I think I have to host from the stage).”

Historically, the Globes have been a good opportunity for comedians, with Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler all having multiple iconic monologues. The 2024 awards, however, were an unmitigated disaster for host Jo Koy, and, not for nothing, Jerrod Carmichael’s experimental take the year prior remains one of the great oddities of recent award-show memory. Glaser’s unenviable job will be to make everybody forget that. For what it’s worth, she seems excited to get back on the “Fey and Poehler” track: “Some of my favorite jokes of all time have come from past Golden Globes opening monologues when Tina, Amy, or Ricky have said exactly what we all didn’t know we desperately needed to hear. I just hope to continue in that time honored tradition (that might also get me canceled).” We just hope, for Nikki “Swiftie” Glaser’s sake, that Taylor Swift makes happier faces at this year’s set than she did at Koy’s.

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