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When I began following Nikki Glaser in early December as she started placing collectively her Golden Globes monologue, she deliberate a joke that by no means made it into Sunday’s awards present about shouting out Harrison Ford after which saying, “Harrison Ford is right here to point out us a cool rock he discovered.”
It was extra off-kilter than her typical materials, and it completely delighted Glaser. She instructed her workers that this was a distinct form of chuckle they need to embrace: “Don’t be scared to be bizarre.”
You noticed proof of this in her stellar monologue on the Globes that included the form of exhausting punchlines she is thought for, together with a great insult of Paramount+, a joke in regards to the impact of Sean Combs’s arrest on the after-party and a pointy feminist shot on the Globes for ignoring ladies for greatest director in previous years (two, Coralie Fargeat and Payal Kapadia, are nominated this 12 months).
But there was additionally a brand new bit added within the final week: an impression of Adam Sandler announcing Timothée Chalamet’s identify that was simply pure silliness. She even acquired Sandler to affix in. Glaser doesn’t normally do impressions, however she dedicated and it went over rather well, including to a celebratory, enjoyable tone to kick the night time off.
Glaser had struggled over the query of whether or not to say stars within the viewers earlier than inviting applause. She wished to incorporate as many as attainable however didn’t need to gradual issues down. She ended up mentioning a number of in an inventory for a joke poking enjoyable at film stars moonlighting in tv.
She left some very humorous leering jokes out of the monologue that had been working, although if there was one joke that labored much less properly within the room than at a desk amongst writers in a membership, it was when Glaser mentioned, “I believe I’ve seen extra peacocks in my life than precise exhibits on Peacock.” If there was a joke that crushed in each membership she tried it out in, it was in all probability when she talked about a number of nominees: “‘Wicked,’ ‘Queer,’ ‘Nightbitch,’” then added “Not simply issues Ben Affleck yells after intercourse.” It killed once more.
