Nikki Glaser praises Conan, talks Oscars before Vanity Fair party
Nikki Glaser shares newfound respect for awards show hosts, praises Conan O’Brien’s Oscars job and her favorite moment before the Vanity Fair party.
Thanks to one of her most memorable jokes at the Golden Globes, Nikki Glaser wound up with one box of pasta after another.
In an appearance on “The Tonight Show,” the comedian revealed Leonardo DiCaprio sent her “three baskets of pasta” as a thank you gift after she roasted him in her monologue at January’s Golden Globe Awards.
The gift tied back to a joke Glaser made about him at the ceremony. In her monologue, the comic first made a quip about the “One Battle After Another” actor’s tendency to date younger women, saying it’s impressive that he has accomplished so many things “before your girlfriend turned 30.”
She then admitted this was a “cheap” shot but joked that she had no other options because “we don’t know anything else about you, man.”
“The most in-depth interview you’ve ever given was in Teen Beat magazine in 1991,” Glaser said. “Is your favorite food still ‘pasta, pasta, and more pasta’? Look it up. That’s real.”
Glaser was referencing an actual Teen Beat magazine article where DiCaprio did, in fact, list “pasta, pasta and more pasta” as his favorite food. DiCaprio laughed along and nodded his head in response to Glaser’s question.
On “The Tonight Show,” Glaser explained that after hosting an awards show, she always sends flowers “to everyone that I made fun of that was a good sport about it, which was everyone, just to say thank you.” DiCaprio, though, was the only one who sent something back.
The comic also joked that after receiving the baskets of pasta from DiCaprio, “Part of me was like, does Leo want to smash? I was like, alright. But the type of girl he goes for, he wouldn’t send pasta to.”
January’s Golden Globes was Glaser’s second time hosting the awards ceremony, and she has already been confirmed to return as host in 2027. In a statement confirming her return in March, she joked, “I’m thrilled to host the Golden Globes for a third time, not only because it’s the greatest gig I’ve ever had, but because my sister has three kids and now we will be equal in the eyes of my parents and the Lord.”
