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Comic Nikki Glaser began the week together with her memorable efficiency roasting Tom Brady on Netflix and can cap it off with the debut of her new standup special for HBO.
Her sharp quips concerning the former NFL quarterback gained her hundreds of latest followers on Instagram and a hilarious look on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Present.”
Glaser, nonetheless, is taking all of it in stride. She’s been doing standup lengthy sufficient to know the ups and downs of the leisure business.
“I’ve by no means felt like when are individuals gonna get it? I’m not a type of individuals. I at all times really feel like I type of am getting what I deserve. I’m not somebody who’s been ready for this my complete life,” Glaser informed CNN in an interview this week. “I imply, clearly this has been the purpose to be beloved on this type of scale, however it’s additionally scary as a result of when it comes on quick like this, , this type of enthusiasm for somebody lasts for a second however can go away fairly rapidly.”
Glaser mentioned she knew Brady’s “Biggest Roast of All Time” would land with viewers.
“I knew it was a house run and I knew that the occasion can be particular as a result of it was stay,” she mentioned. “I had hoped it might be primary on Netflix and that there can be viral moments, however I didn’t assume that I’d be a giant a part of all that dialogue.”
Because the roast obtained nearer, Glaser was ran her Brady jokes in as much as 4 units an evening in Los Angeles, “leaping from membership to membership.”
“Working with a group of writers, we might work throughout the day after which we might write in between reveals and deal with it like I used to be internet hosting an award present,” she mentioned. “The way in which I’d do it if I obtained requested to host the Oscars, prefer it’s that massive of a deal. So, I took it actually severely.”
Glaser additionally took her preparations severely for her new particular, “Sometime You’ll Die.” In it, she covers substantive subjects like having youngsters, physique picture and dying, however guarantees followers each outdated and new will discover loads of laughs, too.
“It’s only a take a look at my life proper now as I’m approaching 40 and all my mates are having youngsters and beginning households, getting married. I don’t actually have any of that,” she mentioned. “[The special explores] how I undergo with despair, even supposing my life is nice, my worry of dying, my eager for it at occasions, [with] actually laborious jokes in between.”
Glaser describes her new work as “sincere, uncooked, actually tight comedy,” two years within the making.
“Sometime You’ll Die” debuts Might 11 on Max, which like CNN is a part of Warner Bros. Discovery.