Comedian Nikki Glaser is still in awe that she made her Saturday Night Live debut.
“Post to come when I fully wake up, but oh my god,” Glaser, 41, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Sunday, November 9. “I can’t believe how amazing this cast and crew was. As a fan of the show, I just have to tell all the other fans that everyone at SNL is just as talented, elite, cool and kind as you’d hope they’d be. Literally everyone.”
She continued, “It was a DREAM. I’ll never get over it.”
Glaser hosted the Saturday, November 8, episode of the long-running variety series, starting with a wide-ranging opening monologue.
“I think I’m just paranoid and I think I’m just obsessed with slavery recently because every time you go … to a public women’s restroom and you sit in the stall, there’s always a poster on the back of the stall that’s asking you if you’re being trafficked,” Glaser said. “They’re in every stall. They’re in every world language. The English is really tiny and it’s like, ‘You wish.’”
The FBoy Island host added, “Men’s restrooms do not have these signs. I don’t know what signs you have? You have signs that are like, ‘Want a slave? Text Traffic to 69-69.’ It’s really a big fear of being trafficked, mostly for Gen Z girls.”
Glaser further mentioned that many of her “Get Z friends that [she] bought” also fear being trafficked.
“They’re terrified. I don’t relate. I’m 41. That was not a fear of mine ever in my 20s. In my 20s, I just feared good old-fashioned rape,” she said. “I didn’t think it would be a career. We didn’t think it was anything more than a ‘temp job’ on a frat house futon. I was like, ‘What if we get trafficked?’ And they were like, ‘You’re good.’ They’re like, ‘We’re safer when you’re with us because they think you’re our madam.’”
Later in her monologue, Glaser made a joke about child sexual abuse while discussing her 4-year-old nephew’s bathing habits.
“My sister was like, ‘He can take a shower with you. It’s fine. He does it with us,’” she recalled. “I’m like, ‘That’s fine for you guys but are you really OK with an adult showering with your child?’ Maybe it’s OK if you come and supervise.”
After Glaser’s sister asked why supervision would be necessary at all, the TV personality responded, “What if I molest him?’ She was like, ‘Would you?!’ I was like, ‘Like, no! Never. That’s disgusting!’ But that’s what I’d say if I was gonna [do it]. [Abusers] lie. Don’t trust anyone! I don’t even trust myself.”
Glaser’s comments soon raised eyebrows from many SNL viewers.
“OK Nikki Glaser lost me cause why are we talking about molestation and pedophilia!???” one X user wrote, while another added, “Nikki Glaser [is] really giving me the ick on SNL tonight.”
Glaser has not publicly addressed the social media backlash to her risqué monologue.
If you or someone you know is a human trafficking victim, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
Saturday Night Live airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. EDT.
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