Comedian Nikki Glaser burst onto the comedy scene in 2016 when she turned the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe into an unofficial roast of homophobe Ann Coulter instead.
In an appearance on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Glaser reflected on that breakthrough performance five years ago and her feelings about Coulter today.
“She’s truly evil,” Glaser says. “And so I just went to a place of, like, I really want to go as hard on her as possible. Because for the first time at a roast, she really deserves it.”
Coulter has built her entire career on peddling bigotry and humiliating minority groups.
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When it comes to queer people, she opposes same-sex marriage, civil unions, trans bathroom rights, and non-discrimination protections for LGTBQ people. She also supports DADT, anti-sodomy laws, banning trans people from serving in the military, and homophobic “religious freedom” laws.
Oh, and she once famously told a gay man on a reality show that he should oppose abortion because “as soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are gonna start aborting?”
Speaking to The Last Laugh, Glaser says, “There’s rarely been someone there that is that loathed and deserving of being loathed and knows what they’re doing and has made a character that is evil on purpose because they’re a sad person inside.”
Glaser says there’s only one moment from that iconic evening that doesn’t sit well with her today. It was a joke she made about a Mexican one day digging Coulter’s grave.
“I didn’t like that I said ‘Mexican’,” she explains. “I look back on that joke and that’s making me someone who assumes that Mexicans dig graves, which I guess is a stereotypical thing that you could put in a joke.”
“But everyone loved that joke and was like, ‘That’s so mean to her!’ And I feel like that joke is more mean to Mexicans for no f*cking reason.”
She adds, “That joke is always quoted back to me. And I cringe when I hear it, because if I were Mexican, I would have been like, ‘This f*cking b*tch, we don’t need her to speak for us’.”
“It’s a great joke and it wasn’t written by me and I took it on right before I went on stage. I added it to my set because why not? But I already had that kind of spidey-sense of, like, this doesn’t feel good.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Mister P
There are a lot of “others” that would be happy to dig Laura Ingy’s grave. Count me in.
whereshouldistart
I’ll be right next to you…
holding your beer.
Cam
The best part of the roast was that for years and years and YEARS, Ann Coulter had gone on Fox News and gotten a friendly softball atmosphere who laughed overly loud at what she said. So she thought she was very funny. Apparently she was offered jokes written for her at the roast and refused. She got up and was TERRIBLE! It was uncomfortable to watch, nothing funny. Long stretches of silence, she was mumbling or stumbling over her words.
Then, like a typical Republican she went onto FOX News and tried to claim that the audience was laughing at her but they kept cutting away. The problem is, when you watch it, you can see they didn’t cut away.
IanHunter
t was the best roast that CC has ever had. Ann was the one getting roasted instead of Rob, and she deserved every nasty thing directed toward her.
Cam
Jewel was the one that killed me. Who knew she was funny?!
“As a feminist I just can’t support some of the things that have been said up here…..but as someone who hates Ann Coulter I’m delighted.”
Boom!
Fahd
Very enjoyable, especially at the time, but the only thing that seems to have cut into Ann’s sales appears to be her fake calling out of Trump for not going far enough. I guess she thought there might be a niche there. Someone should do a documentary or story about what makes the people who actually pay money for her books tick. Probably the Russians have done that already though.
mdrguy1
I’m Latino, of Mexican descent — of if you prefer, Mexican American — and I absolutely LOVE that joke. People need to lighten up, laugh more, and not be so easily offended. Though I admit I’m all for raw & inappropriate humor and am proudly not “woke” or in need of trigger warnings.
Kangol2
Don’t forget Ann Coulter called Bill Clinton a “f****t,” among other hateful thing that have come out of her racist, homophobic, plagiaristic gullet. I agree that that Comedy Central roast was great, but I also see where Nikki Glaser’s coming from in terms of the casual racism of her comment about Mexicans. Apologize and atone. Back to the rotting corpse flower Coulter, she damaged herself with the Don the Con crowd, which was a pleasure to behold, and you know she’s probably now still strategizing about how she can get back into that psychopathic monster’s and his cultists’ good graces.
Cam
On second thought, hang her for disparaging Mexicans. It’s racist and there’s no call for that crap these days.
Hdtex
You’re incapable of thought.
Hang yourself instead.
Cam
Your latest hit’s wearing off, exposing your real self, and your troll game is…wait for it…sad and weak!
Cam
@Cam (Stolen Name)
Awww, you’re still obsessed with me.
Sweetie, it’s just sad.
whereshouldistart
Me: ( pointing at AC’s neck) “Oh that’s lovely!”
AC: “MY necklace?”
Me: “No…your Adam’s Apple!”
PhillyProud
I don’t know… I thought the joke was targeted more towards Coulter’s jumping on the anti-Mexican bandwagon, as in letting a Mexican have the last laugh putting her in her grave.