NIKKI GLASER IS READY TO RISK IT ALL

The comedian is riding her breakout year into the next stratosphere of fame

- ANNA PEELE

Nikki Glaser is turned on. That the comedian is, at full volume, discussing her level of arousal in a restaurant - she is "damp downstairs," to be precise - is probably not surprising to anyone who has seen her four stand-up specials. In her most recent, Someday You'll Die, Glaser describes her boyfriend of roughly 10 years, Chris Convy (who also produces Glaser's work), blindfolding and restraining her while pretending to be a parade of men coming in to ... actually, like Glaser, feel free to use your imagination here.

The Golden Globe-nominated HBO special came out in May, less than a week after The Roast of Tom Brady, a starry, live Netflix production where Glaser had a career-changing set, ridiculing her fellow roasters, making fun of Brady for losing $30 million in crypto, and telling Convy that "I would shoot you in the fucking face for a lottery ticket to suck this guy's dick." The crowd gave Glaser a standing ovation.

Suddenly, she was everywhere. She appeared on The Howard Stern Show and the massive podcast SmartLess. She began a 67-show theater tour of North America that will continue through June. And she was asked to host the Golden Globes, which will air on CBS on Jan. 5 and is the topic that led us to what Glaser describes as her "leak in the basement." She's positive A-list audience members like Brad Pitt won't be familiar with her, so before she starts mocking them, "I'm gonna have to butter them up a bit," she says. "Which I'm happy to do, because I am in awe of them and I desperately seek their approval."