Host Nikki Glaser Is ‘Not Out for Blood’ at the Golden Globes. But These Stars, Movies and Shows Are Fair Game (Exclusive)

With sharp jokes delivered by her sharper tongue, comic Nikki Glaser has skewered everyone from Rob Lowe to Alec Baldwin at various celebrity roasts. (Google them: Many of her one-liners are too naughty to write about here.)

And though it was her epic evisceration of NFL legend Tom Brady on his May Netflix special that helped the St. Louis-raised comedian land her highest-profile gig — host of the 2025 Golden Globes — Glaser, 40, has a message for Hollywood: “I’m not out for blood. I want everyone to have a good night.”

“I am really in service of the people that are being honored there,” she continues to PEOPLE.

That’s no joke. But — and of course there’s a but — Glaser still plans to be edgy with the A-listers at what she calls “a glamorous event where people are taking themselves too seriously.”

She just wants to make sure they’re comfortable with her off-color humor. “It’s walking a line,” says Glaser, who also hosts the CW’s dating series FBoy Island and competed on Dancing with the Stars in 2018.

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“I want Cynthia Erivo or Ariana Grande or Nicole Kidman to feel safe in my hands,” she adds.

Glaser has already been hard at work brainstorming topics — and people — that are ripe for ribbing. “Joker 2 didn’t get any nominations. Not that anyone thought it would. But it was such a cultural moment of us being disappointed [in the film],” she notes.

"Wicked and the press tour, and grabbing the finger — that is all up for grabs as well. And the fact that Ariana and Cynthia are in on the joke now, has made it a lot more accessible. That is up for grabs. At the same time you’re like, ‘Is that going to be funny in a month?’”

Also fair game: “Emilia Pérez being the most nominated thing. No one’s ever heard of it!” Glaser says of the musical drama starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez.

She also finds herself with a challenge. "What's a fresh way to make fun of the fact that The Bear is nominated as a comedy and yet maybe shouldn't be?" she ponders.

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There might be a few members of Hollywood royalty who are off-limits. “There’s Meryl Streep, but Meryl Streep seems to have a good sense of humor based on other award shows I’ve watched. I’ve been studying who has good reaction shots [to jokes],” she says.

And while fans of her roast appearances might expect Glaser to follow in the footsteps of past Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais and really rip into stars, the comic says she’s not ready to do that. Yet.

“Ricky Gervais earned the ability to get up there and say, ‘I don’t care. I’m going to tell you how I feel,’ because that was his last time hosting [in 2020],” she says.

“He didn’t want the gig again. He was down to burn bridges,” says Glaser. “I would like this gig again. So I look forward to really taking off the gloves when I’m ready to go, but right now I have to kind of earn this job.”

The Golden Globes air live on Sunday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+.

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