Nikki Glaser was nominated for her first Emmy in July for her HBO special Someday You’ll Die. That day, she told Deadline that she wanted to parlay that show’s success, as well as her breakout appearance at The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady, into three things: working with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, sitting in a VIP box for a Taylor Swift show and hosting SNL.
Less than a month on, it seems that the latter is happening.
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Glaser, speaking at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees event, said there’s “interest” from the NBC late-night show. “I think I would kill it,” she said.
Glaser, who has been working in comedy for more than 20 years, knows that she needs to take advantage of this moment, where she was one of the stars of Netflix’s biggest-ever live event and her stand-up special broke records for HBO and Max.
“I just got done working so hard on the special and the roast, and I kind of want a break, but this put so much attention on me that more stuff is coming in and you just got to strike while the iron, and I, am hot,” she said.
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The timing of Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die was spectacular, coming less than a week after the Brady roast, where she was unquestionably the breakout star, skewering the NFL icon with her classic roast takes.
“I wish I could say that I planned it that way, because I wish I had that much foresight and attention to detail with my career,” Glaser said. “I wish I was a little bit more Taylor Swifty and masterminding things. It was absolutely coincidental, and honestly, the special got pushed because I was just having such a hard time editing it, and that was such a laborious process.”
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Guy Harding was nominated in the Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming category for his work on the special.
Taped in December in front of a sold-out audience at the Moore Theater in Seattle, Someday You’ll Die sees Glaser diving into a wide range of topics including why she doesn’t want kids, the harsh realities of aging, her sexual fantasies and plans for her own death.
Glaser is up against Billy Joel’s The 100th – Live at Madison Square Garden, Dave Chappelle’s The Dreamer, Dick Van Dyke’s 98 Years of Magic and Trevor Noah’s Where Was I in the Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) category at this year’s Emmys.
“I couldn’t ask for a better grouping of people, and it feels pretty nice to be the only woman there,” she said. “There [are fewer] female comics than male comics. We all know that. It just feels cool to be nominated. That phrase really rings true. Whether I win or not, I’m just like, ‘I’m Emmy nominated,’ and that’s really what you want.”
Check out the panel video above.