After an excellent debut, Nikki Glaser has unsurprisingly been tapped to host the Golden Globes again.
The comedian will helm the 83rd annual Golden Globes, which will take place in January 2026 and air on CBS (an exact date hasn’t been announced yet). When Glaser hosted the 82nd Globes earlier this year, she notably became the first woman to ever emcee the show solo.
“Hosting the Golden Globes this year was without a doubt the most fun I have ever had in my career,” Glaser said in a statement, before quipping: “I can’t wait to do it again, and this time in front of the team from The White Lotus who will finally recognize my talent and cast me in season four as a Scandinavian Pilates instructor with a shadowy past.”
Glaser earned rave reviews for her stint as Globes host this year, imbuing her monologue and bits with just the right balance of prickly roasts, self-deprecation, and good fun. As Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield put it, “Nikki Glaser gets what the Globes are all about: packing famous people into the Beverly Hills Hilton, plying them with booze, then letting the Hollywood vanity run wild.”
Prior to hosting the 2025 Golden Globes, Glaser had enjoyed a breakout year, starting with a standout set at Netflix’s Roast of Tom Brady. She also dropped a new stand-up special, Someday You’ll Die, and launched a massive tour that’s set to continue well into this year with dates currently scheduled all the way through October.
In an interview with Rolling Stone last December, Glaser spoke about the slow burn of her career, the internal doubts and external obstacles she faces, and how comedy became the thing that keeps her alive. “The dopamine rush that I can get is when a new joke works,” she said. “Any comedian will tell you that’s why we keep doing this, because it feels so good when something you just thought of makes a whole room burst out laughing. ‘We like you,’ is pretty much what they’re saying with their laugh. When I get most depressed is when I haven’t had time to write new material.”
(The Golden Globes are owned by Dick Clark Productions, partly owned by PMC, which also owns Rolling Stone.)
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