Nikki Glaser Rehearsed Her 2025 Golden Globes Monologue 93 Times

Glaser Nikki doesn’t play around when it comes to getting ready for her Golden Globes hosting a gig.

“93,” said Glaser, 40 A! News on the red carpet in front of the awards show how many times he practiced his monologue. “(Tonight) will be my 94th time saying some version of this. I mean, it’s still changing even from the last time I said it until now, so we’re constantly making edits, trying to stop jokes, trying to hit the note and the right mood for the evening. But a lot of work has gone into it.”

While she’s rehearsed her set nearly 100 times, Glaser wants to be clear: there’s a lot of room for improvisation, and anything can happen at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes, which airs on CBS on Sunday , January 5, at 8:00 pm ET .

“I don’t want people to think, ‘Oh she’s just reciting some monologue.’ I practice so much, so when I get up there, I’m absent from the book and I can be in it,” he said. “And then that’s when things are going to start coming out that weren’t planned. And so now I know it so well that I can be myself there.”

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Although this is her first time hosting the Globes, the comedian is no stranger to commanding an audience: Glaser went viral late last year for her performance on Netflix. Roast Tom Bradyand she has been performing stand-up comedy for over two decades.

“I feel so ready,” she said on the red carpet. “I can’t wait to perform. The nerves are not there yet. I just finished a workout, I feel so comfortable with it. I say, ‘God I can’t wait to say this to a room full of people.’ It’s going to be so much fun.”

Included in that room of people are the hearts and nominees of 2025 Timothée Chalamet a Glen PowellGlaser thinks he could “start something new in my head” when he sees them in the audience during the show.

“(Glen) is going to be in the back and he has to wear sunglasses so he can’t make eye contact with me because he’ll throw me, I need to stay dry,” Glaser joked about Powell, 36 , which nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, for his performance in Hit Man. “These people don’t talk to me outside of a setting like this, so this is my time to talk to them, for them to look at me. It’s not that they think they’re better than me, it’s just that I don’t run into these people a lot, so I stand up there, and it blows my mind that Angelina Jolie you have to listen to me talk for nine minutes.”

Included in Glaser’s 93 practice rounds were nine performances in and around Los Angeles over a few days before the show.

“Not all hosts do that,” he said The Hollywood Reporter prepared on Thursday, January 2. “I’m lucky enough to be a comedian who can find these rehearsal spaces in front of a live audience and I trust my audience members not to drop jokes to tell no one.”

He continued: “it’s been a very collaborative process. I go on stage and I say, ‘Hey guys, do you mind if I run my set?’ and everyone is so excited. They feel that they are part of this interesting, secret process because they are. And I just go, ‘If you laugh at a joke tonight, and then hear that same joke on Sunday night while watching the Globes, you can literally be like, ‘I told her to do that joke, ’cause you did it!’ “