Nikki Glaser Got Paid Less Than Past Male Host for 2025 Golden Globes

Nikki Glaser was satisfied with her Golden Globes paycheck — despite the check allegedly being less money compared to a past male host for the awards show.

During the Monday, January 6, episode of SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, Glaser, 40, confirmed that a host for the Golden Globes gets compensated, adding, “I got paid pretty — I’m good with that.”

“There was a past host who said how much he got paid in his monologue and I got less than that, but that’s OK. I’ll get more next year,” she claimed without revealing the number. “I feel well paid for what I do. I’m alright.”

Glaser is seemingly referring to Jerrod Carmichael saying he got paid $500,000 during his 2023 Golden Globes monologue.

“I’ll tell you why I’m here. I’m here cause I’m Black,” Carmichael, 37, said at the time. “I’ll catch everyone in the room up. … This show, the Golden Globe awards did not air last year because of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — which I won’t say they were a racist, but they didn’t have a second black member until George Floyd died, so do with that info what you will.”

Carmichael called out the Globes, which was canceled in 2022 for its lack of diversity. “They’re going to fire me? They haven’t had a Black host in 79 years and they’re going to fire the first one? I’m unfireable,” he joked after becoming the first person to open the awards ceremony since it was last broadcasted in 2021. “I was very excited. Like very, very excited.”

He continued: “I know the Golden Globes have gone through a lot of controversies. They didn’t air last year — the Hollywood Foreign Press didn’t have any Black members. So … I talk directly to the camera about how much Black approval means to me and how I hope Black people don’t boycott the show but will give it a chance.”

Glaser, for her part, made history as the first woman to host the show on her own. She told Stern that she received positive feedback from people associated with the show mere hours after it took place on Sunday, January 5, adding that she’s hopeful to be back for 2026.

“This first year, when you’re just trying to prove yourself, I honestly would’ve done it for free,” Glaser admitted. “It’s an insane platform to be on. It’s not about the money for me.”

Glaser also got positive reviews from critics and social media viewers, specifically for her monologue.

“Tonight, we celebrate the best of film and hold space for television,” she quipped on Sunday. “Yes, Wicked, Queer, Nightbitch: These are not just words Ben Affleck yells after he orgasms. These are some of the incredible movies nominated tonight.”

Glaser went on to reference any “future criminals” in the crowd.

“I really think this is going to be a very memorable night, and maybe not in the way that you think,” she added. “I predict five years from now when you’re watching old clips of this on YouTube, you’ll see someone in one of the crowd shots and you’ll be like, ‘Oh, my God, that was before they caught that guy!’ We could be making history tonight and we don’t even know with who. He knows, you know, Or she! It could be a woman. … It won’t be. It never is. Kind of like Best Director.”

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