Nikki Glaser Announced as 2025 Golden Globes Host: What to Know

Nikki Glaser has been confirmed as host for the 2025 Golden Globes – and the 40-year-old is ready to be canceled.

The awards show – the first of the season – has notoriously struggled with hosts in recent years, but Nikki, who cited past Golden Globes hosts Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Ricky Gervais as inspiration, said in a statement that she hopes to “continue in that time-honored tradition (that might also get me canceled)”.

“I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes. 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),” the 40-year-old said in a press statement.

“The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film, but also for comedy. 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).”

But what do we know about Nikki?

Born in Ohio, Nikki began stand-up at the age of 18, writing in her college form room.

“I remember it. I was a freshman in college and everyone in my dorm took over the cafeteria like a study hall. I went in there and instead of studying I just looked at them, judged them and tried to think, ‘What would Sarah Silverman say about these people?’ I didn’t know how to write jokes — I just knew the stand-ups I knew. I wrote from the perspective of my favorite stand-ups because I didn’t know what my perspective was yet,” she once recalled.

Nikki has appeared in Amy Schumer’s comedy films Trainwreck (2015) and I Feel Pretty (2018) and has appeared on shows such as Inside Amy Schumer and A.P. Bio.

On TV she was the star of the 2022 reality show Welcome Home Nikki Glaser? on E!, and she hosted the Reality TV dating shows Blind Date (2019) on Bravo and FBoy Island on HBO Max & The CW and its spinoff Lovers and Liars on The CW.

Yes! Nikki competed in Dancing with the Stars in 2018. She was partnered with professional dancer Gleb Savchenko but they were the first couple eliminated from the competition.

In 2022 she appeared in The Masked Singer where she finished third.

The comedian is most well known for her barbed quips, and she has participated in the roasts of Rob Lowe (2016), Bruce Willis (2018), Alec Baldwin (2019), and Tom Brady (2024).

The Tom Brady roast saw her find mainstream fame, with one of her jokes referencing his retirement and former romance with Blue Bloods actress Bridget Moynahan.

“You retired, then you came back, and then you retired again,” she began, “I mean, I get it — it’s hard to walk away from something that’s not your pregnant girlfriend.”

Bridget was pregnant with their now-18-year-old son Jack when he ended their three-year relationship.

Nikki has been dating executive TV producer Chris Convy for 10 years, and they live in Ohio together.

Nikki is 40; her birthday is June 1, 1984.

Source: Particle News, Emma McIntyre, Frank Micelotta, Alberto E. Rodriguez, Brad Barket, Eric McCandless, Matt Winkelmeyer, Kevin Mazur