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Nikki Glaser’s ‘Someday You’ll Die’ Pushes All the Right Buttons
Comedian Nikki Glaser never wants to offend. “I never want to say offensive or raunchy [things] or push the envelope, because that speaks to some kind of comedian who wants to rile people up,” Glaser told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Instead, on her new HBO comedy special Someday You’ll Die (May 11), she wants to hit you with “honest and really funny, precise, acute jokes throughout.” Those jokes are about classic topics discussed in ways unique to Glaser: sex, being a woman and struggles “with trying to be my authentic self, but also molding to what other people want of me.” On that, she’s…
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