Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser and the show's executive producers are giving The Hollywood Reporter a special behind-the-scenes look ahead of Sunday's show. Glaser revealed that she's been preparing for the big night by workshopping her opening monologue in front of live audiences at her standup shows. In fact, she's performing it at nine shows around Los Angeles from now until Sunday when the Golden Globes air live on CBS.
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00:00I know you're a huge Swifty like I am, so I made you a little good luck present for
00:04the Golden Globes.
00:05No way!
00:06That's the best hose!
00:07That's so nice, thank you!
00:11It's time to roll out the red carpet for awards season.
00:14I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter here at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and we're
00:18talking to Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser and the show's producers all about throwing
00:22Hollywood's biggest party.
00:24A few months ago I asked you what you thought when you were first asked to host the show
00:27and you gave me a really great answer that went a little viral, that you thought they
00:30made a great decision.
00:31Yes, that's right, that was you!
00:34Yeah, like I watched that clip and I'm like, who do you, who is this girl?
00:38Whoa, Miss Confident, did I have a Celsius before that interview?
00:42Yeah, I think I stand by that.
00:45Now that you're going into the show this weekend, how have you maintained that confident mindset?
00:51I keep in mind that nothing matters.
00:53That really does help me.
00:54I have a special, it's called Someday You'll Die, and it's kind of about that, of just
00:58remember that it doesn't matter.
01:00And so that takes away either too much feeling too big for my britches, like I'm hosting
01:05the Golden Globes, and it also takes away the fear of it going horribly.
01:09So it allows me this freedom to just have fun and enjoy the moment, because it's all
01:13we have.
01:14Glaser revealed that she's preparing for the Golden Globes on Sunday by testing out her
01:18material on audiences around town.
01:20I have, I think, nine shows between now and Sunday, because I want to keep testing out
01:27jokes and I want to keep getting the monologue in the perfect place it can be.
01:32Not every host does that.
01:33I'm lucky enough to be a comedian that can go and find these rehearsal spaces in front
01:38of a live audience, and I trust my audience members to not leak jokes or tell anyone.
01:43And we have enough jokes that even if they do, I'll be like, okay.
01:45But it's been a really collaborative process.
01:48I go on stage and I just say, hey guys, do you mind if I run my set?
01:50And they're like, everyone's so excited, like they feel like they're part of this interesting
01:54kind of secretive process, because they are.
01:56And I just go, you know, if you laugh at a joke tonight, and then you hear that same
02:01joke on Sunday night when you watch the Globes, you can literally be like, I told her to do
02:05that joke, because you did.
02:06And so it's just felt like, it's so fun.
02:08And so I bet, and it's just, you can write a million jokes and you can be, and there
02:14can be a room of writers being like, this is so funny.
02:16And then you take it out on stage, and it dies.
02:18And you don't know why.
02:19So you really, I have to test them.
02:21And so that's what I'm doing this weekend.
02:22I love that.
02:23I think that's an amazing strategy.
02:25And I know you don't want to give too much away going into the show, but who's one person
02:28that can maybe expect you to roast them on Sunday?
02:31I think roasting, I don't know that I'm really roasting anyone, like really going after them.
02:39But I'm definitely, like I can't not talk to Timothee Chalamet, because he's just such
02:44a moment.
02:46I loved him in A Complete Unknown so much, like I just want to give him his flowers for
02:51that performance.
02:53I want to just be able to make, I don't know if I'll be able to talk to him at the afterparty.
02:56So being on stage might be my only chance to be like, dude, you were so good in that.
03:00So if that gets, if the only way for me to say that is to tell a joke, I will then tell
03:04a joke, because I have to let him know.
03:06That'll be fun.
03:07The executive producers of The Golden Globes also spoke to THR about Glazer's preparation
03:11process and why it's going to result in a great show.
03:14Look, I'll say this, having done many, many award shows and working with many hosts, Nikki
03:21is determined, and Nikki is really putting in the homework, and that is what is going
03:26to make this night really successful right from the get-go.
03:29She has tried out the material.
03:30She's doing four or five shows a night right now, testing to make sure that everything
03:35has responded properly.
03:37The Golden Globes are set to air live this Sunday on CBS at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern,
03:43and they're also streaming on Paramount+.
03:45For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.