Nikki Glaser is on a tear. She scored the most memorable points last May during a Netflix roast of Tom Brady in which she joked that the seven-time Super Bowl winner has difficulty walking away from anything that isn’t his pregnant girlfriend.
Earlier this month, she earned universal praise for hosting the Golden Globes, finding a way to skewer stars without making them cross her off their Christmas card lists.
That exposure helps explain why she easily sold out two shows at Mystic Lake Casino with plenty of new fans eager to check out their generation’s version of Joan Rivers.
“I’m so famous!” Glaser said shortly after taking the stage Thursday in her first live show since that Globes' triumph.
During the one-hour set, the 40-year-old comedian cut into a few famous folks, including Ben Affleck, Lizzo and Jennifer Aniston. She doesn’t buy for a second that the “Friends” star uses the drugstore moisturizer she peddles in TV commercials.
But stage Glaser is quite different from TV Glaser.
Those who’ve caught her regular appearances at the Mall of America’s House of Comedy over the past decade, know she specializes in self-deprecation and grousing about the pressures of looking hot when feeling lousy.
Her new level of fame has not changed her attitude. For most of the evening, name-dropping was kept to a minimum. She was more focused on defending the use of Ozempic, detailing her visits to tanning salons and admitting to being jealous of supermodels.