Can Nikki Glaser be the new Ricky Gervais and give Hollywood the roasting it deserves?

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “No one is gonna do a better roast set than that,” Conan O’Brien told Glaser later on his podcast, adding that all future roasts will be measured against it. ‘It’s a 6.2.’ That’s pretty good, but it’s not her 10.” open image in gallery ‘I get it, it’s hard to walk away from something that’s not your pregnant girlfriend’: Nikki Glaser at ‘The Roast of Tom Brady’ Tomorrow we’ll get the chance to see whether Glaser can return to those heights as she’s given the opportunity to roast the whole of Hollywood in one night. “It seems like everything this year was three-dimensional,” he joked, “except the characters in The Tourist.” In total, Gervais has hosted the ceremony five times, once more than former Saturday Night Live duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who kept up the trend of skewering stars with jokes about George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio: “Like a supermodel’s vagina, let’s give a warm welcome to Leonardo DiCaprio…” Glaser is set to continue in that no-holds-barred lineage. I was nervous before.’” open image in gallery Glaser bringing ‘Someday You’ll Die’ to an acrobatic climax Glaser’s skilled handling of these dark subjects makes for a smart hour of comedy that ends with an impressively acrobatic extended pantomime of a “gang bang”, which I can’t imagine any other stand-up in the world pulling off.