Nikki Glaser on getting laughs from the darkest jokes

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00:00I think a lot of these jokes that are the darkest, craziest came out in because of a defense

00:05mechanism of like, oh, the audience didn't like what I just said. I'm going to say something that

00:08you really don't like and you're going to hate me. And then all of a sudden you say that thing

00:13that you you think is going to really turn the crowd against you. And then they laugh and you

00:17go, wait, oh, wait, you guys, you guys laughed at that. The thing that I thought would maybe get me

00:21canceled if someone is recording in here. The bottom line is it's OK to have really sinister,

00:26uh, selfish thoughts. I mean, it's like we're human and that's our survival instinct kicking in.