Nikki Glaser Says It 'Hurt Me' When Pete Davidson Made Fun of This Body Part During a Roast

Mar. 15, 2025

Nikki Glaser and Pete Davidson.Photo:Matthew Taplinger/CBS via Getty; Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Matthew Taplinger/CBS via Getty; Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

“I still think about some of the jokes that have been made about me from roasts six years ago, and they still haunt me,” Glaser, who is hosting the upcomingGolden Globes, said on the Jan. 3 episode ofThe Run-Through with Vogue. “I’m seeing them when I look in the mirror. They will uncover things about you that you don’t even know about yourself, or it’s a thing you’ve always been, like, ‘I think this about me, but I’m just really mean to me. No one else has noticed that.’ ”

Nikki Glaser in New York in 2024.Roy Rochlin/Getty

Roy Rochlin/Getty

She recalled one joke in particular when Pete Davidson said that “I don’t have an ass.”

“I mean, I knew I didn’t, and I know I don’t,” Glaser, 40, said, but “the fact that Pete Davidson had taken that in and, like, sat with it and — I sat with it too, and it hurts because I don’t have an ass — but the fact that he had really thought about it, or maybe someone wrote the joke for him … but he at least had to be like, ‘That works for her.’ “

“It hurt me,” she said.

“It’s my least favorite part of the show when I’m at a roast and I see my name come up on the teleprompter. I’m like, ‘Oh, here we go,’ ” Glaser said. “ ‘How bad’s this gonna be?’ And then you like, laugh politely, and you just try to black it out. I mean, I think I cried at one of the after-parties because I was, like, so sad about something.”

Nikki Glaser at the Comedy Central Roast of Tom Brady.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

“I think that’s one of the reasons why I feel like I can get away with it is because I’m putting myself up here and open to this stuff too, so I should be able to say what I want. But it really is a part of it that sucks so, so deeply. “

“I would love to say, ‘Oh, it’s just a joke. Nothing ever really lands, and we don’t take it personally,’ “ she said. “But we absolutely do.”

She shared that one joke at theComedy Central RoastofAlec Baldwinin 2019 made her seek out cosmetic procedures.

“Blake Griffinsaid I looked likeLarry Bird, and the response from the crowd was so overwhelming — it killed so hard that I was like, I can’t deny that,” she said. “That was the first time I ever went and got injections in my face in a way that was like, let’s restructure things. So, yeah, there’s consequences for sure.”

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