Can Nikki Glaser Save the 2025 Golden Globes?

Celebrities, prepare to be roasted. Variety has announced that comedian Nikki Glaser will host the 82nd Golden Globes Awards.

“I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes,” Glaser told Variety. “It’s one of my favorite nights of television and now I get a front row seat (actually, I think I have to host from the stage).”

A veteran comic and host of Max’s Fboy Island, Glaser ascended to new heights this year with her viral roast of football legend Tom Brady on Netflix’s The Roast of Tom Brady a.k.a The Greatest Roast of All Time. “I didn’t know how big it was until it was over because, obviously, it was live,” Glaser told VF earlier this year. “Text messages were rolling in like someone in my life had died.” Glaser followed up her roast with an HBO comedy special called Someday You’ll Die, nominated for outstanding variety special at this year’s Emmys.

Now she’s taking on one of the least sought-after gigs in town: award show host. Four-time Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel recently turned down the opportunity to return to that show in 2025, saying that taking on the gig “was just too much.” Last year’s Governor Awards host, John Mulaney, also reportedly turned down the gig. As of writing, the 2025 Oscars still do not have a host.

The Golden Globes—dubbed Hollywood’s Party of the Year for the ceremony’s more laid-back feel and sometimes tipsy acceptance speeches—also has a spotty track record with hosts. Ricky Gervais was the go-to emcee in the 2010s, hosting for the fifth and final time in 2020. But after the longtime Golden Globes voting body, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was rocked by multiple scandals in 2021—which returning hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler had no trouble making light of—the awards regrouped, dissolving the HFPA and canceling the telecast in 2022.

Since returning to television, the Globes have been hosted by Emmy-winning comedian Jerrod Carmichael in 2023, and, most recently, comedian Jo Koy in 2024. Koy notoriously flopped as host, lobbing punchlines that earned weak laughs and causing celebrity guests like Taylor Swift to visibly turn on him as the night wore on. It wasn’t all bad news for Koy, though: the 2024 Golden Globes ceremony averaged 10 million viewers, up nearly 50% from the previous year, and reached its largest audience since 2020. Still, after the ceremony, Koy told ABC program GMA 3 that it had been a rough night.“It’s a tough room,” he said. “And it was a hard job, I’m not going to lie.”

Glaser, however, sounds up for the challenge. “The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film, but also for comedy,” she said in a statement. “It’s one of the few times that show business not only allows, but encourages itself to be lovingly mocked (at least I hope so). (God I hope so). It’s an exciting, yet challenging gig because it’s live, unpredictable, and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars (who also might be getting wasted while seated next to their recent exes).”

The 2025 Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 5th, 2025, airing live on CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+. Unlike Koy, who said he only had a week and a half to prepare material for his hosting stint, Glaser’s got ample time to get ready—and after her Brady roast, it’s clear that she thrives in live situations. Nominees, you might want to start thickening your skin now.