Roasting queen Nikki Glaser spared no one during her opening monologue at this year’s Golden Globes.
While kicking off Sunday’s ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California, the comedian threw cold water on a multitude of celebrities including Diddy and the cast of “Wicked.”
While praising Zendaya just minutes into her spicy monologue, Glaser told the audience that the actor’s 2023 film “Challengers” was “more sexually charged than Diddy’s credit card.”
“I mean, seriously. Oh, no, I know. I’m sorry, I’m upset too. The [Golden Globes] after party is not going to be as good this year,” she quipped.
Glaser then joked that a “Stanley Tucci freak-off just doesn’t have the same ring to it,” referencing Diddy’s brewing accusations of sex trafficking involving drug-fueled orgies known as “freak-offs.”
“No baby oil this year, just lots of olive oil,” she added, delivering another blow to the hip-hop mogul. Back in September, “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant” were recovered by authorities at Diddy’s residence after his Los Angeles and Miami properties were raided, according to a federal indictment.
Glaser went on to put one of this year’s biggest blockbuster hits in the hot seat — “Wicked.”
While hyping up the musical, she told the crowd that she “didn’t know much about ‘Wicked’ going into this year because I had friends in high school” before adding, “But I loved it.”
“I loved it so much. Everyone loved ‘Wicked.’ I loved ‘Wicked.’ My boyfriend loved ‘Wicked.’ My boyfriend’s boyfriend really loved ‘Wicked,’” she continued as the crowd laughed.
Elsewhere in Glaser’s monologue, she cracked a few jokes about some of Hollywood’s most popular couples.
After spotting nominee Nicole Kidman sitting next to her husband, Keith Urban, she mockingly thanked the country star for “playing guitar around the house so much that [Kidman] wants to leave and make 18 movies a year.”
She later declared that Benny Blanco was in attendance with fiancée Selena Gomez “because of the genie that granted him that wish,” before adding, “Lucky guy.”
Social media users on X, formerly Twitter, raved over Glaser’s no bars held monologue.
Glaser’s hosting debut at the Golden Globes comes after she made headlines last May for nailing Netflix’s live special “The Roast of Tom Brady.”
Last year, the Golden Globes were hosted by comedian Jo Koy, who tanked after delivering a series of crude jokes, including teasing that 2023’s “Oppenheimer” was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book while the Margot Robbie-led “Barbie,” which rivaled the historical drama in the “Barbenheimer” craze, is about “a plastic doll with big boobies.”
The joke was met with mixed reviews as some criticized it for being rudimentary or sexist, though the film’s director Greta Gerwig called Koy’s words “right on.”
While recently speaking with Variety about Koy’s controversial opening monologue at last year’s ceremony, Glaser said watching him bomb “taught” her an important lesson.
“It taught me the importance of contextualizing yourself to the room as a comedian. Comedians, we would love to be thought of in the same light as these A-listers, but we just aren’t,” she said. “His monologue would have gone a lot better had he acknowledged, ‘Who am I?’”
“He’s a guy that kills harder than anyone I’ve seen kill before — to his audience,” she added of Koy, whose comedy often focuses on his family and Filipino identity. “So I think he thought that would be the vibe there.”
That “was a little naive,” she said before noting that she’s “going the other way.”
“I’m…not assuming anyone knows who I am,” Glaser said, noting she makes “sure they’re introduced to me before I start making jokes about them.”
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Watch Glaser’s Golden Globes monologue below.