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Nikki Glaser

Profession : Comedian

Birth : June 1, 1984

As a female comic, if you talk about sex in any capacity, you will be branded a 'sex comic,' so I might as well go full force on it.

Nikki Glaser

I think I deal with my anger toward my relationship or about my relationship or about my friendships or my family - I deal with it on stage in a passive-aggressive way, and that can be very harmful if it gets back to them, which it always does.

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Jimmy Fallon's strengths are that he's fun, and he's good at impressions, and he's musically inclined. And my strength is that I'm a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that's not a talent per se, but it's just a thing about myself that I have found that people like about what I do.

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Someone told me I looked like a young Tonya Harding recently, as if 'young' would soften the blow.

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People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.

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As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to a news item or situation.

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The best stuff - the most interesting stuff - usually happens when I allow myself to be in the moment and working from that space.

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I won't tackle something like furries, because there's nothing new to say. Also, I won't do anything that I think will put my life at risk.

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I am a woman, so I never want to hide that or be like, 'I'm one of the boys,' because I'm not. I am aware of our audience. We always aim for the right combo of not hitting people over head but still getting our message across.

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I think people are afraid of the concept of open relationships. Like, 'I will not accept this.' They don't have to! No one is telling them to. But it might work for other people.

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My standup is years and years of me working things out on the road. I'm really proud of it! A lot of it is about, well... I don't know why I feel this way, but I feel like every special or show I do is some variation on how I feel like I'm not a girl, not yet a woman.

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Everything I write in my show is a collaboration with a team.

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All my relatives and friends have been pretty aware of my brand of humor for a while, so none of them have been shocked.

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Funny is funny. If it's funny enough to women, it will be funny to men. I think that's been proven by Broad City and Amy Schumer. They're killing it.

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The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.

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I remember the 'Jenny McCarthy Show' being kind of funny, and I remember her being just like one of the boys. I remember her being counter to everything I thought girls should be on TV, or whatever. I kind of liked her vibe.

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Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, 'Oh, they laughed, so they get what I'm saying.

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I've talked about my relationship without consulting my boyfriend about whether or not he wants that talked about, and I've also taken a story that has happened with us and, for comedic purposes, exaggerated it or changed it in some way that made him look not great.

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Rob Thomas loves nothing more than for couples to go on dates, and he loves chocolates. Boxes of 20 chocolates.

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I would much rather be someone with high self-esteem and less funny.

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