- - Nikki Glaser Reveals Brad Pitt Joke She Cut from 2026 Golden Globes

Jack SmartJanuary 14, 2026 at 9:04 AM

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Nikki Glaser onstage at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 11; Brad Pitt in 2024 -

Nikki Glaser appeared on Sirius XM’s The Howard Stern Show soon after hosting the 2026 Golden Globe Awards

The comedian revealed some of the jokes that didn’t make it to the telecast, including quips about Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Julia Roberts, Sydney Sweeney, Jonathan Bailey and more

Glaser’s joke about Pitt involved him doing his own driving in F1: “I don’t want to embarrass you, but your blinker was on the whole time”

Nikki Glaser is developing an annual tradition: revealing the jokes cut from her hosting gig at the Golden Globe Awards.

Appearing again on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM on Tuesday, Jan. 13, the comedian, 41, shared insights into her second year in a row hosting the starry ceremony. Among the unused jokes Glaser opted not to include onstage was a jab at Brad Pitt.

Had the 62-year-old actor been present and nominated for his role in racing movie F1, Glaser said, she would have joked onstage, “When a man turns 60, he gets to play a racecar driver. Meanwhile, after 35, every role for a woman is a tired mom who hates her life.”

She continued: “Brad, you were so good enough when I was almost convinced that you’ve driven yourself somewhere in the last 30 years. But Brad did a lot of his own driving in the movie. And Brad, I don’t want to embarrass you, but your blinker was on the whole time.”

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Nikki Glaser at SiriusXM Studios on Jan. 13

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Glaser shared more unused material with a laughing Stern, 72, as they talked about striking the right tone between edgy and friendly as an award show host. The comedian and her team came up with several jokes about Sean Penn, for example, but stuck to only one during the ceremony, about him looking like “a sexy leather handbag.”

“Once I got past the Sean Penn joke, I was like, okay, I can loosen up. But before then, I was very nervous,” she recalled. “I just didn’t want to make him upset.”

The jokes she would have piled onto the One Battle After Another nominee, 65, included, “Sean Penn is nominated tonight. I’m assuming for best neck veins?” and “Two of the hardest working actors in Hollywood are here tonight: Sean Penn’s lower eyelids.”

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Nikki Glaser at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 11

Had Wicked: For Good star Jonathan Bailey attended the show, Glaser said she would have quipped, “Jonathan is the first openly gay man to be named the Sexiest Man Alive by PEOPLE magazine. And at first I was like, do we really need to say ‘openly’? And then I looked at a list of past winners and I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, we do.’”

If Christy star Sydney Sweeney had been in the Globes crowd, Glaser would have tried: “Tonight is a night of celebration but we can’t ignore that it’s a weird time in Hollywood. People just aren’t going to the theater to see things. If you don’t believe me, there was a movie this year where Sydney Sweeney played a lesbian who just bounced around in tiny shorts for two hours and it made $14.”

The Globe-nominated Julia Roberts proved “untouchable” when it came to jokes at her expense, added Glaser. “This was the joke I had written about [Roberts] where I literally thought I was going to be tarred and feathered after the show,” she told Stern: “Julia Roberts is nominated for After the Hunt. I don’t know what it’s about, but I’m assuming the hunt was to find someone who’s seen it.”

Before unleashing her opening monologue at the Globes — which included quips about Leonardo DiCaprio for dating younger women, CBS News and lusting after Michael B. Jordan — Glaser told PEOPLE exclusively that her goal was “to challenge myself to not say the thing that people are going to expect and try something else.”

Nikki Glaser; Leonardo DiCaprio at the 83rd Golden Globes on Jan. 11

When it comes to roasting celebs, she added, “as long as I really like these people and respect what they do, I can get away with saying something negative... It really does come from a place of love.”

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