Nikki Glaser is counting her fortunate stars after making her internet hosting debut on Saturday Night time Stay.
“Finest week of my liiiiiiife,” Glaser, 41, wrote through Instagram on Monday, November 10. “Thanks a lot to Lorne, the solid, writers, and all of the crew who made this week genuinely FUN and handled me like one in every of you. I knew this week can be troublesome, however I didn't notice simply how compassionate, lighthearted, and inspiring everybody can be each step of the way in which. I used to be surrounded by probably the most distinctive expertise within the enterprise and I discovered so rattling a lot from you all. It was an honor to look at you're employed! I've a lot Pinwheel for you all!”
Alongside the caption, Glaser shared a collection of behind-the-scenes photographs from her time on the NBC selection present, together with a picture of her and musical visitor Sombr. In a single pic, Glaser is finding out her monologue cue playing cards as she prepares to hit the stage.
Glaser additionally shared a signed message, which learn, “I'm so honored to have been part of my favourite present. Everybody right here is so rattling proficient and type. Thanks!”
“And thanks to my household/staff for making this week as seamless as potential and for all of your love and assist! And shout out to the phenom @sombr, who completely crushed and supplied the proper soundtrack to this week,” she concluded, earlier than quoting a lyric from Sombr's track, “‘In a room full of individuals, I search for you!'”
The comic hosted the Saturday, November 8, episode of SNL, the place she made headlines for her wide-ranging and at instances controversial monologue.
“I feel I'm simply paranoid and I feel I'm simply obsessive about slavery lately as a result of each time you go … to a public girls's restroom and also you sit within the stall, there's all the time a poster on the again of the stall that's asking you when you're being trafficked,” Glaser stated on the time. “They're in each stall. They're in each world language. The English is basically tiny and it's like, ‘You want.'”
She added, “Males's restrooms should not have these indicators. I don't know what indicators you've gotten? You will have indicators which can be like, ‘Need a slave? Textual content Site visitors to 69-69.' It's actually a giant concern of being trafficked, principally for Gen Z women.”
Nikki Glaser raised eyebrows with jokes about intercourse trafficking, rape and little one molestation in her Saturday Night time Stay debut. The comic, 41, hosted the NBC sketch comedy collection for the primary time on Saturday, November 8, with almost 10 minutes of airtime being dedicated to her standup monologue. The controversial portion of her routine began […]
Glaser additionally famous that a lot of her “Get Z associates that [she] purchased” additionally concern being trafficked.
“They're terrified. I don't relate. I'm 41. That was not a concern of mine ever in my 20s. In my 20s, I simply feared good old school rape,” she stated. “I didn't suppose it might be a profession. We didn't suppose it was something greater than a ‘temp job' on a frat home futon. I used to be like, ‘What if we get trafficked?' And so they had been like, ‘You're good.' They're like, ‘We're safer if you're with us as a result of they suppose you're our madam.'”
The monologue, the place Glaser additionally made a joke about little one abuse, sparked criticism from some SNL viewers.
“OK Nikki Glaser misplaced me trigger why are we speaking about molestation and pedophilia!???” one X consumer wrote, whereas one other added, “Nikki Glaser [is] actually giving me the ick on SNL tonight.”
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Someday after the episode aired, Glaser mirrored on the unforgettable expertise with out addressing the web backlash.
“Submit to return once I absolutely get up, however oh my god,” Glaser, 41, wrote through her Instagram Tales on Sunday, November 9. “I can't consider how wonderful this solid and crew was. As a fan of the present, I simply have to inform all the opposite followers that everybody at SNL is simply as proficient, elite, cool and type as you'd hope they'd be. Actually everybody.”
She continued, “It was a DREAM. I'll by no means recover from it.”
In the event you or somebody you understand is a human trafficking sufferer, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
Saturday Night time Stay airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. EDT.
